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Several weeks ago I found out that the historian Lisa Jardine had died. This saddened me, as I have appreciated Jardine’s works. In particular two works stand out in my mind. Worldly Goods, which I read when I was 18, and which helped me to understand that there was a different sort of history from the standard one written by diplomats and taught in elementary schools, and Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory.
The subtitle for the second work is in my opinion somewhat misrepresentative of what the tone of the book is, from what I recall. That being said, Going Dutch does impart to one a sense of the menace which was threaded through the symbiotic and antagonistic relationship between these two similar Protestant North Sea nations. And, while the 17th century is recalled as the period when England rose and Holland fell as great imperial mercantile polities, Lisa Jardine’s narrative does highlight that the so called Glorious Revolution was implemented with more of a Dutch fist than is commonly recalled.
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RIP. I read “Ingenious Pursuits” some years ago and quite liked it.
“So called” indeed. Puritan regicides, whiggish traitors, and the jumped up stadtholder along with his continental mercenaries put paid to legitimate government in Great Britain.
The Jacobites had French and Irish forces. They weren’t some pure British force.
The Dutch could easily had conquered the entire North American Continent but instead they attacked Brazil and the Glorious Portuguese Empire in the worst and longest Colonial War of the 17th Century and the Dutch lost the Brazilian war and the entire Western American Empire in both parts of America with the exception of some minor souvenirs.
Don’t forget the Spanish!