1,868 search results for “boer history” in the Public website
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Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies
Are you thinking about studying Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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A Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation
This study aims to provide a long time perspective of human landscape manipulation. Studying the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems is of great importance to establish the character of past 'natural' landscapes and to enhance the management of current ones.
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Ancient History in the Leiden University Botanical Gardens
Which plants in the Mediterranean garden were already known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and how were they utilized?
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Monica den Boer appointed as endowed professor Police Studies: ‘The blue line in my life’
Monica den Boer, who has decades of experience within police and defence and was also active as a Member of Parliament (D66), has been appointed extraordinary professor of Police Studies.
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Andrew ShieldFaculty of Humanities
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Visiting Researchers
Visiting Researchers at the Leiden University Institute for History
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Unravelling East Africa’s Early Linguistic History (LHEAf)
This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter SlamanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Joost AugusteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Rebekka GrossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Quiet Rebels? A Social History of Political Rhetoric
Speeches and speech acts have been crucial in settling the question at the centre of every political debate: who gets what, when and where?
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture
Carsten Stahn has just published Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture. The book is part of the OUP Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Series.
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Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness
Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors.
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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.
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Bart van der SteenLeiden University Libraries
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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CIA and Crypto AG rewrite history – Clingentael Spectator
It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.
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Paul KloegLeiden University Libraries
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community
This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.
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Patrick DassenFaculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcel KeurentjesFaculty of Humanities
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The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster
Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven
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Herman PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion
In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History of the Port City of Rotterdam
Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery.
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Extended Piano Techniques in Theory, History & Performance Practice
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Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice
Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes's doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed. His defence ceremony will consist of three concerts and a public defence. 'Musicians were using the interior…
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Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life
How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840
On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Johan VisserFaculty of Humanities
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General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
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Media History: Managing the News in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
This special issue of Media History (22-3/4, 2016), co-edited with Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam), develops a new perspective on the early modern communication revolution. It discusses news as a specific kind of information – by its nature continuous, unreliable, and diffuse – which needed…
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism.
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Vices of the Learned. Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices
Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages?
