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Crimea in War and Transformation. By Mara Kozelsky. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 280. $74.00.) Mara Kozelsky's second monograph is a welcome study of the Crimean [...]

Publishing Policies and Family Strategies: The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. By Arianne Baggerman. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Pp. xvii, 551. $249.00.) [...]

This essay argues that the traditional historiography of the Dutch Revolt (1566–1609/1648) falls short in explaining its success, which became manifest by the 1590s. Whereas religious zeal, geographical conditions, and tax protests play an undeniable role in understanding the outbreak and persistence of the rebellion, the tenacity of the northern provinces of the Netherlands should be understood at least in part as a response to a degree of violence on the part of the Spanish-Habsburg authorities that offended early modern sensibilities of this urbanized region, thereby attesting to the continued relevance of various aspects of Norbert Elias' civilizing process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]