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Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by: Lisa Jardine List Price: £25.00 City Travel Guides Price: £16.50 You Save: £8.50 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780007197323 ISBN: 0007197322 Label: HarperPress Manufacturer: HarperPress Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: April 01, 2008 Publisher: HarperPress Studio: HarperPress Sales Rank: 4750 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Misleading and disappointing.Do not buy this book because of its title or its dust cover picture. These appear to have been designed to sell the book, and are misleading. "Lisa Jardine tests the traditional view that the rise of England as a world power took place at the expense of the Dutch. She finds instead that it was a handing on of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to Briton....." These words from inside the dust cover contradict the book's title. England did not rob Holland of its glory. And Lisa stole the "Going Dutch" title from other earlier books. The book is a series of essays - on the Dutch invasion of 1688, and much correspondance is used to illustrate cultural exchanges in art, horticulture, and science. There are lots of ... Read More: |
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