The complete online text of Rise of the Dutch Republic, the — Volume 29: 1578, part III 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 Jonathan Israel. Volume I, The Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xxx, 1231. $39.95.) Jonathan Israel's magnum opus is the first volume of the new Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. If Israel's work is any...

Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war against Louis XIM. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as Elizabeth Edwards outlines here....