Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Politics of Particularism.

At first glance it may not be apparent from the title of J. L. Price's book Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. The Politics of Particularism (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1994; pp. 312. [pounds]35) that its subject is the relationship between the province of Holland and the Dutch state of which it was the most important part; so much so that foreigners came to attach the name Holland to the whole. It is a good choice for the most important book in English on Dutch politics in the full century since the appearance of the translation of Geyl. He wrote sixty years ago and could take much for granted in his original Dutch audience, even then, and his work has been …