Why the Dutch Are Different
A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
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Ciaran Saward
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Ben Coates
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Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.
In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so significant and so fascinating.
Ben Coates investigates what makes the Dutch the Dutch, why the Netherlands is much more than Holland, and why the color orange is so important. Along the way he reveals why they are the world's tallest people and have the best carnival outside Brazil. He learns why Amsterdam's brothels are going out of business, who really killed Anne Frank, and how the Dutch manage to be richer than almost everyone else despite working far less. He also discovers a country which is changing fast, with the Dutch now questioning many of the liberal policies which made their nation famous.
A personal portrait of a fascinating people, a sideways history, and an entertaining travelogue, Why the Dutch Are Different is the story of an Englishman who went Dutch. And loved it.
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The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- De: Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary story, expertly told and skillfully narrated
- De Daniel Vergara en 03-01-24
De: Bart van Loo, y otros
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The Invention of Amsterdam
- A History of Europe’s Greatest City in Ten Walks
- De: Ben Coates
- Narrado por: Gareth Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking, he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity: to rediscover the city he has been working in for over a decade, at a slower pace. He devises ten walks, each demonstrating a different chapter of Amsterdam's history, from its humble beginnings in the early 1200s as a small fishing community through two Golden Ages, fueled by the growth of the Dutch colonial empire, two world wars, and countless reinventions.
De: Ben Coates
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
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Netherland
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Alone and un-tethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get Your Post-Colonial Gatsby ON!
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-12
De: Joseph O'Neill
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The Diary Keepers
- World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
- De: Nina Siegal
- Narrado por: Nina Siegal, Maggi-Meg Reed, Nan McNamara, y otros
- Duración: 17 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior work!
- De Anonymous User en 02-24-23
De: Nina Siegal
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incomplete history, but fun. Performance is poor.
- De Matthew en 11-27-18
De: Russell Shorto
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History of the Netherlands
- A Captivating Guide to Ancient Germanic and Celtic Tribes, the Eighty Years’ War, the Dutch Empire and Republic, and Modern Times (European Countries)
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jay Herbert
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Find out how the people of this country fought against nature to cultivate land below sea level. Discover how they survived wars, invasions, and natural disasters and developed a trading nation that would become the envy of Europe. Uncover the truth behind bloody battles fought between medieval royalty, warlords, and rebellious guilds of Dutch workers, all of which shaped the country we know today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful narrator
- De Sophia en 06-04-24
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Dutch Short Stories for Beginners
- 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Dutch & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Dutch Stories)
- De: Lingo Mastery
- Narrado por: Boukeline Arnold
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13
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Do you know what the hardest thing for a Dutch learner is? Finding proper or listening material that they can handle, which is precisely the reason we’ve designed this audiobook! Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students. Books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes. It’s not entertaining, useful, or motivating for the student, at all, and many soon give up on learning!
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's amazing
- De Pat en 10-23-20
De: Lingo Mastery
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The Rhine
- Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
- De: Ben Coates
- Narrado por: Ciaran Saward
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Picky listener loved this book.
- De William en 03-08-22
De: Ben Coates
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The Upside-Down World
- Meetings with the Dutch Masters
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De PaulB en 02-29-24
De: Benjamin Moser
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2000 Most Common Dutch Words in Context: Get Fluent & Increase Your Dutch Vocabulary with 2000 Dutch Phrases
- Dutch Language Lessons
- De: Lingo Mastery
- Narrado por: Boukeline Arnold
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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We’ve compiled the 2000 Most Common Words in Dutch, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen. Did you know that — according to an important study — learning the top 2000 most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 84 percent of all nonfiction and 86.1 percent of fiction literature and 92.7 percent of oral speech? Those are amazing stats, and this book will take you even further than those numbers!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing content
- De Timur en 01-05-24
De: Lingo Mastery
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- De: Anu Partanen
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 06-20-17
De: Anu Partanen
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- De: Wim Klooster
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World.
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4 out of 5 stars
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But why?
- De Desirae Waters en 03-12-24
De: Wim Klooster
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The Embarrassment of Riches
- An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Noe en 12-05-24
De: Simon Schama
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
- De: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrado por: Hattie Morahan
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful. Subtle. Refreshing.
- De Amy Walsh Scott en 05-14-24
De: Tracy Chevalier
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The French Ingredient
- Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time: A Memoir
- De: Jane Bertch
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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When Jane Bertch was seventeen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered. At the end of the trip, she vowed she would never return.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I waited for months for this and I'm so bored
- De Bohemian en 04-13-24
De: Jane Bertch
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
- How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
- De: Margareta Magnusson
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner rather than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs listeners to embrace minimalism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Title, Bad Book
- De Jane en 01-03-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Why the Dutch Are Different
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-03-24
Ah, the Netherlands
Vivid story telling about this country and it’s history. A good overview from a contemporary perspective.
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- Barkis_is_willin
- 08-20-24
A fun and informative read
I enjoyed the several chapters about the Dutch and how their country is distinct. I enjoyed the quick history and geography information.
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- Deniz Koyuncu
- 08-21-24
Oh mate!
Great story and narration. The author really takes you to through the places he visits.
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- BeckySew
- 04-01-23
Well worth the listen!
Historical background intertwined with modern Netherlands. It was an excellent book to listen to in preparation for my upcoming trip to the Netherlands.
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- Deborah Kadlick
- 04-02-23
Excellent preparation for upcoming trip!
This book is just the right mix of history, anecdote and personal story which allows for a wonderful introduction to the country.
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- Anke WinklerPrins
- 07-26-22
Insightful and informative
The book draws from both historical and personal experiences of the next bat living in Rotterdam. The story is a clever intertwining of contemporary experiences and historical context, presenting a full explanation of “why the Dutch are different“. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
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- Tracy McKnight
- 08-08-23
Great preparation for my upcoming trip!
Combo travelogue and history of the Netherlands, highly recommend if you are planning a visit!
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- Ariel
- 09-14-22
A wonderful look at the Dutch and the Netherlands
A thoroughly entertaining and informative work, although perhaps a little too much time was spent on the discussion of football.
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- Rami R.
- 08-17-23
Highly recommend for pre or post trip to Amsterdam
I’ve visited Amsterdam and felt I needed to know more about the land and people of the Netherlands. This book is easy to listen, and fun to enjoy.
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- Karen
- 05-11-22
A Short and Enjoyable Tour of the Netherlands Past and Present
In case you had been wondering how the famous liberal social experiment of the Netherlands was faring, you need to look no further than Ben Coates’ book, which gives an excellent snapshot of what’s happening in the Netherlands today. In addition, the book provides a good potted history of the Netherlands, its fight for freedom from the Hapsburgs, the golden age and the harrowing years of WWII and the great starvation. If you want to get an insight into the Dutch, how they think and who they are, you could do no better. A very enjoyable read.
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