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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 ... -
(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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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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(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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(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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(2017-11-13)ResearchmastersThis thesis examines how the Frisian Nassau-Dietz family constructed a dynastic identity in its seventeenth-century funerary culture. The funerals of four family members (Ernst Casimir, Hendrik Casimir, Sophia Hedwig, and ...
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(2016-09-29)ResearchmastersGelderland lijkt tegenwoordig geen provinciale identiteit te hebben. Hoe zat dat vroeger? In de negentiende eeuw, de tijd waarin discussies over regionale en nationale identiteit alomtegenwoordig waren, produceerden ...
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(2017-08-31)ResearchmastersThe symbolical and physical authority formation of the senatorial aristocratic families of Rome - under the Theodosian dynasty (379-455 CE) is explored in this thesis. It aims to move beyond the institutional history of ...
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(2015-08-31)ResearchmastersThe subject of this thesis is papal propaganda during the Renaissance. The focus here is on moments of severe crisis, when rhetoric of papal supremacy was insufficient and new solutions had to be adopted to safeguard the ...
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(2016-09-21)ResearchmastersThis thesis attempts to understand the educational presence of foreign royal children at the Julio-Claudian court in relation to the much larger process of empire formation. By approaching the court as a contact zone, it ...
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