Publications
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Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities
(2019)
The history of medieval learning has been studied both as a vertical master-student phenomenon, and as part of a broad 'educational environment'. This volume centers on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught ...
Herscheppen
(2022)
Imitating models was the main early modern poetical principle. This study discusses Dutch novelistic prose translated from three European bestsellers: François de Bellesforest’s Histoires Tragiques (translation 1612), John ...
Europe's Invisible Migrants
(2002)
Following the decolonization movements that swept the globe after World War II, between four and six million people were 'returned' to Europe from the colonies. From an exporter of people, Europe turned to a site of ...
Mappae Mundi
(2002)
Never before in history was the interaction between people and their natural environment as complex and problematic as it is today. A proliferation of scientific research has yielded valuable insights into various aspects ...
Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona: Policies, Practices and Gaps
(2014)
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of ...
Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 7)
(2008)
This volume collects together revised papers originally presented at the 7th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 2006). LOFT is a key venue for presenting research at the intersection ...
Battlefields of Negotiation
(2013)
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries ...
Hiding Making - Showing Creation
(2013)
The aim of Hiding Making - Showing Creation is twofold. In the first instance, we seek to trace the Nachleben of these studio
topoi from the nineteenth century to today, in particular focusing on
how artists have employed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Perfect Worlds
(2011)
Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses finally the rise of dystopian writing – a negative expression of ...
Sign Here!
(2006)
Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media features a number of articles from different fields, reaching from cultural and media studies to literature, film and art, and from philosophy and information studies to law ...
Onze Revolutie
(2023)
Our Revolution contains a selection of translated Indonesian articles about the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) and the significance of that revolution for the development of the nation. The articles - written by ...
Onze Revolutie
(2023)
Our Revolution contains a selection of translated Indonesian articles about the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) and the significance of that revolution for the development of the nation. The articles - written by ...
Chapter Musea voor een betere wereld
(2023)
Over the last forty years, ‘the world’ has entered ‘the museum’. Collections and presentations that were supposed to be self-evident had to be reconsidered. This chapter demonstrates that two more or less simultaneous ...
Orchestrating Public Opinion
(2017-12-21)
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns.
Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, ...
Orchestrating Public Opinion
(2017-12-21)
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns.
Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, ...
Battlefields of Negotiation
(2013)
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries ...
Herscheppen
(2022)
Imitating models was the main early modern poetical principle. This study discusses Dutch novelistic prose translated from three European bestsellers: François de Bellesforest’s Histoires Tragiques (translation 1612), John ...
Gaps and Dummies
(2005)
In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not ...
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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Chapter Signalementen
(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 ...