"The nation-state Belgium, born in 1830, and the polities that preceded it since ancient times, have played an important role in European and even global history. This introductory history offers a synthetical and non-specialist yet academically based view on the social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of its evolution"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Earliest times - From prehistory to the end of the Roman Period; 2. The era of the Frankish kingdoms (fifth-tenth century); 3. The origins of the medieval principalities (tenth-fourteenth century); 4. Unifying the Netherlands: The Burgundy - Habsburg period (1384-1555); 5. The Spanish Netherlands (1555-ca. 1700); 6. The Austrian Netherlands (ca. 1700-1780); 7. The formation of a new nation-state (1780s-1830); 8. The consolidation of a Bourgeois regime (1831-1880s); 9. The Belgian nation-state at its height (1880s-1945); 10. The metamorphoses of a nation-state (from 1945 to the present day); Index.
