938 search results for “colonialism” in the Public website
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
p.g.post@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2982
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
t.mostert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1307
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Andrea Richards-Cummins
Faculteit Archeologie
a.c.richards@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marlieke Ernst
Faculty of Humanities
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Back to the Present
A post-colonial approach to the concept of time in the past and present Maya culture
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Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Empire's Violent End. Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962
In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and…
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Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards
Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards
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Contested landscapes in the age of encounter
Amerindian settlement patterns and early colonial cartography in Northern Hispaniola
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Caribbean Connections: Cultural Encounters in a New World Setting (CARIB)
What socio-cultural transformations did indigenous communities in the Lesser Antilles undergo from the late precolonial to the early colonial period in response to Amerindian European-African cultural encounters? How did Amerindian populations realign themselves in response to the colonisation…
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Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law
Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law
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Did Dutch investments contribute to Indonesia’s economic development?
Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. But the complicated relationship between…
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Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective
The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
b.m.de.leede@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resista…
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy
Historian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Young Academy for his dedication to academia and society.
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Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
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Memory Contested, Locality Transformed
Representing Japanese Colonial 'Heritage' in Taiwan
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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Landscapes of mobility
Landscapes of mobility in the northern Chilean altiplano: from chiefly networks to colonial markets (AD 1100-1800).
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Rick Honings: the power of language
Alternative perspectives and sources of colonial literature haven’t received much attention before now. School books have long ignored the violence that accompanies colonialsm. How can we paint an honest picture?
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Transnational and Cross-Cultural Agents in the 17th Century Overseas Expansion
Why is Crossnational and Cross-cultural agents such as Henrich Carloff and Willem Leyel important when studying Early Modern expansion?
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Material culture of Roman republican colonization
This project looks at material culture to better understand the character and organization of Roman colonial society in the Republican period, with a focus on the colony of Aesernia (founded 263 BC) in Samnium (modern-day Molise, Italy). What impact did the foundation of the colony have on precolonial…
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Island Networks
The focus of this programme is the inter-community social relationships and transformations of island networks in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide.
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Kolonie, Kontakt, Kultur
Eine Analyse materieller Kultur römischer Kolonien in der Mikroregion von Suessa Aurunca, Minturnae und Sinuessa
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Values and valuables
The role of material culture in early colonial encounters in the Caribbean
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Beyond the Pale: Dutch Extreme Violence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949
On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization.…
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NEXUS 1492. New World Encounters in a Globalising World
What are the immediate and lasting effects of the colonial encounters on indigenous Caribbean cultures and societies and what were the intercultural dynamics that took place during the colonisation processes? How can the study of indigenous Caribbean histories contribute to a more sophisticated awareness…
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Ñuhun Ñuu Savi: Land and language as cultural heritage of the People of the Rain
The research focuses on the understanding of symbolic stratigraphy of the land (through time) from the worldview of the People of the Rain (one of the Indigenous Peoples of southern Mexico), by studying contemporary cultural heritage in communities of the Mixtec Highlands.
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Fighting monopolies, defying empires 1500-1750: a comparative overview of free agents and informal empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman
How did “free agents” (entrepreneurs operating outside of the myriad of interests of the centralized, state-sponsored monopolies) in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire react to the creation of colonial monopolies (royal monopolies and chartered companies) by the central states in the Early Modern…
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Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka
Bandura Witharana defended his thesis on 27 September 2018
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Our history
As an educational and research institution Leiden University is seeking to understand its own relationship with the colonial and slavery past.
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Negotiating Power and 'Constructing' the Nation: The Engineering Profession in Sri Lanka
This project explores the community of engineers in Sri Lanka and their role with regard to three domains of inquiry.
- COGLOSS seminars 2020-2021
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Jeu d'argile: céramique, indentité culturelle, créolisation
Une étude archéo-anthropologique de la céramique des sociétés caribéennes multiculturelles de la période précoloniale à nos jours
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Alumni blog
Interested in studying Colonial and Global History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.
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About the programme
During the one-year master’s programme in Colonial and Global History you will learn about the importance of a comparative perspective for understanding transnational processes such as imperialism, colonialism, islamisation, modernisation and globalisation.
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Mesoamerican manuscripts: new scientific approaches and interpretations
Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectroscopy and…
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Colonial and Global History (research) at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Colonial and Global History at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast
In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world. She was interviewed about the book in the New Books in South East Asian…
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Blood is thicker than water.
Amerindian intra- and inter-insular relationships and social organization in the pre-colonial Windward Islands.
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Spatial patterns in landscape archaeology
This PhD project develops and applies a GIS procedure to use legacy survey data in settlement pattern analysis. As part of the research by the LERC project (NWO, Leiden University, KNIR), legacy data produced by surveys in central and southern Italy are examined in a comparative framework to investigate…
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Colonialism and the Age of Revolutions (1780-1830)
Conference