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John Lothrop Motley
1814–1877
Best known for vivid histories of the Dutch Republic, this American writer brought European political drama to a wide English-speaking audience. He also served the United States as a diplomat, giving his work a practical feel for power and statecraft.
101 Audiobooks
Quotations from John L. Motley Works
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
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 05: 1559-60
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 23: 1576
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 from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600-02
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1598
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1598-99
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586c
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1595
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
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585b
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 20: 1573
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1592
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
History of the United Netherlands, 1590b
by John Lothrop Motley
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623)
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, 1618-19
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, 1618
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
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
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, 1587a
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 — Complete (1555-66)
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 15: 1568, part II
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction 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, 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 — Volume 25: 1577, part II
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
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
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, 1584-85a
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 24: 1576-77
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-92
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, 1585f
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
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
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
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 06: 1560-61
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
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 32: 1582-84
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76
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 01: Introduction I
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586e
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
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
History of the United Netherlands, 1588c
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 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, 1586d
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 09: 1564-65
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
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 19: 1572-73
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 03: 1555
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, 1607b
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, 1585c
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 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, 1586b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588b
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1588d
by John Lothrop Motley
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70
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
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 from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94
by John Lothrop Motley
About the author
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1814, John Lothrop Motley became an American historian, writer, and diplomat whose reputation rests mainly on his sweeping books about the Netherlands. He studied at Harvard and later in Germany, and his writing stood out for turning complex political history into energetic narrative.
His most famous works include The Rise of the Dutch Republic and History of the United Netherlands, books that helped many nineteenth-century readers discover the long struggle of the Dutch provinces against Spanish rule. Alongside his literary career, he also served as United States minister to Austria during the Lincoln administration and later represented the United States in Britain.
Motley died in 1877, but he remained remembered as a historian who wrote with both scholarship and storytelling in mind. For audiobook listeners, he offers a blend of grand historical scope, strong characters, and a clear sense that history is driven by human ambition, conflict, and conviction.