Lesley Gilbert

A friendly introduction to the Dutch language, designed for people who want to learn Dutch but who are daunted by the prospect of complicated grammar, classes and coursebooks, this course starts right from the beginning, explaining everything in simple English. There are hints throughout to make learning easy and the course contains information about life in the Netherlands and Flanders. This edition has been updated and revised to reflect changes such as the introduction of the Euro and now includes even more listening material.

Teach Yourself Beginner's Dutch

Gerdi Quist

Engelstalige cursus Nederlands voor beginners.

A Complete Course for Beginners

Dutch

Ulrich Tiedau

Jane Fenoulhet

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Lesley Gilbert

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