Publications
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Frontier Tibet
(2019)
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed ...
Het virus der betrokkenheid
(2019)
Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) is een van de meest vooraanstaande onderzoeksinstituten ter wereld op het terrein van de sociale geschiedenis, zowel in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek als in ...
Chapter Culture and critique
(2023)
In her work on cultural critique, Rosemarie Buikema conceptualizes culture as a terrain for the elaboration and contestation of collective memory, a form that mediates social formations, and a practice that critically ...
How Things Make History
(2016)
Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to ...
Yankees, cookies en dollars
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Ostrannenie. On "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. The History, Reception, and Relevance of a Concept
(2010)
Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. ...
Birth Justice
(2025)
Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more research addressing the ...
From Indifference to Entrapment
(2000)
A detailed analysis of the response to the Yugoslav crisis by one of America's key allies in NATO. The author focuses on the question of how a Western bureaucracy faced up to the most complex foreign policy challenge of ...
The Visigothic Kingdom
(2020)
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers ...
Archival Film Curatorship
(2024)
Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three ...
Onze vriend op de pauwentroon
(2023)
Reading the news about Iran today one can hardly imagine that relations between the Netherlands and Iran were excellent until 1979. Mohammed-Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Persia, was known in The Netherlands as a visionary ...
Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands
(2018)
This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.
Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon
(2009)
Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids - Madames - are an exception, what has become ...
Sustainable Humanities
(2009)
Culture and institutions; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Dutch literature
A Key to Dutch History
(2007)
Many people know the stories behind the tulip mania in the 17th century and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history and culture should be passed on to future generations? A Key ...
Het fenomeen Hazes: Een venster op Nederland
(2015)
Since the passing of André Hazes he has become a more prominent figure in contemporary Dutch popular culture.
De menselijke beslisser
(2009)
Public administration; Political science
The Visigothic Kingdom
(2020)
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers ...
From Grain to Pixel
(2018)
"In From Grain to Pixel , Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization of the medium itself, ...
From Grain to Pixel
(2018)
"In From Grain to Pixel , Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization of the medium itself, ...
Music of the Twentieth Century
(2005)
Ton de Leeuw (1926-96) is probably one of the most influential composers at the crossroads between Eastern philosophy and Western technique. A one-time pupil of Olivier Messiaen's in Paris, throughout the latter years of ...
Hooligans, fans en fanatisme
(2008)
Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, ...
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 ...
Tasten in het duister
(2023)
In the Indonesian war of independence, which had a strong guerrilla war character, intelligence was decisive for achieving military successes. No wonder that the Netherlands and the Republic of Indonesia waged a fierce ...
Fassbinder's Germany
(1996)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a ...
The Creolisation of London Kinship
(2010)
In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of ...
Dynamic Entrepreneurship
(2006)
The nature of immigrant entrepreneurship is changing in Dutch society. Nowadays, many immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses in producer and personal services instead of more traditional sectors such as retail or hotel ...
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, ...
Birth Justice
(2025)
Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more research addressing the ...
Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers
(2018)
Central to this edited volume is the legal position and the labour situation of non-EU and EU low-waged migrant workers. <i>Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers</i> presents ground breaking research ...
History of Concepts
(1998)
Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of ...
Rechters aan het woord over transparantie
(2013)
Public administration; Law
The Visible World
(2008)
How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting ...
Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory
(2015)
There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since ...
Strategies of Care
(2010)
This analytic study surveys the transformations of elderly care policies and practices since the early 1990s, by comparing the trajectories of two extremely different care systems: Italy, a familialistic model with no ...
The Illiterate Listener: On Music Cognition, Musicality and Methodology
(2011)
We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, ...
Archival Film Curatorship
(2024)
Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three ...
Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
(2018)
This book argues that premodern societies were characterized by the quest for “virtue.” The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously ...
Feminist Futures of Work
(2023)
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of those at the far end of the value chain, who participate on and off platforms, ...
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
(2008)
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial from its beginning in the life of the French Visitationist nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who established the devotion after a series of mystical visions ...
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, ...
Chapter Nederlandse doopsgezinden in Indonesië in de periode van de VOC – Een schets
(2024)
From the very beginning of the Dutch trade with the East Indies, Mennonites (‘Doopsgezinden’) from the Netherlands or their siblings were involved in sailing to that part of Asia or lived and worked there, often as servants ...
European Cinema
(2005)
In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe's national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. ...
From Indifference to Entrapment
(2000)
A detailed analysis of the response to the Yugoslav crisis by one of America's key allies in NATO. The author focuses on the question of how a Western bureaucracy faced up to the most complex foreign policy challenge of ...
Homo loquens en homo scribens
(2006)
Dutch and Flemish language; Philosophy; Psychology
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 ...
In Medias Res
(2011)
Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany’s most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, ...
Van generatie op generatie
(2007)
Political science; Sociology
Discourses on Social Software
(2009)
Can computer scientists contribute to the solution of societal problems? Can logic help to model social interactions? Are there recipes for making groups with diverging preferences arrive at reasonable decisions? Why is ...
Romantic Consumption and Heritage Performance in China
(2018)
The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, ...
The Spell of Capital
(2017)
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and ...
Romantic Consumption and Heritage Performance in China
(2018)
The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, ...
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 ...
Modes of Migration Regulation and Control in Europe
(2008)
In Europe immigration is a politically burning issue, especially when it comes to the arrival of asylum seekers and illegal labour migrants. Governments want to keep them under control in order to limit their numbers. Yet, ...
Sustainable Humanities
(2009)
Culture and institutions; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Dutch literature
Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory
(2015)
There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since ...
Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond
(2022)
An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the north American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish ...
Rethinking Civil Society in Transition
(2023)
This book illustrates the results of ethnographical research designed to shed light on the notion of civil society in a context characterized by the transformation of power relations. Such transformation is given by shifting ...
Een versplinterd landschap. Bijdragen over geschiedenis en actualiteit van Nederlandse politieke partijen
(2017)
Het Nederlandse politieke landschap werd van oudsher gedomineerd door drie stromingen: christendemocraten, liberalen en sociaaldemocraten. Lange tijd toonden verkiezingsuitslagen een hoge mate van continuïteit. Daar kwam ...
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 ...