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1,672 search results for “postcolonial history” in the Public website

• Policing Women: Histories in the Western World, 1800 to 1950 Research output

  This book provides an exploration into the historical transformations of women's interactions with state police in the Western world from 1800 to 1950.

• Dogmatism: On the History of a Scholarly Vice Research output

  Why does the history of dogmatism deserve our attention? This open access book analyses uses of the term, following dogmatism from Victorian Britain to Cold War America, examining why it came to be regarded as a vice, and how understandings of its meaning have evolved.

• Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes, and Approaches Research output

  What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as “humanities” has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need to clearly define the field is pertinent.

• History, Arts and Culture of Asia (MA) (60EC)

  The MA in History, Arts and Culture of Asia is designed for students interested in taking a humanities-related approach to the study of countries or regions in pre-modern, modern or contemporary Asia.

• The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition Research project

  How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?

• Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 Research output

  This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world history.

• Visiting Researchers Institute for History

  Visiting Researchers at the Leiden University Institute for History

• Unravelling East Africa’s Early Linguistic History (LHEAf) Research project

  This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…

• Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World Research output

  This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the first centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history.

• Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective Research project

  The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…

• Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies Arts and Culture (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Duindam Academic director/ Professor of Early Modern History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture Research output

  Carsten Stahn has just published Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture. The book is part of the OUP Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Series.

• A Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation Liveable Planet

  This study aims to provide a long time perspective of human landscape manipulation. Studying the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems is of great importance to establish the character of past 'natural' landscapes and to enhance the management of current ones.

• CIA and Crypto AG rewrite history – Clingentael Spectator Research output

  It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.

• Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930 Research output

  This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar.

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  Ingrid Samset Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus of African Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor Art history, expecially before 1800

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Limin Teh University Lecturer Modern Chinese History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geke Burger PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Caroline van Eck Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Da Jin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bart van der Boom University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Patrick Dassen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrew Shield University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joost Augusteijn Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pieter Slaman Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Kiri Paramore Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul van Trigt Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation Research project

  This project studies the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems to establish the character of past “natural” landscapes and enhance the management of current ones.

• Maria Ulfah and Her Vision of a Humanistic Postcolonial Asia News - 9 March 2022

  In 1933, Maria Ulfah Santoso was the first Indonesian women to earn a law degree. During her studies in Leiden University she became involved with Indonesia;s nationalist movement. She went on to be Indonesia's Social Minister, as the first female cabinet member. In this article, historian Wildan Sena…

• Regulation of vegetative development and life history strategy in plants Research project

  How is vegetative development regulated in plants and how does this affect a plant’s life history strategy?

• Show people, A history of the film star Research output

  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.

• Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History Research output

  In this paper, Kantorowicz aims to track the persistent effect of former partitioning borders on property tax rates in Poland.

• Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community Research output

  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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  Dario Fazzi Professor by special appointment Transatlantic Environmental History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Colonial recipes: Food, modernity and Japanese rule in Korea Research project

  The major objective of the study is to ascertain how Japanese colonialism affected the manner in which food was produced, processed, prepared and consumed in the colony, and how new attitudes towards these practices were constructed.

• History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• and between Empires and Nation-States | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 46/14 Research output

  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…

• Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS) Research project

  The project GRADIENTS investigates what it meant to be European in colonial Africa where identification as European often did not depend on skin colour and was understood on a spectrum with many gradients.

• The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster Research output

  Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

• The relation between communication and violence in the Guéra and Moyen –Chari regions (Chad) from 1940 to 2010 Research project

  French title: Communication et violences dans le Guéra et le Moyen-Chari (Tchad) de 1940 à 2010. This research investigates the relationship between the introduction of new means of communication and violence experienced by the local populations in the Moyen-Chari and the Guéra regions in Chad from…

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  Herman Paul Professor History of the Humanities

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul Kloeg Head Datamanagement

  Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden