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1,360 search results for “postcolonial history” in the Public website

• Medieval and Early Modern History: Europe in its Global Context

  Leiden’s Institute for History has an exceptionally strong expertise in premodern European history in its global context, with specialists whose interests cover virtually the whole continent.

• 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.

• 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.

• Royal honour for Gert Oostindie News - 20 December 2021

  Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…

• 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.

• 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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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Damian Pargas Professor History and Culture of the United States

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Duindam Academic director/ Professor of Early Modern History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maartje Janse Associate 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

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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

• 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.

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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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  Ingrid Samset Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

• 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

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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

• 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.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Extended Piano Techniques in Theory, History & Performance Practice Research output

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• Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice Research output

  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…

• Teaching Art History and Cultural and Art Education (MA)

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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

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  Wim van den Doel Dean LDE / Professor Contemporary History

  College van Bestuur

• Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch) Research output

  More on the Dutch webpage.

• Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda Research output

  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…

• A History of the National Security State in Turkey Research output

  Zeynep Sarlak defended her thesis on 25 August 2020

• Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History Research output

  How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?

• A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942 Research output

  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.