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Émile Cammaerts. Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Table of Contents
LIST OF MAPS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE COAL WOOD
CHAPTER II. FROM SAINT AMAND TO CHARLEMAGNE
CHAPTER III. LOTHARINGIA AND FLANDERS
CHAPTER IV. RÉGNER LONG NECK
CHAPTER V. BALDWIN THE BEARDED
CHAPTER VI. THE BELFRIES
CHAPTER VII. THE GOLDEN SPURS
CHAPTER VIII. THE CATHEDRAL OF TOURNAI
CHAPTER IX. THE GREAT DUKES OF THE WEST
CHAPTER X. THE TOWN HALLS
CHAPTER XI. THE ADORATION OF THE LAMB
CHAPTER XII. HAPSBURG AND BURGUNDY
CHAPTER XIII. THE LAST STAGE OF CENTRALIZATION
CHAPTER XIV. ANTWERP
CHAPTER XV. THE BEGGARS
CHAPTER XVI
SEPARATION
CHAPTER XVII. DREAM OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE
CHAPTER XIX. RUBENS
CHAPTER XX. POLITICAL DECADENCE UNDER SPAIN
CHAPTER XXI. THE OSTEND COMPANY
CHAPTER XXII
THE BRABANÇONNE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XXIII. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
CHAPTER XXIV. BLACK, YELLOW AND RED
CHAPTER XXV. THE SCRAP OF PAPER
CHAPTER XXVI. NEUTRAL INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER XXVII
ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE
CHAPTER XXVIII. INTELLECTUAL RENAISSANCE
CHAPTER XXIX. CONCLUSION
Footnote
INDEX
Printed in Great Britain by UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED LONDON AND WOKING. THE STORY OF THE NATIONS
THE STORY OF THE NATIONS
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Emile Cammaerts
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The central position occupied by ancient Belgium, which had been the cause of its efflorescence in the first years of the ninth century, was also the cause of its decadence after the death of Charlemagne (814). From the competition which arose at the time date the age-long rivalries between France and Germany and the tribulations of the territories lying between them, which, though claimed in turn by both Powers, and including a half romanized and half Germanic population, were neither French nor German, but possessed an individuality of their own. If these territories had been widespread and strongly defended by nature, like ancient Italy in the Mediterranean world, they might have become the seat of a new European Empire, or at least played the part of a strong third partner with which both French and German rivals would have had to reckon. This would have entirely changed the course of European politics and perhaps greatly increased the chances of a peaceful and stable régime. As it was, the intermediate country, widely open in the East and in the West, too weak to resist foreign aggression, became, at best, a weak buffer State, and, at worst, a bone of contention between two powerful hereditary enemies.
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