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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2008

        Princely power in the Dutch Republic

        Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613–64)

        by Geert Janssen, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Based on one of the richest surviving diaries of the Dutch Golden Age, Princely Power in the Dutch Republic recaptures the social world of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). As a Stadholder and relative of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick was among the key players in a fragmented republican state system. This study offers a vivid analysis of his political strategies and reveals how unwritten codes of patronage guided his daily contacts and shaped his mental world. As a patron at his court and as a client of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick developed distinctive patronage roles, appropriate to different social spheres. By assessing these different roles, Janssen provides a unique insight into the ways in which a seventeenth-century nobleman negotiated and articulated clientage, friendship and corruption in his life. This study offers an in-depth analysis of political practices in the Dutch Republic and reconsiders the way in which patronage shaped early modern politics, affected religious divisions and framed social identities. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2003

        De Stijl and Dutch modernism

        by Michael White, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer

        De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. Examines the connection between debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture and contemporary developments in the fields of urban planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. Describes the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2010

        Orangism in the Dutch Republic in word and image, 1650–75

        by Jill Stern, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        This remarkable study represents a completely original presentation of the language and imagery used by the Orangists in the critical period in the mid-seventeenth century Netherlands as they sought the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of the young prince William III. Stern argues that the Orangists had no desire for the prince to become a monarch, rather that they viewed the stadholderate as an essential component of the Dutch constitution, the Union of Utrecht, and fulfilling a key role as defender of the rights and privileges of the citizenry against an overwheening urban oligarchy. Source material is drawn not only from books and political pamphlets but also from contemporary drama, poetry, portraits, prints, and medals. This enables the author to examine the imagery used by the supporters of the House of Orange, in particular the symbols of rebirth and regeneration which were deployed to propagate the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of William III. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Guardians of Empire

        The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, C.1700-1964

        by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, David Killingray

        For imperialists, the concept of guardian is specifically to the armed forces that kept watch on the frontiers and in the heartlands of imperial territories. Large parts of Asia and Africa, and the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean were imperial possessions. This book discusses how military requirements and North Indian military culture, shaped the cantonments and considers the problems posed by venereal diseases and alcohol, and the sanitary strategies pursued to combat them. The trans-border Pathan tribes remained an insistent problem in Indian defence between 1849 and 1947. The book examines the process by which the Dutch elite recruited military allies, and the contribution of Indonesian soldiers to the actual fighting. The idea of naval guardianship as expressed in the campaign against the South Pacific labour trade is examined. The book reveals the extent of military influence of the Schutztruppen on the political developments in the German protectorates in German South-West Africa and German East Africa. The U.S. Army, charged with defending the Pacific possessions of the Philippines and Hawaii, encountered a predicament similar to that of the mythological Cerberus. The regimentation of military families linked access to women with reliable service, and enabled the King's African Rifles to inspire a high level of discipline in its African soldiers, askaris. The book explains the political and military pressures which drove successive French governments to widen the scope of French military operations in Algeria between 1954 and 1958. It also explores gender issues and African colonial armies.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        Photographic subjects

        Monarchy and visual culture in colonial Indonesia

        by Susie Protschky

        Winner of the ASAA mid-career book prize in Asian Studies 2020 and joint winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal Book Prize Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands' modern empire in the age of mass and amateur photography. Photographs forged imperial networks, negotiated relations of recognition and subjecthood between Indonesians and Dutch authorities, and informed cultural modes of citizenship at a time of accelerated colonial expansion and major social change in the East Indies/Indonesia. This book advances methods in the uses of photographs for social and cultural history and provides a new interpretation of Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana as imperial monarchs.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2025

        The Florentine florin

        The politics and culture of money in the Middle Ages

        by Stefano Locatelli

        Minted in Florence around November 1252, the florin became one of the leading gold currencies of the Middle Ages. Historians agree that its success was mainly due to the need for a stable means of payment in the networks of international trade. The Florentine Florin investigates the florin as a medium with hitherto neglected political, social, and cultural dimensions. By bringing human agents and political institutions more prominently into the history of the coin, this book enhances our understanding of money and its nature from a historical perspective, and provides an original framework for the integrated study of material culture and economic practices.

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        Agricultural science
        January 1987

        White Clover

        by Edited by M F Baker, W M Williams

        The book discusses the biology and uses of White Clover.

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        October 2010

        Der Krieg um das Schwarze Loch

        Wie ich mit Stephen Hawking um die Rettung der Quantenmechanik rang

        by Leonard Susskind, Friedrich Griese

        Wenn etwas in einem Schwarzen Loch verschwindet, geht es dann für immer verloren? Stephen Hawking, der berühmte britische Physiker, und Leonard Susskind, Physiker und Theoretiker aus den USA, gerieten über diese Frage in Streit. Hawking vertrat die These, dass alles, was je von einem Schwarzen Loch verschluckt worden sei, nicht wiederkehren könne. Wäre dem wirklich so, würde das unser ganzes Verständnis des Universums von Grund auf erschüttern, hielten Leonard Susskind und der niederländische Physiker Gerald t’Hoofd dagegen. Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte dauerte der Streit der Wissenschaftler über das Phänomen der Schwarzen Löcher. Leonard Susskinds Buch Der Krieg ums Schwarze Loch ist eine anschauliche, dramatische Expedition durch die Welt der modernen Physik und die galaktischen Weiten. Der weltweit angesehene Forscher erläutert darin, wie aus einer der spannendsten Auseinandersetzungen in der Quantenmechanik ein neues Paradigma, der genauso merkwürdig und revolutionär wie Heisenbergs Unschärferelation ist. „Leuchtend und unterhaltsam.“ The Los Angeles Times

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        August 2013

        Die folgende Geschichte

        by Cees Nooteboom, Helga van Beuningen

        Wieso wacht Herrmann Mussert in einem ihm vertrauten Zimmer in Lissabon auf, obwohl er doch in Amsterdam wohnt und sich dort auch am Abend zuvor zum Schlafen niedergelegt hat? Ein spontaner Entschluß zum Aufbrechen in eine andere Gegend kann es nicht gewesen sein, denn dieser Altphilologe, der nicht mehr unterrichtet, ist ein eher Lebensuntüchtiger, ganz seinen griechischen und lateinischen Autoren zugewandter Mensch; seine Schüler nannten ihn Sokrates. Träumt er nur, in Lissabon aufzuwachen? Oder ist sein Gang durch Lissabon eine Reise in der Erinnerung, also eine Reise in der Zeit? Denn immerhin ist dies der Ort einer richtigen Affäre mit einer Kollegin.Cees Nooteboom verhindert durch seine meisterhaften erzählerischen Fähigkeiten, daß wir diese Fragen eindeutig beantworten können, und steigert so die Spannung. In einem zweiten Teil der Geschichte bricht Mussert – im Traum? in der Wirklichkeit? – mit sechs anderen Personen zu einer Schiffsreise nach Brasilien auf. Alle Reisenden erzählen von ihrem Leben. Die Geschichte, die Herrmann Mussert als letzter erzählt, scheint alle Rätsel zu lösen: er gibt ihr den Titel Die folgende Geschichte.

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        January 2021

        Und wo sind meine Punkte?

        by Sinem Sasmaz, Leonard Erlbruch

        In diesem inspirierenden Bilderbuch erfährt Herr Gepard, der zunächst wegen seines ungewöhnlichen Aussehens ohne Punkte von anderen Tieren verspottet wird, eine wichtige Lebenslektion über Selbstakzeptanz und das Erkennen eigener Stärken. Trotz des Spotts entdeckt Herr Gepard, dass seine wahre Begabung nicht in seinem Aussehen, sondern in seiner unglaublichen Schnelligkeit liegt. Durch seine Geschwindigkeit gewinnt er nicht nur Respekt bei den anderen Tieren, sondern entwickelt auch ein tiefes Selbstbewusstsein. Er lernt, stolz auf seine Einzigartigkeit zu sein und sich nicht mehr darüber zu definieren, was ihm fehlt, sondern was er besonders gut kann. Diese herzerwärmende Geschichte wird durch die charmanten Illustrationen von Leonard Erlbruch lebendig und bietet jungen Lesern im Kindergartenalter eine wertvolle Botschaft über Selbstwert und die Freude, die eigenen Talente zu entdecken und zu schätzen. Fördert Selbstvertrauen und Selbstakzeptanz: Zeigt Kindern, dass jeder einzigartige Talente hat, die gefeiert werden sollten. Ermutigende Botschaft: Ein Mut-Mach-Buch, das Kinder ab 4 Jahren dazu inspiriert, ihre eigenen Stärken zu erkennen und stolz darauf zu sein. Hochwertige Illustrationen: Kunstvoll gestaltet von Leonard Erlbruch, der die Geschichte auf visuell ansprechende Weise zum Leben erweckt. Ideal für Vorlesemomente: Perfekt geeignet zum Vorlesen zu Hause oder im Kindergarten, mit einer Geschichte, die immer wieder gerne gehört wird. Pädagogisch wertvoll: Unterstützt die emotionale Entwicklung von Kindern, indem es wichtige Themen wie Selbstwertgefühl und Diversität anspricht. Beliebt bei Kindern und Eltern: Durchgehend positive Rezensionen, die die Qualität und den emotionalen Wert des Buches bestätigen.

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        May 2012

        Road Dogs

        Roman

        by Elmore Leonard, Conny Lösch, Kirsten Riesselmann

        Ein klassischer Leonard: lakonisch, schnell, voll herrlicher Dialoge und überraschend bis zur letzten Seite. Große Unterhaltung mit Soul. Jack Foley ist Bankräuber aus Überzeugung und eine coole Sau. Cundo Rey ist ein schwerreicher kubanischer Gangster. Sie freunden sich im Knast an, und Cundo besorgt Foley eine supersmarte Anwältin, die es schafft, aus dreißig Jahren Haft dreißig Monate zu machen. Währenddessen sitzt Dawn Navarro, Cundos attraktive Frau, in einer Villa in Venice Beach und wartet auf die Chance, ihren Gatten um sein Geld zu erleichtern. Dazu würde sie Foley gern auf ihre Seite ziehen. Der muß sich überlegen, wem er trauen kann – und welche Ziele er eigentlich selbst verfolgt …

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2013

        The Nine Years' War and the British army 1688–97

        The operations in the low countries

        by John Childs

        Between 1689 and 1697 the British army fought as a member of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. Despite the military and political significance of the European conflict, this book is the first historical investigation for over a century dealing with the operations of the principal campaigns in the Low Countries. John Childs begins his comprehensive study by exploring the diplomatic origins of the Nine Years' War. Leading on from this political background, the author then focuses on the detailed organisation of the British, Dutch and other allied armies and the conduct of the operations. The specific campaigns are also examined and in particular the author looks at the strategic and tactical role played by the British. This campaign and operational study of the British army will be of interest to both specialist and general military historians, as well as to political historians. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Expatriate

        Following a migration category

        by Sarah Kunz

        Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate interrogates the contested category of 'the expatriate' to explore its history and politics, its making and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, the book offers a critical reading of International Human Resource Management literature, explores the work and history of the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague, and studies the usage and significance of the category in Kenyan history and present-day 'expat Nairobi'. Doing so, the book traces the figure of the expatriate from the mid-twentieth-century era of decolonisation to today's heated debates about migration.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2023

        Following the expatriate

        by Sarah Kunz

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The harem, slavery and British imperial culture

        Anglo-Muslim relations in the late nineteenth century

        by Diane Robinson-Dunn

        This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women's studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.

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