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Ships and maritime landscapes
This volume gathers 88 contributions related to the theme 'Ships and Maritime Landscapes' of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (ISBSA 13) held in Amsterdam on the 7th to 12th October 2012. The articles include both papers and poster presentations by experts in the field of nautical archaeology, history of ships and shipbuilding, and naval architecture. The contributions deal not only with the theme of maritime landscapes but also with a variety of ship related subjects, like regional watercraft, construction and typology, material applications and design, outfitting, reconstruction and current research.
A Century of Fluid Mechanics in The Netherlands
In October 1918, Jan Burgers, 23 years old, started as professor of ‘aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and their applications’ at the Technical University in Delft. This can be regarded as the birth of fluid mechanics in the Netherlands, not only as an academic discipline but also as the start of the serious study of flow phenomena in engineering environments. During the period of Burgers’ tenure in Delft (till 1955) three Dutch institutes were founded which to this day remain important centres of research in various fields of fluid mechanics: aerospace engineering, hydraulics, and naval engineering. Burgers and others developed mathematical, experimental, and numerical approaches of a broa...
War, Trade and the State
A reassessment of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the second half of the seventeenth century, demonstrating that the conflict was primarily about trade.
Reilen en zeilen van de admiraliteit van Rotterdam in de jaren 1630-1640
De Republiek kende vijf admiraliteitscolleges. Deze instellingen hadden twee zeer uiteenlopende taken: de zorg voor de oorlogsvloot en de inning en het beheer van de belastingen. Een van deze colleges, de aadmiraliteit van de Maze, was in Rotterdam gevestigd. Dit boek schetst de taken en werkzaamheden van dit college in de jaren 1630-1640, de slotfase van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Twaalf Raden, onder wie enige tijd de gewiekste koopman, reder en burgemeester Joost van Coulster, vormden het bestuur van de admiraliteit. Zij werden dagelijks geconfronteerd met een groot aantal, vaak kleurrijke zaken. Dat varieerde van het bouwen, bemannen en bevoorraden van de oorlogsschepen, tot het heffen van ...
De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam
De jaren 1730-1740 vormen een keerpunt in de Nederlandse slavernijgeschiedenis: de West-Indische Compagnie verliest haar monopolie op de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel, waarop verschillende handelaren in de Republiek besluiten hun schepen in te zetten voor de private slavenhandel. Zo ook Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt. In ruim dertig jaar tijd verschepen ze tussen 11.000 en 13.000 slaafgemaakte mensen van West-Afrika naar Suriname. Ramona Negrón en Jessica den Oudsten vertellen aan de hand van de reis van een van de eerste private slavenschepen, ’t Gezegende Suikerriet (1743-1745), het tot nu toe onbekende verhaal van de slaafgemaakte mensen en de bemanningsleden aan boord, de betrokke...
Materializing the Middle Passage
An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807--a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807 argues that there are other ways for archaeologists to materialize the slave ship. It employs a pioneering interdisciplinary methodology combining primary documentary sources, maritime a...
Successful Test Management
At a time when information systems are becoming ever more complex and quality to market and time to market are critical for many companies, a structured test process is essential. Even more important is a structured test management process to keep testing under control. Nowadays a test manager must have extensive knowledge of and experience with project management, risk assessment, team building, and, process improvement. Based on their long-term industry experience, Pinkster and her coauthors describe a holistic approach to test management that combines test methods, test management, risk assessment and stakeholder management into one integral process, giving test managers, test coordinators, IT project managers, and QA managers a competitive edge in environments where there are numerous unstructured requirements, tough testing schedules and limited resources. This book should be in every test manager's backpack!
Willem Van de Velde & Son
Around 1600, trade and shipping flourished in the Northern Netherlands as never before. This activity of ships on the water and in the many ports was a new, inexhaustible source of inspiration for painters who chose the sea as their subject. Among these marine painters were father and son Willem van de Velde. They worked closely together for over fifty years, first from their Amsterdam shop and from 1672 at the court of the English kings Charles II and James II. With their eye for detail and entrepreneurial talent, they became the most prominent marine painters of the seventeenth century.0Their studio has existed for over fifty years. Their productivity in that period was unprecedented, they...
Asia in Amsterdam
Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age
Phraseology
Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods of extraction and analysis. The aim of this volume is to take stock of current research in phraseology from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, contrastive, cultural, lexicographic and computational. It contains overview chapters by leading experts in the field and a series of case studies focusing on a wide range of multiword units: collocations, similes, idioms, routine formulae and recurrent phrases. The volume is an invitation for experienced phraseologists to look at the field with different eyes and a useful introduction for the many researchers who are intrigued by phraseology but need help in finding their way in this rich but complex domain.
