Annemieke van Drenth onderzoekt aan de hand van de geschiedenis van de Haagse Idiotenschool hoe speciale kinderen in de loop van de negentiende eeuw ontdekt werden. Dominee Cornelis E. van Koetsveld richtte deze eerste school voor speciaal onderwijs op met steun van de zeer betrokken koningin Sophie. Kinderen die niet mee konden komen in het gewone lager onderwijs werden er onder de noemer ‘idioot’ opgenomen. Idiotisme werd niet langer als ziekte gezien, maar als stagnatie in de kinderlij...

Dit bijzondere boek vertelt het verhaal van culturele uitwisselingen tussen sprekers van het Nederlands en het Engels in de Middeleeuwen en de Vroegmoderne tijd. Het laat zien hoe de wederzijdse betrekkingen het culturele landschap aan beide zijden van de Noordzee hebben veranderd. Het verhaal begint met de Normandische verovering van Engeland in 1066 en eindigt in 1688 met de kroning van een Nederlander, Willem III, als Engelse koning.

Het boek onderzoekt hoe Nederlandstalige immigranten de...

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

By the closing decades of the 19th century, photography and postcard-production arrived in British Malaya. The colonial-era postcards that were produced up to the 1940s captured virtually all aspects of life in the British colony and remain as visual testimonies of how the colonial subjects at the time lived and worked, as well as their relationship to the land. And yet, despite the developments in photography and postcard-production, the images that were produced also reiterated and reproduc...

This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular travel writing from maritime Southeast Asia and Ceylon. The examination of these books reveals a coherent genre that was seemingly frivolous yet in fact intensely political, with shared rules and tropes that served to legitimise colonial rule and codify aspects of colonial culture in the popular ...

In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a ...