Dikes and Dunes: On Dutch History and Dutchness
This essay considers one of the more striking qualities of the historiography of the Netherlands: its attitude vis-à-vis outsiders. On the one hand, there is a comparative bent in the scholarship and an interest in seeing the Dutch in the world; in this sense, it is an admirably outward-looking historiography. On the other hand, there is a tendency to underscore the exceptional Dutchness of Dutch history, which encourages analyses to turn inward. Comparativism thus vies with a provincialism, which can devolve into parochialism. Recent Dutch historiography, moreover, has shown a marked ambivale... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 133, Iss 1 (2018) |
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Schlagwörter: | History / Historiography / Low Countries / Nederlandse geschiedenis / historiografie / History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26783621 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/1961d999b14947f7a57c980d44605ee4 |