2,010 search results for “crime history” in the Public website
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
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Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective
Deze bundel is de tweede in de reeks Studies in Global Migration History en past als zodanig binnen het al langer lopende internationale project ‘Global Migration History’, dat beoogt dit nieuwe onderzoeksveld verder te ontwikkelen.
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Power and Persuasion. Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans
The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-‘states’ and peasant ‘republics’ into ‘modern’ states, claiming some measure of sovereignty, remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea on the) Europe…
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty of Humanities
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Anna DerksenFaculty of Humanities
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Turaj AtabakiFaculty of Humanities
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der SteenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa
The studies outlined in this volume explore how connectedness continues to change Africa and how Africa continues to shape the social life of connections.
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Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize
Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Moving Romans. Migration to Rome in the Principate.
Moving Romans offers an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models and theories from the field of migration history.
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Urbanism and municipal administration in Roman North Africa
This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.
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The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages
The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.
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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.
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Edward GrasmanFaculty of Humanities
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Wim BootFaculty of Humanities
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Femme GaastraFaculty of Humanities
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Ben SchoenmakerFaculty of Humanities
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Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Who had a say in making decisions about the natural world, when, how and to what end? How were rights to natural resources established? How did communities handle environmental crises? And how did dealing with the environment have an impact on the power relations in communities?
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Four new Research Trainee Projects at the Institute for History
This year four research trainee projects were approved by the faculty to be carried out at the Institute for History this semester.
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Sociabilidade do Brasil Neerlandês (1630 - 1654)
Painstaking research in Dutch and Portuguese archive materials, so far poorly assessed on the topic of social relations, reveals intense and intricate associations between different European individuals both in terms of ethnicity and social strata.
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Building tabernae
This project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200 BCE – 300 CE).
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Sam de SchutterFaculty of Humanities
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Wietse StamFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Paul KloegFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Sjang ten HagenFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Moving Romans. Urbanisation, migration and labour in the Roman Principate
To what extent was labour-induced migration important to the functioning of the towns and cities of Roman Italy?
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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500, Third Edition
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial…
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Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation
Knowledge and culture subproject 3:
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Thomas LindbladFaculty of Humanities
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Chris StaalmanFaculty of Humanities
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Antheun JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Laura PlezierFaculty of Humanities
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Eurafrica: African perspectives, 1917-1970s
How did African actors engage with the idea of Eurafrica?