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Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
(2014)
Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.
The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815
(2016)
This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between ...
Turning over a New Leaf
(2012)
Books before print – manuscripts – were modified continuously throughout the medieval period. Focusing on the ninth and twelfth centuries, this volume explores such material changes as well as the varying circumstances ...
Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action
(2014)
In this introduction to the Outstanding contributions to logic volume devoted to Nuel Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, we provide a
brief overview of some of the formal frameworks and methods involved in ...
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800 : Linking Empires, Bridging Borders
(2014)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the ...
Recollecting Resonances : Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters
(2014)
Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713
(2016)
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access.
Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations
(2014)
The successful transition from armed conflict to peace is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary warfare. The laws and principles governing transitions from conflict to peace (jus post bellum) have only recently ...
Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries
(2016)
The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book ...
Gender, Migration and Categorisation
(2013)
All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. In this volume, twelve eminent scholars describe and analyse how in countries such as France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the ...
Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe
(2015)
Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary ...
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases. Volume 1
(2015)
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality ...
Installation Art and the Museum
(2013)
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials ...
New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
(2012)
This book is the first monograph on the theme of “new materialism,” an emerging trend in 21st century thought that has already left its mark in such fields as philosophy, cultural theory, feminism, science studies, and the ...
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture
(2021)
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, ...
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
(2021)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous ...
Imaging and Imagining Palestine
(2021)
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and ...
Ondernemen in de Open Samenleving
(2019)
Internationale markten zijn de afgelopen decennia sterk mondiaal ontwikkeld en veel bedrijven zijn in deze geglobaliseerde context uitgegroeid tot belangrijke, quasi-politieke spelers. Deze stormachtige economische ...
Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna
(2021)
Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s ...
Introducing Vigilant Audiences
(2020)
"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and ...
Death revisited
(2019)
This book has been a long time in the making. When we left the field for the final time in 2009 we could only guess at what exactly we had found – we did not even have firm dates for most of the graves discovered. The ...
Business & The Sustainable Development Goals
(2018)
This short book presents a framework for making corporate strategies effective
for sustainable development. This framework is a condensed result of a
variety of interdisciplinary research and teaching projects, organised ...
From efficiency to reduction
(2019)
This book presents the results of the international research project CODALoop: Community Data Loop for Energy Conscious Lifestyles. It dissects the energy practices that make urban households demanding energy in their daily ...
Cultural Convergence
(2021)
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions ...
Violence and Trolling on Social Media
(2020)
'Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news - social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we ...
Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond
(2021)
This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different ...
Surveilling masses and unveiling human rights
(2017)
In this inaugural address I will first discuss the procedures in front of the UK IPT
in the 10 Human Rights Organisations case, followed by a short presentation of the
applications against actions of UK intelligence ...
Gemengde groepen in integrale kindcentra
(2019)
Deze studie is onderdeel van een groter project bestaande uit drie studies, waarin we ons richten op de vraag: wat is een goed aanbod voor doelgroepkinderen van het onderwijsachterstandenbeleid in voorschoolse voorzieningen ...
Relatie tussen kwaliteit in de kleuterklassen en de schoolloopbaan van leerlingen
(2019)
Deze studie is onderdeel van een groter NRO project dat is uitgevoerd in het kader van het NRO-onderzoeksprogramma ‘Met onderzoek onderwijs vernieuwen’, periode 2016-2019. Het bestaat uit drie studies, waarin we trachten ...
Kans op en effecten van kleuterbouwverlenging
(2019)
Deze studie is onderdeel van een groter project bestaande uit drie studies, waarin we ons richten op de vraag: wat is een goed aanbod voor doelgroepkinderen van het onderwijsachterstandenbeleid in voorschoolse voorzieningen ...
The conservation of panel paintings and related objects
(2014)
Until the early 17th century almost all portable paintings were created on wood
supports, including masterpieces by famous painters, ranging from Giotto to Dürer
to Rembrandt. The structural conservation of these paintings ...
De vele kanten van leesbegrip
(2019)
This study provides an overview of what is known from research about effective education in reading comprehension. The report forms the framework for a survey of the state of the art of reading comprehension at the end of ...
Data Mining in MRO
(2019)
Data mining seems to be a promising way to tackle the problem of unpredictability in MRO
organizations. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences therefore cooperated with the
aviation industry for a two-year applied ...
De netwerkkracht van de Rotterdammer in het sociale domein
(2019)
In Hoofdstuk 1 worden de achtergronden van het NWO programma Slimme sturing (Smart governance) en de Zorgtransitie besproken, die de aanleiding vormden voor de opzet van het onderzoek ‘Lokaal bestuur en eigen kracht in ...
Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
(2021)
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining:
- changes ...
Studentenwelzijn in het hoger onderwijs
(2021)
Recent Dutch studies show that more than half of students in higher
education experiences emotional and psychological complaints to a greater or lesser extent and that a wide
majority of students indicate that they often ...
Het wonder van Sint-Maarten
(2022)
What makes a happy city? How can a city respond adequately and resiliently to a crisis disrupting civic society? Answers to these timeless questions differ through time. A Miracle of St Martin – Utrecht a Happy City tells ...
'The House of the Priest'
(2022)
'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. ...
Applied Design Research
(2022)
Design and research are two fields of knowledge that each has its traditions, methods, standards and practices. These two worlds appear to be quite separate, with researchers investigating what exists, and designers ...
A Śaiva Utopia
(2021)
A Śaiva Utopia centers on the eleventh chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra, known as the Chapter on Śiva’s Discipline (Śivāśramādhyāya). A critical edition and annotated English translation of the Sanskrit text of this chapter ...
Thirteen Fundamental Psychological Needs
(2020)
Although individuals may have different goals and wishes on the surface, deep down we all want the same things. Our fundamental needs are universal: Regardless of culture, age, and lifestyle, everyone ultimately has the ...
Onderwijs, identiteitsontwikkeling bij jongeren en hun omgang met idealen
(2022)
This report examines how education can contribute to the prevention
of radicalization and polarization of young people. The starting point was
to link up with identity development in adolescence and
developing social ...
Methoden van systematische rechtspraakanalyse
(2021)
Practitioner lawyers and legal scientists pay a lot of attention to providing insight into developments and patterns in the judiciary. However, with the question of exactly how they arrive at their insights and account for ...
Ontwikkeling van onderwijsarrangementen voor een succesvolle doorstroom vmbo-mbo-hbo
(2021)
This study, subsidized by the National Education Research Agency (NRO), focuses on regional collaboration between VMBO, MBO and HBO institutions. Three educational institutions, the Christelijke Onderwijsgroep Gelderland ...
Positive design
(2020)
In 2015, a new journal was launched: the Dutch Journal of Positive Psychology. The editor-in-chief invited me to contribute with a regular column that reflects on the question of how design can contribute to the field of ...
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise ...
Leerlingprestaties in de exacte vakken in groep 6 van het basisonderwijs
(2020)
In the spring of 2019, 3355 Dutch students in group 6 of primary education from 112 schools participated in eTIMSS-2019. TIMSS stands for Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and measures worldwide ...
Internet- en Internet of Things-vaardigheden in Nederland anno 2021
(2021)
This report provides an overview of the Internet and Internet of Things skills of the adult Dutch population.
The purpose of this report is to outline the state of affairs in 2021. An impression is given of which skills ...
Effectieve loopbaanoriëntatie en loopbaanbegeleiding (LOB) in het vmbo
(2022)
This literature study examines which attention to CEG can be effective for pupils, with where possible also specific attention to 'what works' for young people from families with a disability.
migration background, so ...
De regio als bestuurlijk schaalniveau
(2022)
This diptych is the result of the first subproject of the study 'Steering with Space' on regional steering networks in education.
In the first subproject of this study, we investigated what is meant by "the region", how ...
De Veluwe gereformeerd
(2022)
church history; social and cultural history
The Walking Dead at Saqqara
(2022)
Funerary rituals and mortuary cults are classics of religious studies research in ancient Egypt. Still, we know little about how the living interacted with ancestors and gods in daily life. The case study of the city of ...
World of Patterns
(2022)
The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles ...
Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
(2021)
During the Ancient Greek and Roman eras, participation in political communities at the local level, and assertion of belonging to these communities, were among the fundamental principles and values on which societies would ...
Simplicial and Dendroidal Homotopy Theory
(2022)
This open access book offers a self-contained introduction to the homotopy theory of simplicial and dendroidal sets and spaces. These are essential for the study of categories, operads, and algebraic structure up to coherent ...
Bekendheid, benutting en effectiviteit van professionaliseringsprikkels in het voortgezet onderwijs
(2022)
The research reported in this publication concerns the second sub-study of the project Administrative Power and the Effect of Professionalisation Incentives in Secondary Education. This sub-study focuses on the various ...
Narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica
(2023)
This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century AD on the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). At first sight, these narratives seem to be loosely ‘embedded’ ...
Making Islam Work
(2023)
The development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics ...
Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
(2024)
This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land ...
The Boundaries of Data
(2024)
The legal domain distinguishes between different types of data and attaches a different level of protection to each of them. Thus, non-personal data are left largely unregulated, while privacy and data protection rules ...
Doing Digital Migration Studies
(2024)
Doing Digital Migration present a comprehensive entry point to the variety of theoretical debates, methodological interventions, political discussions and ethical debates around migrant forms of belonging as articulated ...
Water
(2024)
Floods are a fundamental part of Dutch history. Indeed, having ‘tamed’ the threats associated with living below sea level is part of Dutch national identity. In the cultural depictions of these devastating events, however, ...
De eerste minister van de Republiek
(2024)
The Grand Pensionary (Dutch: raadpensionaris) of Holland was often seen by his contemporaries as the leader of the Dutch Republic. This is not surprising. Holland was the most powerful region, and, in practice, the Grand ...
Colloids and the Depletion Interaction
(2024)
This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the phase behaviour of, and interfacial properties in, complex colloidal mixtures (e.g., clay, milk, blood). Insights into colloids have been at the heart of many ...
Art and Its Geographies
(2024)
Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a ...
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
(2023)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including ...
The Power of Parables
(2023)
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their ...
Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
(2023)
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the ...
Mental Health and Enhancement
(2023)
This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric ...
Noncommutative Geometry and Particle Physics
(2025)
This book provides an introduction to noncommutative geometry and presents a number of its recent applications to particle physics. In the first part, we introduce the main concepts and techniques by studying finite ...
Watañi lāntaṃ
(2023)
Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive treatment and are still a controversial ...
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture
(2024)
This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture. Religious individuals, themes, experiences and communities are widely represented in diverse literature and ...
The Rule of Dons
(2024)
Rivke Jaffe explains how despite Jamaica’s “dons” are associated with crime and violence, they have become figures of political authority and seen as legitimate leaders.
The Language of Melancholy
(2025)
This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a ...
Involving Readers
(2024)
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff shows how individuals ...
The Globalization of Netherlandish Art
(2024)
Is there a special place for the Low Countries in art history’s current debates on global mobility? How should we conceive of the globalization of Netherlandish art in the early modern period, and in what ways does the ...
Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum
(2024)
In Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum, Ayhan Aksu offers a new perspective on practices of collection in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Herculaneum papyri. This study focuses ...
The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
(2025)
This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is ...
Seeing Like a Platform
(2025)
Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power ...
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture
(2024)
This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture. Religious individuals, themes, experiences and communities are widely represented in diverse literature and ...