| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Benjamin Schmidt. Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxix, 450. $64.95.

The first half of this book centers on the Dutch revolt against the Habsburgs from 1566 to the early 1580s. Philip II of Spain attempted to put down efforts by Dutch leaders to reassert the prerogatives they had enjoyed in the wealthy trading cities of Antwerp and Amsterdam. In 1567, he sent the duke of Alba to take control of the Low Countries, and he soon became a lightning rod for Dutch protests. Benjamin Schmidt shows how the pamphlets and books that propagandized for Dutch self-rule consistently referred to the injustices of "Spanish tyranny" against the Indians of America. 1

Several scholars have shown how the works of Bartolomé de las Casas were used in England and English North American colonies to propagandize against Spain and to raise the cause of English colonization from a risky business venture or imperial conquest to a moral imperative to "save" the Indians from oppression and Catholicism. Herein lay the origin, most agree, of the "Black Legend" or Leyenda Negra about the Spanish conquest. . . .

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