Flanders: A Cultural History

Author:   de Vries
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195314939


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 June 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   de Vries
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780195314939


ISBN 10:   019531493
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 June 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: My Mostly Flat Country CHAPTER ONE: War, Language and Flemish Freedom CHAPTER TWO: Religion and Folklore CHAPTER THREE: Food, Drink and Popular Culture CHAPTER FOUR: Ghent and the Gate to Hell CHAPTER FIVE: East Flanders and the Scheldt CHAPTER SIX: Bruges: Petrified Dreams CHAPTER SEVEN: Ypres and the First World War CHAPTER EIGHT: The Coast and West Flanders CHAPTER NINE: Antwerp: City of Rubens CHAPTER TEN: Brussels, Leuven and Mechelen CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Kempen and Limburg CHAPTER TWELVE: New Landscapes and Dutch Flanders CHAPTER THIRTEEN: French Flanders Further Reading Index of Literary & Historical Names Index of Places

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Informative and lucid.... De Vries's writing is vivid. --T. Goyens, CHOICE The book is well written, entertaining, easy to read, and contains an impressive range of interesting facts, anecdotes, and information about the composite parts of Flanders. Its strength is the range of material, and the ability of the author to relate the political, cultural, and artistic elements to one another, to create a wellpresented, rounded vision of the historical landscape of Flanders. -- The Historian Well written, entertaining, easy to read, and contains an impressive range of interesting facts, anecdotes, and information about the composite parts of Flanders. -Timothy Baycroft, The Historian


<br> Informative and lucid.... De Vries's writing is vivid. --T. Goyens, CHOICE<br> The book is well written, entertaining, easy to read, and contains an impressive range of interesting facts, anecdotes, and information about the composite parts of Flanders. Its strength is the range of material, and the ability of the author to relate the political, cultural, and artistic elements to one another, to create a wellpresented, rounded vision of the historical landscape of Flanders. -- The Historian<br>


Informative and lucid.... De Vries's writing is vivid. --T. Goyens, CHOICE<br>


Author Information

André de Vries, a native of Ghent, is a writer and translator with a particular interest in Flemish. He is also the author of Brussels: A Cultural and Literary History.

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