Bibliography Anglo-Dutch Wars

This is the current list of sources that I’m working with for the Anglo-Dutch War Series.

This series also uses sources from my New Amsterdam Series and Eighty Years’ War Series.

Books (updated October 15, 2026)

Andriesen P. J., De Prins en Johan de Witt, of, ons land in het tweede tijdperk der eerste stadhouderlooze regeering, 1885, Leiden, Uitgeverij Sijthoff e-book

Ashley, M. P., Great Britain to 1688: A Modern History, 1961, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.

Ballhausen, Carl, Der erste Englisch-Holländische Seekrieg 1652-1654 sowie der Schwedisch-Holländische Seekrieg 1658-1659, 1923, Nijhoff

Barry, Quitin, From Solebay to the Texel, The Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674, 2018, Warwick, Helion & Company

Baumber, Michael, General-at-Sea: Robert Blake and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution in Naval Warfare, 1989, London, John Murray Publishers

Black, Jeremy, The British Seaborne Empire, 2004, New Haven, Yale University Press

Blok, P.J., Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter, 1928, ‘s-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff

Bosman, Machiel, De Roofkoning, Prins Willem III en de invasie van Engeland, 2016, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Athenaeum

Boven, Graddy, Aemilia, 2023, Zutphen, Walburgpers, e-book

Boven, Graddy, Brederode, 2025, Zutphen, Walburgpers, e-book

Boxer, C.R, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, London, 1965, Penguin

Brown, Steven R., Merchant Kings, When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900, 2009, New York St Martin’s Press e-book

Bruijn, Jaap R., Prud’homme van Reine, Ronald, and Hövell tot Westerflier, Rolof van, De Ruyter, Dutch Admiral, Karwansaray BV

Bruyn, Klaas, de, Machtsstrijd op Zee, Engeland en nederland in oorlog tijdens de Gouden Eeuw, 2015, Brave New Books, e-book

Capp, Bernard, Cromwell’s Navy, The Fleet and the English Revolution, 1648-1660, 1989, Oxford, Clarendon Press, e-book

Danvers, Frederick Charles, Report to the Secretary of State for India in Council on the Portuguese Records Relating to the East Indies, Contained in the Archivo Da Torre Do Tombo, and the Public Libraries at Lisbon and Evora, 1892, online

Danvers, Frederick Charles, The Portuguese in India: A.D. 1571-1894, History of the Rise and Decline of their Eastern Empire, 1894, London, WH Allen & Co Limited, online

Davies, J.D., Kings of the Sea, Charles II, James II & the Royal Navy, 2017, Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing, e-book

Doedens, Anne; Mulder, Liek, Nederlands-Engelse Oorlogen, door een zee van bloed in de Gouden Eeuw, 2016, Zutphen, Walburg Pers e-book

Deursen, A.TH van, de geschiedenis van Nederland 1555-1702, De Last van veel geluk, 2004, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Bert Bakker

Edler, F. , The Dutch Republic and The American Revolution, (2001) [1911], Honolulu, Hawaii, University Press of the Pacific e-book

Elias, Dr. Johan E., Schetsen uit de Geschiedenis van ons Zeewezen, Derde Gedeelte (1652-1653), 1925, ‘s-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff e-book

Elias, Dr. Johan E., Schetsen uit de Geschiedenis van ons Zeewezen, Vol. VI, 1930, ‘s-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, e-book

Fox, Frank L., The Four Days Battle of 1666, The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail, e-book

Francke, Johan, Al die willen te kaap’ren varen, De Nederlandse commissievaart tijdens de Vierde Engelse Oorlog, 1780-1784, 2019, Zutphen, Walburg Pers e-book

Hainsworth, Roger, Churches, Christine, The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars, 1652 – 1674, 1998, Stroud, Sutton Publishing

Hitory Hub, East India Company: A Brief History from Beginning to the End, 2021, Ched

Hellinga, Greben Graddesz, Leiders van de Gouden Eeuw, 2009, Zutphen, Walburg Pers

Huysman, Ineke en Peeters, Roosje, (samenstelling) Johan de Witt en Engeland, een bloemlezing uit zijn correspondentie, 2019, Soest, Uitgeverij Catullus e-book

Israel, Jonathan I., De Republiek 1477 – 1806 Deel II, vanaf 1647, 1995, Franeker. Uitgeverij Van Wijnen

Janžekovič, Izidor, The balance of sea power in the early modern era: The Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652–1674), 2024, Central European University, Austria, Harvard University, USA

Jones, J. R., The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century, 1996, New York/London, Routledge

Jonge, Johannes Cornelis de, Levens-beschrijving van Johan en Cornelis Evertsen, Luitenant-Admiralen van Zeeland, 1820,  J. Allart, e-book

Kernkamp, G. W, Prins Willem II, het onvoltooide leven van de kleinzoon van Willem van Oranje, 2021, Utrecht Uitgeverij Omniboek e-book

Konstam, Angus, Warships of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-74, 2011, Oxford, Osprey Publishing e-book

Lorimer, John Gordon, Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf Oman And Central Arabia Vol-i Part-i. , 1915, Calcutta, Government Printing, online

MacLaughlin, Ian, The Sloop of War, 1650-1763, 2014, Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing, e-book

Mahan, A. T., The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, 1890, Boston, Little Brown and Company, e-book

Meilink-Roewfsz, M.A.P., Van Opstall, M.E., Schutte, G.J., Dutch Authors On Asian History. A Selection Of Dutch Historiography On The Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, 1988, Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, Translation Series 22, Foris Publications

Nimwegen, Olaf van, De Nederlandse Burgeroorlog 1748-1815, 2017, Amsterdam, Prometheus e-book

Ormod, David, Rommelse, Gijs, War, Trade, and the State, Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 2020, Woodbridge, Boydell Press e-book

Panhuysen, Luc, Rampjaar 1672, hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte, 2009, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Atlas Contact e-book

Panhuysen, Luc, Oranje tegen de Zonnekoning, de strijd van Willem III en Lodewijk XIV om Europa, 2016, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Atlas Contact e-book

Panhuysen, Luc, De Ware Vrijheid, de levens van Johan en Cornelis de Witt, 2005, Amsterdam, Olympus e-book

Rawson Gardiner, Samuel, Oliver Cromwell, Enriched Edition, 2022, Digicat Publishing, e-book

Reine, Ronald Prud’homme van, Moordenaars van Jan de Witt, De zwartse bladzijde van de Gouden Eeuw, 2013, Utrecht, Arbeiderspers

Reine, Ronald Prud’homme van, Rechterhand van Nederland, 1996, Amsterdam

Rogers, P.G., The Dutch in the Medway, 1970, Seaforth Publishing e-book

Rommelse, Gijs, The Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665-1667, International raisond’état, mercantilism and maritime strife, 2006, Hilversum, Verloren

Ross, Estelle, A Biography of Oliver Cromwell, 2018, Endymion Press, e-book

Pepys, Samuel, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, From 1659 to 1669 with memoir, Edited by Lord Braybrooke, 1825 e-book

Raa, F.J.G. ten; de Bas, François, Het Staatsche leger, 1568–1795 Dl. V, Van het sluiten van den vrede te Munster tot de verheffing van Prins Willem III van Oranje tot kapitein- en admiraal-generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, (1648–1672), 1921, Breda, Koninklijke Militaire Academie. online

Roos, Doeke, Koning-Stadhouder Willem III en de Zeeuwse Admiral Cornelis Evertsen, over een Hollands-Zeeuwse vriendschap en expeditie overzee, 1688, 1988, Goes, De Koperen Tuin

Schama, Simon, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1813, 1977, New York: Knopf

Ten Cate, S. H., Neêrlands’ roem ter zee, de geschiedenis van ons Zeewezen, van zijn ontstaan tot den vrede van utrecht (1719), 1877, Amsterdam, Wed. J. C. van Kesteren & zoon, online

Thompson, Sarah, Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1674), 2023, Sribl e-book

Troost, Wout, Stadhouder-Koning Willem III,een politieke biografie, 2001, Hilversum, Uitgeverij Verloren

Troost, Wout, Hiëronymus van Beverningk tijdens het rampjaar 1672, 2021, Zutphen, Walburg Pers e-book

Tuchman, Barbara,  Het eerste saluutschot: De Amerikaanse vrijheidsstrijd en de Republiek, 1991, Utrecht, De Haan.

Velde, Adrian T. van der, Allies to Enemies: Popular Xenophobia during the Seventeenth Century Anglo-Dutch Wars, 2005, Wright State University, online

Warnsinck, J.C.M., Van vlootvoogden en zeeslagen, 1940, Amsterdam, Van Kampen & Zoon N.V

Wilson, C. W., Profit and Power: a Study of England and the Dutch Wars, 2012, The Hague, Springer

Woodley Prowse, Daniel, A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records, 1895, Macmillan, online

Wottford, James, The East India Company, How the World’s First Megacorporation Conquered Nations, Sparked Rebellions, and Built and Empire, A Beginner’s History of the Most Powerful Business Ever Created, 2026, No Fluff Publishing

Articles, Journals, Research Papers

Benson, Joel D. Anglo-Dutch Relations and the Amboyna Massacre, March 2012, Vol.2, No.3, 173–177 History Research, ISSN 2159-550X Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, USA+

Borus, György. Williamite Propaganda in the Anglo-Dutch Revolution. Studia Anglica Resoviensia, University of Rzeszow, 2015, doi:10.15584/SAR.2015.12.11.

Brinkmann, C. (1906), Charles II and the Bishop of Münster in the Anglo-Dutch War of 1665–6, The English Historical Review. 21 (84): 686–698. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXI.LXXXIV.686. JSTOR 550398.

Dzelzainis, Martin. …Ridiculous Pictures and Odious Medails – Visual Propaganda in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. 2019, doi:10.15122/ISBN.978-2-406-06822-8.P.0203.

Hackenbracht, Ryan. Marvell, Dryden, and Commercial Fishing Propaganda during the Anglo-Dutch Wars. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 59, no. 3, Project Muse, 2019, pp. 485–506, doi:10.1353/SEL.2019.0022.

Haefeli, Evan. The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World. New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Rutgers University Libraries, 2017, doi:10.14713/NJS.V3I2.98.

Irwin, Douglas. Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, 1991, doi:10.1086/261801.

Ittersum, Martine van. The Long Goodbye: Hugo Grotius and the Justification of Dutch Expansion Overseas (1604-1645), History of European Ideas 36 (2010) Pp. 386-411 . 2010, doi:10.1016/J.HISTEUROIDEAS.2010.05.003. Sewell, William. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Cornell University Press, 2005.

Janžekovič, Izidor, The Balance of Sea Power in the Early Modern Era: The Anglo Dutch Wars (1652-1674). International Journal of Maritime History, vol. 36, no. 4, 2024, pp. 799–824, doi:10.1177/08438714241269611.

Malcomson, Thomas. David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse (Eds.), War, Trade, and the State. Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1625-89 (Thomas Malcomson). The Northern Mariner / Le Marin Du Nord, York University Libraries, 2021, doi:10.25071/2561-5467.171.

Matos, Frederik. The Role of Mercantilism in Anglo-Dutch Political Relations, 1650-74.

Murdoch, Steve. ‘Breaching Neutrality’: English Prize-Taking and Swedish Neutrality in the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1651–1654. The Mariner’s Mirror: The International Quarterly Journal of The Society for Nautical Research, vol. 105, no. 32, Society for Nautical Research, 2019, pp. 134–47, doi:10.1080/00253359.2019.1589112.

Murdoch, Steve. Scottish Privateering, Swedish Neutrality and Prize Law in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674, Published in Forum Navale Number 59 (2003). 2003.

Nieuwstraten, Jaap. Helmer J. Helmers, The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639-1660. Bijdragen En Mededelingen Betreffende De Geschiedenis Der Nederlanden, Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services), 2016, doi:10.18352/BMGN-LCHR.10171.

Nijenhuis, A. (2012). Les voyages de Hollande et la perception francaise des Provinces-Unies dans la premieremoitie du XVIIe siecle. [, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]. Amsterdam University Press.

Onnekink, David. Symbolic Communication in Early Modern Diplomacy: Naval Incidents and the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1667–1672)*. 2020, The English Historical Review, Oxford University Press (OUP), doi:10.1093/EHR/CEAA067

Stringer, Nathan O, Amboyna as Tropic for Anglo-Dutch Relations, n.d., London School of Economics and Political Sience

Talbott, Siobhan, “What cannot be helped must be indured”: Coping with Obstacles to Business During the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652–1674, doi:10.1017/eso.2021.1

Tieleman, Matthijs. ‘No Intrigue Is Spared’: Anglo-American Intelligence Networks in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic. Itinerario, Itinerario, 2021, doi:10.1017/S0165115321000036.

Velde, Adrian T. van der, Allies to Enemies: Popular Xenophobia during the Seventeenth Century Anglo-Dutch Wars, 2016, Wright State University