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Corporate Author Society for Netherlandic History (U.S.). International Conference (3rd : 2006 : New York, N.Y.)

Title Myth in history, history in myth [electronic resource] / edited by Laura Cruz, Willem Frijhoff.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description viii, 263 p. : ill., map.
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 182
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 182.
Note Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York: June 5-6, 2006).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Myth in history, history in myth / Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff -- "How great the enterprise, how glorious the deed" : seventeenth-century Dutch circumnavigations as useful myths / Donald J. Harreld -- The Orangist myth, 1650-1672 / Jill Stern -- Myth, history, and image in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century / Jac Geurts -- The wise man has two tongues : images of the Satyr and peasant by Jordaens and Steen / Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard -- Emblematic myths : Anneke's fortune, Bogardus's farewell, and Kieft's son / Willem Frijhoff -- International law and national existence : the myth of strict neutrality (1918-?) / Hubert P. van Tuyll -- The epic story of the little republic that could : the role of patriotic myths in the Dutch Golden Age / Laura Cruz -- History and myth of Dutch popular protest in the Napoleonic period (1806-1813) / Johan Joor -- 'Neerlands Israel' : political theology, Christian Hebraism, Biblical antiquarianism, and historical myth / Theodor Dunkelgrun -- Rembrandt and the historical construction of his Conspiration of Claudius Civilis / Jan Blanc.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Myth -- Political aspects -- Netherlands -- Congresses.
Myth -- Social aspects -- Netherlands -- Congresses.
Myth -- Political aspects -- Benelux countries -- Congresses.
Myth -- Social aspects -- Benelux countries -- Congresses.
Netherlands -- History -- Congresses.
Netherlands -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
Benelux countries -- History -- Congresses.
Benelux countries -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Benelux countries -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cruz, Laura, 1969-
Frijhoff, Willem.
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ISBN 9789004178342 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9004178341 (hbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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