The complete online text of History of the United Netherlands, 1598 by John Lothrop Motley.

John Lothrop Motley (15 April 1814-29 May 1877), historian, was one of the most prominent figures in the mid-nineteenth century "classic age" of historical writing in the United States. He was born into a mercantile family in Dorchester, Massachusetts. H...

The American historian and diplomat John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) is best known for his outstanding history of the Dutch struggle for independence. John Lothrop Motley was born in Dorchester, Mass., on April 15, 1814, to an old New England merchant fam...

John Lothrop Motley, Massachusetts-born historian of early modern Europe from the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain in the mid-sixteenth century until the eve of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), won overwhelming popular acclaim for his first major...

By Yves-Marie Berce. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 262. $19.95.) Written in a sprightly, engaging style, this fresh and reflective study argues that royal absolutism was not necessarily the destiny of Bourbon France. At any number of points, seventeenth-century...

(Together on the way or "Samen op Weg"): Netherlands Reformed Church (NRC); Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (RCN); Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (ELC) Three Dutch churches are preparing for unification in the near future. Two of them...