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(2017-11-01)ResearchmastersThis thesis does not discard opinion polls as an inferior aspect of political communication, but historically studies how the appropriation of electoral research by broadcasters has influenced notions of political ... -
(2016-09-09)ResearchmastersCentral to this thesis is the question: how can differences between the public persona and the images of the practice of (popular) archaeology Austen Henry Layard (1817 - 1894), William Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942), and ...
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(2019-09-25)ResearchmastersEven though operetta has been a hugely popular genre in nineteenth-century Amsterdam, the genre has never been fully appreciated in Dutch historiography. Its influence on Dutch society has only partly been acknowledged by ... -
(2021-04-06)ResearchmastersIn his erudite periodical Pieter Rabus reflected on the most recent developments in the Republic of Letters. As the author of the Boekzaal van Europe, he attempted to convey heterodox ideas to his audience, resulting in ...
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(2020-02-07)ResearchmastersContrary to what one might believe, drunkenness was actually considered a highly complex phenomenon in the Middle Ages. Inspired by the notion of ‘indeterminacy’, this thesis investigates how a variety of meanings of ...
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(2017-08-15)ResearchmastersThis thesis explores the historical development and current appropriation of a war-related site in Japan—the Noborito Institute—that was connected to Japan's aggression during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). It illustrates ...
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(2017-08-31)ResearchmastersThis thesis researches the shape and conduct of three particular concepts in the context of the construction of the Zuiderzeewerken in the early twentieth century Netherlands. The first chapter deals with the visual ...
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(2021-03-31)ResearchmastersThis thesis examines the cityscape of Umayyad Córdoba that acquired a legendary status in the written source material already during the Umayyad era (AD 756-1031) as well as in the centuries that followed. In this research, ...
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(2021-08-19)ResearchmastersThis thesis focusses on the connections between heritage tourism, memory culture and imperialism in the Dutch East Indies between 1908 and 1940. In 1908 the Dutch imperial government supported the establishment of the ...
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Combatting Immorality: The implementation of the anti-trafficking discourse in the Dutch East Indies (2021-04-28)ResearchmastersThis thesis questions the function of the anti-trafficking discourse in the Dutch East Indies’ colonial politics between 1900 and 1940. It follows the Foucauldian notion that deviant sexualities were historically constructed ...
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(2016-04-14)ResearchmastersThis thesis seeks to analyse the differences and similarities between early twentieth-century comparisons between the British and Roman empires and between comparisons between America and Rome that were drawn during the ...
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(2019-10-09)ResearchmastersThis research provides an in-depth comparative analysis on how gender as a concept has been framed in three consecutive Dutch National Action Plans (NAPs) on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the period 2008-2019. This ...
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(2020-08-31)ResearchmastersIn the late seventeenth and the entire eighteenth century, the coastal regions of Sri Lanka were a colony of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC). Between 1659 and 1796 Colombo functioned as the capital of ...
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(2021-04-28)ResearchmastersThis thesis explores the emotional side of Roman slavery. I focus on the emotions of upper-class slaveowners and how their emotions shaped their attitudes towards slaves from the 1st century B.C. until the mid-3rd century ...
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(2016-09-05)ResearchmastersI analysed how the Catholic intellectuals involved in the periodical De Beiaard reflected on World War I and its outcome. It seems no coincidence that the journal was founded in 1916, at a moment in time in which it had ...
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(2019-08-26)ResearchmastersContrary to popular belief, the European Union has always cared deeply about public opinion. However, the EU’s longer history of interaction with the public and bottom-up engagement by civil society actors remains neglected. ...
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(2016-08-31)ResearchmastersIn the first century BCE, the city states of Greece were involved in Rome’s foreign and civil wars. These wars brought about a crisis for these communities which culminated in the incorporation of Greece into the Roman ...
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(2018-08-23)ResearchmastersThis study investigates four early modern English men - two astrologer-physicians and two male witches - and the various, often contradictory ways in which they expressed their masculinity by applying R. W. Connell’s theory ...
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(2021-07-07)ResearchmastersDinner parties, coffee- and house visits: social interactions occurring in the domestic sphere were vital to the everyday lives of the average nineteenth-century Dutchman. Yet until now, the historiography on Dutch sociability ...
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(2016-09-20)ResearchmastersThis thesis considers the question of how the missionary civilising project is manifested in the photography of children of the Marind tribe on the south coast of Dutch New Guinea by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart ...
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