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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
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
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
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
De opstand kwam uit de Bergen
Een episode uit de strijd der Hugenoten De oorlog in de Cevennen (1702-1710)
A significant number of Dutch people are aware of their French Huguenot ancestry through one or more family lineages. They often only know in general terms why these French ancesto...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
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 ...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
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...
USD 39.95 / CAD 45.95
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...
USD 39.95 / CAD 45.95
Geschiedenis van Kampen Volumes I and II
Includes Volumes I and II, see separate descriptions listed on this online bookstore. Combination offer....
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
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...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
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...
USD 12.95 / CAD 14.95
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
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...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Luisterrijk, Nederlandse kerkorgels in beeld
The Netherlands is home to numerous historic church organs. Together with monumental churches in which the organs have been built, they are part of the country’s extensive inventor...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
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
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
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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 25.95
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
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 ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
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...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
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
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
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...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
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...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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
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...
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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
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