450 search results for “colonial history” in the Student website
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Sanne RavensbergenFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Susana Münch MirandaFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Karène SanchezFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Karin AmatmoekrimFaculty of Humanities
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the eighteenth century there were also Dutch plantation colonies in neighbouring Guyana. Bram Hoonhout’s book ‘Borderless Empire’ describes this forgotten h…
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes
Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Netherlands now demands a re-evaluation of Dutch colonial responsibilities. By recovering knowledge of these gains, this project will measure the wealth obtained…
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Katarzyna J. CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Alok OakFaculty of Humanities
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Cosmos Malabaricus Pilot Scholarship
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Fenneke Sysling - Institute for HistoryFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne WoutsUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sophia HendrikxFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities