1,696 search results for “boot history” in the Public website
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Regulation of vegetative development and life history strategy in plants
How is vegetative development regulated in plants and how does this affect a plant’s life history strategy?
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Show people, A history of the film star
Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community
This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.
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Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History
In this paper, Kantorowicz aims to track the persistent effect of former partitioning borders on property tax rates in Poland.
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Dario Fazzi
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
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Joost Augusteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Pieter Slaman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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and between Empires and Nation-States | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 46/14
In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by…
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
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History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present
Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster
Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth Dieterman
Faculty of Humanities
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Doreen Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Quiet Rebels? A Social History of Political Rhetoric
Speeches and speech acts have been crucial in settling the question at the centre of every political debate: who gets what, when and where?
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Extended Piano Techniques in Theory, History & Performance Practice
So-called
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Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice
Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes's doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed. His defence ceremony will consist of three concerts and a public defence. 'Musicians were using the interior…
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Steven Lauritano
Faculty of Humanities
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Post-everything: An intellectual history of post-concepts
What does it mean to live in an era of ‘posts’? At a time when ‘post-truth’ is on everyone’s lips, this volume seeks to uncover the logic of post-constructions – postmodernism, post-secularism, postfeminism, post-colonialism, post-capitalism, post-structuralism, post-humanism, post-tradition, post-Christian,…
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.
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Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi…
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Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness
Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors.
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A History of the National Security State in Turkey
Zeynep Sarlak defended her thesis on 25 August 2020
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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A history of East Baltic through language contact
On the 6th of July, Anthony Jakob successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Anthony on this achievement!
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Lab coats off and rain boots on: students do research in the polder
The Vrouw Vennepolder near Oud Ade has been transformed into the Polderlab. Scientists and students from Leiden University, together with farmers and citizens, investigate how to manage peatland in a sustainable and profitable manner. A great opportunity for students to experience how scientific knowledge…
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
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Understanding Ghanaian sign language(s): history, linguistics, and ideology
On the 27th of June, Timothy Mac Hadjah successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Timothy on this achievement!
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion
In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…