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Wars Overseas
Military Operations by Company and State Outside Europe 1595-1814
2024 || Hardcover || Gerrit Knaap e.a. || Leiden University Press
'Wars Overseas' focuses on Dutch military actions outside Europe in the early-modern period. Those actions were rooted in the Eighty Years’ War, the conflict between Spain and the northern Netherlands that led to the creation of the independent Dutch Republic. The Republic was determined to trade in tropical products from Asia, Africa and the Americas, commodities on which the Iberians had had a monopoly for a century or more. To do so, however, it would have to fight. The fledgling State d...
Bitter Spice
Indonesia and the Netherlands from 1600
|| Hardcover || Harm Stevens || Vantilt, Uitgeverij
KADOC-Artes Missionary Places 1850-1950
Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities
2022 || Hardcover || Thomas Coomans || Leuven University Press
The 'spatial turn' of missionary places.
Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, the contributions in this volume investigate the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By looking at specific architectural fragments, analysing the insertion of Christian edifices in colonial urban settings, or unravelling the social understanding of missionary place...