The beginning story of the communism was like this:

A ghost walks in Europe - the ghost of communism. All the forces of old Europe entered into a sacred alliance to defeat this ghost: the Pope and the Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police agents.

Where is the opposition party not being accused of being communist by its opponents? Where is the opposition, which has not thrown this blightful communism accusation back to its reactionary adversaries as well as to the more...

Radicale democratie vertelt voor het eerst het spectaculaire levensverhaal van Pieter Vreede (1750-1837), de grondlegger van de democratie in Nederland.

Eeuwenlang gold democratie als een gevaarlijke regeringsvorm. Dat veranderde eind achttiende eeuw, toen radicale revolutionairen in Nederland streden voor vrijheid, gelijkheid en volksinvloed. Pieter Vreede, een Leidse schrijver en wolfabrikant, was de leider van deze radicale beweging. 

Als aanvoerder van de patriottenbeweging in H...

For four centuries, people from the Netherlands have gone to America by boat or plane, to explore the country, to trade, to colonise, to settle, to do business, to find a new future or simply to visit the country as a tourist. And for four centuries, Americans, of diverse backgrounds, of native, African or European descent, have come to the Netherlands. These are their stories.

This book begins in the seventeenth century, when settlers commissioned by the West India Company settled on the sou...

Since Patrick Wolfe’s groundbreaking work on settler colonialism’s logic of elimination, the field has rapidly expanded, sparking debate about its origins, characteristics, and global impact. This volume advances the discussion by o ering a long-term, comparative analysis of settler colonialism as a structural phenomenon. Drawing on diverse case studies – from ancient Mediterranean societies to contemporary visions of settling Mars – contributors critically examine key questions: What...