TY - JOUR
AU - Laurent, Pierre-Henri
AB - Reviews of B ooks Kingston, R.I.: D. H. Thomas. 1983. Pp. xii, in jurisdiction, administration, and secondary edu- 1930's. cation. These laws, however, were mostly ignored. 789. $35.00. During the Jatter part of the nineteenth century a Flemish nationalism emerged that demanded that Fifty years ago, the lead article of this journal (AHR, Flanders should become exclusively Flemish. In 39 [1933]) by William E. Lingelbach was an analysis 1898, after an intense three-year struggle, parlia- of Belgian neutrality. A half century later, Daniel H. ment passed a law making the Dutch version of the Thomas, a Lingelbach student, has himself written laws legally valid. This episode for the first time and published a long-awaited full treatment on that aroused a broad segment of the Flemish population. subject. Although monographs by Horst Lade- Yet this success was only the beginning of an intense macher and Jonathan Helmreich have recently and frustrating struggle for even greater linguistic ploughed this turf with great success, this book of and cultural equality that would end in failure in the nearly six hundred pages constitutes the most com- years before 1914. petent, thorough, and balanced work on the smalt This monograph focuses principally on the 
TI - daniel h. thomas. The Guarantee of Belgian Independence and Neutrality in European Diplomacy, 1830's–1930's. Kingston, R.I.: D. H. Thomas. 1983. Pp. x ...
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/89.5.1342
DA - 1984-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/daniel-h-thomas-the-guarantee-of-belgian-independence-and-neutrality-7DXlT02Hss
SP - 1342
EP - 1343
VL - 89
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -