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Since John Lothrop Motley, born in 1814, no American has written so extensively about Dutch history as Herbert H. Rowen, born over one hundred years later. As far as personality, style, and career are concerned, they have little in common, but they do share one characteristic: their deep interest in the development of the Dutch state during the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. It is true, Rowen has in his recent book on The Princes of Orange and in work that is forthcoming or in preparation moved into the eighteenth century, yet his major publications deal with the seventeenth century. What preoccupation has brought him to this field and held him there for so long?
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Kossmann, E.H. (1992). Herbert H. Rowen and the Dutch Republic. In: Harline, C.E. (eds) The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, vol 132. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2722-6_3
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