Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st century

essays on culture, history and politics in a dynamic context

Eds. Françoise Compajen, Lászlo Marácz and Lia Versteegh. Situated between Russia, Turkey, and Iran and comprising part of the Russian Federation along with Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, the Caucasus region is best known for ethnic and religious divides that have resulted in bloody conflicts for ...

Performing the past

memory, history, and identity in Modern Europe

Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in ...

European development cooperation

in between the local and the global

Ed. Paul Hoebink. 'The Lisbon Treaty puts European international and development cooperation at a cross-road. Will the Union be able to keep up its strong joint record? Hoebink et al provide a well-chosen, inviting mix of insights in some of the multiple challenges emerging." Paul ...

Dutch ships in tropical waters

the development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia 1595-1660

The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark ...

American multiculturalism after 9/11

trasatlantic perspectives

Eds. Derek Rubin, Jaap Verheul. This groundbreaking volume explores the multicultural debate that has evolved in the United States and Europe since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Instead of suggesting closure by presenting a unified narrative about cultural diversity, national identity, and social stratification ...

Fashion and fancy

dress and meaning in Rembrandt's paintings

Until now dress has played only a subordinate role in the research of Rembrandt's paintings, despite the fact that few artists are as intensively studied as this Dutch master. The lacuna is all the more surprising since Rembrandt obviously delighted in rendering clothes, which ...

Mystifying the monarch

studies on discourse, power, and history

The power of monarchs has traditionally been as much symbolic as actual, rooted in popular imagery of sovereignty, divinity, and authority. In "Mystifying the Monarch," a distinguished group of contributors explores the changing nature of that imagery# and its political and social effects# in Europe ...

Rembrandt

the painter at work