Publications
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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. ...