Piet Emmer is Professor Emeritus in the History of European expansion and migration at the Leiden University Institute for History (chair from 1991 to 2009). 

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Piet Emmer is Professor Emeritus in the History of European expansion and migration at the Leiden University Institute for History (chair from 1991 to 2009). As he is no longer working at the Institute, you can best contact him by email.

Fields of interest

The History of European Expansion; Migration history

Major publications

Bade, K.J., Emmer, P.C., Lucassen, L. en Oltmer, J. (eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (München, 2007)

P.C. Emmer, O. Petre-Grenouilleau, and J.V. Roitman, A Deus ex Machina Revisited: Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development, (Leiden: Brill, 2006).  

• P.C.Emmer, De Nederlandse slavenhandel 1500-1850 (Amsterdam, 2000) 
• P.C.Emmer (ed), General History of the Caribbean, vol II, New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century (Macmillan, 1999). 
• P.C.Emmer, The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy (Aldershot, 1998) 
• P.C. Emmer, "Die Karibische Gebiete", in: Horst Pietschmann (ed.), Handbuch der Geschichte Lateinamerikas (Stuttgart, 1994), pp. 720-750. 
• P.C. Emmer & Magnus Mörner eds. European Expansion and Migration (Oxford, 1992) 
• P.C. Emmer, Europa's expansie in het Atlantisch gebied: wandaad of weldaad? (Leiden, 1991)

Publications