Building Futures - Polders and Progress 1890-1933

dc.contributor.advisor	Meurs, W.P. van
dc.contributor.advisor	Jordheim, H.
dc.contributor.author	Zuiderveen Borgesius, Lenoor E.
dc.date.issued	2017-08-31
dc.description.abstract	This 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 organization of scientific information and the way in which they represented and enabled efficiency and progress on the basis of expert authority. The second chapter is an account of the concept of nature, and how it as water acted as a hostile entity, but simultaneously as 'human nature' legitimized hydraulic engineering as quintessentially Dutch enterprise. The third chapter deals with the multiple temporalities of the Zuiderzee, ranging from the area as living anachronism, to the organization and anticipation of modernist futures.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/5040
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.thesis.faculty	Faculteit der Letteren	en_US
dc.thesis.specialisation	Historical studies	en_US
dc.thesis.studyprogramme	Researchmasters	en_US
dc.thesis.type	Researchmaster	en_US
dc.title	Building Futures - Polders and Progress 1890-1933	en_US

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