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In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect numerical information. The study captures the underlying objectives and structures, as well as the methods to compile statistics. Nele Bracke investigates the meaning and significance of government statistics in the 19th-century State and society. In Belgium, early social scientists established an internationally renowned 'statistical system' designed to collect information about the country, the people and the society. This 'statistical system' was built around the 'Commission centrale de Statistique' (statistical committee) and the production of demographic, economic and agricultural censuses. In the first part of the book, the author analyzes the institutional history of the 'Commission centrale de Statistique' and its predecessors. In the second part of the book, she studies the censuses

This book treats the spectacular rise in life expectancy during the last three centuries. It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and women and to analyze it critically. Isabelle Devos studies the mechanisms of the historic fall in the death rate in an original manner and answers the question why research on the causes of this decline has not progressed faster. While the discipline of historical demography orients the first part of her book, the discipline of historical epidemiology provides the perspective taken in the second part, in which the role of insects as spreaders of disease is explored. Essential in her study is the importance of local medical practitioners who already at the end of the Ancien Régime warned of the dangers present in the environment. Their 'ecological' thinking created a consciousness that was decisive for the further development of healthcare

In the twentieth century, production and consumption rapidly grew, accompanied by businessesa frantic search for new markets. Many new institutions, corporations, interest groups, research organizations, trade groups, shops, and laboratories were involved in the search. Twentieth-century European mass consumption did not exist; it had to be projected, represented, constructed, and produced. In other words, mass consumption involved sustained work on the part of producers and consumers. By applying the concepts of mediation and mediation junction this book shows how consumption and economic pro

Lijst van kaarten en afbeeldingen -- Inleiding -- De Nederlandse Atlantische wereld in militaire context, 1585-1800 / Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer, en Han Jordaan -- DEEL EEN. MILITAIRE ORGANISATIES -- Wapenvolk in een wingewest: de slavenkolonie Suriname, 1667-1799 / Jean Jacques Vrij -- Krijgsvolk in Elmina : Asafo, garnizoen en Tapoeyerkwartier, 1700-1815 / Natalie Everts -- De vrijen en de Curacaose defensie, 1791-1800 / Han Jordaan -- DEEL TWEE. MILITAIR OPTREDEN -- De binnenlandse oorlogen in Suriname in de achttiende eeuw / Wim Hoogbergen -- "Wij beleeven hier droevige tyden" : Europeanen, indianen en Afrikanen in de Berbice slavenopstand, 1763-1764 / Marjoleine Kars -- DEEL DRIE. MARITIEM OPTREDEN -- Het "groot desseyn" en de aanval op Elmina in 1625 / Henk den Heijer -- "Sijt ghekommandeert te zeijlen na de Kust van Ghenee" : expeditionair optreden op de kust van West-Afrika, 1664-1665 / Adri P. van Vliet -- DEEL VIER. MILITAIRE CULTUUR -- Nederlands-Braziliaans militair inlichtingenwerk van de West-Indische Compagnie, 1629-1654 / Benjamin N. Teensma -- Marteling, muiterij en beeldenstorm : militair geweld in de Nederlandse Atlantische wereld, 1624-1654 / Wim Klooster -- Over de auteurs -- Register van persoons-, scheeps- en geografische namen.

Since the Middle Ages artists from the Low Countries were known to be fond of travelling, as Guicciardini in his "Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi" (Antwerp, 1567) and Karel van Mander in his 1604 "Schilderboeck", already noticed. Much more mobile than their colleagues from other European countries, many Netherlandish artists spread all over Europe; a remarkable number among them achieved great fame as court artists, as the careers of Claus Sluter in Burgundy, Anthonis Mor in Spain, Bartholomeus Spranger or Adriaen de Vries in Prague, Giambologna and Jacob Bijlevelt in Florence demonstrate. Moreover, they exerted considerable influence on the artistic production of their time. Nevertheless most of them sank into oblivion soon after they died. Dutch art history neglected them for a long time as they did not fit into the traditional canon of the Low Countries, nor were they adopted by the art histories of their new homelands. This new NKJ volume is an attempt to change this

For a long time, the war in Indonesia and the extreme violence used by the Dutch troops were not a subject that was much discussed or written about in the Netherlands. After the end of the war, the government made great efforts to avoid discussions about it or even to nip them in the bud. The revelations by East Indies veteran Joop Hueting in 1969 initially led to great commotion, resulting in the 'Excessennota' and the government position that the armed forces had behaved correctly, apart from a number of 'excesses'. That was it, until in recent decades more and more indications emerged that the armed forces had used extreme violence on a larger scale. Not only politicians but also journalists, historians and history teachers struggled with the violent decolonisation of Indonesia. The groups most affected, such as veterans, Moluccans and Indo-Europeans, were also reluctant for a long time to talk about their often bitter experiences in public. Finally, Indonesia also did not seem very interested in reviving this history of mutual violence. As a result, it was only very late, very cautiously and jerkily, that the war gained a place in the Dutch culture of remembrance.

De ontdekking in 1492 van de nieuwe wereld op het westelijk halfrond door Christoffel Columbus (circa 1451-1506) luidde een periode in van verovering en kolonisatie door enkele Europese mogendheden die meerdere eeuwen zou duren. Grote aantallen Europeanen zouden zich in deze periode in de nieuw verworven gebieden vestigen, waarbij zij hun eigen cultuur en godsdienst meebrachten. De kolonisatie bracht tevens de invoering van andere rechtsstelsels met zich mee, veelal ontleend aan het recht van het land dat het gebied had veroverd. Maar het rechtsstelsel van het moederland werd zelden ongewijzigd in de koloniën overgenomen. De overzeese gebieden werden niet gezien als integrale delen van het moederland, waardoor de rechtsordes gescheiden konden blijven. Dat was onder meer van belang om slavernij, en daarmee een economie gebaseerd op grote plantages, mogelijk te maken. In dit boek wordt de receptie van Europese rechtsstelsels in de overzeese gebieden in de West beschreven.