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What allowed the Netherlands to punch above its weight? How should the country build on that achievement?

This book identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling.

At the occasion of the 25 anniversary of the Dutch Cultural Policy Act, Dutch academics in cultural policy research have compiled a volume to commemorate the quarter century in which Dutch cultural policy has developed and analyse the key debates in Dutch cultural policy for the coming years

This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other.

This book demonstrates how qualities and activities first associated with outlaws were repurposed to depict other transgressive figures in early medieval English, Irish, and Icelandic literature, and their travel throughout the archipelago used to convey moral instruction.

Soul of the Documentary offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By closely reading a diverse body of films-from The Last Bolshevik to Grey Gardens-Hongisto shows how documentary cinema intervenes in the real by framing it and creatively contributes to its perpetual unfolding. The emphasis on framing brings new urgency to the documentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world.

Contributions from twelve renowned scholars examine the evolution of Dutch economic history from the pre-1940 period, when German scholarship strongly influenced economic historians, to the growing internationalization of the field since the 1990s.

This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research.

This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond.

This book the first comprehensive examination of the Dutch painter Godefridus Schalcken's activities in the four years that he spent in London, surveying his art and concludling with a critical catalogue of all his London-period work.

In this biography, musicologist and historian Frits Zwart carefully examines in great detail a musical life lived by Willem Mengelberg, undeniably the greatest conductor in Dutch music history.

This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses.

This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe.

This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders.

The first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice.

This book studies the life trajectories of protestors during the May '68 civil uprising in France, using statistics and personal narratives to analyse how this activism arose, its impact, and its transmission through generations.

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the margins of heritage sites where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place.

This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.

This book analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.

This book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond.

This anthology analyses low-wage migrant workers in Europe from many perspectives, including migration policies, human rights, economics, and more.

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West.

This book argues that premodern societies were characterised by the quest for Yvirtue.OE

This book looks at the largely neglected colour films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) that can teach us about cinema's distinctive ability to draw on painting, photography, sculpture, and the plastic arts in general.

This book analyses the collaboration between local communities and greater authorities in medieval France which grants us unusual insight into the period's concept of madness.

This book reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic.

This anthology provides an in-depth introduction to the networks shaped by the Baltic Sea, the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sami, Baltic, and Slavic peoples.

Interdisciplinary learning activities contains concrete suggestions in the form of examples of learning activities that university teachers can use to teach and foster interdisciplinary skills in graduate and undergraduate students.

Even though peeing is something we all do several times a day, it is still a taboo subject. This paradox has not gone unnoticed by artists through the ages.

This book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup.