Publications
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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 ...
Responding to the West
(2009)
The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the ...
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
(2022)
Georg Marggrafe, Colonial Dutch Brazil, Early Modern Science, Astronomy, 17th century
Nieuw in Nederland
(2012)
Sociology
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 ...
Film Festivals
(2007)
Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world's most famous festivals - Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam - Film Festivals tells the story of a phenomenon that ...
Chapter Als het met het onderwijs goed gaat, gaat het met ons ook goed
(2022)
This contribution consists of two interviews with experts from the Dutch educational
publishing field. The first interviewee, Rivka Mooren, works as project
editor Higher Education at Pearson Benelux. She explains how ...
Aan het buitenland gehecht
(2010)
Also available in English "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643285">Attached to the World Few other countries are so interrelated with the world around us in political, economic, and social respects ...
Chapter 7 Sociale zekerheid ‘migratie-proof’
(2016)
Migratie en sociale zekerheid worden vaak gezien als onmogelijk koppel; migranten drukken op de schatkist en ze ondermijnen de solidariteit
die nodig is voor sociale zekerheid. Daarom wordt vaak gezegd dat er
een keus ...
Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest
(2015)
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, ...
Seeking Peace in the Wake of War. Europe, 1943-1947
(2015)
When the Second World War ended, Europe was in ruins. Yet, politically and socially, the years between 1943 and 1947 were a time of dramatic reconfigurations, which proved to be foundational for the making of today's Europe. ...
Stories
(2018)
Stories are central drivers of media today-not only do they propel plot-driven entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theatre, but also social media. Telling and having a story is widely deemed essential, both ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2017)
These books aim 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, as ...
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology
(2014)
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social ...
Challenging Coasts
(2004)
Following its launch at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) became a key tool for national governments and international organisations alike. This volume argues that ...
Braving Troubled Waters
(2009)
Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fishermen of the Dutch island ...
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500
(2025)
This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its ...
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 ...
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces
(2025)
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The ...
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 ...