Books by John Lothrop Motley

This is a classic account of the foundation of the Dutch Republic by American historian John Lothrop Motley (1814-77). The first edition of the three-volume work was first published in 1855 to great popular acclaim and was quickly translated into French, Dutch, German and Russian.

This classic four-volume history of the Netherlands from American historian John Lothrop Motley (1814-77), published 1860-7, covers the period from the assassination of William the Silent to the Treaty of Antwerp (1609), which imposed a truce of twelve years between Spain and the Netherlands.