E. H. Carr famously said that the creation of history is embedded in the ‘reciprocity between the past and present’ (What is History. 1962). Obviously, all history is shaped by the historians who create it. When we write the past, we are also writing the present. We are the history we create. What appears on […]
Read MoreMaartje Abbenhuis, the author of An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815–1914, studies neutrality and internationalism, including the history of The Netherlands during the First World War to explain the power of a nation that declined to take sides.
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