Publications
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The Family in Question
(2008)
The family lives of immigrants and ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the right and wrong ways of living in multicultural societies. While the characteristic cultural practices of such ...
Missionary Men in the Early Modern World
(2020)
How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book ...
The Making of the Humanities, Volume III. The Modern Humanities
(2014)
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the ...
Migration and Integration Research
(2013)
Rinus Penninx's groundbreaking work has helped to systematise and classify existing research in the field of migration and ethnic studies. His heuristic model makes an important distinction between immigration and integration ...
The Making of the Humanities, Volume III. The Modern Humanities
(2014)
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the ...
Chapter Geleerde weerloosheid
(2024)
In the oldest Mennonite books on faith education, defenselessness and revenge are not initially topics that parents present to their children. The rejection of violence comes up only when the educators are teaching their ...
Of Reynaert the Fox
(2009)
The mid thirteenth-century Dutch beast epic Van den vos Reynaerde is a fascinating reworking of the most popular branch of the Old French Roman de Renart and one of the finest examples of this popular genre, consisting of ...
De kredietcrisis
(2010)
Public administration; Economics; Political science
Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics
(2012)
Integration politics in the Netherlands has changed dramatically between 1990 and 2005. Whereas ethnic and religious differences were hitherto pacified through accommodation, a new and increasingly powerful current in Dutch ...
Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics
(2012)
Integration politics in the Netherlands has changed dramatically between 1990 and 2005. Whereas ethnic and religious differences were hitherto pacified through accommodation, a new and increasingly powerful current in Dutch ...
Odd Couples
(2011)
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789052603810">Odd ...
Het heilige huis
(2006)
Culture and history; Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Culture and institutions
Decline of the Corporate Community
(2007)
From its inception, big business in the western industrialised world has been organised in national business communities. Central elements of these business communities are corporate board interlocks that constitute the ...
Odd Couples
(2011)
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789052603810">Odd ...
Nederlandse elites in de twintigste eeuw
(2004)
Sociology
De perfecte verleiding
(2004)
Music; Stage presentations; History of Amsterdam
Chapter Signalementen
(2024)
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(2024)
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Persuasive Gaming in Context
(2021)
The rapid developments of new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in the last decades. The ubiquitous presence ...
Islam on the Move
(2012)
Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and ...
The European Union, Turkey and Islam
(2004)
Does the fact that the majority of Turkey's population is Muslim form a hindrance to its EU membership? According to a recent policy advice by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the answer is ...
Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise
(2006)
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger ...
Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise
(2006)
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger ...
Islam on the Move
(2012)
Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and ...
The European Union, Turkey and Islam
(2004)
Does the fact that the majority of Turkey's population is Muslim form a hindrance to its EU membership? According to a recent policy advice by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the answer is ...
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World
(2017)
Maritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures ...
Nederlandse elites in de twintigste eeuw
(2004)
Sociology
Cinematic Vitalism
(2017)
This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created ...
Cinematic Vitalism
(2017)
This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created ...
In Death's Waiting Room
(2008)
In Death's Waiting Room is a penetrating story about people suffering from dementia in a multi-cultural society, relevant to us all. Anne-Mei The carried out two years of ethnographic research in a nursing home in the ...
Decline of the Corporate Community
(2007)
From its inception, big business in the western industrialised world has been organised in national business communities. Central elements of these business communities are corporate board interlocks that constitute the ...
Chapter In gesprek met Iris Kensmil
(2023)
This article is focused on Professor Buikema’s intellectual oeuvre and the relation between art and politics as it materialised in MOED (Museum of Equality and Difference). Astrid Kerchman and Rosa Wevers, MOED’s former ...
Chapter In gesprek met Iris Kensmil
(2023)
This article is focused on Professor Buikema’s intellectual oeuvre and the relation between art and politics as it materialised in MOED (Museum of Equality and Difference). Astrid Kerchman and Rosa Wevers, MOED’s former ...
Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644
(2015-06-11)
This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila’s foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of ...
Decentralisation in Africa
(2008)
Grounded in empirically-based country case studies, this new study provides a sober assessment of what decentralisation can achieve. The current momentum for decentralisation of government in Africa and elsewhere in the ...
Hybrid Museum Experiences
(2022)
"So you’re the one getting this gift? Lucky you!
Someone who knows you has visited the museum.
They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you.”
This is the ...
Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
(2024)
The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging ...
The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security
(2024)
This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to ...
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 ...
Power of the Invisible
(2024)
Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of nature and has been the driver of many technological advances. The trilogy Power of the Invisible: The Quintessence of Reality gives a coherent account of ...
Real Life Cryptology
(2018)
A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in ...
e-Learning cookbook. TPACK in professional development in higher education
(2013)
Information and communication technology (ICT) makes it possible to bring information to everyone who wants to learn. Rapid advances in technology offer strong support for using ICT in teaching. Online education can intensify ...
Subjectivity
(2011)
Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume ...
Between Stage and Screen
(1996)
Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between stage and screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences ...
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection
(2018)
Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialised films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, ...
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection
(2018)
Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialised films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, ...
Power of the Invisible
(2024)
Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of nature and has been the driver of many technological advances. The trilogy Power of the Invisible: The Quintessence of Reality gives a coherent account of ...
Real Life Cryptology
(2018)
A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in ...
Between Stage and Screen
(1996)
Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between stage and screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences ...
Europe - on Air
(2012)
Radio broadcasting may seem old-fashioned nowadays, but early radio infrastructures and programs in Europe were the real social media of their time. They laid the foundation for how we experience European unification and ...
Climate Strategy
(2007)
This seminal and challenging analysis of the current global climate change suggests three courses of action for solving the climate problem: adaptation to the changed climate, selection of worldwide hopeful strategies for ...
Climate Strategy
(2007)
This seminal and challenging analysis of the current global climate change suggests three courses of action for solving the climate problem: adaptation to the changed climate, selection of worldwide hopeful strategies for ...
Singapore in Global History
(2011)
This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary ...
Europe - on Air
(2012)
Radio broadcasting may seem old-fashioned nowadays, but early radio infrastructures and programs in Europe were the real social media of their time. They laid the foundation for how we experience European unification and ...
Hybrid Museum Experiences
(2022)
"So you’re the one getting this gift? Lucky you!
Someone who knows you has visited the museum.
They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you.”
This is the ...
Subjectivity
(2011)
Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume ...
Over de grens
(2022)
On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted ...
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia
(2020)
This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in ...
e-Learning cookbook. TPACK in professional development in higher education
(2013)
Information and communication technology (ICT) makes it possible to bring information to everyone who wants to learn. Rapid advances in technology offer strong support for using ICT in teaching. Online education can intensify ...
De Europese Unie, Turkije en de islam
(2004)
Does the fact that the majority of Turkey's population is Muslim form a hindrance to its EU membership? According to a recent policy advice by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the answer is ...
Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
(2024)
The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging ...
Decentralisation in Africa
(2008)
Grounded in empirically-based country case studies, this new study provides a sober assessment of what decentralisation can achieve. The current momentum for decentralisation of government in Africa and elsewhere in the ...
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia
(2020)
This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in ...
Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644
(2015-06-11)
This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila’s foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of ...
Singapore in Global History
(2011)
This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary ...
Over de grens
(2022)
On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted ...
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 ...
Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800
(2025)
This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and mastery of scientific apparatus around 1800, taking readers across continental Europe from the ...
Introduction to Quantum Computing for Business
(2025)
How will businesses use quantum technology in the future? What problems will a quantum computer solve? How long will it take before these devices become commercially relevant? With the first generation of quantum computers ...
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, ...
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 ...
Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan
(2025)
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Colonial Vocabularies
(2025)
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World ...
Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge
(2025)
In his book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands since its foundation in 1636. He describes the development of (scientific) knowledge and knowledge ...
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, ...
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 ...
Situating Data
(2023)
Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Het geluid van geweld
(2022)
Armed conflict; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Military history: post WW2 conflicts
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
(2018)
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women “ as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage “ wielded power ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Communication Research into the Digital Society
(2024)
Media and communication have become ubiquitous in today’s societies and affect all aspects of life. On an individual level, they impact how we learn about the world, how we entertain ourselves, and how we interact with ...
Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony
(2025)
Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony delves into the central role of music among the early modern sciences by focusing on the work of the French polymath Marin Mersenne (1588–1648). Although now regarded more as an art ...
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 ...
Videogame Formalism
(2024)
game studies, formalism, game analysis, aesthetic theory of games
Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis/Yearbook for Dutch Book History 29/2022
(2022)
Yearbook for Dutch Book History, Volume 29/2022
Education and Pedagogy
The Yearbook for Dutch Book History publishes articles in the Dutch and English language on all aspects of the book history of the Low Countries.
The ...
English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550
(2018)
The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active ...
Revolutie in de schoolgang
(2025)
Decades of neoliberal efficiency thinking have turned education into a straight, results-oriented school corridor and closed off the space for alternatives. Can the German ideal
of free self-formation, or Bildung, change ...
De Nederlandse zeeschilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw
(2024)
Marine painting, paintings of ships and the sea, is a four hundred year old traditional Dutch art discipline. In the nineteenth century the genre had a special artistic prestige and status. This study explores the background, ...
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. ...