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Water
Floods are a fundamental part of Dutch history. Indeed, having ‘tamed’ the threats associated with living below sea level is part of Dutch national identity. In the cultural depictions of these devastating events, however, national pride at a certain collective resilience goes hand-in-hand with the collective trauma of exposed vulnerability. All too often, the Dutch were the losers in these battles against the elements. In a time of rising global sea levels, cultural scholar Lotte Jensen dives into the stories and images of the past to unpack this paradox for today. Over the centuries, large parts of the Netherlands have been progressively reclaimed from its river delta home. Throughout ...
Europe and Economic Reform in Africa
The post-colonial relationship between European and African states is complex. This book examines the unprecendented changes since the oil crisis of the 1970s, using new field work from Zambia as well as existing material.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehenisve knowledge of the social sciences.
Information and Power in History
The relationship between information and power is a relevant subject for all times. Today’s perceived ‘information revolution’ has caused information to become a separate object of study during the last two decades for several disciplines. As the contemporary perspective is dominant, information history as a discipline of its own has not yet crystallized. In bringing together studies around a new research agenda on the relationship between information and power across time and space, presenting various governance regimes, media, materials, and modes of communication, this book forces us to rethink the prospects and challenges for such a new discipline.
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move...
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Crisis!
Nederlanders redden zich altijd wel uit een crisis. Ze worstelden en kwamen boven. Ze hielpen elkaar of werden er weer bovenop geholpen door Vadertje Staat. Maar tegenwoordig lijken er steeds meer burgers te twijfelen aan die uitgestoken hand. Wil de staat ons wel redden, is het geen verkapte onderdrukking? Historisch gezien is dat wantrouwen een nieuwe ontwikkeling. Eeuwenlang was er helemaal geen overheid en waren we op elkaar aangewezen. Pas met de komst van het koninkrijk in de negentiende eeuw en nieuwe wetten rondom volksgezondheid, rampbestrijding en crisisbeheersing nam de overheid die taken van de burger over. In de loop van de twintigste eeuw werd de rampbestrijding steeds complexe...
From Protest to Parties
From Protest to Parties provides a unique window into the politics of mobilization and protest in closed political regimes, and sheds light on how the choices of political elites affect organizational development. The book draws upon an in-depth analysis of 3 countries in Anglophone Africa: Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Kenya
