A Concise History of the Netherlands (Cambridge Concise Histories)

Great writing style with brilliant command of the historical facts and their implications!

This book helped me understand the complex political, religious and economic history of The Netherlands. There were some sections where the wording was a little difficult to follow due to the writing style, which may prevent some younger readers from benefiting from the wonderful content the book offers. For a college level reader this should not be a problem.

The author has a very lucid account of my birth country, of which I know very little, being plucked up and moved elsewhere at a tender age after WWII.A well written and comprehensive and engagingly history portrayal of a small country with a vast impact on the history of the world.

A very nice book that is interesting and I enjoyed it very much. There is nothing that I have to say about this book that is bad about it.

Accessible prose, good range of coverage, and sensible conclusions. There is no deep wisdom or brilliant insight in this work, just a jumble of competently organized facts that illuminate an interesting country

Great book, and the author is able to offer us an excellent history of a country so few know about.

If you want broad strokes, microscopic maps, and no colorful, engaging stories, then this is the book for you.

Sadly, yet again, a meticulous and glorifying history of a European country—The Netherlands—that glosses over its darker moments: participation in the Atlantic slave trade, establishment of ports in Africa (the infamous Goré Island in Dakar, Senegal), and the creation of colonies throughout Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Curiously, only 2 1/8 pages— euphemistically titled “Dutch Overseas Expansion”— are devoted to colonial history, barely 3 pages of a 454 page study. To wit, in my humble opinion, lies the provenance of a much maligned and intentional obfuscation of a scholarly initiative, Critical Race Theory.