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Johan Joor, The Netherlands versus Napoleonic Imperialism : the Anti-French Uprisings between 1806 and 1813.
The conventional historiography has given us a stereotype image of the Dutch people as apathetic and orderly. A people incapable of violent collective action. However, research focussing on the period 1806-1813 shows it was punctuated by unrest and rioting. The innovations introduced by Louis Bonaparte or Napoleon did not leave the Batavians unmoved. They resisted in various ways every threat to their freedom and autonomy, which of course does not mean that their dissent expressed values identical with those of the Spaniards or the Neapolitans.

"Napoleonic warfare spread to the high seas, harbors and marketplaces across Europe and the Atlantic through the Continental System. This volume addresses the illicit commerce, new merchant networks, 'daily life', and tensions with neutral states generated by Anglo-French economic warfare. It also reveals the contradictions inherent in the Napoleonic Empire - at once rational and progressive, but also coercive and exploitative. Regional and urban case studies offer a more complete understanding of the significance of economic warfare during the Napoleonic era, and explore the experiences and consequences of the conflict through several key themes: a re-evaluation of the historiography of the Continental System, the uneven power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers, and the strategies of merchants and smugglers to adapt to or circumvent the system. Transnational case studies underscore the vulnerability and ingenuity of Europeans as they faced transformative social and economic challenges. "--