The History of the Netherlands - de Haan, Auke
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The Dutch didn't start in tulip fields-they clawed from marshy fringes where Frisians slung spears at Saxon raiders, Charlemagne's crews carving counties from peat bogs while Hanseatic cogs hauled herring to Hamburg halls. The Eighty Years' grind ignited in '68, William the Silent's beggars banishing Habsburg hooks, birthing a republic of regents and rebels where Calvin's kirk thundered over Catholic whispers. It was a patchwork of polders and ports, where dike wardens diced with floods and artists like Vermeer eyed lace collars in Delft light, forging a federation that flipped the flatlands…mehr

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The Dutch didn't start in tulip fields-they clawed from marshy fringes where Frisians slung spears at Saxon raiders, Charlemagne's crews carving counties from peat bogs while Hanseatic cogs hauled herring to Hamburg halls. The Eighty Years' grind ignited in '68, William the Silent's beggars banishing Habsburg hooks, birthing a republic of regents and rebels where Calvin's kirk thundered over Catholic whispers. It was a patchwork of polders and ports, where dike wardens diced with floods and artists like Vermeer eyed lace collars in Delft light, forging a federation that flipped the flatlands into a fist.Golden Age gleamed next: VOC's 1602 charter loosed fleets on monsoon trades, nutmeg islands yielding fortunes that bankrolled Amsterdam's gabled glow, while Rembrandt's guilders gambled on canvas strokes amid coffeehouse plots. Tulip fever's '37 crash popped like a bad pipe, but the republic reeled on-Louis XIV's cannons thumping at Ramillies, stadtholders juggling crowns till French boots stomped in '95, Napoleon's ink redrawing the map in batavian blues.Nineteenth-century shakes built the boom: railways snaking through reclaimed Zuiderzee, liberals liberalizing under Thorbecke's thumb while Indies rubber rolled in. WWII's shadow fell hard-Anne Frank's attic scrawls amid hunger winters, resistance bikes smuggling Jews past green police, till '45's liberation bells rang over rubble. Modern dikes defy the delta, wind farms whirring where war winds once howled. The Netherlands' no tidy tulip-it's a gin-soaked grind of grit and gables, proving low folk can rise high on their own reclaimed ground.
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