More Than Just a Textbook Niderlandskie oblasti ot batavov i belgov do bel’giyskoy revolutsii 1830 g.: uchebnoe posobie / otv. red. G.A. Shatokhina-Mordvintseva. M.: GAUGNPress, 2018. 252 p., ill., maps. (The regions of the Netherlands From Batavs and Belgs to Belgian Revolution of 1830: textbook)

The reviewed textbook contains an historical survey of the Benelux countries from prehistory to 1830. It is hard to describe the history of this region just following patterns designed for the history of centralized nation-states, and there are many reasons for that. However, the unique complexity of the historical development of this territory, wealthy in all senses of the term, may in itself become a key to the enigma of the «European miracle».

Historical Netherlands, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Southern Netherlands, Belgium, Liege, Luxembourg, Benelux, historiography, textbook in history