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Focusing on the late Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth Century, Blueprints for a National Community describes the transition of the federative Republic into the unified Kingdom of the Netherlands, which for fifteen years also included Belgium. This revolution was more than a political incident, and resulted from an extensive debate about the organization of society. The authors show how much energy and creativity was mobilized at this time, in order to adjust what had become a rather archaic society to changing conditions, and to offer the perspective of a new future.
This ambitious study presents the latest views on Dutch society during the famous Golden Age. Philosophy, religion and the arts are treated at length, and particular attention is paid to the institutions and media responsible for the dissemination of culture, including language, education and the printed word. Although 1650 is the central year, the subject is examined in a much broader time-frame, which makes the book an excellent introduction to seventeenth-century society in general.
In this book the conflicting tendencies of the nineteenth century, fin de sibliogècle sentiment and socialist movements, religious revival and secularization, are brought together in a narrative that focuses on the rediscovery or reconstruction of the Golden Age, the Dutch colonial empire in the East Indies and the relations with South Africa, the emancipation of the Roman Catholics after 1853, the Jewish community in Amsterdam and other cities, and on the various Protestant denominations.
In the two decades after World War Two the structure of political life and social conditions changed in the Netherlands. There was a remarkable effort to restore the economy and bring prosperity to a population which had suffered deeply from the German occupation, and an increasing emancipation from the structures dominated by religion, a gradual breaking-up of denominational segregation. This book examines the influence of immigration, postmodernity, and globalization on Dutch society during this period.