Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan
How were artifacts and practices understood as sources of knowledge in the early modern period and how did this lay a basis of a concept of useful knowledge?
Discipline: History
Hendriksen, Marieke
How representative were Frans Hemsterhuis’ (1721-1790) ideas about the nature of knowledge for the understanding of knowledge in the eighteenth-century Netherlands?
Dreyfus, Jean-Marc
It is not known or remembered that European states after WWII set up search missions in order to recover the corpses of their nationals deported to Nazi concentration and death camps. My project ...
Klausen, Susanne
How important was the regulation of sexuality to the maintenance of white supremacy in South Africa during apartheid? What was the impact of the enforcement of legislation criminalizing inter-rac...
Mark, James
How did the end of European Empires shape the processes of Europeanisation in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? How were its dominant iterations– such as neolib...
Mrazek, Rudolf
Amir Sjarifoeddin had been considered, until 1947, next to Sukarno, the crucial figure of the Indonesian struggle for emancipation. After he became involved with the radical left of the Indonesia...
Scagliola, Stef
The project’s main question will be what structural comparative research teaches us about forms and scale of, the motives for and the conditions conducive to the use of (extreme) violence by Du...
Vince, Natalya
The project’s main question will be what structural comparative research teaches us about forms and scale of, the motives for and the conditions conducive to the use of (extreme) violence by Du...
Helmers, Helmer
How did diplomats in the past appeal to public opinion in order to achieve their political aims? And what role did the Dutch Republic play in the rise of public diplomacy?
Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs
The project’s main question will be what structural comparative research teaches us about forms and scale of, the motives for and the conditions conducive to the use of (extreme) violenceÂ...
Weerdt, Hilde De
In the medieval and early modern periods mirrors to princes, intended to teach princes how to become kings or emperors, became available in vernacular languages to audiences of merchants, the mil...
Colvin, Chris
Dutch interwar financial history is dominated by the gold standard. This fixed exchange rate system significantly constrained the ability of policymakers to deal with the consequences of the Grea...
Thomas, Martin
The project’s main question will be what structural comparative research teaches us about forms and scale of, the motives for and the conditions conducive to the use of (extreme) violence by Du...
Rudy, Kathryn
How did late medieval nuns in Delft make manuscripts for the lay public and proceed to compete for market share?
Kuntz Ficker, Sandra
To use foreign trade statistics as a window to analyze some important aspects of Mexico’s economy and society during the half century after independence.
Jones, Philip
How did Australian Aboriginal material culture find its way to Europe and how was it received, valued and circulated between collectors and institutions? Was it a random accumulation, or does an ...
Gelder, Maartje van
Early modern Venice was a city without revolts, but does this mean that popular unrest and contestation were absent? Which forms did unrest and contestation take in Venice? What was its impact on...
Krämer, Fabian
When and how did the view emerge according to which the sciences and the humanities constitute two distinct groups of discipline – with their own methods, epistemologies, and professional ident...
Linn, Brian
The project’s main question will be what structural comparative research teaches us about forms and scale of, the motives for and the conditions conducive to the use of (extreme) violence by Du...
Bosma, Ulbe
Providing a long historical perspective on problems that are often assumed to be modern, the Commodity Frontiers Initiative will endeavor to recast our thinking about issues of sustainability, re...