Guy Vanthemsche, Roger de Peuter

A Concise History of Belgium

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The nation-state Belgium, born in 1830, and the polities that preceded it since ancient times, have played an important role in European and even global history. This introductory history offers a synthetical and non-specialist yet academically based view on the social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of its evolution"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192415
• ISBN-10: 0521192412
• Artikelnr.: 66698849

Autorenporträt

Guy Vanthemsche is Professor Emeritus at the Free University Brussels, where he taught contemporary history for over three decades. He is the secretary of the Belgian Royal Historical Commission and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences. He is the author of several books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, economic and political Belgian history, including Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Earliest times
From prehistory to the end of the Roman Period; 2. The era of the Frankish kingdoms (fifth
tenth century); 3. The origins of the medieval principalities (tenth
fourteenth century); 4. Unifying the Netherlands: The Burgundy
Habsburg period (1384
1555); 5. The Spanish Netherlands (1555
ca. 1700); 6. The Austrian Netherlands (ca. 1700
1780); 7. The formation of a new nation
state (1780s
1830); 8. The consolidation of a Bourgeois regime (1831
1880s); 9. The Belgian nation
state at its height (1880s
1945); 10. The metamorphoses of a nation
state (from 1945 to the present day); Index.