Publications
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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. ...
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 ...
Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida
(2003)
Annette Michelson's contribution to art and film criticism over the last three decades is unparalleled. This volume honors Michelson's unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scolars that have been influenced ...
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 ...
Syntax of Dutch
(2016)
The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all ...
Rituelen van beraadslaging
(2006)
Political science; Public administration; Philosophy; Sociology
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 ...
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 ...
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
(2017-11-01)
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in ...
Gevallen vazallen
(2008)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse
(2018)
This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning-which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way ...
Etnisch geweld
(2009)
Political science; Sociology
Etnisch geweld
(2009)
Political science; Sociology
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750
(2024)
This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits ...
The New Eurocrats
(2008)
Policies in the EU are largely made by national civil servants who prepare and implement decisions in Brussels as well as at home. Despite their important role, these national civil servants form a relatively hidden world ...
Doing Good or Doing Better
(2009)
The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad ...
Breaking Down Anonymity
(2009)
Because borders alone cannot stop irregular migration, the European Union is turning more and more to internal control measures. Through surveillance, member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, ...
Global Diffusion of Protest. Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis
(2017)
Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original ...
Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform
(2009)
The author of this innovative study argues that key politicians and their policy ideas, through "ideational leadership", have played an important role in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German ...
How Modern Science Came into the World
(2010)
Once upon a time ‘The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as ‘the ...