Boundaries and Their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
Boundaries and Their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

Author: Benjamin Jacob Kaplan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9004176373

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Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an imaginary line but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct. The scholar contributors seek not simply to discern the boundaries, but, and perhaps more importantly, to understand the process of delination, and its consequences. With its maverick history and grass-root political traditions, the Netherlands provides an auspicious setting to examine the historical function of boundaries both real and imagined.

Beneath the Lines
Beneath the Lines

Author: Jacobo García-Álvarez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3030969045

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This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood. Written by scholars from Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, the essays included in this volume provide a comparative international perspective on the processes of border formation, as well as an integrative approach that seeks to strengthen the links between renewed geo-historical studies and more contemporary-oriented border studies. The book is addressed to a wide range of researchers, including geographers, historians, political scientists and specialists in geopolitics and the history of international relations.

Borders and Boundaries in and Around Dutch Jewish History
Borders and Boundaries in and Around Dutch Jewish History

Author: David J. Wertheim

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9052603871

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This study explores the shifting boundaries and identities of historic and contemporary Jewish communities. The contributors assert that, geographically speaking, Jewish people rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Whereas their places of residence may have remained the same for centuries, the countries and regimes that ruled over them were rarely as constant, and power struggles often led to the creation of new and divisive national borders. Taking a postmodern historical approach, the contributors seek to reexamine Jewish history and Jewish studies through the lens of borders and boundaries.

The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Author: Helmer J. Helmers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1107172268

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An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age
Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age

Author: Elizabeth A. Sutton

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 022625478X

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Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from circa 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage the commodification of land and an overall capitalist agenda.

Shaping a Dutch East Indies
Shaping a Dutch East Indies

Author: Siegfried Huigen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-04-24

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9004545816

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In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.

Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion
Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion

Author: Susanne Friedrich

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3110366177

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

Defending Neutrality
Defending Neutrality

Author: Wim Klinkert

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9004252509

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The small neutral states of Europe have until now only marginally been included in the historiography of the First World War. This volume deals in depth with The Netherlands, and specifically its war preparations. Being a small country close to the battlefield of the Western Front, it could not be sure its neutrality would be repected by the warring states. How did the country prepare itself militarily and how did these preparations differ from the way the warring states adjusted to the reality of modern, total war? Was modern, technological warfare even possible for small states and if not, in what way could it ensure its survival when the worst came to worst? This volume analyses technological innovation, intelligence and ideas on the societal and political impact of modern warfare in The Netherlands before, during and after the Great War.