A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC

Jonathan I. Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 (The Oxford History of Early Modern Europe) (Oxford & New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford U. Press, 1995) (From the bookjacket: "One of the principal aims of the book is to provide a new type of integrated history which draws the different dimensions of the discipline firmly together in strictly non-technical language.).