Publications
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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
(2007-01-01)
This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture, through firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived ...
Homer, Troy and the Turks
(2017-10-16)
Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research ...
The Governance of International Migration
(2018)
As concern about immigration has grown within Europe in recent years, the European Union has brought pressure to bear on countries that are allegedly not sufficiently governing irregular migration with and within their ...
The Youth of Early Modern Women
(2018-11-01)
Through fifteen varied case studies that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection of essays makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth.
European culture recognized that, ...
The Dutch and English East India Companies
(2018-10-02)
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.
The ...
Syntax of Dutch
(2019)
The multi-volume work Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. The text of the seven already available volumes was written between 1995 and 2015 and issued in print between 2012 and 2016. ...
Orchestrating Public Opinion
(2017-12-21)
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns.
Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, ...
Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings
(2017-05-10)
This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings. The common thread ...
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin
(2016-06-13)
As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. ...
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
(2018)
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating ...
Gelijke kansen in de stad
(2019)
Sociale gelijkheid is goed voor iedereen. Het vormt een buffer tegen drugsgebruik,
criminaliteit, gezondheidsproblemen (lichamelijk én psychisch)
en wantrouwen (van mensen jegens elkaar en de gemeenschap). Streven
naar ...
BEING PROFILED:COGITAS ERGO SUM
(2018)
Profiling the European citizen: why today's democracy needs to look harder at the negative potential of new technology than at its positive potential.
The Big Reset
(2016)
A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve ...
The deliverance of open access books
(2019)
In many scholarly disciplines, books - not articles - are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer ...
Seeing the City
(2020)
The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- ...
Merdeka
(2024)
Under the slogan ‘Merdeka!’ the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence – a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new narrative about the ...
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750
(2024)
This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits ...
The Empty Showcase Syndrome
(2024)
European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, they are confronted with hard choices. In The Empty Showcase Syndrome, Jos ...
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe
(2024)
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, ...
Arma 53
(2024)
The Netherlands Defence Museums, the National Military Museum in Soesterberg, the Navy Museum in Den Helder and the Marines Museum in Rotterdam jointly manage a vast collection of military heritage from the National ...
Een Indische vrouw in Maleisië
(2024)
In 1899, Dé-Lilah (pseudonym of Lucy van Renesse), a writer in the Dutch East Indies, published Mevrouw Klausine Klobben op Java, a fascinating travelogue in which she described, somewhat fictionalised, her five-month ...
Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse
(2025)
The 1919 May Fourth movement was the breeding ground for experiments by authors inspired by new world literary trends. Under Mao Zedong, folk songs accompanied political campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward. Misty ...
Exposing the Film Apparatus
(2026)
Film archives have long been dedicated to preserving movies, and they've been nimble in recent years in adapting to the changing formats and technologies through which cinema is now created and presented. This collection ...
Rethinking the Republic of Letters
(2025)
This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined ...
ASML en de Nederlandse natuurkunde
(2025)
In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced ...
The Former “Yugoslavia Tribunal” as Monument of Justice
(2025)
After Nuremberg, there is probably no other place where the future of Europe has been so definitively tested and safeguarded as in The Hague. The iconic building of the former International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...
Het vermaaklyk slot
(2025)
Literaire rechtspraak
(2025)
Performing Girls and Women
(2025)
This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2025)
Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, ...
Nautical Rutters and New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600
(2025)
The European maritime expansion of the fifteenth century reshaped global politics, economies, and perceptions of space. Central to this transformation was the mastery of long-distance sea routes and the development of ...
Genocide
(2016)
The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is ...
Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory
(2017)
This volume brings together a wide range of explorations of the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience and study of film. The book offers analyses by such ...
Transit Migration in Europe
(2014)
Transit migration is a term that is used to describe mixed flows of different types of temporary migrants, including refugees and labor migrants. In the popular press, it is often confused with illegal or irregular migration ...
Improvising Cinema
(2014)
This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouëllic examines improvisational practices that can be ...
Players and Arenas
(2014)
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, ...
The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
(2015)
Dutch scholarship has played an important role in philology since the early days of Leiden University. This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts—a tradition that had ...
Landscape Biographies
(2014)
Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which ...
Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché
(2018)
Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Where do such visual ...
World of Difference
(2017)
Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better ...