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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...
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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 ...
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Four Years till Tomorrow
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...
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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...
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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, ...
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William III and the Revolution of 1688 and Gustavus Adolphus II
Historical Essays
F.G. Oosterhoff in ‘Reformed Perspective’: "I recommend this book without any hesitation. The two biographies make excellent reading, and the times the essays describe are of consi...
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Pirates and Engineers
Dutch and Flemish Adventurers in New Spain,1607-1697in New Spain, 1607 - 1697
In the great age of European Expansion, Dutch and Flemish adventurers appeared in some unexpected places. This book contains long-lost accounts of several who penetrated Colonial M...
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Sack of Veracruz
The Great Pirate Raid of 1683
On the night of May 17, 1683, a party of several hundred French, Dutch and British pirates stole ashore near the Mexican port of Veracruz, while its citizens peacefully slept. The ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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. Pinkhof’s book is about an episode which is unique in itself: a small group of Jews let go fr...
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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? This pictorial book by Albert VanderMey introduces the reader to a very unique, touching story that ...
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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, realizing these fellow citizens were in danger, began - ...
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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 gave shelter to bot...
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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...
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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 ...
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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, he...
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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...
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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...
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A.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 ...
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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...
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Separation and Inheritance
The story of Jan and Aagje DeGroot
A Dutch-Canadian family’s post-World War II immigration years. It includes the struggle to survive Nazi occupation, harsh winters, and selfishness; the difficulty of moving away fr...
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And The Swamp Flourished
The Bittersweet Story of Holland Marsh
Draining swamps and marshes, and controlling groundwater levels, come natural to Dutchmen! Throughout Europe they have reclaimed land this way, growing plentiful crops where before...
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Dutch American Voices
Letters from the United States, 1850 - 1930
Immigrant experiences of the 19th century are quite different from those of today. This book features letters from immigrants to their family in the Netherlands. The result is a fa...
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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...
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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...
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Always Obedient
Essays on the Teachings of Dr. Klaas Schilder
At the centre of a decades-long controversy in the Netherlands, theologian Schilder, who taught at Kampen’s seminary, was deposed by GKN’s synod in 1944. The move prompted a major ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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The Liberation - Causes and Consequences
The Struggle in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in the 1940s
Why commemorate a church struggle that happened over fifty years ago in churches in the Netherlands? This collection of speeches and discussions will help to answer that question. ...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
East Asia reviews European images of China during the late Ming and early Ch’ing dynasties, ranging from its religious practises, customs, and intellectual life to its geography an...
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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 40.95 / CAD 40.95
Eight Prison Camps
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
Eldest girl of eight children, the author was raised in a teacher’s family in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. The family was split up when the Japanese imprisoned the fa...
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Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca 1641-1795
New research among the very abundant records of the Dutch Company (its employees were referred to as Jan Compagnie) enriches our understanding of the effect of the Dutch presence ...
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Adjustment and Discontent
Representations of Women in the Dutch
Far-reaching transformations took place in the colonial society of the Dutch around 1900. The number of Europeans in the Indies increased while Western education raised a politica...
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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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Vollenhoven
His Early Development
A scholarly exposition and analysis of the early theism of wellknown Reformed, Dutch philosopher Dirk H.T. Vollenhoven, by John H. Kok, professor of philosophy at Dordt College....
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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...
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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...
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When the Morning Came
Volume 1
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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The Andros Papers (1679-1680)
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...
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CORRESPONDENCE (1647-1653)
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...
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Laws and Writs of Appeal (1647-1663)
The laws reveal the legal thinking of the Dutch on such subjects as Indians, smuggling, trade and crime, as well as everyday problems of wages, fencing, land allocation, and the re...
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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...
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Minutes of the Mayor's Court of New York (1674-1675)
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 Netherla...
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Records of New Amsterdam from 1653-1674
From 1653 to 1674, 7 volumes
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 Netherla...
USD 235.00 / CAD 235.00
Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York 1674-1688
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 Netherla...
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Administrative Papers of Governors
Richard Nicholls and Francis Lovelace, 1664-1673
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 Netherla...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York 1664-1673
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 Netherla...
USD 59.95 / CAD 59.95
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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 Netherla...
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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...
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The Story of Dutch Windmills
A Monumental Story of 4 Episodes - DVD
Ever wondered how one million Dutch people built a global maritime power? As this documentary shows, the thousands of windmills, used for a long list of specific applications, gav...
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A Journey Into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635
The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert....
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In Mohawk Country
Early Narratives about a Native Peopleabout a Native People
Various narratives written by Dutch merchants, French Jesuit missionaries, English soldiers and other literate observers provide often biased but always fascinating accounts of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sabotage
Volume 5
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...
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The Grim Reaper
Volume 3
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...
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The Lonely Sentinel
Volume 1
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...
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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...
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When a Neighbor Came Calling
Memories of the occupation of the Netherlands will never be forgotten by those who lived through it. These memories should not fade away either. This book by Albert VanderMey is th...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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 27.75 / 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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Journey Through the Night
De Vries’ 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. ...
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Dangerous Diplomacy
The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews
Dangerous Diplomacy for the first time relates the courageous story of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi co...
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Of Dutch Ways
This popular book is an excellent introduction to the Netherlands, its history, culture, and contemporary life. Recommended reading for anyone visiting the Netherlands for the firs...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 75 years still rates as one of the very best. A social geography and history teacher in the Netherlands, ...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Kota Inten
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family gathering...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Hideout in the Swamp
Volume 2
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...
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A Short History of Amsterdam
A city of paradoxes, and since the late 1500s the epicentre of the Netherlands. During much of the 17th century the city played a dominant role in world affairs as well. Long a glo...
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Grebbelinie 1940
The history of the defense line at the Grebbe remains a low in Dutch WWII history. It is here that ill-equipped defenders faced the vastly superior outfitted German army. The outco...
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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 Belgium wa...
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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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Organ Gift Pack
Pack includes the books De Orgelkunst in de Nederlanden and Luisterrijk, Nederlandse kerkorgels in beeld...
USD 69.95 / CAD 69.95
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...
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An Amicable Friendship
Een Aengenaeme Vrientschap
One of the best researched book of Dutch involved in early Canada when the land was opened and helped to be settled by Dutch immigrants. It in-cludes little known histories such as...
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Floral Passion
An explosion of colour and heartwarming stories
This book is a collection of heart-warming stories and stunning photographs. Floral Passion describes a thriving floral industry and recounts the lives of the immigrants, many of w...
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A Short History of the Netherlands
The status of the Netherlands of today was developed over a long period of time. Situated between land and water, its people have, for thousands of years, fought to make the best ...
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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....
USD 89.95 / CAD 89.95
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...
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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...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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 in the Netherlands, the liberators in the Japanes...
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Groote Beer
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. The Groote Beer, the Waterman and he Zui...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Volendam I
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family gathering...
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Waterman
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style plaque make a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Originally a freighter, the Waterman was conve...
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Zuiderkruis
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
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 convertable frei...
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Maasdam IV
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. A sister ship of the Ryndam, both ships were the first two-clas...
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Ryndam II
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. The Ryndam II made its maiden v...
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DC4
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First trip from Schiphol to Mont...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Constellation
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
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Super Constellation
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to M...
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DC7
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
DC8
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
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Boeing 747
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
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DC10
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight with this KLM aircr...
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Boeing 767
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First KLM Boeing 767 flight from...
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Across The Atlantic (DVD)
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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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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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 9.95 / CAD 9.95
Exotic Tastes of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka lies in the Indian Ocean is separated from southeastern India by a mere 30-mile chain of shoals. This proximity has had an inevitable effect on Sri Lanka's cuisine, as di...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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 20.95 / CAD 20.95
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...
USD 51.95 / CAD 51.95
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 ...
USD 49.95 / CAD 49.95
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...
USD 38.50 / CAD 38.50
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...
USD 42.95 / CAD 42.95
Daily Life in Rembrandt’s Holland
This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past - a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen -...
USD 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 ...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 45.95 / CAD 45.95
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 28.95 / CAD 28.95
My Path to Liberation
Reflections on My Life in the Ministry of the Word of God
Rev. D. Van Dijk’s memoir highlights the changes that he witnessed in his life and - in some cases - helped to bring about. The most dramatic of these is the Liberation of synodica...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Dutch Heritage Oma's Package
Here we have a wonderful collection of books for young readers, ideal for 'Grandma's Bookshelf' or for home-school reading!
Sure to capture young imaginations, this pac...
USD 89.95 / CAD 89.95
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...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
The Battle for the Hague - 1940
Dutch Army in 1940 heroically dealt Hitler's paratroopers huge blow.
The story of the first great airborne landing operation in history. The plan conceived by Adolf Hitler to capture The Hague by surprise, was carried out as part of the Blitzkrieg o...
USD 42.95 / CAD 42.95
The Battle for Ginkel Heath near Ede
17 and 18 September 1944
Even now, decades after the actual landing, the Battle of Arnhem – Operation Market Garden - still is seen as a most telling defeat by many people. The fierce and bloody fighting f...
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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 ...
USD 47.95 / CAD 47.95
De Sinterklaas Razzia van 1944
Massive manhunts mark the latter period of the five-year German occupation of the Netherlands. The men were needed, so the generally accepted explanation goes, to fill labour short...
USD 36.80 / CAD 36.80
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...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
Life Lessons From the Hiding Place
Discovering the heart of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch citizen, was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her faith. From her unforgettable experience in a Nazi prison camp during...
USD 12.95 / CAD 12.95
The Hunger Winter
Occupied Holland, 1944-1945
Hitler’s Germany invaded neighbouring the Netherlands in May 1940. Life in occupied Holland was hideous enough, but for the Dutch people the worst was yet to come. After the Wester...
USD 28.95 / CAD 28.95
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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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, ...
USD 27.95 / CAD 27.95
Indonesia
A country of incredible beauty and stupefying extremes, Indonesia sprawls across one-eighth of the globe, stretching between Malaysia and Australia. This is the most complex single...
USD 15.95 / CAD 15.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 15.95
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 19.95
Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture
The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II
Foreword by Colonel J.W. Bradbury 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. ...
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The Liberation of Holland DVD
This documentary of The Netherland’s liberation features re-enactment as well as original footage including some rare shots in colour from World War II. This film recognizes the ef...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
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 World War II. This film recognizes the efforts o...
USD 9.95 / 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 45.95 / CAD 45.95
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 19.95 / 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 the occupied country. With the military conquest out of the way, the Nazis increasingly were attempting to...
USD 16.95 / CAD 16.95
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)....
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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 34.95 / CAD 34.95
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 22.95 / CAD 22.95
Holland Guidebook
A pictorial appetizer of the Netherlands with text summaries in four languages, English, German, French and Russian on every page. Everything from beautiful aerial photographs to c...
USD 9.95 / CAD 9.95
Holland,
Land of water, dykes and polders
How do the Dutch keep their feet dry in the low-lying Delta? A legitimate question because without their extensive public works systems – dikes, dams and polders – the country defi...
USD 9.95 / CAD 9.95
Tulips from Holland
How the tulip became a symbol for the Netherlands is the story line by word and photograph of this handy book. Although fortunes were lost in the seventeenth-century through Tulipm...
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Wooden Shoes of Holland
Everything you need to know about this icon of Dutch footwear. You can match your knowledge with the information by text and image this compact book brings to the table. Included i...
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Windmills of Holland
The Dutch can amaze others endlessly. Case in point, of all the landmarks dotting the country, windmills have their own (sign)language and even secret codes. Still, windmills are n...
USD 9.95 / CAD 9.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Werken in Duitsland 1940-1945
Over 100 former slave labourers share the stories of their ordeal in Germany and other occupied territories. These accounts are expertly woven into the story line that runs through...
USD 44.95 / CAD 44.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 Nazi invas...
USD 15.95 / CAD 15.95
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 native has...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Road to Freedom
Hank Staal's autobiography describes the different events and activities he lived through: Enduring World War II in the Dutch Underground followed by his enlistment in the regular ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 16.95
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 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Dutch Identity Package
Learn about traditional aspects of Dutch culture and history. Includes the books 'Tulips from Holland' (ID:726), 'Wooden Shoes of Holland' (ID:727), and 'Windmills of Holland' (ID:...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
'n Fonnie Bisnis
The Yankee Dutch world of Loe Verlak,
This very popular book has given Dutch immigrants and their offspring much enjoyment over the decades. The new, enhanced edition is a ‘celebration of Yankee Dutch,’ the colourful l...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Taming the Tides
A documentary on the time from the Flood of 1953 to the completion of the Deltawerken. With actual footage of the ‘Watersnood’ (Flood), this historic video will show the Dutch’s ap...
USD 28.95 / CAD 28.95
Rembrandt - 400 years
Get an intimate view of the most famous painter, his work, and his world. Take a look at the private life of Rembrandt growing up in the 'Golden Age' era, and an inside look at som...
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
The Reckoning DVD
A compelling 96-minute documentary
War erupts in Europe as Germany invades Poland. Eight months later, Hitler would pulicly broadcast that he would not invade Holland due to their neutrality during world War I. With...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Cinderella Army
The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
The author, a military historian, in this book examines the role of Canadian troops in the context of the overall Allied effort to end Hitler’s conquest. The Canadians played a cru...
USD 31.95 / CAD 31.95
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...
USD 31.95 / CAD 31.95
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 ...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Decolonising the Caribbean
Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Much has been written on the post-WWII decolonization in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colon...
USD 43.95 / CAD 43.95
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 events of the German ...
USD 74.95 / CAD 74.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
Holland Frozen in Time
The Dutch Winter Landscape in the Golden Age
Winters used to be colder. That refrain certainly can be heard often during the relatively mild winters of recent years. The meteorological history of Northwestern Europe has even ...
USD 59.95 / CAD 59.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 21.95 / CAD 21.95
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 11.95
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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 ...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 71.50 / CAD 71.50
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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 32.95 / CAD 32.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997 - Option 1
Former HAL Flagship Laser cut hull framework 1:250
Hull framework details....
USD 42.95 / CAD 42.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997 - Option 2
Former HAL Flagship Laser cut railings 1:250
Railings detail....
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
Ocean Liner SS Rotterdam V 1959-1997 - Option 3
Former HAL Flagship Laser cut Detail Parts 1:250
A focus on the details...
USD 45.95 / CAD 49.95
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...
USD 18.50 / CAD 19.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Prisma Engels-Nederlands
Contains 31,000 keywords, offers 64,000 meanings and about 17,000 sample sentences. Widely used in the Dutch school system....
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
The Hiding Place
A Dutch watchmaker, Corrie ten Boom became a heroine of the Resistance against the Nazi ideology, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and a remarkable evangelist. In World ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 12.95
Dr. Oma
The Healing Wisdom of Countess Juliana von Stolberg
Juliana von Stolberg (1506 – 1580), the mother of Prince William of Orange the Taciturn, the maternal ancestor of the Royal House of the Netherlands, long was cherished by the Dutc...
USD 12.95 / CAD 12.95
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 22.95 / 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 29.95 / 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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
Toen zij uit Rotterdam vertrokken
Emigratie via Rotterdam door de eeuwen heen
Among all the immigrants departing Rotterdam for America is the group departure of the Pilgrim Fathers likely the best known. Before, but also after that June 1620 departure, colon...
USD 29.95 / CAD 29.95
Beatrix in Ballingschap
Vijf jaren uit de jeugd van onze koningin 1940-1945
The author details the Canadian years (1940-1945) of Dutch Queen Beatrix, based on interviews with people who remembered the Royal family's stay in Ottawa. Helped by the photograph...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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 9.95 / CAD 9.95
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...
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The Fort Orange Court Minutes (1652-1660)
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...
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Land Papers
Volumes GG, HH, & II
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...
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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...
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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...
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Dutch Heritage William and Mary Trilogy Package
The imperialistic ideals of France’s Louis XIV suffered a series of great setbacks when Prince William III of the United Dutch Republic led a widely-supported campaign to thwart th...
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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...
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Dutch-English---English-Dutch Concise Dictionary
With a brief introduction to Dutch grammar. This compact portable dictionary contains also a concise overview of English grammar for Dutch speakers. Over 7,000 entries each way....
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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 ...
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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...
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'Koos' Michel
Mijn verzet in de tweede wereldoorlog
The resistance men of Wierden, in Overijssel, rattled nerves at the German occupation command centre with a well-executed railway derailment in May 1943, nearly three years after t...
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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...
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The Occupied Garden
Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
The authors, two Canadian born sisters, share in this book the powerful story of their grandparents, a Dutch market gardener and his very devout wife, who were living a simple life...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Thuis in de jaren '60
Dagelijks leven in een roerige tijd - Volume 1
The book covers a time most of the Dutch in North America missed, examining the decade between their 1950s departure and before their return visits of the 1970s started. Mostly a p...
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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...
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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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Andy Man
The story of Andy, the orphaned son of a London policeman at the beginning of the twentieth century, lives on with every reprint of this book by prolific children’s author Amy Le F...
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How Sleep the Brave!
The Scottish Covenanters endured harsh persecutions by the King’s Inquisition, but the mysterious name of the Black Avenger sent thrills of hope and courage to many of these tormen...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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." -...
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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...
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Het Boerderijen Boek
Dutch society has its roots in agriculture, with a significant number of people named after a field, a farm or an agricultural occupation. In this book, the authors focuses primari...
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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...
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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 Zeeland Boek
A very unique province deserves a very unique book. The former islands have a largely untold history in the larger context of the Dutch experience, yet are very much part of it, pa...
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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...
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Het Rotterdam Boek
In his book, the author gives a colourful presentation of Rotterdam, starting with the Middle Ages when the world-class port was a village located at the dam in the River Rotte. Si...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 Den Haag Boek
The Hague has a rich history, and one that is unique in the Netherlands. No other provincial capital developed from a coastal summer residence of Holland’s medieval counts into a c...
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Dutch Heritage School
Order this Dutch Heritage School package for your (grand)child(ren) and we will top up the order with a (dated) but very helpful NBT fold-out Map of the Netherlands (with English t...
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On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
Available for shipping May 1st. The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sw...
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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...
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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...
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The Baron of Salgas, and other stories
The Cross and the Crown, Alcock, Deborah
The Carpenter of Nimes, Alcock, Deborah, see below
The Baron of Salgas, A True Huguenot Story is ...
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Bobby's Friends!
“Lights!” Jessie announced loudly.
Suddenly everyone was awake.
Karachi appeared beneath them on the left-hand side. At first they saw only a narrow strip of t...
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The Little Coat
The Bob and Sue Elliott Story
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 German army. Sussie’s family had en...
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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...
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Het Fryslan Boek
It is a often cited fact that the desire for freedom and liberty runs deep among Frisians, but how did this creep into the consciousness of the general Dutch public? Why did famed ...
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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 Maastricht boek
This book has been put together with the aid of a beautiful collection of both old and very recent photographs which as a collection provide an excellent presentation on life in th...
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Het Groningen Boek
This book covers the history of the northern Dutch province of Groningen, both the city and the region, 'Stad en Lande.' This richly illustrated volume takes its readers on a tour ...
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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...
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Het Sinterklaas Boek
On the eve of December 6, traffic on Dutch highways and streets dwindles to a bare minimum, one of the rare quiet moments in super hectic Dutch society. There is no family event li...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Het Drenthe Boek
This book on the Northern Dutch province of Drenthe presents a colourful overview of its long history of which the hunebed grave site, a dolmen, very likely goes back the furthest ...
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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...
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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...
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Het drama van 1918
Over de Spaanse griep en de zoektocht naar virus en vaccin.
The Spanish flu of 1918 has been described as the greatest human catastrophe ever. World War I had already claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers and 5 million civilians, but the...
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Leven in grootmoeders tijd
Grandma's era (include your great-great-grandmother's, since it starts during the 1870s up to recent times) was a special one. The book reviews rural and village life, where people...
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Stadsleven in grootmoeders tijd
Grandma's era (include your great-grandmother's, since it starts around 1900 and goes up to recent times) was a special one. The book reminds its readers how city life in the perio...
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Minding Your Manners
A Guide to Dutch Business & Social Etiquette
As the English saying goes: "Good manners are never out of style." For this reason "feeling comfortable in the Netherlands" is still the key word for newcomers and anyone wanting t...
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De Meelstreep
Terugkeer en opvang na de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Queen Wilhelmina crossed "de meelstreep" on March 13, 1945, when she entered the Netherlands from exile at the Zeeuws-Vlaanderen town of Eede. The "meelstreep" marked the border wh...
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Dwaasheid, IJdelheid, Verdoemenis
Een keuze uit het werk van Isaäc da Costa
Dutch society put its shoulders to the wheel after the humiliating and disastrous French occupation ended in 1813. The first Orange-monarch, King Willem I, called koning-koopman on...
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Kanalen van de Koning-Koopman
Goederenvervoer, binnenscheepvaart en kanalenbouw in Nederland en Belgie in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw
The author researched a fascinating subject in Dutch history, the infrastructure of the Low Lands, a territory which also covers modern day Belgium. Until the Napoleonic era, shipp...
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In een Japanse stroomversnelling
Berichten van Nederlandse watermannen (1872-1903)
Seven Dutch hydraulic engineers and four bricklayers/wickerworkers laboured from the 1870s in Japan to build harbours and to turn Japanese rivers into navigatible waterways. The me...
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Bellen voor de vrijheid
Illegale telefoonverbindingen in WO II
It no doubt was a surprise to most Dutch people that the Netherlands operated a second telephone system during the occupation years of World War II, one frequently used by the Dutc...
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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 ...
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Fonteinen in Nederland
Anyone visiting the Netherlands will notice its highly developed system of canals, ditches and other drainage channels, anything to control water. There is another thing in the Dut...
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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...
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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 ...
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Brabant zoals het was
Rijk roomsch leven
The author in his book gives evidence of having a keen eye for social and local history. A photographer as well, he selected fifty beautiful black and white photographs that portra...
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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 who lived under repressive regimes. The liberated Delt...
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Holland van Texel tot Tiengemeten
The authors of this book devoted nearly a month to a trek from island to island, from Texel in the northwest to Tiengemeten, an isolated Zeeland island south of Rotterdam. Their sp...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Verstoorde vrede
Foto’s van Nederland tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog
Neutrality is not all that it is made out to be. The Netherlands remained neutral during the WWI conflict but did not enjoy peace. Both camps attempted to draw the Dutch into the c...
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En nog steeds hebben wij twee vaderlanden
Op avontuur in Nederlands-Indië
Before 1940, Amsterdam residents in search for a job could just as easily move to Jakarta as to Groningen. Hundreds of thousands of people worked in the Dutch East Indies, received...
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Verhalen uit kamer, keuken en kroeg
Het Hollandse genre van de 17e eeuw als vertellende schilderkunst
What is the artist pointing at through often overlooked details of homelife in earlier centuries on their canvases? This book examines about eighty full-colour paintings of thirty ...
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Het Groene Hart
The Green Heart of the Netherlands, a tranquil landscape with many surprises, has expansive landscape with many historic villages and cities in and around it. The authors extol thi...
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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 one of a relatively few books on Dutch resistance against the F...
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Heren van de Stoom
De Willinks, Winterswijk en het Twents-Gelders industrieel patriciaat (1680-1980)
In the period between 1680-1980, the textile industry in the eastern Dutch regions of Twenthe (Overijssel) and the Achterhoek (Gelderland) was dominated by an intertwined network o...
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Rondje IJsselmeer
Tochtjes voor doeners en thuisblijvers
Picturesque and historic harbour towns, centuries-old sea dikes, expansive landscapes, architecture-rich cityscape, traditional costumes; the region around the former Zuiderzee has...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Freedom on the Horizon
Dutch Immigration to America, 1840–1940
“It’s been eighty years since the last comprehensive study of the Dutch immigrant experience by a Netherlands scholar — Jacob Van Hinte’s magisterial Netherlands in America (1928, ...
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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...
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Final Wishes
A Cautionary Tale on Death, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Patrick is dying a slow, agonizing death. He wants his friend, a physician named Ron, to help him - but not to help him get better. Instead Patrick wants Ron to help him end his...
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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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Not Home For Christmas
A day in the life of the Mighty Eighth
When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old boy living in Nazi-occupied the Netherlands, an American B-17 bomber crashed on Sunday, November 26, 1944, behind his house near the town...
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The Windmill Herald - Farewell Issue
Commemorative publication. As soon the shock caused by the news that The Windmill Herald ™ would cease to publish in June 2012 had been digested, readers, advertisers, suppliers an...
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The Windmill Herald - Special Farewell Package
Following the announcement of The Windmill Herald’s exit, an interest has emerged in recent back issues. The Special Farewell Package includes the May 10 & 25 and June 11 issues an...
USD 13.95 / CAD 13.95
The Windmill Herald - 1012 Back Copies Set
Following the announcement of The Windmill Herald’s exit, an interest has emerged in back issues. A set of 12 issues published in 2012, includes the Farewell Issue and the Dutch He...
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The Windmill Herald - Archive Copies
The colourful centre pages spreads on Dutch history themes remain popular with many subscribers, their family, friends and even neighbours. A volume of 34 issues (covering 17 month...
USD 99.95 / CAD 99.95
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 32.95
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...
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The Hiding Place DVD
Based on the true story detailed in the bestseller book The Hiding Place that has captivated over 8,000,000 readers, the dvd The Hiding Place is one of the most extraordinary recol...
USD 23.95 / CAD 23.95
Friesland DVD
(Dutch province of Friesland, once known as Frisia)
An authentic and memorable account of the northern Dutch province of Friesland, the documentary shows it's unique diversity from all of the other provinces of the Netherlands. Frie...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Holland at its Loveliest DVD
(The Netherlands)
This unique video tour of the Netherlands takes the viewer to the most beautiful and interesting places of this tiny country on the North Sea rim of continental Europe. Watching it...
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Groningen DVD
(Both the city and the province)
There are significant differences between the flatlands of Zuid-Holland and those of Groningen. In fact every region of the Netherlands has its own unique identity and history. Bot...
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Zeeland DVD
(Dutch province of Zeeland)
Away from the hustle and bustle of North and South Holland is the southwestern ‘island’ province of Zeeland. Although no longer isolated from the rest of country, a system of dams,...
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Noord-Holland I DVD
(Main focus on region North of Amsterdam)
Volume 1. The ‘Heart of Holland’ may have shifted away from the region this DVD production examines, but a visit there is very worthwhile. The prosperity of bygone ages is very evi...
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Adam In the New Testament
Mere Teaching Model or First Historical Man?
One challenge to biblical authority is how Adam is understood. Freshly translated, this acknowledged modern classic defends the historic church position that all human beings desce...
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Reformed Dogmatics Set of 4 Volumes
Thanks to the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, all four volumes of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics are now available in English. Originally published in the Netherl...
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The American Diary of Jacob Van Hinte
This diary provides a look behind the pen of Dutch American life observer and writer Jacob Van Hinte who toured the United States extensively in 1921 for his dissertation Nederland...
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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...
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Reformed Dogmatics Abridged
Abridged in One Volume
Editor John Bolt, who guided the translation of Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics, has abridged this work in one volume, offering students, pastors, ...
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Old Wing Mission
Cultural Interchange as Chronicled by George and Arvilla Smith in Their Work with Chief Wakazoo's Ottawa Band on the West Michigan Frontier
A historical treasure of rare documents, the book gives the account of the Reverend George N. Smith and his wife Arvilla in their work and social interactions (1838-1849) as missio...
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Essays on Religion, Science, and Society
The premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth-century Netherlands, Herman Bavinck is an important voice in the development of Reform...
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Envisioning Hope College
Letters written by Albertus C. Van Raalte to Phillip Phelps, Jr. 1857 to 1875
The correspondence between the Reformed Dutch immigrant colony's leader and the first president of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, is sequentially placed in its historical conte...
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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...
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Lest We Forget
A Dutch-Jewish family’s thriller-true story of Nazi persecution and survival in the Netherlands. Mandy and her younger sister lived with various Dutch families in the country’s Sou...
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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 bachelor brothers from poverty stricken Jubbega, F...
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Prisma Nederlands-Engels
Contains 39,000 keywords, offers 48,000 meanings and about 19,000 sample sentences. Widely used in the Dutch school system....
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Berlitz Dutch Phrase Book and Dictionary
Unique quick reference colour-coded system, over 1200 phrases for situations such as arrival, basic expressions/accomodations, eating out, travel, stores and services, health, sigh...
USD 11.95 / CAD 11.95
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...
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