19 search results for “north america” in the Public website
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Beacons of Freedom: Slave Refugees in North America, 1800-1860
This project applies a social-historical approach to examine and contrast various groups of African-American slave refugees who sought freedom within North America between 1800 and 1860. It innovatively distinguishes between different “spaces of freedom” for runaway slaves, namely sites of formal, semi-formal,…
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Kim DankoorFaculty of Humanities
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Manon Portos MinettiFaculty of Humanities
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Bálint HonosFaculty of Humanities
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History of Africa and the Americas
Team History of Africa and the Americas
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South - INVISIHIST
The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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The Chinese diaspora, race and US foreign policy
The project focusses on how US views of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia influenced its strategic interpretations of the region.
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American foreign policy and liberalism
The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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‘Military strikes alone unlikely to fatally undermine Venezuelan government’
What will be the outcome of the US raid on Venezuela and capture of President Maduro? ‘History shows that people usually react to being bombed by a foreign power by rallying around the flag, not turning against their leaders’, says historian Andrew Gawthorpe in The Conversation.