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Employment 'Miracles'
(2005)
Why did some economies experience a boom in the 1990s? Employment 'Miracles' comparatively analyses select miracle economies. The contributors to the volume critically analyze how the small size and institutional structure ...
Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times
(2023)
Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we ...
European Immigrations
(2012)
This book makes an essential contribution to understanding the dynamics of contemporary immigrant inflows and integration in Europe. Though embracing a Continent-wide outlook on migration processes, it accounts, in particular, ...
Migration and Irregular Work in Austria
(2008)
This meticulously researched study of irregular migrant work in Austria holds many broader lessons for countries all over Europe. The book derives many of its fascinating insights from systematic in-depth interviews with ...
The Frisian Popular Militias between 1480 and 1560
(2022)
In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because ...
Van natuurlandschap tot risicomaatschappij
(2008)
This study is an illustrated overview of the relationship between people and their environment worldwide. It is not only about the natural aspects of agricultural production; the authors also adress the non-material benefits ...
Meritocratie: Op weg naar een nieuwe klassensamenleving
(2016)
De meritocratie gold lange tijd als belofte voor een meer open en gelijke samenleving. Een samenleving waarin mensen hun maatschappelijke positie verkrijgen op basis van hun eigen verdiensten. Maar wat als die verdiensten ...
Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
(2018)
This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.
Film Front Weimar
(2002)
This first book-length study shows how Germany tried to reconcile the horrendous experiences of the FirstWorld War through the films made in 1919-1933. Drawing on the analysis of twenty-five such films, and covering a wide ...
Aspects of Urbanization in China
(2012)
China's rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization - the largest the world ...
Chapter Moord en brand
(2024)
After the occupation by German troops in May 1940, the German authorities demanded the Dutch fire service be remodelled in line with their own example. In Germany, firefighting had been a police task since 1938. Fire service ...
The Value of Culture
(1997)
Culture manifests itself in everything human, including the ordinary business of everyday life. Culture and art have their own value, but economic values are also constrained. Art sponsorships and subsidies suggest a value ...
The Paradoxes of Transparency
(2009)
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is the central scientific network within the massive set of bureaucracies that is responsible for Europe's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). While spending the ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
Sociale herovering in Amsterdam en Rotterdam: één verhaal over twee wijken - 8
(2005)
Political Science
Uncertain Safety
(2009)
Flood prevention, food safety, transport of hazardous materials, infectious diseases, the risks posed by new technologies, and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. ...
Uncertain Safety
(2009)
Flood prevention, food safety, transport of hazardous materials, infectious diseases, the risks posed by new technologies, and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. ...
Inconvenient Heritage
(2022)
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects ...
Inconvenient Heritage
(2022)
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects ...
Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
(2015)
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young ...
Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
(2015)
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young ...
Players Unleashed ! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming
(2011)
The author of this hugely informative study explores the question of what happens when players practise and negotiate computer code, various ideologies, and the game itself by modding (modifying a game) in the context of ...
Players Unleashed ! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming
(2011)
The author of this hugely informative study explores the question of what happens when players practise and negotiate computer code, various ideologies, and the game itself by modding (modifying a game) in the context of ...
Screen Space Reconfigured
(2020)
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, ...
Screen Space Reconfigured
(2020)
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, ...
Reframing Singapore
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Sociology; Economics
Reframing Singapore
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Sociology; Economics
Paris-Amsterdam Underground
(2013)
The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book ...
Paris-Amsterdam Underground
(2013)
The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book ...
Chapter Child-directed speech in catechisms for the religious education of children under the age of three in early modern Germany and the Dutch Republic
(2022)
This article presents three early catechisms for the religious education of
children under the age of three, printed in Germany and the Netherlands.
Two of them were best- and long sellers on the book market, while one ...
Chapter Child-directed speech in catechisms for the religious education of children under the age of three in early modern Germany and the Dutch Republic
(2022)
This article presents three early catechisms for the religious education of
children under the age of three, printed in Germany and the Netherlands.
Two of them were best- and long sellers on the book market, while one ...
Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll
(2012)
Sex and Drugs Before Rock ’n’ Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ...
Soldiers and Civil Power
(2005)
Peace operations became the core focus of many Western armed forces after the Cold War. The wish amongst political and military leaders during the 1990s to hold on to the classical identity of the armed forces as an ...
The Immigrant Organising Process
(2006)
This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively ...
De staat van informatie
(2011)
Public administration; Political science
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 ...
Watch and Learn
(2012)
Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films', intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was ...
Places of Engagement
(2018)
In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large ...
Acquisition and Loss of Nationality|Volume 2: Country Analyses
(2006)
Nationality and citizenship have been subjects of stormy policy debates in many EU countries in recent years. Concerns over the integration of immigrants, but also attempts to forge links with emigrants, have led to changes ...
Making Migration Work
(2013)
The complexion of labour migration in the European Union (EU) has altered in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time labour migrants spend abroad, but the nature, scale and direction of the ...
Framing Immigrant Integration
(2011)
Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like to call 'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common ground. In the Netherlands, their symbiosis ...
Geestelijke opklimmingen
(2011)
Dutch literature; Religion
Sharing
(2012)
In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against ...
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
(2022)
Georg Marggrafe, Colonial Dutch Brazil, Early Modern Science, Astronomy, 17th century
The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
(2025)
In this book, a new generation of scholars offers fresh perspectives on the history of the Dutch slave trade. Traditionally, Dutch research has focused on business practices, often overlooking the enslaved and the complexities ...
Frans Hals
(2024)
Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His portraits are admired for their virtuoso brushwork and their seemingly spontaneous character. This volume, ...
Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative
(2021)
This edited volume discusses the question of how different actors give shape to BRI projects. It outlines how, rather than treating nation states as singular, monolithic actors, this volume teases apart the way different ...
De kunst van het weldenken
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Syntax of Hungarian vol 2
(2017)
These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.
VIOT 2018
(2019)
This book bundles 22 carefully selected contributions on recent research in language proficiency.
VIOT 2018
(2019)
This book bundles 22 carefully selected contributions on recent research in language proficiency.
Om beters wille
(2008)
In the 15th and 16th century a special institute developed in Flanders and Brabant: the chamber of rhetoric. Regular citizens started theater and lyricks, in small closed groups and in public. This study gives an overview ...
Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire
(2019)
By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, ...
Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire
(2019)
By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, ...
Capitalism Reconnected
(2024)
Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.
An avalanche of new economic thinking and a ...
Capitalism Reconnected
(2024)
Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.
An avalanche of new economic thinking and a ...
The Netherlands in a Nutshell: Highlights from Dutch History and Culture
(2009)
Many think they know the legends behind tulipmania and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history should be passed on to future generations? This overview of historical highlights, ...
The Netherlands in a Nutshell: Highlights from Dutch History and Culture
(2009)
Many think they know the legends behind tulipmania and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history should be passed on to future generations? This overview of historical highlights, ...
Tantalisingly Close
(2012)
While studies of mobile wireless communication devices usually focus on their social implications, De Vries proposes to venture into a more historical and comparative direction to shed light on our preoccupation with them ...