Guy Vanthemsche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Roger De Peuter (Emeritus Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

A Concise History of Belgium

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The nation-state of Belgium, born in 1830, and the polities that preceded it, have played an important role in European and even global history. This introductory history offers an accessible and rigorous overview of this small but important West-European country, from ancient times to the present.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Concise Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 138mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780521127370
• ISBN-10: 0521127378
• Artikelnr.: 66747156

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.