{"id":1787479,"date":"2019-07-04T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787479"},"modified":"2019-07-04T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T12:00:14","slug":"the-history-of-the-netherlands-in-100-old-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/07\/the-history-of-the-netherlands-in-100-old-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Netherlands in 100 Old Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Briefly noted: the publication last month of Marieke van Delft and Reinder Storm’s De Geschiedeneis van Nederland in 100 Oude Kaarten<\/em><\/strong> (Lannoo<\/a>), whose title, for the 98.6 percent of you who are not<\/em> visiting this website from the Netherlands, translates as The History of the Netherlands in 100 Old Maps<\/em>, which makes it the same sort of book as Susan Schulten’s History of America in 100 Maps<\/em><\/a> (reviewed here<\/a>), only about the Netherlands. And in Dutch. It’s not listed at every Amazon<\/a> store (and at the moment is not in stock where it is listed), but it’s available (at a discount) from the publisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marleen Smit contributed to the book; here’s her post about it<\/a> (in English). There’s a brief promotional video<\/a> (in Dutch).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Briefly noted: the publication last month of Marieke van Delft and Reinder Storm’s De Geschiedeneis van Nederland in 100 Oude Kaarten (Lannoo), whose title, for the 98.6 percent of you who are not visiting this… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30,547],"class_list":["post-1787479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-books","tag-netherlands","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1807056,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/het-grote-kaartenboek-the-great-book-of-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787479,"position":0},"title":"Het Grote Kaartenboek (The Great Book of Maps)","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 April 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Out today from WBooks: Het Grote Kaartenboek: Vijf eeuwen cartografie [The Great Book of Maps: Five Centuries of Cartography] a book collecting 500 years of maps from the National Archives of the Netherlands. 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