163 search results for “latin american” in the Library website
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Juliët TinebraFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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José María Castro IbarraFaculty of Humanities
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Classics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Classics
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Jacky NieuwboerFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bram EeninkFaculty of Humanities
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English Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in English language and culture.
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Humanities
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Manuscripts, Archives and Letters
The Western manuscript, archival and letter collections consist of books and documents written in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic script.
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Christine MertensFaculty of Humanities
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Physics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Physics.
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Newspaper articles (International)
Leiden’s University Library provides access to a large collection of digital (contemporary) and digitized (historical) newspapers. These newspapers can be found through the library’s catalogue and through the library’s databases. Furthermore, the Dutch National Library offers access to several international…
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Law
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for Law
- Manuscripts, Archives and Letters outside Leiden
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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Searching for book reviews
Book reviews give you a quick overview of the main arguments, quality and structure of a book.
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Linguistics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Linguistics
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Sources of Leiden University’s History
The archives created by Leiden University and the private archives of Leiden professors are an invaluable source for the history of the university and its functioning. The main sources have been edited (nearly always in Dutch). In addition, several studies have been published, describing the development…
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Mathematics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Mathematics
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Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.
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Scaliger Institute
The Scaliger Institute facilitates research in Special Collections by initialising projects, organising symposia, publishing research results and fellowships.
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Religious Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in religious studies.
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Molecular Science & Technology
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Molecular Science & Technology
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Why Humanities? Cristiana Strava on Middle Eastern Studies
Lecture
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Manuscript Facsimiles Collection
The Special Collections Reading Room houses a collection of 800+ facsimiles of Western manuscripts originating mostly from Medieval Europe. They enable students to consult a 3D version very close to the original manuscripts kept worldwide, especially those with contents or from cultural traditions that…
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Philosophy
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Philosophy
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Agreements with publishers
Leiden researchers are entitled to take part in deals regarding Open Access that have been arranged with a substantial number of publishers.
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Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.
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Hebrew, Semitic and Armenian Special Collections
The Library of Leiden University holds c. 550 manuscripts and an extensive collection of rare printed books in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, the languages of Ethiopia, South Arabic, Coptic and Armenian, as well as a collection of rare books on the Jewish World.
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10 maart: Universiteit Leiden start estafettestaking tegen bezuinigingen
Medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden trappen maandag 10 maart de estafettestaking af van de Nederlandse universiteiten tegen de kabinetsbezuinigingen.
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Psychology
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Psychology
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Cultural Anthropology
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Cultural Anthropology
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Astronomy
Overview of databases and websites for research in Astronomy
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Alexander GeurdsFaculteit Archeologie
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
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Why Humanities? Arthur Crucq on Art as a "Leftist Hobby"
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History of Science
Overview of databases, reference works and website for research in the History of Science
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Middle Eastern Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Middle Eastern Studies
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Education and Child Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Education and Child Studies
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Leiden University Libraries acquires remarkable medical manuscripts
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire four remarkable medical manuscripts partly thanks to support from the Friends of Leiden University Libraries, the Pieter van Foreest Stichting and the Van de Sande Fonds. All four are largely written in Dutch and can be dated between 1595 and…
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Prior Fellows
Overview of the Scaliger, Brill, Elsevier, Van de Sande, Juynboll, Drewes, Isaac Alfred Ailion, Arminius and Lingling Wiyadharma Fellows who have conducted research in the Special Collections of the University Library.
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More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access
The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital Collections. The 324 Latin manuscripts copied in medieval Europe, along with 48 post-medieval manuscripts,…
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Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.