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John Lothrop Motley
1814–1877
Best known for bringing the drama of the Dutch revolt to a wide readership, this 19th-century American writer paired a storyteller’s eye with a diplomat’s experience abroad. His histories helped make European politics and revolution feel vivid and immediate to English-speaking readers.
101 Audiobooks
Quotations from John L. Motley Works
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610b
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 11: 1566, part II
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 23: 1576
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e-86a
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586c
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1598
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1595
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1598-99
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600-02
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 20: 1573
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610c-12
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1592
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623)
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1590b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1594
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1607a
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1587c
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1613-15
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-10
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1587a
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 31: 1580-82
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III
by John Lothrop Motley
Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 17: 1570-72
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1587b
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610a
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 24: 1576-77
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1590a
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66)
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 15: 1568, part II
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584-85a
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 25: 1577, part II
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-92
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 14: 1568, part I
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 04: 1555-59
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-14
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1609
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1619-23
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 26: 1577, part III
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585f
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23)
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 12: 1567, part I
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1604-05
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 06: 1560-61
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 32: 1582-84
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15)
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 28: 1578, part II
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 01: Introduction I
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586d
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588c
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586e
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1605-07
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1603-04
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84)
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 03: 1555
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 19: 1572-73
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1607b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1597-98
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608a
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588a
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86)
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588d
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 18: 1572
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585d
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94
by John Lothrop Motley
About the author
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1814, John Lothrop Motley became known as an American historian, author, and diplomat. He studied at Harvard and later in Germany, experiences that helped shape his lifelong interest in European history and politics.
Motley is remembered above all for his major works on the Netherlands, especially The Rise of the Dutch Republic and History of the United Netherlands. These books won a wide audience and built his reputation as a lively popular historian who could turn complex political struggles into compelling narrative.
He also served the United States in diplomacy, including posts connected with Russia and later Austria. Motley died in Dorset, England, on May 29, 1877, leaving behind a body of historical writing that remained influential for many years.