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An Experts' Guide to International Protocol (Heruitgave)

Best Practice in Diplomatic and Corporate Relations

2021 || Hardcover || Gilbert Monod de Froideville e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

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The Faces of Margraten

They Will Remain Forever Young

2022 || Hardcover || Fields of Honor Foundation || Amsterdam University Press

In the rolling hills of Limburg, near Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: the thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David. They mark the final resting place of nearly 8,300 American soldiers who died during World War II. While the headstones provide us with the names of the mostly young men involved in the liberation of the Netherlands, they do not tell us who the soldiers were and who they left behind. Moreover, the peace and quiet at the only American war cemetery in the...

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Site of deportation, site of memory

2017 || Hardcover || Vivien Collingwood || Amsterdam University Press

The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps. Before the war, the theatre had been an example of Jewish integration in the Netherlands, and after the war it became a memorial for the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. This book is the first international publication to address all the historical aspects of the site, putting it ...

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Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine

2022 || Hardcover || Julia van Rosmalen e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

Prometheus was punished by the supreme god Zeus for giving to mankind the Olympic fire with which they learned to think and feel. He was chained to a cliff in the Caucasus, where, to make matters worse, he was visited daily by an eagle who ate part of his liver. At night, however, his liver grew back. We now know that the liver can regenerate, but were the ancient Greeks aware of this quality?

The myth of Prometheus has been a source of inspiration for many visual artists over the centuries....

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Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe

New Revised Edition SET

2022 || Hardcover || Joep Leerssen || Amsterdam University Press

This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. This new revised edition includes more than 100 additional artic...

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Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes

The Artist’s Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours

2023 || Hardcover || Mirjam Knotter e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first known buyer of an etching plate by Rembrandt, depicting Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, was a Sephardi Jew of Amsterdam. Seen through their eyes, Rembrandt was the creator of images with a special meaning to Jews. They have been followed through the centuries by Jewish c...

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A History of Photography in Indonesia

From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age

2022 || Hardcover || Brian Arnold || Amsterdam University Press

As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. 'A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age' looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed...

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Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected

2024 || Hardcover || Frank IJpma e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

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The ABC of Modern Biography

2018 || Hardcover || Nigel Hamilton e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

In this book - an ABC of the genre, with 26 entries - two renowned biographers and teachers take us on a tour, from A for Authorization to Z for Zigzagging to the End. In trenchant, witty entries they explore the good, the bad and the plain ugly in modern 'life writing' and the portrayal of real lives today - and how, across history and continents, we got here.This book will fascinate general readers interested in how real lives are approached by biographers today in a multitude of media. It ...

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The Green Middle Ages

The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600

2023 || Hardcover || Claudine Chavannes-Mazel e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

How ‘green’ were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like deforestation and sustainability.

This book is about the knowledge of plants and where that knowledge came from. How did people use earth and plants in ancient times, and what did they know abo...