Customer Reviews
Going Dutch - By: Leah S G, 07 Jul 2008 
I reallly loved Lisa Jardine's 'Going Dutch'. Compelling, thought-provoking & meticulously researched, this is a fascinating study of a larger culture that connected England & Holland in the seventeenth century. Beautifully written & beautifully illustrated, I was completely captivated.
Misleading and disappointing. - By: J. Parkinson, 30 Jun 2008 
Do not buy this book because of its title or its dust cover picture. These appear to have been designed to sell the book, & are misleading.
"Lisa Jardine tests the traditional view that the rise of England as a world power took place at the expense of the Dutch. She finds instead that it was a handing on of the baton of cultural & intellectual supremacy to Briton....." These words from inside the dust cover contradict the book's title. England did not rob Holland of its glory. And Lisa stole the "Going Dutch" title from other earlier books.
The book is a series of essays - on the Dutch invasion of 1688, & much correspondance is used to illustrate cultural exchanges in art, horticulture, & science. There are lots of pictures, a good bibliography, in nice print, on good quality paper.
Watch out for garbled sentances, some contradictory, & there is little to link people & events in one essay with where they are mentioned in another.It seems as though this book was written in a hurry & as such it does not do justice either to its important topics or its distinguished author.
It is disappointing & irritating that such a well known author with access to broad-based research facilities fails to produce a book worthy of her resources or of her talents. Briton is well known for its histories. This book does not add to that reputation.
