Fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of ...international politics in which many people—black and white, well-meaning and ruthless, African, European, and American—bear responsibility for this crime.
In Carriers of Growth? Ann Coenen exposes the wide-ranging impact of international trade on economic development in the eighteenth-century Southern Low Countries.
In 'Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands', Masja van Meeteren studies the different ways in which irregular migrants live in Belgium and the Netherlands. The book offers an empirically ...grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on 'survival strategies', relies on comparisons of migrant communities and overemphasizes structural explanations. Instead, Irregular Migrants takes irregular migrants´ aspirations as a starting point of analysis. Based on this innovative research approach, key questions are answered regarding the lives of irregular migrants. How can we understand their patterns of economic and social incorporation, the transnational activities they engage in, and the significance of different forms of capital? Drawing on intensive participant observation, as well as more than two hundred in-depth interviews with irregular migrants and representatives of organizations that are involved with them, Irregular Migrants develops much-needed contextualized insights. As such, it sheds new light on previous research findings and various deadlocked scholarly debates on irregular migrants in Western societies.
The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which ...history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.
In the period 1900-1940 the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland reacted in divergent ways to the same foreign military threats. This volume argues that their internal politics and ...politico-military strategic culture are vital keys to understanding those differences.
In de loop van de negentiende eeuw komt ‘rechts Vlaanderen’ tegenover ‘links Wallonië’ te staan. Bij elke parlementsverkiezing bleek (en blijkt) het Vlaamse kiesgedrag af te wijken van het Waalse. ...Hoe is het ontstaan van rechts Vlaanderen te verklaren? Historici hebben het Vlaamse kiesgedrag vaak geïnterpreteerd als de politieke vertaling van de economische en culturele ‘achterlijkheid’ van ‘arm Vlaanderen’: de Vlaamse samenleving was traditioneel en de kiezers stemden er dus traditioneel. Anderen hebben aangevoerd dat de katholieke partij beter inspeelde op de Vlaamse verzuchtingen en dat de Vlaamse kiezers gewoon ‘rationeel’ handelden door rechts te stemmen. In dit boek onderzoekt Henk de Smaele beide theses kritisch. Hij komt tot de vaststelling dat geen van beide volstaat om de vorming van rechts Vlaanderen te verklaren. Om het fenomeen beter te begrijpen, moet men niet alleen aandacht hebben voor ‘tradities’ en ‘belangen’, maar ook voor ‘affecten’. Zo zal blijken dat de ‘culturele ruralisering’ van Vlaanderen de sleutel is tot het geheim van rechts Vlaanderen.
België en India hebben op het eerste gezicht weinig gemeen. Toch hebben beide landen elkaars paden regelmatig gekruist. Het Zuid-Aziatische subcontinent trok eeuwenlang handelaars, missionarissen en ...avonturiers uit onze regio’s aan. Maar India fascineerde ook mensen in België zelf. Indologen en yogaleraars brachten het land in verband met oude culturen en spiritualiteit. Het brede publiek associeerde India lang met maharadja’s en fakirs: relicten van de koloniale propaganda en de oriëntalistische stereotypering. Geleidelijk leren steeds meer Belgen Indiërs ook op andere manieren kennen, want immigratie en globalisering maken de banden intenser dan ooit. Het wiel van Ashoka verschijnt in het kader van 'Europalia India’. Dit toonaangevend internationaal festival loopt van 4 oktober 2013 tot 26 januari 2014 en brengt India naar het hart van Europa.
Locarno Revisited Dockrill, Michael
2004, 20040802, 2004-05-28, 2004-08-02
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This collection of essays examines European politics and diplomacy in the 1920s, with special emphasis on the Treaty of Locarno of 1925, often seen as the 'real' peace treaty at the end of the First ...World War. Contributors discuss the diplomacy of the principle countries that signed the Treaty of Locarno in 1925 and consider the issues of greatest importance to the study of European history in the 1920s. They also assess whether the treaty could be seen as the 'real' peace treaty with Germany at the end of the First World War. Key chapters include: Locarno, Britain and the Security of Europe; Locarno: Early Test of Fascist Intentions; Locarno and the Irrelevance of Disarmament. 'Locarno diplomacy' meant different things to each of the countries involved. The inability of contemporaries to arrive at a working consensus about what the treaty was intended to achieve weakened it and paved the way for its destruction. Unlike the Paris Peace Conference, however, the Treaty of Locarno and the era of diplomacy to which it gave its name, were not always seen as flawed. Until 1945, they were held up as one of the high points of European diplomacy in the 1920s. This book asks whether it is still appropriate to under-rate the importance of the Treaty of Locarno
In their time, the work of the Flemish writers Rosalie (1834-1875) and Virginie (1836-1923) Loveling could already count on the great appreciation of critics such as E.J. Potgieter and J. ten Brink. ...But only now is it clear how progressive the views of these sisters were. Not only did they write poignant stories in which they depict contemporary reality in a 'realistic', sober and controlled way, but they also expressly took advanced positions on intellectual, philosophical and social issues. As a woman, they claimed the right to study and write.
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