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Navigating the Northern Seas
Programme and Participants Session I : Navigating Zeeland and the Sont- Arne Van Eessen (UGent): The Nine Years Privateering War (1688-1697): the cases of Flanders and Zeeland compared- Sofie... [Event]
Gender and Work in the Early Modern Northern European World
Comparing various parts of early modern Europe, one is immediately struck by the fact that some countries developed capitalism very early (like Holland and Britain), whereas others did so much later... [Event]
Family and Household in Urban East and Southeast Europe
BackgroundThe family and household in East and Southeast Europe has increasingly been an object of anthropological and historical research in the last decades. John Hajnal's conclusion that marriage... [Event]
Economic Growth and Institutional Change in Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Background and aimThe `First Conference on Indonesia's Modern Economic History, 1815-1990' was held at the Indonesian Academy of Sciences in Jakarta on 1-4 October 1991 (for proceedings see Lindblad... [Event]
Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons
Convenors: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam and National Collection of Coins and Medals (KPK: Koninklijk Penningkabinet), Leiden (in cooperation with the FWO Flanders... [Event]
The Napoleonic Continental System
Since 2004, several exciting interdisciplinary conferences on the Napoleonic Empire have re-conceptualized the Napoleonic era as a period of intense political, military, social, and economic... [Event]
Wages and Currency
Visualizing Wage PaymentsIn Wages and Currency. Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century, an interdisciplinary project involving social and economic history as well as numismatics,... [Exhibition]
Economic Crisis 1637-2009
Imaginary money, fictitious valuables, stock jobbingBankers and speculators are considered immoral'Ordinary' people and tax payers eventually pay for the crisisThese three main ideas are common to... [Image gallery]
Penny-wise Housewives Keeping Account
A frugal and virtuous housewife was supposed to keep a record of her expenditure in a household account book. It enabled her to keep track of what she was spending, see why she had spent too much by... [Collection highlight]
Colony of Suriname Mapped Out
Each year, on behalf of the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, the colonial authorities in Suriname prepared a report on the ‘state of the nation’. In these annual reports, Suriname’s infrastructure was... [Collection highlight]

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