2,469 search results for “twentieth centre political comparative history” in the Public website
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Frits van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
f.m.van.der.meer@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Rehana Dole
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
n.r.s.dole@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Miranda Boone
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.m.boone@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4907
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Zeeshan Mansoor
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
z.mansoor@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1326
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Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War
This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War.
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Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order
The historiography of the Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 is dominated by the personal clash between the principal negotiators, Harry Dexter White of the United States and John Maynard Keynes of Britain.
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Face-to-face politics: why small states matter
Political scientist Wouter Veenendaal received an NWO Veni grant for his research on the political stability of small states. 'I find small states fascinating, they are almost always excluded from comparative research, while in fact they often challenge existing theories in political science.'
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
h.a.s.solheim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5342
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2765
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Twentieth anniversary of the Lorentz Center: developing ideas in a scientific bubble
The 20th anniversary of the Lorentz Center will be celebrated on 28 June 2017 with the opening of an exhibition in the Oude UB. For two decades already, the Center has been a place of retreat for groups of international academics who want to explore a single issue.
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A connected history of eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy (1860–1948)
This special issue of Contemporary Levant critically explores, at a micro and macro level, the structural role and religious, cultural and political interactions of the Greek-Orthodox, Melkite and Syriac communities in late Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine.
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State, Society and Labour: A Social History of Iranian Textile workers, 1906-1941
This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.
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Aritri Dutta
Faculty of Humanities
a.dutta.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Review of Sofia Ranchordas’ scholarship in the American Journal of Comparative Law
The prestigious American Journal of Comparative Law (2016, pp. 790-4) just published a book review of Sofia Ranchordas monograph ‘Constitutional Sunsets and Experimental Legislation’ (Edward Elgar). The book is partially based on her PhD dissertation for which she was awarded a cum laude doctorate degree…
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New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880
From 1550 onwards, a great interest in the natural world developed across Europe. This interest was not only stimulated by a growing knowledge of local flora and fauna, but also by the import of numerous exotic animal and plant species. Think, for instance, of researches and collectors like Gessner…
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Captured on paper: fish books, natural history and questions of demarcation in eighteenth-century Europe (ca. 1680–1820)
On the28th of September Didi van Trijp successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Irene Moretti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.moretti@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 2829 8870
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Mark Dechesne
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.dechesne@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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Edmund Frettingham
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
e.j.frettingham@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Roeland Spruyt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
r.l.j.spruyt@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alexandre Afonso
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.afonso@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9923
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Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
The Swahili coast has a long-standing history of transoceanic Islamic connections dating back to the 25th century. Yet, print, has changed the world – not only ours. This project unravels unique forms and archives of intellectual history emerging from within South-South connections. In East Africa Indian…
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2061
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
i.c.huliselan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1167
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Jonathan Powell
Faculty of Humanities
j.d.powell@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5586
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Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders
In 'Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800', Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, both of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and also affiliated with the History Institute of Leiden University, assemble an internationally acclaimed selection of authors,…
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European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history (1920-1950)
This project aims to revisit the relationship between the European cultural agenda and the local identity formation process, and social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine, when the British ruled via the Mandate. What was the role of culture in European policies…
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Matthew di Giuseppe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.r.di.giuseppe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 6757
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These Oppressions won't cease: An Anthology of the Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777–1879
The Khoesan were the first people in Africa to undergo the full rigours of European colonisation. By the early nineteenth century, they had largely been brought under colonial rule, dispossessed of their land and stock, and forced to work as labourers for farmers of European descent.
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.demarest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The giant in the shadow? The Dutch security services in their political, bureaucratic, and societal context between 1912 and 1992
Who tried to influence the mission and position of the Dutch security services between 1912 and 1992, what effect did that have on the form and contents of the security services? How to account for transformations of the security services?
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
p.silva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 527 1646
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Nicolas Blarel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
n.r.j.b.blarel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Van Ham, Thomassen, Aarts & Andeweg (eds), Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis
This book systematically evaluates the empirical evidence for legitimacy decline in established democracies, the explanatory power of theories of legitimacy decline, and promises new routes in investigating and assessing political legitimacy.
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2761
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Dynastischer Nachwuchs als Hoffnungsträger und Argument in der Frühen Neuzeit
This volume sheds light on the role played by progeny in maintaining dynasties in early modern royal courts as well as the horizontal and vertical interplay between the actors. It attempts to break through the narrative of older research that saw dynasties as a series of male rulers. Instead, these…
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The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes in the study of Roman mobility and migration.
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to ordinary citizens: The conversion of the Baduy, ethnicity, and politics of religion in Indonesia (1977 - 2019)
Mr. Ade Jaya Suryani defended his thesis on 28 January 2021
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Photographs & Preservation. How to save Photographic Artwork for the Future?
How can we understand the material instability of photographic (mixed media) artworks (1960s - present) from an integrated approach of Art History, Conservation Science and Chemistry in order to preserve these works for the future?
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XIV Annual Convention of the Austrian and Central European Centres in Leiden
Impressions by Wouter Baas and Caroline Schep
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
l.milevski@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1288
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Bram Caers
Faculty of Humanities
b.j.m.caers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8010
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Touching Treasures: The History of Photography
Due to an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm for Touching Treasures: The History of Photography, another workshop will be organised on 13 May 2019, from 15.00 to 17.00. There, the Beyond Content thematic program will continue in the Vossiusroom at the Leiden Univerisity Library (UBL). The workshop will…
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The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the city's social,…
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Karline Janmaat
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
k.r.l.janmaat@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Irina Morozova
Faculty of Humanities
i.morozova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Nicholas Vrousalis, 'Exploitation: A Primer'
Political scientist Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) reviews the recent literature on exploitation. He istinguishes between three main species of exploitation theory: (a) teleology-based (including harm and mutual benefit) accounts, (b) respect-based (including mere means, force, rights, and fairness)…
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
h.l.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2682
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
j.j.witkam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
a.tsujita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171