Unspoken Allies: Anglo-Dutch Relations since 1780 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9053564713 ISBN 13: 9789053564714

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This study brings together the expertise of an international group of scholars to survey the development of political and economic relations between Britain and the Netherlands from the Napoleonic era to the present day. It illuminates both the underlying refrain of harmony in international outlook, ideology and interests that often made for close co-operation between the two countries, and also their episodic instances of conflict. The contributors address topics ranging from Anglo-Dutch relations in the era of imperialism; the tensions created by Dutch neutrality in the First World; the challenges of the inter-war years; the role of the Dutch in British strategy during the Second World War; colonialism and decolonisation; and, most recently, bilateral relations in the European framework. Based on detailed research in British and Dutch archives, Unspoken Allies provides new insights into relations between two of the principal "amphibious" powers of Europe across the last two centuries.

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About the Author

|Duco Hellema is professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht. Cees Wiebes is lecturer in International Relations at the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam. Toby Witte is lecturer in Political Science at the Rotterdam Polytechnic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9053564713
• ISBN 13: 9789053564714
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Ashton Nigel, Hellema Duco