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Discerning God's Justice in Church, Society and Academy
Jaap Durand, former professor of Systematic Theology and vice-rector of the University of the Western Cape, celebrated his 75th birthday on 5 June 2009. This volume includes a foreword by Desmond Mpilo Tutu, essays by Jaap Furstenberg, Allan Boesak, Russel Botman, Nico Koopman, Bernard Lategan and Dirkie Smit. In addition, there are 22 shorter reflections from Jaap Durand?s friends, colleagues and former students.
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
This book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism.
Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Modern Democracy in Europe
A bold re-interpretation of democracy's historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.
Virtus 20 (2013)
Virtus is een onafhankelijk en multidisciplinair peer reviewed jaarboek met bijdragen op het gebied van de adelsgeschiedenis.
The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
The lute played a central role in the rich musical culture of the seventeenth-century ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic. Like the piano in the nineteenth century, the lute was not just a popular instrument for solo music making, but was also used widely in ensembles and to accompany singers. Though mainly an instrument of the social elite and the aristocracy, it was also played by the numerous and prosperous burgher class. The first part of the book deals with psalm settings for the lute; the way professional lutenists coped with the harsh rules of the free market; Leiden as a veritable international lute centre; and the different types of lutes that can be reconstructed on the basis of...
Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
The Netherlands Film Museum's Desmet Collection contains the estate of Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956): almost nine hundred European and American films of all genres, a collection of publicity material, and a massive business archive. These three sources form the basis of this book, the first comprehensive reconstruction of Desmet's career. From his nomadic beginnings as a traveling showman to his successful switch to permanent cinema operation and film distribution, Blom shows how Desmet's fortunes encapsulated a series of structural changes within the new culture of the cinema.
Onder aristocraten
Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gaat door voor een bij uitstek burgerlijke natie. Verrassend genoeg blijkt uit dit boek dat aristocratische families hier tussen 1848 en 1914 qua macht, welstand en aanzien waren oververtegenwoordigd in zowel de regering en het parlement als onder de hoogste belastingbetalers. Zelfs nadat de liberale grondwet van Thorbecke in 1848 hun standsprivileges volledig terzijde had geschoven, bleven zij aan de top van de samenleving staan. Jaap Moes beschrijft de politieke, economische en sociaal-culturele strategieën die adellijke en oude patricische families gebruikten om zich aan te passen aan zowel de ingrijpende veranderingen van de politieke cultuur en de agrarische economie als aan de toenemende verstedelijking. Zo hielden zij tot in de twintigste eeuw stand als een exclusieve sociale elite. De bijgevoegde cd-rom bevat de namen van de belangrijkste personen en families en de kerncijfers waarop deze studie is gebaseerd.
Friedrich Rosen
The German lacuna in Edward Said’s 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said’s argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the “Orient” and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomat...
