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The Netherlands and the Dutch
Indonesian Cuisine
Selamat Makan
Food and its preparation are an integral part of the lives of the Indonesian people. Cooking is a time of community and celebration, and recipes, techniques and traditions are hand...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Let's Go Dutch
Taste the legendary flavours of Dutch chocolate, pudding and pastry. Delight in the wonderful stories and recipes surrounding the Feast of Saint Nicholas, Christmas and New Year’s ...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Four Years till Tomorrow
Despair and Hope in Wartime Dutch East Indies
The surrender of the Japanese in South East Asia on August 15th, 1945 was for Dutch civilian camp internees only the beginning of yet another period of upheaval, hostilities and pe...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Dutch Immigrant Memoirs and Related Writings
This classic collection of mostly nineteenth-century, 114 first-person travel accounts and personal reminiscences by Dutch immigrant pioneers provides a unique perspective on the c...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
“Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen” - the original title - is a brilliant portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. For Huizinga, ...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
I Will Maintain
William & Mary Trilogy, Volume 1
In his book ‘History of England,’ Lord Macaulay writes of Dutch Stadtholder Prince William III of Orange: ‘Since Octavius the world had seen no such instance of precocious statesma...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Defender of the Faith
William & Mary Trilogy, Volume 2
‘It is a desperate situation,’ said William earnestly; ‘as desperate as it was in 1672, for the enemy is not knocking at our door. If we cry peace now, France will see she dare do ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
For God and the King
William & Mary Trilogy, Volume 3
The Prince was in his thirty-seventh year, at the height of his reputation: the most respected statesman, one of the most feared generals and powerful rulers in Europe, the head of...
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Star Children
The Holocaust may never be forgotten for its horrible stain on the history of mankind. This book is about a WWII episode which is unique in itself: a small group of Jewish prisoner...
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When Canada Was Home
The Story of Dutch Princess Margriet
What is the story behind all those tulip bulbs Princess Juliana gave to Ottawa, way back in the Fall of 1945? That's the annual gift that blossomed into full bloom as the enormousl...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
A Friend Among Enemies
The Incredible Story of Arie Van Mansum in the Holocaust
When the Nazis who had invaded the Netherlands in 1940, started deporting Dutch Jews eastwards in the Summer of 1942, Arie van Mansum, realizing these fellow citizens were in great...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Freedom's Clothesline
Dutch citizens during World War II
The author who lived in the southern Dutch province of Limburg tells of her family’s struggles during the war years, interweaving it with stories of friends who offered at great ri...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
We Became Canadians
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a significant number of Canadian soldiers returned home to Canada to be followed by their brides, among whom were over a thousand Dutch ...
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Return to the Hiding Place
Eighteen-year old, Dutch-born Hans Poley was the first fugitive from the Nazis to find shelter at the Ten Boom’s residence in Haarlem, in 1943. The following year, Poley together w...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Things We Couldn't Say
The true story of Berendina (Diet) Eman, a young Dutch woman who, with her fiance, Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue Jews imperiled by Nazi persecution in occupied Holland ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Faith and Victory in Dachau
The author was a very unlikely resistance leader: a gentle preacher. As a minister he was known for his evangelistic zeal. Yet when the ‘school conflict’ with the Nazis erupted - t...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
Becoming Canadian
Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant
Thousands of Western European immigrants streamed into Canada after the Second World War, seeking refuge from the economic devastation of their homelands. Many wanted to assimilate...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Write Back Soon
Letters from Immigrants in America
This book attempts to provide some essential background for the correspondence by immigrants from the Netherlands, while allowing them to speak for themselves. Brinks was able to f...
USD 10.95 / CAD 13.95
Albertus C. Van Raalte
Dutch Leader and American Patriot
Published for the Holland (Michigan) sesquicentennial, the authors survey Van Raalte’s role and leadership of Secession-ists in the Netherlands, and later in the U.S.A. where they ...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Sir John's Diary
The Fun-Tome of the Opera
“A kaleidoscopic life story in engineering, opera, movies, operettas, television, conducting, stage directing and several other facets, written in an inimitable style.” - Het Binne...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
And The Swamp Flourished
The Bittersweet Story of Holland Marsh
Draining swamps and marshes, and controlling groundwater levels, it seems to come natural to Dutchmen! Throughout Europe they have reclaimed land this way, growing plentiful crops ...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
American Travels of a Dutch Hobo
In 1923, Dutch seaman Gerard Leeflang fell in love with America and soon was an illegal alien. He had become entranced with what he had seen of New York City. He jumped ship and ab...
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From the Prairies With Hope
Among the scribes in the Dutch press who tried to generate interest in life in Canada, Aberson stands out with her columns that were noted for clarity, humour and poignancy. She qu...
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Secession, Doleantie and Union
1834-1892
Efforts toward reunion among Reformed and Presbyterian churches will succeed to the degree that the truths of Scripture, faithfully echoed by the Confessions, are truly experienced...
USD 14.95 / CAD 17.95
The Practice of Political Spirituality
Episodes from the Public Career of Abraham Kuyper, 1879-1918
Few Dutch prime ministers or politicians merit international attention a century later. Kuyper, who led a protestant christian program party to become prime minister, still capture...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
Letters Written in Good Faith
The Early Years of the Dutch Norbertines in Wisconsin
A Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Wisconsin Indians on furlough in the Netherlands, returned to work in 1848 with in tow a large group of mostly Brabant immigrants. These immigr...
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100 Years Ago
Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893
A party of 68 men, women and children may be seen as the vanguard of subsequent Dutch emigration waves to Canada. Who were they and where did they go? This book gives many answers ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
My 38 Years in America
Winnipeg became the first home in Canada to the DeVries brothers, Klaas and Reindert, who arrived in Canada from Jubbega-Schurega in 1892. Their lengthy letter home prompted the fi...
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Dutch Immigration to North America
Twelve historians present their papers on thought provoking aspects of Dutch immigration to Canada and the U.S.A. This collection brings out some lesser known episodes in Dutch imm...
USD 12.95 / CAD 17.95
They Farmed Well
The Dutch-Canadian Agricultural Community in Nova Scotia, 1945-1995
A son of Dutch immigrant farmer parents, the author traces the settlement of Dutch farmers in Nova Scotia after World War II and the contribution they made to this Maritime provinc...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
Silent Ethnicity
The Dutch of New Brunswick
In this fascinating book, the author - a Professor of Sociology - relates that the Dutch arrived in what became New Brunswick in 1674, and for three years maintained control over t...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
The Scholten Story
Losing track of their family’s roots should no longer be a concern to the (large) Scholten clan of New Brunswick, Canada. Novelist Curtis weaves a compelling narrative of this hard...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Inheritance Preserved
The Canadian Reformed Churches in Historical Perspective
The Canadian Reformed Churches and Free Reformed Churches of Australia in Historical Perspective. This book describes the origin and early decades of these church federations in t...
USD 17.95 / CAD 21.95
Flourishing in the Land
A Hundred Year History of Christian Reformed Missions in North America
The chronicle of the story of the Christian Reformed Church’s ongoing efforts to present the Gospel to an ever-changing North American society. Written in recognition of the CRC’s ...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Schilder's Struggle For the Unity of the Church
Dutch Reformed theologian Klaas Schilder (1890-1952) is remembered both for his courageous stand in opposition to Nazism, which led to his imprisonment three months after the Nazis...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley
The Life and Letters of Ulbe Eringa, 1866-1950
The letters Dutch immigrant Ulbe Eringa wrote home from the United States are rich with information on the family, the household economy, church activities, and school involvement....
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Summoning Up Remembrance
Henry Stob’s career as a highly respected (now emeritus) professor of philosophical and moral theology was undergirded by an intriguing and unusually eventful public and private li...
USD 12.95 / CAD 16.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol1 book1
Volume I: The Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 73.95 / CAD 99.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book1
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
In The Visual Arts, the author focuses specifically on the effect of the “silent sources” on European art. These sources are the Eastern art and artifacts, flora, fauna, and crafts...
USD 48.95 / CAD 68.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book2
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
The Literary Arts surveys the Asian themes, influences, and echoes in the national literatures of Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and England. “These volu...
USD 48.95 / CAD 68.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book3
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
The Scholarly Disciplines analyzes the fields where the revelation of Asia was most apparent: technology and the natural sciences, cartography and geography, the languages and lin...
USD 48.95 / CAD 68.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book1
Volume III: A Century of Advance
Trade, Missions, Literature deals with Christian missions and trade and conquest in the East. It examines the various histories, reports, letterbooks, and travelogues printed and w...
USD 67.95 / CAD 94.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book2
Volume III: A Century of Advance
South Asia examines the European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of the Mughul Empire, Goa, Bijapur, Kanara, Malabar, Coromandel, and insular South Asia inc...
USD 55.95 / CAD 78.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book3
Volume III: A Century of Advance
Southeast Asia deals with European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of Southeast Asia. The continental nations of Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, Pegu, Arakan, Cambo...
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Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book4
Volume III: A Century of Advance
In this volume, East Asia reviews European images of China during the late Ming and early Ch’ing dynasties, ranging from its religious practices, customs, and intellectual life to ...
USD 67.95 / CAD 94.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol1 book2
Volume I: A Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 61.95 / CAD 86.95
In the Shadow of the Sun
...and they persevered; a tribute to a caring mother. Author Ronny Herman shares with the reader her mother’s anxieties, frustrations, and hopes of the time when she with her two y...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Eight Prison Camps
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
Eldest daughter of eight children, the author was raised in a teacher’s family in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. The family was segregated when the occupying Japanese a...
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S.O.S.
A native of the Dutch North Sea island of Terschelling, the boy Dirk dreams of going to sea as his father, a merchant mariner, has done before him. When Dirk finishes grade school,...
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Pierre and His Friends
Pierre, sick and confined to bed, cannot play with other children. He must find enjoyment in what he sees outside his window: the sky above and the canal below. Pierre discovers be...
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Far Out the Long Canal
In the coastal village of Wierum, at the edge of the Sea, practically everyone could skate except the very littlest children ... and Moonta Riemersma, who was already nine. When ic...
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The Curse of Urumbu
The story of Dutch immigrant Jack Westerbaan is fast-moving and exciting. A cowhand in Australia, he abandons his Christian faith. At some point he decides to retrace his roots but...
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The Secret Code
Hank and Dick, two teenagers, intercept a coded message destined for a heroin distributor doubling as a greengrocer. Caught snooping around the warehouse, they are abducted to an i...
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Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca 1641-1795
In 1500 Malay Malacca was the queen city of the Malay Archipelago, one of the great trade centers of the world. Its rulers, said to be descendents of the ancient line of Srivijaya,...
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Song of Survival
Women Interned
They survived three-and-a half years in a Japanese concentration camp for women and children in Sumatra during World War II. But these courageous women - missionaries, teachers, nu...
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John Company
Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the Dutch were fighting to establish their independence from Spain, and overseas trading and colonial explorations were a vital part of tha...
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Stand By, Boys!
Much has been written about the Flood of February 1, 1953, which inundated many low-lying coastal areas in the Netherlands. Norel uses as his plot a true but amazing story that unf...
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Dirk's Dog Bello
The stormy day an English ship broke up in the terrible waters of Wicked Wife, Dirk rescued a Great Dane, Bello. After that, by the law of the sea, the giant dog belonged to him. W...
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Vollenhoven
His Early Development
A scholarly exposition and analysis of the early theism of well-known Reformed, Dutch philosopher Dirk H.T. Vollenhoven (1892-1978), who was Professor of Philosophy at the Free Uni...
USD 34.95 / CAD 49.95
Kaleidoscope
Dutch Poetry in Translation
The poetry selection ranges from the early Middle Ages to the Twentieth century. The left pages feature the poems in the source language (Dutch), those on the right have the Englis...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
So Much Sky
Though known primarily as a Dutch scholar, teacher, and historian of international repute - his specialty was American history - J.W. Schulte Nordholt in this lucid and intensely d...
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A Stranger in a Strange Land
‘The Banner of Truth’: This is a delightful book. It tells the story of H.P. Scholte, a preacher in the Netherlands, who, being persecuted for his faith in his own country, emigrat...
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He Gathers the Lambs
A moving book, written not only with deep insight into the Dutch ecclesiastical, religious, social, and historical situation in which the story takes place, but also with a warm, r...
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William of Orange - The Silent Prince
F. Pronk in ‘The Messenger’: "If you have ever wondered why Dutch Reformed people of former generations felt such strong spiritual ties with Dutch royalty, this is a ‘must’ reading...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
When the Morning Came
Volume 1, Freedom Series
A very interesting and informative book in which the author weaves his historical story around the life and times of 12-year old Martin Meulenberg and his family. The Meulenbergs f...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
Dispelling the Tyranny
Volume 2
A sequel to When The Morning Came, the book takes readers to Count Lodewijk’s ill-fated attempt to invade the Netherlands in 1581 and chase ou...
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Salt in His Blood
The Life of Michael De Ruyter
Called the ‘greatest Dutch Admiral’, Michael De Ruyter (1607 - 1676) was feared by his enemies and loved by his men for his fatherly approach to life. De Ruyter has been held up as...
USD 12.95 / CAD 16.95
Forty Days & Forty Nights
The poet’s immigrant family background can be traced in such poems as ‘Pedlars of the Practical’ and ‘Forty Days & Forty Nights.’ ‘Terpstra is not afraid of taking risks. He exper...
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Playing the Trumpet From My Window
Poet, linguist, novelist, anthropologist and monk Theuws in this book is being introduced by Joseph A. Quinn, professor at the University of Windsor, who writes: (Theuws) is able t...
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Family Games
Family Games is about knowing who you are, especially in an extended family with strong traditions, or in changing times. In this short-story collection Konrad brings to life chara...
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Buffaloberries and Saskatoons
Stories and Poems from Western Canada
Stories by Pleuke Boyce, Aritha van Herk, Dick Dekker and Jane Aberson, and poetry by Sarah Klassen and Alice Van Wart. This is the 1991 anthology in our series of collections of ...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
Dutch Gifts
Stories, Poems and Creative Non-Fiction on a Netherlandic Theme
In 1990 the Netherlandic Press asked for submissions to a Literary Competition, held in celebration of its 10th Anniversary. The only prerequisite, apart from entries not having be...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
Light of the World
An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Dutch Religious and Occasional Poetry
For this introduction to the poetry of Holland’s Golden Age, the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Christopher Levenson has selected a variety of representative poems, and made them a...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
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Correspondence (1647-1653)
New Netherland Document Series
Volume XI of the Dutch Colonial Manuscripts comprises the correspondence of Petrus Stuyvesant from 1647 to 1653. It represents the first six years of his seventeen-year tenure as d...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
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Council Minutes (1652-1654) Volume V
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 39.95 / CAD 55.95
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The Dongan Papers (1683-1688)
Admiralty Court and Other Records of the Administration of New York Governor Thomas Dongan
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 55.95 / CAD 78.95
Abraham Kuyper - A Centennial Reader
A Centennial Anthology
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is one of the most remarkable men in the history of Reformed Christianity. He was eminent in Dutch public life for half a century and left a deep imprint...
USD 34.95 / CAD 49.95
Gathered at Albany - A History of a Classis
A superbly researched volume that tells the story of the RCA Classis of Albany, New York, from its beginning in 1771 up to 1979, Janssen’s account of this historically significant ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
A Journey Into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635
The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. This edition of the earliest account of Iroquis culture includes scholarly notes on the historical context of New Netherland and ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 23.95
Ecumenism and the Reformed Church
The book offers insight in the conflicting signals regarding ecumenism in the communion of the Reformed Church in America. On the one hand it seems very interested in unity with ot...
USD 10.95 / CAD 15.95
The Dutch Reformed Church in the American Colonies
A carefully researched history of the RCA from 1628 to 1776, which covers the church’s relation Indians and blacks, internal discord and controversy, and the Americanization of the...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
From Strength to Strength
A History of Northwestern 1882-1982
Premier RCA historian De Jong traces the history of Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, a Dutch community founded in 1870, from its beginnings as an academy in 1882 to the p...
USD 11.95 / CAD 15.95
B.D. A Biography of My Father
Dykstra’s loving but honest portrait of his father, B.D. Dykstra, a RCA minister who was also a scholar, dynamic preacher, author, newspaper editor, pacifist, and the ‘man on the b...
USD 8.95 / CAD 11.95
Sources of Secession
An in-depth history of the ecclesiastical background in the Netherlands of Reformed Christians who settled in the American Midwest. These followers of the Secession of 1834 from th...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Kamp Westerbork
Transit Camp to Eternity: the Liberation Story
The liberation of Kamp Westerbork in the history of the South Saskatchewan Regiment of Canada continues to be the event that captures the reason why the regiment served abroad in W...
USD 21.95 / CAD 27.95
Patrimony Profile
Our Reformed Heritage Retraced, 1795-1946
Reformed history and inheritance - patrimony - explained. The author retraces developments in the Dutch churches which led to the Secession of 1834, the (lesser known) Union of 186...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Americanization of a Congregation
A Historical Series of the Reformed Churches In America - No. 26 - Second Edition
This engaging history of the Third Reformed Church (RCA) of Holland, Michigan, chronicles the events of twenty-five years of change since its first edition was published for the ch...
USD 15.95 / CAD 22.95
Dutch Quintet
A Collection of Stories and Poems By Dutch Canadians
Short stories by Rudy Wiebe, Haijo Jan Westra; and Poetry by Sonja de Wit, Marilyn Smulders, Augustinus P. Dierick. In the stories, the subject matter ranges from family in Friesla...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
Sabotage
Volume 5, the Shadow Series
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
The Grim Reaper
Volume 3, the Shadow Series
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
The Lonely Sentinel
Volume 1, the Shadow Series
A windmill standing guard over Dutch polders; the miller's family wrestling with death and treachery; innocent children playing adult games of secrecy and intrigue; hapless refugee...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
The Partisans
Volume 4
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
When a Neighbor Came Calling
Memories of the WWII Nazi occupation of the Netherlands will never be forgotten by those who lived through it. These memories should not fade away either. This book compiled by Alb...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
Advocate and exemplar of women's education, female of aristocratic birth and modest demeanor, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was one of Reformation Europe's most renowned writ...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
With Other Words
A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Dutch Poetry by Women
If you love language and live away from the country you were born, if the language you speak daily is not the language of your childhood, and if you still have strong connections w...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
Rembrandt
Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was a respected source of inspiration for many artists...
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The Colonizers
Early European Settlers and the Shaping of North America
From Champlain’s daring voyages through Canada to the pious settlements of the Pilgrims and Puritans, from the commercial enterprises of Dutch New Amsterdam to the plantation socie...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run’s harvest of nutmeg turned i...
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New Dutch Swing
One of the best book-length critical investigations of creative music, this engaging survey of a vital contemporary jazz scene presents an American music critic’s insightful accoun...
USD 9.95 / CAD 14.95
The Padre
This is the inspiring story of a remarkable chaplain, who as a “front-line” soldier for nearly three years served with the Irish Regiment of Canada, in England, Italy and the Nethe...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Roots & Branches - Hardcover
St. Willibrord Community Credit Union; The first 50 years
Life without banking. That is what thousands of Dutch immigrants experienced before they arrived in Canada in the late 1940s and early 50s. Most of them had few financial assets, m...
USD 22.95 / CAD 27.95
Johannes C. Sikkel
A Pioneer in Social Reform
The journalistic work of this 19th century Dutch preacher and pioneer of social reform lies in his Scriptural evaluation of the socialistic ideal of society. He discerned its anti-...
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Dawning Of A New Day
The book's key characters John and Joan, childhood friends who each went their own way, meet again later in life. John finds that he still cares deeply about Joan and wants to know...
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Journey Through the Night
This famed book captures the spirit and agony of the five harrowing years of Nazi occupation of the Netherlands remarkably well. "This is more than just a war-time adventure. The c...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
Our School
Calvin College and the Christian Reformed Church
The history of Calvin College is a fascinating one. The school's rise to prominence on the landscape of Christian higher education has been accompanied by important milestones in i...
USD 14.95 / CAD 20.95
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Deacons' Accounts (1652-1674)
First Dutch Reformed Church of Beverwijck / Albany
The information presented in this book has been translated from old records originally written in the Dutch language. It provides a detailed but rare glimpse into financial dealing...
USD 27.95 / CAD 32.95
Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the 19th Century
The history of the Dutch community in North America is closely tied to and heavily influenced by developments in the Reformed churches in the Netherlands and in North America. The ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 25.95
Of Dutch Ways
This popular book is an excellent introduction to the Netherlands, its history, culture, and contemporary life, written by a Dutch-born journalist, who also served as a tour guide ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 23.95
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
This is the story of a poor brother and sister in long-ago Holland. Here Hans and his sister Gretel experience championship skating, hunger and family hardship, and countless adven...
USD 10.95 / CAD 15.95
Hans Brinker Teacher Guide
A Guide for Teachers and Students
Interact with some of the greatest American children’s literature ever written. Intelligent, thought-provoking questions and creative activities will enable students to experience ...
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Die van ons
The Brabant saying of 'Die van ons...' (the English term ‘our people’ does not fully express it) already suggests a measure of pride, and respect, for the sons and daughters whose ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Netherlanders in America
A Study of Emigration and Settlement in the 19th & 20th Centuries in the United States of America
The first general study of 19th Century Dutch presence in the U.S.A. after some 90 years still rates as one of the very best. A social geography and history teacher in the Netherla...
USD 34.95 / CAD 44.95
Companion To All Our Children
A companion index was compiled for the 512-page volume to make it accessible for anyone using it for immigration research purposes. The index includes the names of people, places a...
USD 6.95 / CAD 8.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol 1 book 3
Vol I: A Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 67.95 / CAD 86.95
Hideout in the Swamp
Volume 2, the Shadow Series
Part of the book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWI...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
Phoenix, The Fateful Journey
Tragedy, Survival and Heroism
Immigrating to America involved a perilous trip across the Atlantic. That inland travel could be extremely dangerous is aptly described in John Textor’s well-researched historical ...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
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Zuiderkruis (ship model)
and sister ships Groote Beer / Waterman
These three made Dutch immigrant history by sailing to Australia and Canada and New Zealand! All three ships are 1944 Portland, Oregon-built convertible war-effort Victory class ve...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Hervormd in Sint-Petersburg 1717-1927
This fascinating Dutch-language book on the Reformed Church in Russia’s St. Petersburg offers a look at society and life in a Dutch trading post on the Baltic Sea coast. Although n...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Oorlog in Zuid-Limburg
10 mei 1940
For Dutch military strategists the defense of Southern Limburg in terms of the overall policy made little sense. For Germany, the protruding tongue wedged between it and...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Dutch Chicago
A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City
The story of the Dutch in Chicago until now largely has been below the radarscreen of historians. The dean of Dutch American historians in his latest book has lifted the veil on an...
USD 49.95 / CAD 64.95
Van scheurmakers, onruststokers en geheime opruijers…
De Afscheiding in Overijssel
The Dutch government intolerant? This book offers the evidence about a dark chapter in the 19th century. Several authors detail aspects of the Secession of 1834, whose followers ...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Overijssels Watersnood
Een heruitgave van het verslag van de ramp van 1825
Back in the Fall of 1824 and January 1825, storm after storm had significantly raised the water levels in the rivers that cut through the Netherlands on their way to the North Sea ...
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An Amicable Friendship
Een Aengenaeme Vrientschap
What is known about the representatives of the Netherlands in early Canada? Very little! This book fills that void and more. It rates as one of the best researched books of the Dut...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Floral Passion
An explosion of colour and heartwarming stories
This coffee-table format features a collection of heart-warming stories and stunning photographs. Floral Passion describes a thriving floral industry and recounts the lives of the ...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Geschiedenis van Kampen I
Volume I
The river port of Kampen rose to prominence as one of the members of the medieval Hanseatic League, an early and successful attempt at ‘foreign' trade relations. Situated on the ba...
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Geschiedenis van Kampen II
Volume II
Kampen's economic development was based on trade and merchant marine which in this book receives exhaustive attention along with the city's social history. The post-1800 economic c...
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Geschiedenis van Kampen Volumes I and II
Includes Volumes I and II, see separate descriptions listed on this online bookstore. Combination offer....
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Uit den ash kolk der vergetelheid
Geschiedenis van de stad Hasselt 1252-2002
A memorable 18th century quote, in essence "From the ash heap of oblivion" makes for the title of this book which highlights Hasselt's 750 years of history. While the first two cen...
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Sporen van verplaatsing
Honderd jaar nieuwkomers in Overijssel
Trodden paths of migration, these can be traced in landscapes, in lives of people, in society. The author searched the archives of Overijssel for such traces and discovered materia...
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A Theatre in Dachau
This book presents the thoughts of a Reformed Christian minister who lived through the horrid experiences of a German concentration camp during World War II. He shares his struggle...
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A Trimaran Sails the Seven Seas
A former radio-officer in the Dutch Merchant Navy, the author studied celestial navigation in Canada before becoming a Commander with an Ontario Sail Squadron. The Master Mariner b...
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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949
Survivors' accounts of the Japanese occupation and eyewitness stories of the ensuing struggle for an independent Indonesia. Unlike the story of the liberation of the Netherlands, t...
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Groote Beer
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
NOW SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. The Groote Beer, the Wate...
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Volendam I
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT! This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family...
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Waterman
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style plaque make a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Originally a freighter, the Waterma...
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Zuiderkruis
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
NOW SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Built in 1944 as a WWII c...
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Maasdam IV
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT - Ceramic wall plaque Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. A sister ship of the Ryndam, bot...
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Historical Directory of the Christian Reformed Church
This is the first single directory of historical information of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA), a denomination of 280,000 members with congregations in the ...
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Sabelis Symphony
Exploration is part of the inevitable process that dominates the work of artists. It takes on a much broader scope when this exploration involves more than one culture. It becomes ...
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Pillar Church in the Van Raalte Era
Immigration is often a story of trials and triumphs. Leaving one's country of birth and family, and all that is dear and familiar is painful. Trying to build a new future in a new ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 17.95
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Across the Atlantic (VHS)
Between 1928 and 1971, 3.8 million people worldwide immigrated to Canada. The majority of European immigrants landed at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Among them were many from t...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Afrikaans-English English-Afrikaans Practical Dictionary
Afrikaans is part of the Dutch and Flemish language family, although it also has traces of low German and French. Up until recent times, along with English, it was one of the two n...
USD 12.95 / CAD 14.95
Batavia's Graveyard
The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The ship itself wa...
USD 16.95 / CAD 21.95
The Island at the Center of the World
The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making ...
USD 17.95 / CAD 23.95
American Railroads in the Nineteenth Century
Railroads in the U.S. were the Internet of the 19th century. The whole country opened up. Industry exploded. Numerous fortunes were made, lost, and sometimes made again, and includ...
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Slow Train to Paradise
How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Railroad historians have long been aware of Dutch investment in the building of American railroads, but until this book it has not been known how massive this investment was. This ...
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Railways in the Netherlands
A Brief History, 1834-1994
Europe’s Lowlands is a country of windmills, canals and ... a very extensive railway system which in addition to freight is a significant people mover. Just like the waterways did ...
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Unspoken Allies
Anglo-Dutch Relations since 1780.
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 fro...
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American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies-Indonesia
U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949.U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949
The book challenges the view that during the period 1945-1949, the American government and its foreign policymakers unequivocally backed the Indonesian Republic's struggle for inde...
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Daily Life in Rembrandt’s Holland
A book loved by students of genealogy and family history! This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity...
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Touring the Low Countries
Accounts of British Travellers, 1660 - 1720
Touring the Low Countries is an anthology of approximately forty travel documents by British tourists - journals, letters, and financial accounts - most of them published here for ...
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Rond de Runde
Turf, kunstmest en electriciteit, Triptiek van de Turfindustrie
For centuries, Dutch homes and cottage industries for fuel relied on dried logs of peat, also known as Black Gold. Huge sections of the country - particularly Drenthe and Overijsse...
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Stefan Derksen’s Polar Adventure
One of the sailors who was a good shot, decided to try and shoot the bear while the man was still in the wobbly boat. Because his footing was unsteady, he almost missed. The injure...
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Storms, Ice, and Whales
The Antarctic Adventures of a Dutch Artist on a Norwegian Whaler
During the heroic age of Antarctic exploration in 1923, Dutch artist Willem van der Does talked his way aboard a Norwegian whaler and made a daring, often dangerous voyage to Antar...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Christian Responses to the Holocaust
Moral and Ethical Issues
In a Europe overrun by Hitler’s armies and his Nationalist Socialist ideology, Christians were forced to respond to the atrocities being committed against their fellow citizens. Th...
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Impact
The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II
Hitlers "robot bombs" wreaked havoc on Allied population centres and forced massive counter measures and the diversion of important resources from the battlefront. The authors make...
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The Battle for Ginkel Heath near Ede
17 and 18 September 1944
British paratroopers remember the Ginkel Heath often with mixed emotions but is far less known among the Dutch public. Here may be why. Even now, decades after the actual landing, ...
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From Leningrad to Berlin
Dutch volunteers in the service of the German Waffen-SS 1941-1945
When in June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the elite guard division SS appealed to young men in occupied areas to join the crusade against Bolshevism by enlisting in ...
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The Roommate of Anne Frank
In the autumn of 1987, a small bundle containing photographs and newspaper clippings once belonging to Charlotte Kaletta, was found at the Amsterdam flea market by an employee of t...
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Canada and Noord-Brabant
An eternal bond
The author describes the battles of the Canadian forces for the liberation of the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant in this well documented and well-illustrated book. The very import...
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The Reformed Church in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)
This book describes the history of a 17th century Reformed Church in Latin America. After a general introduction to Dutch Brazil (1630-1654), the author analyzes the church as to h...
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Equipping the Saints
The Synod of New York, 1800–2000
A team of pastors and scholars of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) recounts the engaging story of the (regional) Synod of New York during the past two centuries, North America’...
USD 16.95 / CAD 22.95
Forerunner of the Great Awakening
Sermons by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691–1747)
This work of historical interest introduces the life and sermons of Theodore Frelinghuysen, one of the most important precursors of the Great Awakening in the USA and a preacher of...
USD 28.95 / CAD 38.95
From Mission to Church
The Reformed Church in America Mission to India
In the nineteenth century, the Scudders went to India with the avowed intention to confine their efforts to evangelistic preaching. By the time the Reformed Church in America (RCA)...
USD 39.95 / CAD 47.95
By Grace Alone
Stories of the Reformed Church in America
The exciting and hope-filled story of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), tracing its origin to Europe, with a brief history of the church out of which the Reformation grew. The ...
USD 31.95 / CAD 38.95
Cruel Paradise
Life Stories of Dutch Emigrants
This book deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the northern region of the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. A skilled stylis...
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Life Lessons From the Hiding Place
Discovering the heart of Corrie Ten Boom
Dutch-born citizen Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her faith. From her unforgettable experience in a WWII Nazi prison camp ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 21.95
Indian Affairs in Colonial New York
The Seventeenth Century
This book is a classic in the study of Indian-European relations in seventeenth-century New York. First published in 1960, it remains the only one-volume history to explore these c...
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A Bloom of Friendship
The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival
Every spring, Canada’s capital, Ottawa, bursts into colour with hundreds of thousands of tulip blooms. These represent the token of appreciation of the Dutch Royal family for the c...
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Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands, May 1945
Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of horror for the Dutch people. They faced oppression and death with remarkable stoicism, ...
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Where is Here
An Immigration Story
"Our journey to Canada began on a chilly, dark morning. We stood in front of our house as Dad pulled the door shut for the last time…" The author, then barely in his teens, reflect...
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De Orgelkunst in de Nederlanden, van de 16de tot de 18de eeuw
This massive tome covers the formative years of Netherlandic organ culture; the instruments, the churches in which the organs were built and importantly, the builders themselves. T...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Holland Mania
The Dutch Period in American Art - A fascinating and idiosyncratic work of art history.
Holland Mania describes a curious and now little-known era in American cultural history. During this period, 1880-1920, old Dutch master paintings and Dutch antiques moved into Ame...
USD 41.95 / CAD 49.95
Veneklasen Brick
A Family, a Company, and a Unique Nineteenth-Century Dutch Architectual Movement in Michigan
In 1848, the second year of the new Dutch kolonie in West Michigan’s Ottawa County, a much-needed brick manufacturing industry was started in the rich clay fields between the villa...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Roots & Branches - Paperback
St. Willibrord Community Credit Union; The first 50 years
Life without banking. That is what thousands of Dutch immigrants experienced before they arrived in Canada in the late 1940s and early 50s. Most of them had few financial assets, m...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture
The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II
In the study of the past, it is sometimes all too easy to forget that history is made not by groups or governments but by ordinary individuals. That point becomes clear in this boo...
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The Liberation of Holland VHS
This documentary of Holland’s liberation features re-enactment as well as original footage including some rare shots in colour from WWII. This film recognizes the efforts of the nu...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Verloren land
Een herinneringswerk aan Schokland
A unique study of an abandoned island in the Netherlands that reappeared and now is a Unesco world-class protected heritage site. The choppy, and often dangerously stormy Zuiderzee...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Geschiedenis van de Gereformeerde Kerk van Kampen, 1895-1994
Students of recent Dutch church history quickly will find “Kampen” on their way, the town which since 1854, has been home to the Theological College of the Reformed Churches in the...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Aartsbisschop in oorlogstijd
Een portret van kardinaal De Jong, 1885-1955
The surrender of the Dutch army in May 1940 was not the end of warfare in this now occupied country. With the military conquest out of the way, the Nazis increasingly attempted to ...
USD 10.95 / CAD 14.95
Family Kinship and Community
A study of Dutch Canadians, a developmental approach
This 1970s study attempts to trace the social and political culture of the Dutch Canadian in the Holland Marsh area (North of Toronto, for decades the vegetable garden of Ontario)....
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
The first Dutch settlement in Alberta
Letters from the Pioneers Years 1903-1914
Translated for the first time from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southern Alberta. T...
USD 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Scout - The Secret of the Swamp
Volume 1
Tom and his chum Carl and Scout, finds them self caught up in the events of World War Two. A youthful adventurer, Tom repeatedly is forced to rely on his clever dog Scout. As the A...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
The Scout Series - All 7 volumes
Order this collector's dream to many boys
Join Scout, Tom’s very intelligent four-legged friend on his adventures with his master, and master’s chums Carl and Bert. The stories detail courageous efforts to help liberate th...
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Holland
Many people want to satisfy their curiosity by briefly traveling foreign countries in the comfort of their armchair. Others may need a pictorial appetizer for the country of their ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Over Zee- en Hollanders
Het succesverhaal van Nederlandse emigranten in West-Michigan
“Your ancestors had a very hard job to do, but how well they did it.” Dutch Princess Margriet summed it all up when she attended the 150th anniversary of the Dutch colonies in Mich...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
Een halve eeuw na de watersnoodramp
1953 – 1958 – 2003
This book traces the amazing story of the post-1953 Flood era of the Southwest region of the Netherlands during which a number of isolated coastal islands literally were tied to th...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
Kerk en Wereld
(Een studie over gereformeerden en hun uiteenlopende relaties met televisie in het licht van politiek, cultuur en theologie)
This dissertation analyzes why there is, within the Reformed community in the Netherlands, such a significant difference in the approach to television in the homes. According to th...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
Werken in Duitsland 1940-1945
Over 100 former slave labourers share the stories of their ordeal in Germany and other WWII Nazi occupied territories. These accounts are expertly woven into the story line that ru...
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Ordening van dienst
Achtergronden van en ontwikkelingen in de eredienst van de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland
The author in his exhaustive dissertation charts the background of and the changes in the worship services in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKNs), since 2004 part of th...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
Archangel
Nederlandse ondernemers in Rusland, 1550-1785
Dutch traders (and their families) could be found in numerous places, from Japan to Ceylon, and from Thailand to Turkey, and from Nieu Amsterdam (later New York) to Archangel in Ru...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
The Beggars' Victory
Volume 3
A sequel to Dispelling the Tyranny and When the Morning Came. The author continues with the story of you...
USD 11.95 / CAD 13.95
In This Hour
A Story of World War II and the Floods of 1953
The book vividly weaves the tapestry of a small Zeeland island village where several characters passionately debate complex issues tied to events of the day, such as the WWII Nazi ...
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Het Calvinisme
In 1899, the author made history when he as the first Dutchman gave the Stone Lectures at Princeton University. The lectures simultaneously were published in several countries and ...
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Mona Parsons
From privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe
Even as a young girl growing up in small town Nova Scotia, Mona Parsons stood out for her elegance, self-confidence, and theatrical flair.But the life of this Wolfville n...
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The Freedom Series
Four volumes
This four book series by Piet Prins tells four stories of young Martin Meulenberg who, with his parents, fled Spanish persecution in the Netherlands. USD 39.95 / CAD 49.95
Frontiers and Sanctuaries
A Woman's life in Holland and Canada
The story of the challenges of women in the twentieth century told through the life of Madzy Brender a Brandis by her daughter Marianne. Madzy (1910-1984) had experienced war, immi...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Son of Secession
Douwe J. Vander Werp
The book challenges the understanding of the historical origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) as well as the church today. The author has written a movi...
USD 32.95 / CAD 49.95
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Oranje (ship model)
Immigrant history in the making! Build your popular immigrant ship model - scale of 1:250 - from a 12-page single-sided cardboard model kit in book form. Additionally, the coffee-t...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Wings of Change
A Dutch Immigrant's Journey
Wings of Change is a story about becoming; it is about becoming American, becoming a parent, and embracing life with exuberance. It is a memoir about one woman's experience emigrat...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
The Netherlands Reformed Church
1571-2005
On the eve of the merger of the Netherlands Reformed Church (NHK) with the smaller Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKNs), the author, who served it as NHK’s General Secretary...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
Rembrandt's Jews
With so many of Rembrandt's paintings devoted to stories of the Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Biblical themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wo...
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Tulipmania
Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
The meteoric rise and subsequent crash of the Dutch tulip trade in the 1600s, popularly known as Tulipmania, continues to be used in newspaper articles and financial newsletters th...
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Dutch Jewry during the Emancipation Period
Gothic Turrets on a Corinthian Building
By the end of the eighteenth century, Dutch Jews enjoyed complete freedom of religion, but economic discrimination left the majority of them penniless. Moreover, a bitter conflict ...
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Decolonising the Caribbean
Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Much has been written on the post-WW2 decolonization in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch coloni...
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Thuis in de jaren '50
Dagelijks leven in een gemoedelijke tijd
At the time the Dutch pulled up stakes to head across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, most of them relied on memories to picture what they left behind. Taking pictures then wa...
USD 18.95 / CAD 23.95
Duizend Dagen Indie
The editors of this book formatted the 1945-1948 diary of shock trooper Jan van Trigt, a WWII resistance man who volunteered for the Dutch army following the liberation of the Neth...
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Opmars naar Rotterdam
Volume 1 – De luchtlanding Volume 2 – Van Maas tot Moerdijk Volume 3 – De laatste fase The author, a Dutch military historian, minutely traces the May 1940 e...
USD 38.95 / CAD 49.95
Het Streekdrachten Boek
Customs and traditions vary from village to village in the Netherlands. In the late 1890s there were already concerns that, for example, klederdrachten, the traditional clothing wh...
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Willem-Alexander
Prins van Oranje
For the public abroad, the Dutch royal family is the face of the Netherlands. A new generation of the House of Orange-Nassau has emerged and generates a lot of attention at home. Q...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
From Bazooka to Bosnia
Sixty Years (non)Journalistic Experiences
Foreword by Van der Stoel, Max, a former Dutch Foreign Affairs minister. Covering news events has been the life of this author who already at the age of fourteen had already becom...
USD 21.95 / CAD 29.95
A Long Labour
A Dutch Mother’s Holocaust Memoir
In this unusual memoir, the author presents a Jewish mother’s view of life in the Netherlands during the WWII Nazi occupation. The book covers a period that ranges from the author’...
USD 20.95 / CAD 27.95
A Cup of Cold Water
The Compassion of Nurse Edith Cavell
“The secret password is yorc,” the princess whispered. Edith longed for her girlhood in England, when her secrets had been kept safe by her dog Reddie. But now in God’s timing, Edi...
USD 11.95 / CAD 15.95
Dutch fishing trawler GO-38
Paper model – bouwplaat Viskotter 1:150
The GO-38 fishing trawler catches sole and plaice in the North Sea. Based in the historic Dutch coastal town of Goedereede – hence the acronym GO – southwest of Rotterdam, the traw...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Dutch fishing vessel UK-93
Paper model – bouwplaat Zuiderzeebotter 1:50
The reliable work horse for the Zuyderzee inland fishing industry, this ship was the mainstay on what is now called the IJssel Lake or Flevo Lake. In 1900, there were over 3000 of ...
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Oosterscheldekering no.11
Paper model – bouwplaat Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier 1:350
Following the disastrous Flood of 1953 (in Dutch simply referred to as De Ramp), Dutch hydraulic engineers implemented a series of giant public works to raise the coastal protectio...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Windmill 'De Graanhalm' 1847
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:100
The windmill is more than any other structure, the most popular identity symbol among Dutch immigrants and their offspring. Windmill replicas can be found throughout North America,...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Dutch freighter ss Salatiga or Samarinda, Sarangan
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:250
Water, the seas, lakes, rivers and canals along with bridges, aquaducts and tunnels as well as ships of all types are very much part of the story of the Netherlands, past and prese...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Dutch tug boat Hudson
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:100
The vessel Hudson in various ways is representative of the famed Dutch maritime towing industry. Originally built for international high seas towing company L. Smit & Co., the Huds...
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Visions of Savage Paradise
Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil, 1637-1644
This book is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to colonia...
USD 55.95 / CAD 69.95
European inland cargo barge Ebenhaezer
Paper model – bouwplaat model spits 1:100 & 1:250
The ’spits’, a vessel which measures about 38 metres long by 5 metres wide, can still be seen on nearly all inland waterways. The popular former work horse of bulk cargo forwarders...
USD 12.95 / CAD 14.95
Henry J. Kuiper
Shaping the Christian Reformed Church, 1907–1962
This singular biographical study will interest readers wanting to better understand the Christian Reformed Church during the first six decades of the twentieth century, particularl...
USD 27.95 / CAD 36.95
Tangled in Time
The author presents a captivating story of a young girl's travel in time back to the harsh realities of the Depression years. The book opens with Janna's world being turned upside ...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997
Former HAL Flagship Paper model – bouwplaat 1:250
The ship of the future… available today. In 1959, owner Holland America Line used this bold slogan to promote its then state-of-the-art ocean liner to the public, for a memorable j...
USD 26.95 / CAD 32.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997 - Option 1
Former HAL Flagship Laser cut hull framework 1:250
Hull framework details. A $42.95 value. NOW on sale!...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997 - Option 2
Former HAL Flagship Laser cut railings 1:250
Railings detail. A $34.95 value. NOW on sale!...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997 - Option 3
Former HAL Flagship Laser cut Detail Parts 1:250
A focus on the details. A $49.95 value. NOW on sale!...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
NS Electrisch wagentreinstel 1936 no.9
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS Pec en Bak C rijtuig 1936 no.10
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
USD 7.95 / CAD 10.95
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NS 3737 Stoomlocomotief (1 to 50 ratio) no.14
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS OmBC 2901-2908 'Ome Keessie' no.15
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS DE 6400 Railion diesellocomotief no.22
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS DE 6400 Diesellocomotief no.23
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS 27 Drie-wagentreinstel 1934 grey no.25
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS 21 Drie-wagentreinstel 1934 blue no.26
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
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NS klein onderstation - stijl Van Ravensteijn no.28
Paper model – bouwplaat 1:87
Part of the Railways Museum model series, bouwplaat 1:87. The ascent of the railway in the Netherlands improved passenger and freight traffic significantly, and linked previously i...
USD 7.95 / CAD 10.95
Prisma Engels-Nederlands
Contains 31,000 keywords, offers 64,000 meanings and about 17,000 sample sentences. Widely used in the Dutch school system. A $24.95 value. NOW on sale!...
USD 16.95 / CAD 21.95
The Hiding Place
A Dutch watchmaker, Corrie ten Boom became a heroine of the Dutch Resistance against the Nazi ideology, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and a remarkable evangelist for ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Samenleven in het nieuwe land
Een schets van de sociale, culturele en geestelijke ontwikkelingen in de Noordoostpolder 1942-1970
The early history of a young land. The Noordoostpolder (Northeastpolder), the largest recent Dutch reclamation project at that time, went dry in the very early 1940s. In 1941, the ...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
Vergeten levens
Geschiedenissen van het Sallandse land
The book’s title which translates into Forgotten Lives examines the author’s ancestors over a period of several centuries. Initially, he prodding his aging mother for answers as he...
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Het Katholieken boek
This pictorial volume covers Dutch Roman Catholic social and church history in six very interesting but unique periods. The book starts with the Restoration of 1853, continues with...
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Iseult, We Are Barren
Dutch born, Maria Jacobs has as a poet and publisher, played an active role in the development of Canadian literature, and in the League of Canadian Poets. ‘In this publication (he...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
Dutch Medley
Poems and Stories
Pleuke Boyce, a writer, poet and literary translator, shows in her distinctive poems and stories an understanding of both Dutch and Canadian society. ‘She has the ability to deal w...
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The Scent of Spruce
Madzy Brender à Brandis wrote her first book Land for our Sons in 1958. An excerpt telling about the ‘old Holland’ which she left, and Canada, her new home country, is included, al...
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Special Nests
Special Nests is the story of Ricky van Hout, a high school history teacher, recuperating from an operation at her son Paul’s home. She is preparing her lessons for her class, usin...
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Captain Kintail
Captain Kintail is a long poem. The setting is a campground on the shore of Ontario’s Lake Huron, where a group of people have gathered for a weekend retreat - a weekend made longe...
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Dutch Voices
A Collection of Poems and Stories by Dutch Canadians
“As usual (these books) are published with care and a fine feeling for variety. The cover is after a painting ‘On the Heels of Winter’ by Dick Dekker, and is in harmony with the fi...
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Naked Trees
This book is prose, written with the sensibility of a poet and has been divided into two parts: ‘On the Street Where She Lives” and ‘A Deciduary’, a book of tree lore. Doug Watling...
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What Happens To Memory
This collection of poems includes many previously unpublished, as well as a selection of Vanderlip’s earlier work. “What happens to memory in this work is that it becomes the raw m...
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Distant Kin
Dutch-Canadian Stories and Poems
Significant and worth reading for several reasons. As the work of first- and second-generation Dutch immigrants to Canada, they bring a new dimension to the already considerable bo...
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Transplanted Lives
Dutch-Canadian Stories and Poems
Stories by Ine Schepers, Miep van der Zwaan-Verkley, Lini R. Grol, Marieke Jalink-Wijbrans; and Poetry by Leon Meersseman, Marieke Jalink-Wijbrans, Lini R. Grol. “This book itself...
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Insight
Canadian Writers View Holland
A Collection of Poems about Holland and the Dutch by Canadian Writers. “This anthology works the other way around. It brings together poems, written by Canadian poets, which have H...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
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The Andros Papers (1674-1676)
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
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The Andros Papers (1677-1678)
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
Dutch-English---English-Dutch Standard Dictionary
Over 35,000 entries are included in this useful dictionary. Pronunciation is provided for each entry, as well as a basic pronunciation chart for the Dutch language. A list of abbre...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
Indonesian-English---English-Indonesian Practical Dictionary
Ideal for the foreign executive. Extensive listings of words and phrases that appear in everyday business. Concise and easy to follow. Alphabetical listings according to prefix of ...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
Speak Standard Indonesian
Learn from 213 dialogue exercises, the key to those numerous situations that make the merest day-to-day communication an obstacle course: meeting new acquaintances, identifying and...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
A Key to Dutch History
The Cultural Canon of the Netherlands
In recent years, a debate has been taking place about Dutch history, culture and identity, largely prompted by a perceived growing ignorance of these subjects. Neglect was detected...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Verzet en verlangen
Het platteland in de greep van mkz en stedeling
News coverage of the disastrous 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the Netherlands brought live drama to every home in the country, and dominated the headlines for months on e...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Traag door oneindig laagland
De mooiste gedichten over rivieren & dijken
Much has been written about Dutch rivers and their dikes. Throughout Dutch history rivers have been both a lifeline and a destroyer, a friend and a foe, a vast opportunity and a hu...
USD 9.95 / CAD 14.95
Kerkgeschiedenis van de Graafschap
Discover the roots of Gelderland’s picturesque Achterhoek
The Gelderland region east of the IJssel River is commonly known as the Achterhoek because most of the province lays west of this waterway. The author approaches the history of the...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
The Distinctive Character of the Free University in Amsterdam, 1880-2005
A Commemorative History
The Vrije Universiteit (VU) was started in 1880 as a Reformed Christian alternative to the secular Dutch public universities, which were dominated by a liberalism originating in th...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
Arnhem 1944
Operation Market Garden
The Allied plan 'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial operations of the WWII - a joint penetration, by an armoured column and a large-scale ai...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Een Mythe aan Scherven
Een onderzoek naar de tactische gevechtsomstandigheden van mei 1940 op het Nederlandse strijdtoneel
In his book, the author introduces his readers to the nerve-wracking days of May 1940 when a modern and much better equipped German army invaded the Netherlands with tanks, planes ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
For the Heart of Holland
Volume 4
Spanish General Valdez had cordoned Leiden off with his troops. Rather than attack the city, he used a different tactic to do the work for him: starvation. When the food rations ra...
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De Bijzondere Rechtspleging 1944 tot 1952
The author became fascinated with the postwar settling of accounts of the Dutch authorities with those who had supported the Nazis as members of the Dutch National Socialist Party ...
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Hooibergen in Nederland
Geschiedenis en behoud van een agrarisch cultuurmonument
For centuries, Dutch farmers stored their hay in an open-air structure capped by a height adjustable, thatched roof. The ‘hooiberg’ –every dairy farm had at least one a short walk ...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Leven met het water in de IJsseldelta
At one time, the area around the Eastern Dutch city of Zwolle and neighbouring Kampen was served by as many as twelve diking districts, in Dutch known as ‘waterschappen.’ In 1970 t...
USD 12.95 / CAD 14.95
Leven in Blankenham
Een Overijsselse plattelandsgemeenschap in het tijdvak 1650-1850
Why introduce a history book on a local Dutch village to a North American Dutch-reading audience? This volume, Life in Blankenham is one of two, Vergeten levens. Geschiedenissen va...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
A Long Way
From the cold, harsh waters of Northern Europe to the tropical islands of the Dutch East Indies, the author in his novel captures the visual and spiritual dynamics of these two wor...
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A Family Occupation
Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s
Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. Th...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Braving Troubled Waters
Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community
The Dutch fishery sector, and not it alone, daily faces unpredictable fishing stocks in the sea, a volatile market and state interventions. In his book, the author shows how Dutch ...
USD 72.95 / CAD 89.95
In His Milieu
Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias
Published in memory of Paris-born U.S. economist and Dutch art historian John Michael Montias (1928-2005), this book consists of significant number of excellent essays by experts i...
USD 59.95 / CAD 75.95
The Bastion of Liberty
Leiden University Today and Yesterday
Leiden University was founded as an institution that would embody a particular set of academic ethics that sought to improve society through the acquisition of knowledge. In this v...
USD 59.95 / CAD 76.95
Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920
In this deftly researched ethnographic portrait, the author skillfully adapts the concept of social reproduction to examine the shifting gender roles of tens of thousands of Dutch ...
USD 44.95 / CAD 53.95
The Immigrant Threat
The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850
Common threads in the long-term integration experience of migrants, past and present. Since the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse has shifted away from the "colour" of immigrants to ...
USD 25.95 / CAD 36.95
Civic Charity in a Golden Age
Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam
"What will make this volume's reputation as an important book is the author's use of economic evidence and methodology to produce important insights into behavior and attitudes." -...
USD 42.95 / CAD 56.95
The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia, Second Edition
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Java site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the n...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
A Boy in War
When Jan is seven years of age, the Nazis attack and take over Holland. At first, not much changes. Soon, though, war starts taking things away: important things like neighbours an...
USD 13.95 / CAD 18.95
Het Gereformeerden Boek
About 375 photographs tell the story of the Reformed Christian community in the Netherlands. Although each of them, as the saying goes, is worth a thousand words, they still have a...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Indie Boek
Few people will know this, but a public request in 1872 by a Haarlem-museum for photographs of life in the Dutch East Indies, is the basis of a 150,000 entries image bank on the fo...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Socialisten Boek
Socialism, Liberalism and Christian Democracy are the three main pillars of Dutch society, which revealed themselves in the social-cultural and political movements. This book prese...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Biesbosch Boek
This book can be viewed as a monument to the Biesbosch Museum on its 25th anniversary. There are three hundred short stories on the country’s largest and most untouched nature park...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Piraten Encyclopedie
The rise of the The Netherlands as a nation can be attributed, in no small measure, to its ability to sail the waters, from rivers and lakes to coastal European waters to the seas ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
De IJssel
Levende rivier
The River IJssel is one of the least appreciated rivers in the Netherlands, likely because it covers a relatively short distance, splitting off from the Rhine near Arnhem to empty ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Nederlanders, Japanners, Indonesiers
Een opmerkelijke tentoonstelling
Those interested in Dutch history quickly discover a vast amount of foreign influences in every period of Dutch history, from the Romans in pre-medieval times to Afghanistan and WW...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Vaderlandse Geschiedenis Boek
1600, Battle at Nieuwpoort. The dates were drilled into anyone attending Dutch schools, at least till the late 1950s by droning a list of such events. Less obvious was where Nieuwp...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume shares the story of the tense final days of WWII, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liber...
USD 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Prince and Heretic
A Novel on William the Silent, Prince of Orange Nassau, Vol.1
William of Orange, also known as the Taciturn, received his education at the Royal court before becoming Holland’s stadtholder, or governor, of the deeply devout Roman Catholic Phi...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
William, by the Grace of God
A Novel on William the Silent, Prince of Orange Nassau, Vol.2
The sequel to Prince and Heretic. In an attempt to regain his control of the Lowlands, King Philip II of Spain is prepared to make any concession, except that of freedom of conscie...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Not Home for Christmas
A Day in the Life of the Mighty Eighth
When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old schoolboy living in Nazi-occupied Holland, an American B-17 bomber crashed behind his house near the village of Apeldoorn. The date was S...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
The Little Coat
The Bob and Sue Elliott Story
A young girl's memories of the war! Sussie Cretier was only 10 when she met Bob Elliott, a Canadian soldier assigned to help protect her region of the Netherlands from the invading...
USD 14.95 / CAD 18.95
Footsteps and Fingerprints
The Legacy of a Shared History
Over 400 years ago, the United Republic of the Dutch province made contacts in every cormer of the globe upon which they built their economic structure. Many of the centuries-old r...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Het Gouden Eeuw Boek
The shine of the Dutch Golden Age, although the era was finished by the eighteenth century, has not totally faded from sight. In recent years, huge crowds have filed past the paint...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Kerken Boek
It is not just church buildings that receive attention in this book, its members who frequented them throughout the ages do too. About 350 illustrations and as many captions detail...
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Het Hoge Veluwe Boek
Wealthy Anton Kroller and his wife Helene Muller developed their extensive holdings in the central Dutch Veluwe region into the largest privately managed Dutch nature park, known a...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Stamboom Boek
Verborgen verleden
Family history research can take Netherlanders quickly beyond their own borders, heightening the sense of exploring the unknown and mining sources in foreign language records. This...
USD 19.95 / CAD 29.95
Het Voorne-Putten Boek
The area south of Rotterdam, Voorne-Putten, between the streams Haringvliet, Oude Maas and Brielse Meer, a lake, is fascinating and one with a rich culture and history. Such places...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Leiden Boek
Refugees from the southern region of the Low Lands, many French-speaking, turned the Dutch city of Leiden into a thriving and prosperous textile centre, once Europe's industry's le...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Huizen Boek
The variations in houses in one's own area may be significant already, but to leaf through a book that includes about 500 different designs and styles, with a range of building mat...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Soldaten van God
Nederlandse en Belgische missionarissen op missie in China in de negentiende eeuw
This book is a popular version of his dissertation Ferdinand Hamer 1840-1900, missiepionier en martelaar in China: een nieuwe kijk op de missiemethode van de Scheutisten in het noo...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Het drama van 1918
Over de Spaanse griep en de zoektocht naar virus en vaccin.
Will the Ebola virus become a repeat of the tragedy of 1918? What do you know about that 'drama'? Here is more about this book: The Spanish flu of 1918 has been described as the gr...
USD 10.95 / CAD 14.95
Minding Your Manners
A Guide to Dutch Business & Social Etiquette
As the English saying goes: "Good manners are never out of style." But good manners are not the same everywhere. What are the manners deemed good by the Dutch? For this reason "fee...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
De Meelstreep
Terugkeer en opvang na de Tweede Wereldoorlog
What was coming home like to exiles, 'colonials', deportees and concentration camp survivors? A royal welcome for them too? This book starts of with the Dutch royal family and then...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Dwaasheid, IJdelheid, Verdoemenis
Een keuze uit het werk van Isaäc da Costa
Dutch society put its shoulders to the wheel after its humiliating defeat in 1795 and its disastrous French occupation ended in 1813. The first Orange-monarch, King Willem I, calle...
USD 8.95 / CAD 13.95
Kanalen van de Koning-Koopman
Goederenvervoer, binnenscheepvaart en kanalenbouw in Nederland en Belgie in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw
Canals, which criss-cross the Netherlands, are dug by people. But what is the story behind them. This book tells it in fascinating detail. The author researched a fascinating subje...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
In een Japanse stroomversnelling
Berichten van Nederlandse watermannen (1872-1903)
The export of skills and expertise of the Dutch has old coinage and exotic destinations. In the 1870s, seven Dutch hydraulic engineers and four bricklayers/wickerworkers laboured a...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Bellen voor de vrijheid
Illegale telefoonverbindingen in WO II
There is one Dutch secret the Nazis never discovered during the occupation of the Netherlands (1940-1945). It was a secret as well to nearly Dutch people, allowing the resistance m...
USD 8.95 / CAD 13.95
Cornelis Jetses als sprookjestekenaar
Dutch illustrator Cornelis Jetses (1873-1955) owes his fame particularly to his historical drawings of the school plates depicting the adorable charactors Ot and Sien, and for the ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Fonteinen in Nederland
How to merge water with artistic expressions? It is done all the time but rarely the subject of an exhibit. This book will fill this void. Anyone visiting the Netherlands will noti...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Historiografie en economie van de 'muntchaos'
De muntproductie van de Republiek (1606 - 1795)
Banking systems have been under siege in recent times, which is really nothing new. The payment system in the 17th and the 18th century, in an age with a central bank system, was e...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Hamel's World
A Dutch-Korean Encounter in the Seventeenth Century
In 1653 the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ship Sperwer was shipwrecked on the rocks off a remote Korean island. Thirty-six men of the crew survived the ordeal. The king of Korea ...
USD 17.95 / CAD 24.95
Brabant zoals het was
Rijk roomsch leven
Ah, Brabant, uniquely Southern Dutch as seen through the eye of a photographer with an interest in social and local history. He selected fifty beautiful black and white photographs...
USD 9.95 / CAD 14.95
Van koopman tot icoon
Johan van der Veken en de Zuid-Nederlandse immigranten in Rotterdam rond 1600
The fact that the northern Dutch provinces had been liberated from Spanish rule and the Inquisition was not lost on Europeans elsewhere who lived under repressive regimes. This lib...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Holland van Texel tot Tiengemeten
The Dutch shaped their landscape, a story waiting to be told. Reason enough to explore it. The authors of this book devoted nearly a month to a trek from island to island, from Tex...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Grijs geheugen, 1304 data
De geschiedenis van Nederland en Vlaanderen
The authors aim to generate interest in Dutch and Flemish history by building up knowledge of facts about dates, names and places. This book is the first one of a three-volume seri...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
Grijs geheugen 943 namen
De geschiedenis van Nederland en Vlaanderen in 943 namen
The authors aim to generate interest in Dutch and Flemish history by building up knowledge of facts about dates, names and places. This book is the second one of a three-volume ser...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
Grijs geheugen 631 plaatsen
De geschiedenis van Nederland en Vlaanderen in 631 plaatsen
The authors aim to generate interest in Dutch and Flemish history by building up knowledge of facts about dates, names and places. This book is the third one of a three-volume seri...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
Verstoorde vrede
Foto’s van Nederland tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog
During World War I, neutrality turned out to be a painful experience for the Dutch public. The Netherlands remained neutral during the WWI conflict but did not enjoy peace. Both ca...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
En nog steeds hebben wij twee vaderlanden
Op avontuur in Nederlands-Indië
Roots in the Dutch East Indies and searching for context to your family history? You may want to read this book. Before 1940, Amsterdam residents in search for a job could just as ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Verhalen uit kamer, keuken en kroeg
Het Hollandse genre van de 17e eeuw als vertellende schilderkunst
'Reading' painting depicting home life? Try it! Beware of some pitfalls. What is the artist pointing at through often overlooked details of homelife in earlier centuries on their c...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Het Groene Hart
The so-called 'Green Heart of the Netherlands' is a tranquil landscape with many surprises, has an expansive landscape and is home to many historic villages and cities. The authors...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Mietje Hulshoff of De aanslag op Napoleon
The biography of Mennonite clergyman's daughter Maria Aletta (Mietje) Hulshoff (1781-1846) reads like a novel but is actually one of a relatively few books on Dutch resistance agai...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Heren van de Stoom
De Willinks, Winterswijk en het Twents-Gelders industrieel patriciaat (1680-1980)
A supurb regional Eastern Dutch history book covering an industry now largely gone. In the period between 1680-1980, the textile industry in the eastern Dutch regions of Twenthe ...
USD 13.95 / CAD 19.95
Journal of a Dutch Immigrant
Francis travelled from Andijk, the Netherlands to Canada on the troop ship, the Kota Inten in April of 1948. His first job was at his uncle's small ranch in Houston B.C. where he w...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
Prairie Christian Schools
an eventful journey
Reformed Christian immigrants from the Netherlands pioneered Christian education in nearly every country they settled, frequently founding schools even before they had purchased th...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Rondje IJsselmeer
Tochtjes voor doeners en thuisblijvers
Acquaint yourself with more of the 'hidden' treasures of the Netherlands which are actually on full display. Picturesque and historic harbour towns, centuries-old sea dikes, expans...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Bommelerwaard Boek
Anyone wanting to know more about the Dutch town of Zaltbommel and its surrounding polderscape will appreciate the information and sight Het Bommelerwaard Boek offers. It covers th...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Rotterdam
Guidebook: English edition
Over 150 photographs cover all facets of the Rotterdam experience, the second largest city in the Netherlands and the largest port of all of Europe. Situated on the banks of the Ni...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
Amsterdam
Guidebook: English edition
I Love Amsterdam! This pictorial book offers a representative impression of the city people, but especially young people it seems, love to visit. For many people abroad Amsterdam i...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
The Anglo-Russian Entente Cordiale of 1697-1698
Peter I and William III at Utrecht
Finding rare historic documents makes life exciting for researchers. Such was the case for this author, when his eye was caught by handwritten document in Scottish archives: Czar o...
USD 12.95 / CAD 16.95
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash
The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific waters as captain of a major expedition of discovery and imperial ambition. Britain had its eyes on Pacific North America, an...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
Justice as Sanctuary
Many in the criminal justice system agree that the present punitive system of crime control is ineffective, unjust, and malevolent. Yet, there is little enthusiasm for talk abou...
USD 26.95 / CAD 34.95
De gebroken vleugel van de Duitse Adelaar
Inventarisatie van de Duitse verliezen in de luchtoorlog van mei 1940 boven Nederland
A military historian and lecturer, the author details, catalogues in his book Germany’s huge air force losses they suffered over the Netherlands when they invaded this small neighb...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
No Return Flight
13 Platoon at Arnhem 1944
This book tells the story of the search for the men aboard a huge Horsa glider that sailed into the Battle at Arnhem on September 18, 1944. In the early phase of the battle the pil...
USD 29.95 / CAD 36.95
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad
This book provides an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who called the former Dutch East I...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Pier 21 Listen to My Story
Discover some of the most important moments of Canada's history by getting to know the children and their families who arrived at Halifax's Pier 21. From countries as far away as E...
USD 12.95 / CAD 15.95
An Eerdmans Century, 1911-2011
Engaging saga of an American independent religious publisher's first 100 years
From ten-cent specials for Reformed Christian farmers in the Dutch language in the 1920s to over 1,000 titles currently in print, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Ra...
USD 19.95 / CAD 26.95
Transatlantic Pieties
Dutch Clergy in Colonial America
In their book, the authors explore the ways in which the lives and careers of fourteen Dutch Reformed ministers illuminate important aspects of European and American colonial socie...
USD 34.95 / CAD 49.95
The Fehrs
Four centuries of Mennonite Migration
This book is 'it' for anyone interested in the history of the Mennonite community and its Dutch roots. It is widely known that the community is named after the Dutch/Frisian church...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Crisis in the Reformed Churches
Essays in Commemoration of the Great Synod of Dort, 1618-1619
The contributions of "nine giants in the (Reformed Christian) faith" cover a variety of topics regarding this great event in continental Reformed history. These contributions help ...
USD 29.95 / CAD 32.95
Vandehulst's 21 Young Children Book package
Generations of children were raised with these great stories from the pen of master story teller and elementary school principal W.G. van de Hulst, stories just reprinted for a new...
USD 124.95 / CAD 149.95
Johanna and Henriette Kuyper
Daring to Change Their World
As the 1800s draw to a close and a new century begins, forces for change are already at work in the Netherlands’ entrenched society when custom is further challenged by two bold wo...
USD 12.95 / CAD 16.95
Waves of Mercy
Haunted by the Unknowns of Their Pasts, Two Women Search for Answers Along the Shores of Lake Michigan, in the Dutch immigrant settlement of Holland. Chicago socialite Anna Nich...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State
Students of Reformed theology recognize that Abraham Kuyper was one of the premier theologians of the last two centuries. He was also a notable politician, founding the Antirevolut...
USD 16.95 / CAD 23.95
The Truth About Who We Are
Letter to My Grandchildren
As his forty-year career in ministry comes to an end, Douglas Brouwer finds himself wondering about one of the oldest questions there is: who am I? To find his true identity, Brouw...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
From Rotterdam to Vught to Vancouver
A Dutch Immigrant family's journey from the ravages of concentration Camp 'Vught' to Beautiful British Columbia
This is a book about certain events in Nazi occupied the Netherlands (1940-1945), written by the daughter of a couple who served in the Dutch resistance, pushing back against the W...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Legacy of Mercy
She knew her new life would not be easy, but nothing could prepare her for what waits ahead. Having returned to Chicago from Holland, Michigan, young socialite Anna Nicholson can't...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
Icebound
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The Barents Sea?! Where did they get that Dutch-sounding name, you may wonder? American author Andrea Pitzer, who personally traced the sailings of Dutch sea captain, navigator and...
USD 17.95 / CAD 24.95
My Favorite Story Book
Children Love Stories. They snuggle up to parents or older siblings to hear them, one again, from their favorite story book. Author Willem Van de Hulst honed his skills at telling ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
A Furrow Laid Bare
The bittersweet story of a small, but very unique, Dutch Canadian farmer's community, located North West of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. Founded in 1912, in an isolated and hard-to...
USD 79.95 / CAD 89.95
99 dollar sale
Dutch (Immigrant) Heritage Sale. Valid April-May 2023
Up to a weight of 5KG or a $99 retail value of titles on Dutch immigrant history and related Netherlandic subjects, including such titles as To All Our Children, Floral Passion and...
USD 99.00 / CAD 99.00
Lest We Forget
A Dutch-Jewish family’s thriller-true story of Nazi persecution and survival in the Netherlands during WWII. Mandy and her younger sister lived with various Dutch families in the c...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
Leaving Home Forever
Were they the reconnaissance men sent to ‘spy’ out Canada for the settlement of Dutch labourers? Klaas and Reindert de Vries, two young bachelor brothers from poverty stricken Jubb...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
Prisma Nederlands-Engels
Contains 39,000 keywords, offers 48,000 meanings and about 19,000 sample sentences. Widely used in the Dutch school system....
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
To All Our Children
The Story of Postwar Dutch Immigration to Canada
This large coffee-table book is back in print. To All Our Children describes in extensive detail the process of wanting to leave one's home and extended family so soon follo...
USD 35.95 / CAD 44.95
Holland and the Hollanders
Nature and Nostalgia
Exquisite nature scenery, architecture and daily life photographs, all full colour, that reveal the stunning landscapes and cultural variety of the Netherlands. The photographer wh...
USD 37.95 / CAD 44.95