Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory pdf

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) était une historienne britannique du début de la période moderne. De 1990 à 2011, elle a été professeure centenaire d'études de la Renaissance et directrice du Centre for Editing Lives and Letters à Queen Mary, Université de Londres. Depuis 2008, elle était présidente de la Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] Elle était membre du Conseil de l'Institution royale, mais a démissionné de ce poste en septembre 2009. Le 1er septembre 2012, elle a déménagé avec son centre de recherche et son personnel. à l'University College London (UCL) pour devenir le premier directeur de son Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines.

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory pdf par Lisa Jardine

In this book, Lisa Jardine assembles new research in political and social history, together with the histories of art, music, gardening and science, to show how Dutch tolerance, resourcefulness and commercial acumen had effectively conquered Britain long before William of Orange and his English wife arrived to rule in London. This is the remarkable story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important Read more... Abstract: In this book, Lisa Jardine assembles new research in political and social history, together with the histories of art, music, gardening and science, to show how Dutch tolerance, resourcefulness and commercial acumen had effectively conquered Britain long before William of Orange and his English wife arrived to rule in London. This is the remarkable story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine demonstrates how individuals such as Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton and successive generations of the remarkable Huygens family, usually represented as isolated geniuses working in the enclosed environment of the country of their birth, in fact developed their ideas within a context of easy Anglo-Dutch relations that laid the vital groundwork for the European Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution.--From publisher description