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Urbanism
Fundamentals and Prospects
2020 || Paperback || Han Meyer e.a. || Boom
Stedenbouw biedt een overzicht van de grondslagen van de stedenbouwkundige discipline en behandelt de relevantie hiervan voor de opgaven van de 21ste eeuw.
De stedenbouwkunde schept de ruimtelijke condities voor het functioneren van de burgerlijke samenleving. Fundamenteel daarin is het onderscheid tussen openbaar en privaat domein. De kerntaak van de stedenbouwkunde is daarom het ontwerp van
de stadsplattegrond, waarmee de indeling van het grondgebied in openbare en private gronden wordt v...
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Sea of Land
the polder as an experimental atlas of Dutch landscape architecture
2011 || Hardcover || W. Reh e.a. || Uitgeverij Architectura & Natura
SEA OF LAND introduces the polder as an important piece in the jigsaw puzzle of Dutch national identity. What is a polder, really, and how is it structured as an artificial landscape, what are its peculiar qualities, and how can it be developed further?SEA OF LAND describes the history, design and development of the most famous Dutch land reclamation projects in their relationships to one another. What is new here is that this is done from the perspective of landscape architectonics. For the ...
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The Dutch Moment
war, trade, and settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
Hardcover || Wim Klooster || Leiden University Press
War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
"The Dutch Moment" demonstrates how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire, one stretching from their homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River, from Brazil and the Caribbean to Africa's Gold Coast. Whether as settlers or soldiers, many participants in Dutch colonisation came from other parts of Europe or the New World. Nor could the Dutch have achieved military supremacy without also carefully cul...
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Realm between Empires
The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815
2018 || Hardcover || Wim Klooster e.a. || Leiden University Press
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path.
The loss of Brazil and New Netherland were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into insignificance. Instead, the influence of th...
The United States of Belgium
The Story of the First Belgian Revolution
Paperback || Jane Judge || Leuven University Press
In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots army that, to the surprise of many, successfully chased imperial forces...
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The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock
colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium
Paperback || Matthew Stanard || Leuven University Press
The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonisation. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the controversial episodes in the country’s colonial past. This volume examines the long-term effects and legacies of the colonial era on Belgium after 1960, the year the Congo gained its independence, and calls into qu...
Water
A Dutch Cultural History
2024 || Paperback || Lotte Jensen || Radboud University Press
Floating cradles, water wolves, a finger in the dike: what do stories about their struggle with the water tell us about the Dutch? For centuries the Dutch have battled with water. Time after time they managed to tame the water wolf, but they have had to deal at least as often with devastating floods. There was the Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood of 1421, for example, and the North Sea flood of 1953. In the cultural representation of such catastrophic events, vulnerability and pride go hand in h...
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Zeeland in the World
Exploring the World from Zeeland
2019 || Paperback || Arjan van Dixhoorn e.a. || De Drukkery || met inkijkexemplaar
'History of Zeeland in the World: Exploring the World from Zeeland' is a unique book. It is a collection of fourteen papers most of them dealing with Zeeland and its rich history. They are written and edited by students of University College Roosevelt, the international honors college of Utrecht University in Middelburg.
The papers study a variety of topics from Zeeland’s history. Several focus on the role of knowledge and information in the eighteenth century (global) trade networks operat...
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The Dutch Golden Age / druk 1
gateway to our modern world
2012 || Hardcover || Hans Goedkoop e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
The Netherlands in the Golden Age was almost unrecognisable compared with today, and yet, in some ways, it was not. Refugees sought a safe haven there, migrants did the heavy work and youngsters created a youth culture. Consumers wanted the latest fashions, investors bought shares and large shareholders made risky speculations. The story of the seventeenth century is and remains a miracle. A hotchpotch of provinces revolted against the Spanish king and then, in a series of ups and downs, buil...
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Kingdom by the Sea
a Celebration of Dutch cultural heritage
2022 || Hardcover || Mark Zegeling || MarkMedia & Art
From the 17th century onwards, Dutch merchants and traders have traveled the seven seas in search of new opportunities. In the Golden Age, Amsterdam became the warehouse of the world and the gateway to Europe. At the same time, Dutch scientists unravelled the mysteries of daily life, while painters presented a new vision of reality and changed the world of art. The inspiring stories of courageous pioneers, innovative entrepreneurs, talented artists and other notable characters have captured o...