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Serving the Chain?
"In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of the Netherlands were established, slavery was still very much part of the nation's global imperial structures. Dutch families, institutions, and governments are increasingly interested in the role their predecessors played in this history of colonialism and enslavement. This book is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with slavery, both as a factor in the economy and as a subject of political debate. Because De Nederlandsche Bank served the Dutch ministery of Colonies and consequently followed Dutch trade interests, the bank's history intersects with the history of slavery. The investigation in this book focuses not only upon DNB's formal involvement but also on the private involvement of its directors. In addition, it examines whether the bank and its directors played any role in the abolition of slavery."
The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. For victims of persecution around the world, attracting international media attention for their plight is often a matter of life and death. This study takes us back to the news revolution of seventeenth-century Europe, when people first discovered in the press a powerful new weapon to combat religiously inspired maltreatments, executions, and massacres. To affect and mobilize foreign audiences, confessional minorities and their advocates faced an acute dilemma, one tha...
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In contrast, this collection examines continuities between early modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local, practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with, and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.
Trust in the Catholic Reformation
Thérèse Peeters shows how trust and distrust affected reform attempts in the post-Tridentine Church, while offering a multifaceted account of day-to-day religiosity in seventeenth-century Genoa.
Serving the Chain?
In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of the Netherlands were established, slavery was still very much part of the nation's global imperial structures. Dutch families, institutions, and governments are increasingly interested in the role their predecessors played in this history of colonialism and enslavement. This book is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with slavery, both as a factor in the economy and as a subject of political debate. Because De Nederlandsche Bank served the Dutch ministery of Colonies and consequently followed Dutch trade interests, the bank's history intersects with the history of slavery. The investigation in this book focuses not only upon DNB's formal involvement but also on the private involvement of its directors. In addition, it examines whether the bank and its directors played any role in the abolition of slavery.
Denken over de trans-Atlantische slavernij en racisme
Ondanks het aantoonbare bestaan van racisme in vrijwel elk aspect van de Nederlandse samenleving zijn de pogingen tot het uitroeien hiervan nog altijd mager. In dit geschiedkundig betoog worden de aanpassingen van het racisme en de verstrengeling met het kapitalisme, de nationale geschiedschrijving en de nationale identiteitsontwikkeling helder en indringend uiteengezet. De auteur maakt hiervoor gebruik van de applied history-methode (of toegepaste geschiedenis) en verschillende vertelgenres.
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.
Humeurig volk, verkrampte politiek en hoe het anders kan
Sinds de jaren negentig wordt de Nederlandse politiek geteisterd door drie kwalen tegelijk: vluchtigheid van kiezers die geen vaste partijen meer kennen; verruwing in het gedrag van parlementariërs en kiezersgroepen; versplintering op het politieke toneel dankzij een sterk gegroeid aantal fracties in de Tweede en Eerste Kamer. Niet alleen verliezen oude volkspartijen stelselmatig aanhang, maar het gat dat zij laten vallen wordt opgevuld door een keur aan belangenpartijen en populistische groeperingen. Het wordt daardoor in beide Kamers van de Staten-Generaal steeds moeilijker regeringscoalities te vormen met steun van een stabiele parlementaire meerderheid. Vooral in de Tweede Kamer is daardoor een dynamiek ontstaan die ordelijk en doordacht werk aan wetgeving en controle op het regeringsbeleid steeds moeilijker maakt: de meeste fracties zijn te klein, wisselen te snel van samenstelling en vinden politiek theater belangrijker dan resultaat. Parlementair historicus Joop van den Berg analyseert deze drie verontrustende ontwikkelingen en stelt een aantal remedies voor.
Jacob Blauw (1759-1829)
De politicus, diplomaat en latere correspondent Jacob Blauw had vaderland en vrijheid hoog in het vaandel. Als kind van de Verlichting was Blauw tegelijkertijd een wereldburger en een vurig nationalist. In zijn revolutionair gedachtegoed stond vrijheid van het individu en de afschaffing van privileges en monopolies centraal. Bij de Bataafse revolutie van 1794 speelde hij een belangrijke rol.
