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Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation
(2023)
This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how ...
Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain
(2018)
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests ...
Prometheus and the Liver
(2022)
Prometheus was punished by the supreme god Zeus for giving to mankind the Olympic fire with which they learned to think and feel. He was chained to a cliff in the Caucasus, where, to make matters worse, he was visited daily ...
Het geluid van geweld
(2022)
Armed conflict; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Military history: post WW2 conflicts
Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood
(2008)
Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded ...
Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand
(2023)
Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary ...
Mobility in Transition
(2013)
This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Explanations of post-accession migration patterns, trends and ...
Fabricating the Absolute Fake - Revised Edition
(2013)
When rock star Bono told Oprah Winfrey that America is an ideal that is supposed to be contagious, the talk show host was moved to tears. Such an imagined America, rather than the nation-state USA, is the topic of Fabricating ...
The Popular Policeman and Other Cases
(2005)
In this compelling title, two distinguished scholars share their experiences as expert witnesses in cases ranging from eyewitness testimony, person identification and recovered memories, to false confessions, collaborative ...
May '68: Shaping Political Generations
(2018)
Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralysing ...
Women and the Colonial State
(2000)
Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth ...
Art in Progress
(2003)
In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more ...
African Media in an Age of Extraction
(2024)
African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we "place" Nollywood and other industries has important ...
Mobile Screens
(2012)
Nanna Verhoeff’s new book is a must for anybody interested in visual culture and media theory. It offers a rich and stimulating theoretical account of the central dimension of our contemporary existence – interfacing and ...
Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire
(2017)
This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external 'barbarian' groups in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the fourth ...
Chapter Cultuurkritiek in het antropoceen
(2023)
Framed against Timothy Clark’s comments on the potency of ecocriticism, in this contribution I first zoom in on how cultural critique according to Rosemarie Buikema can contribute to discussions on matters of common concern. ...
The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology
(2006)
The Lebanese Shi'ite resistance movement, Hizbullah, is going through a remarkable political and ideological transformation. Hizbullah was founded in 1978 by various sectors of Lebanese Shi'ite clergy and cadres, and with ...
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 ...
Uit zicht
(2010)
Public administration; Political science
Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922
(2017)
This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, ...
Religious Architecture
(2013)
Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives develops an anthropological perspective on modern religious architecture, including mosques, churches and synagogues. Borrowing from a range of theoretical perspectives ...
Chapter 5 Sociale zekerheid in een open samenleving
(2016)
In dit hoofdstuk wordt verkend hoe sociale zekerheid in een postindustriële samenleving er uit zou kunnen zien. Eerst worden de economische en
maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen die gepaard gaan met postindustrialisering
in ...
Chapter 3 De sociale onzekerheid
(2016)
Het sociale zekerheidssysteem is voortdurend aan veranderingen onderhevig. De laatste jaren ligt de nadruk daarbij vooral op meer
eigen verantwoordelijkheid van burgers en minder collectiviteit. Bij de
kwetsbare groepen ...
Solidariteit en slachtofferschap
(2008)
What is it that really binds Dutch people together? That's the central question of many public debates.This study focuses on the the role of victimhood on our concept of society. Drawing on the works of the American ...
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 ...
Chapter Aesthetics and politics in contemporary South Africa
(2023)
South Africa is a context within which Rosemarie Buikema has thought deeply and conducted much of her empirical research for her book Revolts in Critique. This contribution pursues some of the ways in which Buikema’s ...
Het minderhedenbeleid voorbij
(2013)
Government; Sociology
Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World
(2008)
The modern pilgrimage - to sites ranging from Elvis's Graceland to the Vietnam veterans' annual Ride to the Wall to Jim Morrison's Paris grave - is intertwined with our existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly ...
Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film
(2002)
This monograph departs from traditional studies of national cinema by accentuating the intercultural and intertextual links between Malaysian films and Asian (as well as European and American) film practices. Using ...
The Politics of Justification
(2002)
The Politics of Justification is an investigation of welfare retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1982-1998. Welfare retrenchment is politically highly controversial, but still governments do retrench. This book ...
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 ...
List Cultures
(2017)
We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, ...
De geesteswetenschappelijke carrousel
(2006)
Philosophy; Political science; Culture and institutions; Anthropology
Chapter 11 Tussen hoop en vrees
(2016)
Bij zekerheid wordt meestal gedacht aan gevaren die van buitenaf komen. Om zich tegen dergelijke risico’s te verdedigen ontwikkelt elke samenleving
betrouwbare voorzieningen. Denk aan het vormen van een dijkenstelsel,
een ...
The Universe, Life and Everything...Dialogues on our Changing Understanding of Reality
(2017)
The way we understand the world we live in is changing. Our traditional understanding is being challenged by developments in physics, including quantum mechanics, and our inability to explain certain complex phenomena such ...
Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
(2013)
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language ...
Urban Screens
(2025)
This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a methodological approach and conceptual toolset for the critical examination, ...
Figuring the Past
(2012)
This definitive work offers a new approach to the period film at the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. This book explores the relation between ...
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 ...
Vertrouwen in burgers
(2012)
Public administration
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 ...
New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift
(2014)
The changes we have seen in recent years in the scholarly publishing world - including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and strategies of publishers and libraries alike - represent the most dramatic ...
The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums
(2022)
Site-specific installations are created for specific locations and are usually intended as temporary artworks. The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums: Staging Contemporary Art shows that these ...
Water in Times of Climate Change
(2021)
This book on water and climate change goes beyond the usual and predictable analyses, by bringing religion and values into a discussion that is often dominated by technocratic solutions. The three case studies of Jakarta, ...
Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
(2022)
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of ...
Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
(2016)
Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it ...
Waddenland Outstanding: History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region
(2018)
The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the embanked coastal marshes and islands in the Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, and this area retains an exceptional common history in all its aspects: ...
Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China
(2021)
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy ...
The Data Journalism Handbook
(2021)
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of ...
German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism
(2021)
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological ...
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners
(2017)
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners offers a practical approach to risk management in the financial industry. This in-depth study provides quantitative tools to better describe qualitative issues, ...
National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities
(2011)
Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by ...
Open Data and the Knowledge Society
(2017)
This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation toward a 'knowledge society'.
Lustige geesten
(2009)
Dutch literature; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
De fiere nachtegaal
(2008)
The Proud Nightingale covers the many facets of medieval music in the Netherlands until the year 1600. Eighteen authors discuss songs ranging from of courtly songs, including minstrels, mystics and Modern Devots, on the ...
State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
(2018)
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public ...
Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de eenentwintigste eeuw
(2016)
Het boek A Dutch Miracle van J. Visser en A. Hemerijck uit 1997 analyseerde de rol van onderhandelingen, coördinatie en consensus in het Nederlandse Poldermodel en stelde vast dat het cruciale factoren zijn geweest in het ...
Conversations with Christian Metz. Selected Interviews on Film Theory (1970-1991)
(2017)
From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory: <i>Essais sur la signifi cation au cinéma</i>, tome1 et 2; <i>Langage et cinéma</i>; <i>Le signifiant imaginaire</i>; ...
Accelerators in Silicon Valley
(2017-09-12)
In this book Silicon Valley expert Peter Ester describes how these 'schools of startup entrepreneurship' operate and how they empower startups. He interviewed over twenty Silicon Valley accelerators. They are analyzed in ...
Speelruimte voor transparantere rechtspraak
(2013)
Law