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Les Pays-Bas dans les systèmes impériaux: Insertions et gouvernance

The Netherlands Within the Imperial Systems: Insertions and Governance
Edited by Marie Kervyn and Yves Junot
Les Pays-Bas dans les systèmes impériaux
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Credits: Rijksmuseum, Public domain
ISBN 978-2-8004-1870-4

Was Belgium really 'Spanish,' 'Austrian,' and then 'French' in the modern era? During the 18th century, the Southern Netherlands were successively incorporated into the Habsburg Empires of Spain and Austria, and, by conquest, into France. 

With the emergence of the nation-state and its 'national histories' in the 19th century, the reading and analysis of these territories’ trajectory as attached to 'foreign' political groupings has been subject to bias, and their memory is still fragmented among several countries.

Today, the deconstruction of this national vision opens up a new understanding of such complex configurations. Accordingly, the present volume offers a critical assessment of the historiography that has almost always treated said historical sequences separately. It highlights the continuities and questions the issues involved in governing the former Netherlands as a singular space within European imperial systems during the 18th century.

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Publié avec le soutien du Fonds national de la recherche scientifique - F.R.S.-FNRS

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