Research programme
Economic and Social History
The key subject of the Team Economic and Social History is Inequality (at local, national and global levels). We study this from an intersectional perspective: gender, class, ethnicity or race, religion, sexuality, age, ability/disability, citizenship and legal status. We study these categories of power and identity in connection to each other and not separately. We think that how societies deal with one form of diversity is related to how societies deals with other forms of diversity.
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- Evelien Walhout
We seek to explain when, how and why change occurred and how changes affected the lives of people, and organisational infrastructures. Within our research programme we look at the movement of people, goods, services, capital, and ideas. We study the means by which actors influenced these changes, and the restrictions they encountered, which can be demographic, physical, spatial, political, institutional, legal, technical, financial, and imagined. We seek to explain mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, migration, ethnicity, crime, social engineering, subcultures, labour relations, orientalism, colonial heritage, social cohesion, freedoms and unfreedoms (inc slavery), cross-cultural networks, and a whole array of emancipatory movements (such as gay rights (LGTBQ+), labour, women, abolitionists, disability rights). We make comparisons over time and space. We combine historical research with methods, theories and insights from other disciplines.
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Economic and Social History
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- Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS)
- Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
- Paths through slavery: urban slave agency and empowerment in Suriname, 1700-1863
- Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period
- ForSeaDiscovery - Forest resources for Iberian empires: ecology and globalization in the age of discovery
- Fighting monopolies, defying empires 1500-1750: a comparative overview of free agents and informal empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire
- Financial flows to and from Soviet Central Asia, 1950-1990
- Human Development and Its Outliers: A Global Microhistory
- Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective
- Crime and gender 1600-1900: a comparative perspective
- Exploiting the Empire of Others: Dutch Investment in Foreign Colonial Resources, 1570-1800
- Tolerant migrant cities? The case of Holland 1600-1900
- Dilemmas of Doing Diversity (DiDi) - diversity policies and practices in Dutch towns in the past, present, and future