Bmgn-The low countries historical review 

About: Bmgn-The low countries historical review is an academic journal published by Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services). The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Political history & Social history. It has an ISSN identifier of 0165-0505. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 1357 publications have been published receiving 3528 citations. The journal is also known as: BMGN.

The role of the Dutch Republic as the intellectual entrepôt of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Abstract: As is well known, the Dutch republic played a crucial role in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, and in the first decades of the eighteenth century, in making known to the rest of Europe the literary, philosophical, and scientific achievements of England. As is equally well known, in their role as intellectual carriers, the Dutch did not confine their services to the diffusion of English culture. During the last quarter of the seventeenth century, indeed, the Dutch republic made itself the unquestioned intellectual entrepot of Europe. The Dutch book trade then at its apogee had taken the whole of Europe for its market, and gone beyond Europe. Books printed in the Dutch republic, and especially bibles, atlases, devotional, and professional books, were produced cheaply and in large quantities from numerous printing presses. The province of Holland alone in 1675 possessed nearly 200 presses. Amsterdam by the middle of the seventeenth century had outdistanced both its Dutch and its European competitors to become, and to remain for the rest of the century, the most important centre for the production of books in Europe, boasting over 270 booksellers and printers in the

De Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius

Abstract: P.C. Molhuysen, B.L. Meulenbroek, Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius, III, 1626-1628, IV, 1629-1631, V, 1632-1635, VI, 1635-1636, VII, maart 1636-december 1636

A New Dutch Imperial History?: Perambulations in a Prospective Field

Abstract: This article discusses the recent developments in imperial history in Great Britain and France and analyses the state of Dutch research in the light of these new approaches. Raben concentrates on three broadly defined topics – the webbed character of colonial spaces, the impact of empire on metropolitan societies and the moral ramifications of colonial empires. The way imperial histories are written is determined by the experiences with ‘empire’ in the metropolitan countries. Despite essential differences in imperial circumstances in and of the Netherlands, Dutch historiography could be inspired by the British and French developments to explore the spatial, cultural and moral relationships between the various parts of the Dutch colonial world.