1,386 search results for “history of slavery” in the Public website
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages
The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island…
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2735
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Book: Sonic Modernities in the Malay World, A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern.
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2670
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The House of Orange-Nassau and Colonial History
At the initiative and expense of His Royal Highness King Willem-Alexander, Leiden University will be conducting a study of the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The project will run from 2023 to 2026.
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.pereira.bastiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
t.atabaki@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
b.s.van.der.steen@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6338
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
e.c.walhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6412
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Valorization of Scientific Knowledge: Philosophy, History and Policy
This project aims to situate the current policy concept of ‘valorization of scientific knowledge’ in historical and epistemological perspectives. Conceptual understanding of the utility of scientific practices is developed in dialogue with historical analyses of the politics of knowledge in European…
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Colonial and Global History
Colonial and Global History combines a deep curiosity of transcultural processes such as imperialism, (de)colonization, and globalization with critical historical research on regional societies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Moving Romans. Urbanisation, migration and labour in the Roman Principate
To what extent was labour-induced migration important to the functioning of the towns and cities of Roman Italy?
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2757
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Buddhism and social justice: doctrine, ideology and discrimination in tension
In Sri Lanka, a prominent Singhalese Buddhist monk publicly proclaims that it is not a sin to kill Tamils. In Japan, the family register kept in a Buddhist temple and specifying the outcaste status of a lineage is provided to private detectives investigating the marriageability of a young woman. Throughout…
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Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3
Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural,…
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
a.e.van.ertvelde@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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World History For International Studies
Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes; World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting.
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Damian Pargas new Professor of American History
As of 1 August 2017, Damian Pargas is the new Leiden University Chair of the History and Culture of North America.
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Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983
Peyman Jafari defended his thesis on 11 October 2018
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The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes in the study of Roman mobility and migration.
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2717
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare
The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s society? Before the markers are placed, a panel came together on 24 March to discuss the slavery past of not only the city but the University too.
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Pressure groups
Where did the new generation of antislavery activists get their inspiration to organize in large-scale pressure groups?
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Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers
This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants.
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Research
The combination of global questions and a wide range of local sources characterizes the Leiden University Institute for History.
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Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections
The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.
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State, Society, and Labour in Iran, 1906-1941: A Social History of Iranian Industrialization and Labour with Reference to the Textile Industry
Serhan Afacan defended his thesis on 23 June 2015
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
m.e.h.n.mout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2759
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.kegel@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.m.wilson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9355
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As a practice in which human beings were held captive for an indefinite period of time, coerced into extremely dependent and exploitative power relationships, denied rights (including rights over their labor, lives, and bodies), often vulnerable to forced relocation by various means, and forced to labor…
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Institute for History
The motto of the Institute for History is: ‘Global questions, local sources.’ Its researchers use local sources to find answers to major historical questions. Without historical analysis, it is impossible to understand and explain the issues in society today. Leiden itself has a rich history, with big…
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
e.mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2310
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"If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973
Maral Jefroudi defended her thesis on 11 October 2017
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Profile 3. Sources on Frisian medieval history
Due to the fact that the Frisian lands lacked major political centers in the Middle Ages and also because most of its monasteries suffered complete destruction in the second half of the 16th century, relatively few written documents concerning medieval Frisian history have survived. To analyze them…
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Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
This seminal volume covers the entire global history of urbanization since the rise of cities in Mesopotamia in the 6th millennium BC. Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen contributed survey and thematic chapters.
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Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of the two-party system in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1868
The project examines the political conflict in the Red River Valley of Louisiana between the majority-black Republican Party and the overwhelmingly white Democratic Party by studying the composition and actions of each party.
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
s.yue@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
c.arita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
q.hao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2336
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
a.tsujita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
s.t.magano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
z.jiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
h.f.j.horstmanshoff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166