1,559 search results for “history of slavery” in the Public website
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth Dieterman
Faculty of Humanities
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Da Jin
Faculty of Humanities
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Doreen Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
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Most escaped slaves remained in the south of the US
Afro-American slaves in the 19th century did not always flee to the north of the United States, according to historical research. Most of the slaves who fled remained in the southern states and posed as free coloured people. This is the conclusion that Professor Damian Pargas from Leiden University…
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Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia
The proposed research program studies the impact of private foreign investment on development in Indonesia during the years c. 1910-1960.
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
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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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What soy sauce can teach us about the history of South Korea
‘Three books published within a year – that happens only once in a lifetime!’ This was the reaction of Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, on the publication of Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War, one of her three new books. The book sketches the colonisation of…
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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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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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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Hellenistic economic thought
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking of the Hellenistic period.
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Independent research into House of Orange-Nassau and Dutch colonial history
King Willem-Alexander has commissioned independent research into the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The research will take three years to complete and will cover the period from the late 16th century to the postcolonial present. The research will be carried out at Leiden…
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Selling the UN: Public Diplomacy for a New World Order
How was the future United Nations Organization promoted to global publics during WW II?
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Gerhard-Jan Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
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Introducing: Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
This summer, Jeffrey Fynn-Paul started as a lecturer at the Institute's Social and Economic History section.
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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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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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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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Research
Labour law is constantly changing. Concurrently, the laws dealing with workers address fundamental issues which are invariably of major significance and value. The research carried out at the Department of Labour Law and Social Security focusses on both the (constant) changes in labour law and social…
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [PRAYER]
This project investigates the full ecosystem of Middle Dutch prayerbooks in order to answer questions about their role in – and impact on – religion, culture, and society in the late medieval Low Countries.
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
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The urban labour market of Roman Italy
This thesis analyses the existence and the functioning of the urban labour market in the early Roman empire by looking at the crucial influence of social structures, such as the family and non-familial labour collectives.
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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…
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Profiling Leiden Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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Gerhard de Kok
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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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities