Patriots and Liberators : Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 de Simon Schama - 1977

New York. 1977. April 1977. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394485165. 745 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. keywords: Holland History Revolution. FROM THE PUBLISHER - How the Dutch Republic of the Netherlands went from the powerful cash till of Europe to an impoverished and despised appendage of the French empire. From the brilliant historian who gave us Citizens and Dead Certainties, an innovative and grandly entertaining account of an empire in its death throes. How the Dutch Republic went from the powerful cash till of Europe to an impoverished and despised appendage of the French empire is the subject of this scrupulously researched work. 16 pages of photographs. inventory #23599 ISBN: 0394485165.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1977. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1977. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf, 1977. First American Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Very Good, creasing on the jacket front cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394485165 . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First American Edition (stated). Large 8vo. xix,746pp, Index, Notes, Bibliography. Maroon cloth, very good condition (unworn but unattractive cross-out of owner's name in ffep); dj good (short tears, edges slightly worn, small spot, price-clipped). With glossary of Dutch terms and historical reference, Chronology of Dutch history. Study of "the disintegration of a great European power - the Dutch Republic - into military impotence, economic ruin and near terminal collapse as nation state" (dj). ISN 0394485165; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 746 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. small blacked-out spot on front pastedown, good+ copy in good dj. 1977. 1st Am ed. 8vo . cloth. xix,745pp biblio notes, index. The disintegration of the Dutch Republic "into military impotence, economic ruin and near terminal eclipse as a nation state." (dj) First work by this highly regarded British historian. .

New York: Knopf, 1977. First American Edition. fair. 25 cm, 745 pages, maps, some damp damage and cover wear/staining, text pages generally okay. This is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic - a country once rich enough to be called the cash till of Europe and powerful enough to make war with England - was stripped of its colonies, invaded by its enemies, driven to the edge of bankruptcy, and, finally, reduced to becoming an appendage of the French empire - an appendage not even the French seemed to value overmuch. Out of these events Simon Schama has constructed a gripping chronicle of revolution and privateering, constitutions and coups, in a tiny nation desperately struggling to stay afloat in a sea of geopolitics. The result confirms Schama as a historian in the finest tradition - one whose study of the past reveals volumes about the present. Drawing on a mass of… Leer más

New York: Knopf, 1977. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. FINE IN FINE DJ WITH ORIGINAL $20.00 PRICE. NO WRITING OR AMRKS.