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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138537808X297162 Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008) 77-83 www.brill.nl/jemh Review Article Political Th ought in the Dutch Republic in an Age of Decline Wyger R.E. Velema, Republicans: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Dutch Political Th ought , Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 155 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), xiv + 250 pp., € 99.00 (US$ 99.00), ISBN 9 789 00416 191 7 (hardback). Th is important study brings together ten essays by Wyger Velema on the history of Dutch political thought, seven of which appear in English trans- lation for the first time. Although Republicans contains materials originally published between 1992 and 2006, it is not a mere reprint of journal articles. Quite a few chapters have been substantially rewritten in order to reveal thematic interconnections and provide the book with a clear focus. Following the publication of his monograph Enlightenment and Conserva- tism in the Dutch Republic (1993), Velema has continued with his ground- breaking research on political discourse and concepts in the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century. His methodology is a felicitous combination of the Cambridge School of Political Th ought and German Begriffsgeschichte , as practiced by Reinhart Koselleck (pp.
Journal of Early Modern History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008
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