Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory pdf

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) è stata una storica britannica della prima età moderna. Dal 1990 al 2011 è stata Professoressa del Centenario di Studi sul Rinascimento e Direttore del Center for Editing Lives and Letters presso la Queen Mary, University of London. Dal 2008 è stata presidente della Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] È stata membro del Consiglio della Royal Institution, ma si è dimessa da tale incarico nel settembre 2009. Il 1 settembre 2012 si è trasferita con il suo centro di ricerca e il suo personale all'University College London (UCL) per diventare il primo direttore del suo Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory pdf da 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