Holland Videos

[close] Jonathan Lopez discusses Vermeer and Old Master forgery - recorded at the Cleveland Museum of Art on November 11, 2009

[close] Video produced by David Gardiner, for the launch of Rachel Sarai's Vineyard in London, September 19th, 2009.

[close] Several reasons can be found to explain why Great Britain and the Netherlands did not follow the other major European powers of the seventeenth century in adopting absolutist rule. Chief among these were the presence of a relatively large middle class, with a vested interest in preserving independence from centralized authority, and national traditions of resistance dating from the English Civil War and the Dutch war for independence from Spain, respectively. In both countries anti-absolutism formed part of a sense of national identity, and was linked to popular anti-Catholicism. The officially Protestant Dutch, in particular, had a culture of decentralized mercantile activity far removed from the militarism and excess associated with the courts of Louis XIV and Frederick the Great. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2008.

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[close] A traditional dance from Holland. Music - "Amarilletje" by Kat yn 't Seil

[close] It's 1968 in Holland, Michigan and Sally Van Sloeten wants to know why her father doesn't love her. A first novel reminiscent of works by Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout, 'Hello Loved Ones' is a coming-of-age story that redefines family ties and asks: Is love determined by blood or by choice? And what responsibility do we have to the life we create?