Moresnet: opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje

Moresnet: opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje

2016 • 272 pages

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I haven't read a book in Dutch in a while, nor have I consumed anything history related lately. But with the sole intent to shuffle things, I decided to take this gifted book from the shelf that was catching dust.

Was it worldview changing? Definitely not. Was it entertaining? Surely yes.

Moresnet was a small little “condominium” (a country that's administered by more than 1 ruler) that existed for 100+ years in the 19th/20th century as a legal abnormality created by 2 countries (NL and Prussia) that were too stubborn to lose face. The author Dröge is deft at relaying the history of this patch of land by taking us through the sentiment of the time with several anecdotes that have been well-researched.

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