Publications
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Employment 'Miracles'
(2005)
Why did some economies experience a boom in the 1990s? Employment 'Miracles' comparatively analyses select miracle economies. The contributors to the volume critically analyze how the small size and institutional structure ...
Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times
(2023)
Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we ...
European Immigrations
(2012)
This book makes an essential contribution to understanding the dynamics of contemporary immigrant inflows and integration in Europe. Though embracing a Continent-wide outlook on migration processes, it accounts, in particular, ...
Migration and Irregular Work in Austria
(2008)
This meticulously researched study of irregular migrant work in Austria holds many broader lessons for countries all over Europe. The book derives many of its fascinating insights from systematic in-depth interviews with ...
The Frisian Popular Militias between 1480 and 1560
(2022)
In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because ...
Van natuurlandschap tot risicomaatschappij
(2008)
This study is an illustrated overview of the relationship between people and their environment worldwide. It is not only about the natural aspects of agricultural production; the authors also adress the non-material benefits ...
Meritocratie: Op weg naar een nieuwe klassensamenleving
(2016)
De meritocratie gold lange tijd als belofte voor een meer open en gelijke samenleving. Een samenleving waarin mensen hun maatschappelijke positie verkrijgen op basis van hun eigen verdiensten. Maar wat als die verdiensten ...
Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
(2018)
This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.
Film Front Weimar
(2002)
This first book-length study shows how Germany tried to reconcile the horrendous experiences of the FirstWorld War through the films made in 1919-1933. Drawing on the analysis of twenty-five such films, and covering a wide ...
Aspects of Urbanization in China
(2012)
China's rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization - the largest the world ...
Chapter Moord en brand
(2024)
After the occupation by German troops in May 1940, the German authorities demanded the Dutch fire service be remodelled in line with their own example. In Germany, firefighting had been a police task since 1938. Fire service ...
The Value of Culture
(1997)
Culture manifests itself in everything human, including the ordinary business of everyday life. Culture and art have their own value, but economic values are also constrained. Art sponsorships and subsidies suggest a value ...
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 ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
Sociale herovering in Amsterdam en Rotterdam: één verhaal over twee wijken - 8
(2005)
Political Science
Uncertain Safety
(2009)
Flood prevention, food safety, transport of hazardous materials, infectious diseases, the risks posed by new technologies, and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. ...
Uncertain Safety
(2009)
Flood prevention, food safety, transport of hazardous materials, infectious diseases, the risks posed by new technologies, and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. ...
Inconvenient Heritage
(2022)
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects ...
Inconvenient Heritage
(2022)
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects ...