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The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom - cover

The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom

Hendrik Willem van Loon

Publisher: Youcanprint Self-Publishing

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In this very precious essay by H. Willem van Loon, published in 1915 by Doubleday, Page and Company:
APOLOGIA; FOREWORD: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ; PROLOGUE; THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD ORDER; THE REVOLUTION; THE COST OF REVOLUTION; THE PROVISIONAL; THE OPENING CEREMONIES; PIETER PAULUS; NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO. I AT WORK; NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO. II AT WORK; GLORY ABROAD; COUP D'ÉTAT NO. I; THE CONSTITUTIONAL; COUP D'ÉTAT NO. II; CONSTITUTION NO. II AT WORK; MORE GLORY ABROAD; CONSTITUTION NO. III; THE THIRD CONSTITUTION AT WORK; ECONOMIC CONDITION; SOCIAL LIFE; PEACE; SCHIMMELPENNINCK; KING LOUIS OF HOLLAND; THE DEPARTMENT FORMERLY CALLED HOLLAND; LIBERATION; THE RESTORATION; WILLIAM I; A COMPARISON OF THE FOUR CONSTITUTIONS OF HOLLAND; BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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