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	Pieter Geyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geyl worked as a teacher at a gymnasium (grammar school) in Schiedam (1912-1913) before going on to serve as the London correspondent for Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant newspaper.
		In September 1940, Geyl used his article for the basis of series of lectures at the Rotterdam School of Economics.
		Even after his release from Buchenwald, Geyl continued to be held by the Germans at a Dutch prison until he was finally released for medical reasons in February 1944.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pieter_Geyl (1161 words)

	Napoleon Series Reviews: Napoleon: For and Against
		Pieter Geyl brilliantly explores the views of nineteenth and early twentieth century French historians on their nation's most famous individual.
		In reading it now, it is possible to appreciate how perceptive Geyl was in demonstrating how each subsequent generation of French and European historians has reconstructed Napoleon's image to reflect their own times, whether it's the romantic hero of Restoration France or the authoritarian dictator of interwar Europe.
		However, on the negative side, Geyl chose to concentrate solely on the French historical community when he could have written about a plethora of talent in the English-speaking world.
	www.napoleon-series.org /reviews/general/c_geyl.html (766 words)

	News: Lecture \| Pieter Geyl Memorial Lecture (15 Sep 2004)
		On occasion of the 85th anniversary of Geyl's inaugural, the first Pieter Geyl Memorial Lecture will be given on Thursday 14 October 2004, at 7 pm in UCL by Professor Roland Willemyns.
		Geyl is still well-known today for his debates with leading British historians such as Toynbee in his books Use and Abuse of History (1955) and Debates with Historians (1962).
		On occasion of the 85th anniversary of Geyl's inaugural, the first Pieter Geyl Memorial Lecture will be given on Thursday 14 October 2004, at 7 pm in UCL.
	www.alcs.group.shef.ac.uk /news/newsitem.php?newsid=25 (280 words)

	Ursula's Alcove::Books::History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this superb panorama of politics and war, Geyl tells the epic story of the Netherlanders' heroic struggle against the might of Spain and the rise and establishment of the Dutch Republic.
		He describes the uneasy truc with Spain that follows, the arrest and execution of Oldenbarnevelt, the resumption of war in 1621, the uncertain alliance with France, and the eventual establishment of Dutch independence in 1648.
		Geyl also addresses issues which remain alive and important today: the relation between religious belief and political action, the complex questions of a national identity, and the problems besetting a small country struggling to survive in a great-power world.
	www.ursulasalcove.com /books/history/dutch.html (199 words)

	Geyl,Pieter Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Regarded by many (including Simon Schama) as Pieter Geyl's finest work, this enthralling study describes the struggle between the House of Orange and the Regents of Holland in the mid-17th century.
		A superb panorama of politics and war that brings together two classic volumes by Geyl: The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609 and The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century 1609-1648.
		Geyl Pieter and Bontekoe W.Y.; Translated By Hodgkinson B. Bodde
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Geyl,Pieter (248 words)

	Amazon.com: "Pieter Geyl": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Die Ttigkeit des berhmten Historikers Pieter Geyl als Professor fr 'Dutch Studies' in London bot ihm nicht nur ausreichende Gelegenheit fr wichtige wissenschaftliche Verffentlichungen, sie erlaubte ihm...
		FALLACIES OF QUESTION-FRAMING 13 a problem devoid of meaning."" And Pieter Geyl has declared that "The question of evitable or inevitable is one on which, it seems to me, the historian can...
		Bibliography: H. Rowen, "Pieter Geyl," Encyclopedia of Social Sciences (Biograph- ical Supplement) V. 18, pp.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Pieter-Geyl (458 words)

	History Today: The educational archive of articles, news and study aids for teachers, students and enthusiasts - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Written over fifty years ago, Napoleon: For and Against by the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl retains a special and enduring place in Napoleonic historiography.' Yet Geyl was not a specialist in the period, and his book is not a work of history in the normal sense.
		How Geyl came to pioneer historiography in this way is an interesting story in itself, which illustrates one of the book's themes, namely the influence of the, present on the study of the past.
		The end-product was a survey of the historical debate, which analysed conflicting interpretations of Napoleon and his achievement and related historians' respective positions to wider political conflicts in French society.
	www.historytoday.com /dm_getArticle.asp?gid=17570 (333 words)

	A Napoleon for the 21st Century
		The genre of biography itself was transformed by the Napoleonic challenge, and no modern treatment of his life can easily avoid responding in some way to the narrative trajectory established so firmly by the literary industry that grew up around his name.
		During World War II, the distinguished Dutch historian Pieter Geyl wrote ''Napoleon: For and Against'' to analyze the bewildering variety of Napoleons depicted by his predecessors: he showed how they reflected the anxieties and obsessions of their authors, offering a kind of indirect language for addressing contemporary concerns.
		And his readers understood too, of course, that in talking about Napoleon, Geyl was really reflecting in his turn upon that sinister figure in Berlin who then held Europe in thrall.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/707073/posts (1549 words)

	John Lukacs' The Hitler of History
		The book was an analysis of how French historians had perceived one of the greatest, but also one of the most controversial, French leaders of all time.
		Though Geyl, who was living in Nazi-occupied Holland at the time, only mentions Hitler once in his book, his analysis of history's treatment of a controversial figure inspired Lukacs to use the same "history of history" method.
		In the concluding chapter to The Hitler of History, Lukacs explains that Geyl's great fear was that Germans would come to eventually admire Hitler.
	www.history.upenn.edu /phr/archives/98/coelho.html (887 words)

	HUX 552 - KEY INDIVIDUALS, PHILOSOPHY: ROUSSEAU
		Pieter Geyl, "The Idea of Liberty in History," in his Encounters in History (New York: Meridian, 1961), pp.
		And much later still, Voltaire expected everything from that monarchy, on condition, of course, that it would be "enlightened," and he kept hoping against hope that it would prove so.
		The brothers Jan and Pieter de la Court, in their remarkable pamphlets, went no less far, although they permitted themselves inconsistencies, casting glances in the direction of democracy, using the word, at least.
	www.csudh.edu /hux/syllabi/552/rou_2.html (5882 words)

	Article
		Sixty years ago, in the depths of the second world war, Pieter Geyl began work on a book on the legend of Napoleon.
		This essay is inspired by Pieter Geyl, yet its methods are somewhat dissimilar to those used by the great Dutch historian.
		This ‘someone’, we may hope, will be a historian with the energy and imagination of the great Pieter Geyl himself.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~sj6/verdictonnehruRAMGUHAEPW.htm (5455 words)

	Napoleon: Library - Talleyrand bibliography
		In both of these articles, his conclusion is that Talleyrand simply signed the retraction, which in any case had been imposed upon him.
		Pieter Geyl points out that, overall, French historians are incapable of considering Talleyrand as a statesman, and that he is judged within the context of his betrayal of Napoleon.
		(1) Pieter Giel, "The French Historians and Talleyrand", in Debates with Historians, (London, 1955), pp.
	www.talleyrand.be /bibliographie/publications_since_1928.html (9226 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2001409490
		Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for History of the Dutch-speaking peoples : 1555-1648 / Pieter Geyl.
		The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
		Pieter Geyl, who was born at Dordrecht in 1887 and educated at the University of Leyden, was the greatest Dutch historian of his time, and a scholar of European renown.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/orion051/2001409490.html (132 words)

	Republic of Molossia - History
		"Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality." - Pieter Geyl.
		Please note: The Republic of Molossia bears no relation to the ancient Greek nation of the same name.
		September 3rd 1999 XXII - The communist government is renounced, and the Republic of Molossia is established.
	www.molossia.org /history.html (811 words)

	Arnold Toynbee: Ecumenism Manque, or the Whig Interpretation of History in - Hugh Ragsdale
		He has been subjected to searching criticism and has sustained massive damage.
		Pieter Geyl has especially called attention to Toynbee's mistakes of logic in the manipulation of his own criteria.
		For example, Toynbee maintains that the power unit of study is not the nation but a civilization; yet he uses such national and subnational units as the Netherlands, New England, and North Carolina as examples of the character of civilizations.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1990/june/Sa17753.htm (372 words)

	Freedom of the Will
		Having stated the proposition, I am now going to proceed with a refutation of that absurdity, which, I might add, is long overdue, though it has been attempted, but never accomplished in ages past.
		Pieter Geyl's Napoleon: For and Against (1949) is my starting point.
		If determinacy or predestination reign in the affairs of mankind throughout history, what sense does it make, using but one example from the countless lives of people on planet earth, to either praise or blame Napoleon for his actions (if he had no control over them)?
	hnn.us /articles/414.html (801 words)

	I Want to Know Y -- Friday, Jul. 12, 1963 -- Page 2 -- TIME
		Toynbee, he says, is just as foolish in believing that Western society may one day be saved through the growth of a syncretic faith blending half a dozen contemporary religions.
		Finding no ground for agreement, Ved Mehta disconsolately turned for a summation to Dutch Historian Pieter Geyl.
		"History," said Geyl (proving that, if nothing else, he has studied his fellow historians), "is an argument without end."
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,940339-2,00.html (526 words)

	Mode for Caleb: About me
		We were given primary documents and asked to take a position.
		I learned at that early stage that, in the words of Dutch historian Pieter Geyl, history is an argument without end.
		Mont, as he was wont to be called, also began every class by having us write a brief essay on the "Thought for the Day" that was written on the chalkboard, usually a quotation by someone like Confucius ("Confuse-us," we called him).
	modeforcaleb.blogspot.com /2004/11/about-me.html (547 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Pieter Geyl
		As an historian, Pieter Geyl has two claims to distinction.
		The first is as the author of a major reappraisal of Dutch history in the heroic period of the late sixteenth and seventeeth centuries, and the other is as a shrewd and pugnacious commentator on the methods of other historians, alive and dead.
		The cover date of the next issue of The New York Review of Books will be February 15, 2007.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=12965 (266 words)

	Presuppositions of a Christian Historian
		As Pieter Geyl noted, determinism may have been a reasonable issue for theology (see the ongoing debate between Calvinists and Arminians) or philosophy, but it was not for historians.
		Geyl argued that common sense and one's everyday way of looking at human affairs show the fallacy of determinism.
		Peter Geyl, Debates with Historians (New York: Meridian Books, 1958), 267-268.
	www.vanguard.edu /faculty/jwilson/index.aspx?id=2010 (4322 words)

	The Reformation in the Low Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Then go find someone else's account and see if you can find another perspective.
		Probably the most important historian to consider is Pieter Geyl.
		Immensely rich, reliant upon trade, the Netherlands always pressed Charles for peace, but he saw them as vital income.
	www.idbsu.edu /courses/reformation/netherlands (276 words)

	HISTORY OF THE DUTCH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, 1555-1648 by GEYL, PIETER - Price, transportation cost and
		HISTORY OF THE DUTCH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, 1555-1648 by GEYL, PIETER - Price, transportation cost and
		HISTORY OF THE DUTCH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, 1555-1648 by GEYL, PIETER
		In this panorama of politics and war, Pieter Geyl tells the story of the Netherlanders' heroic struggle against the might of Spain and of the rise and establishment of the Dutch Republic.
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	presentvisions: Hello to all course attendees. I apologi
		GEYL 'American': Pieter Geyl, ‘The American Civil War and the Problem of Inevitability’, in his Debates with Historians, Fontana, 1970.
		GEYL 'Inevitability': Pieter Geyl, ‘Historical Inevitability (Isiah Berlin)’.
		HAVELOCK Plato: Eric A Havelock, Preface to Plato: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963
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	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001409490
		Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001409490
		Publisher description for History of the Dutch-speaking peoples : 1555-1648 / Pieter Geyl.
		Here is the story of the Netherlanders' epic struggle against Spain's might and the rise of the Dutch Republic--as well as important and still pressing issues about the relationship between religion and political action, complex questions of national identity, and the problems of a small country struggling to survive in a great-power world.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ste021/2001409490.html (145 words)

	Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Control No.: 68009598 //r85 Title: The Pattern of the past: can we determine it?
		By Pieter Geyl, Arnold J. Toynbee and Pitirim A. Sorokin.
		Discussion between P. Geyl and A. Toynbee.--Toynbee's philosophy of history, by P. Sorokin.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlctoyn.htm (1084 words)

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