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Amsterdam University Press (15)
Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)
2025 || Hardcover || Lucas van der Deijl || Amsterdam University Press
A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640–1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory. This book studies the position of four translators in these debates on the ‘New Philosophy’: Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker, Pieter Balling, Abraham van Berkel, and Stephan Blankaart. It presents a comparative history of ...
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Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge
Exploration, Exploitation and the Civilising Mission since 1636
2025 || Hardcover || Henk van Rinsum || Amsterdam University Press
In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation in 1636. He describes the development of (scientific) knowledge and knowledge transfer about and in the Dutch colonies, especially in the Dutch East Indies. The central theme of his book is the idea of Western superiority – the assumption that we are ‘developed’ and therefore modern, while those in the colonies are ‘not (yet) developed’ an...
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Geology of the Netherlands
Second Edition
2025 || Hardcover || Johan ten Veen e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Below the famously flat surface of the Netherlands lies a fascinating world of buried mountains and valleys, which can only be unraveled with drillings, geophysical techniques and geological understanding.
Thorough exploration for hydrocarbons, groundwater and minerals produced a wealth of data and knowledge about the Dutch subsurface and its various uses. The second edition of this book, originally published in 2007, provides access to that wealth with a thoroughly revised and updated descri...
Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800
Devotees of Science
2025 || Hardcover || Nikolaj Bijleveld e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and mastery of scientific apparatus around 1800, taking readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic professionalisation. The authors widen the horizon of inquiry by looking beyond the scientific elite of academies and prestigious science sponsored by princely courts, the focus of previous major studies of this time period. They consider peo...
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Faces of Liberation
The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
2025 || Hardcover || Frank Mehring e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
The Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek is the burial place of 2,618 soldiers from Canada and the British Commonwealth. Most died during the liberation of the Netherlands and the decisive Rhineland Offensive at the end of World War II. This book brings their individual stories to life and offers a moving tribute to the young men who fought for freedom, democracy and peace. With the names of all the fallen and the 1,012 missing on the Memorial Wall, this is a valuable unique reference work that...
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Modernising Protestantism
A Cultural History of the Dutch Reformed, 1650-1750
2025 || Hardcover || Joke Spaans || Amsterdam University Press
This book provides a thorough revision of the image of the public church under the Dutch Republic after the Peace of Westphalia and before the onset of the ‘high Enlightenment’. Traditional church history considers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a period of decline. Yet this was the high tide of Dutch expansion when Dutch society was extremely rich. In its five universities and its highly literate population internationally acknowledged scholarship, arts and sciences flowered. D...
Kaleidoscopic Visions
The Black, Migrant, and Refugee Women’s Movement in The Netherlands
2025 || Hardcover || Nancy Jouwe e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
First published in March 2001, this work was the first and only book of its kind in the Dutch intellectual landscape, and it rapidly became a classic for multigenerational audiences with an interest in intersectional theory and praxis. By zooming in on the issues that Black, migrant, and refugee (BMR) women placed on the feminist and multicultural agenda of the late twentieth century, the writers in this volume highlight the exclusionary practices BMR women encountered within Dutch institutio...
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The Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts
The Role of the Reader
2025 || Hardcover || Marco Wittenberg || Amsterdam University Press
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The Ice Broken
Puritan Influences on The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
2025 || Hardcover || W.J. Op 't Hof || Amsterdam University Press
It has become increasingly apparent to early modern religious, political, cultural and book-historians that translations provide badly neglected but unique and invaluable insights into the processes of cultural change and exchange. This volume provides a wealth of precious insights into the whole process of translation. The articles shed invaluable light on early modern scholarly practices and careers, cultural exchange and relations, the book trade, and the religious politics of the Dutch Re...
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What if?
Dialogues between Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer
2025 || Hardcover || Dirk van Delft e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer were peers, extremely curious and grew up in the bustling Delft of the seventeenth century. Nowadays, they are world famous.
Both explored and created new worlds. Van Leeuwenhoek discovered the miraculous micro-life with his self-built microscopes, Vermeer played with light and painted masterpieces such as The Girl with the Pearl Earring and View of Delft.
What if…they knew each other? Did they know each other? Oh yes, they could have!
What if th...