Pepijn Brandon
Profile
Pepijn Brandon is senior researcher at the IISH and assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work focuses on three connected themes: the history of capitalism, war and economic development, and slavery.
Brandon obtained his MA in history in 2007 (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, and his PhD in history (cum laude) in 2013 at the same institution. His dissertation, published in 2015 as War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) (Leiden: Brill 2015; paperback edition Chicago: Haymarket Books 2017) was awarded 'Best dissertation of the year 2013' by the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Culture and History and won the D.J. Veegens Award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. From September 2014 until January 2016, Brandon has worked at the University of Pittsburgh on an NWO-Rubicon fellowship. In 2016, he obtained an NWO Veni-scholarship for his project Naval shipyards: Laboratories of capitalism.
Books:
War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) (Leiden / Boston: Brill 2015) (paperback edition: Chicago: Haymarket Books 2017)
Source editions:
Rosa Luxemburg, Hervorming of Revolutie? Translated and introduced by Pepijn Brandon (Amsterdam, Aksant 2006)
Articles in books and journals:
- ‘Between company and state: The case of the Dutch East and West India Companies’, in: André Spicer and Grietje Baars (eds), The Corporation. A critical, interdisciplinary handbook (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2017, in print)
- ‘“Shrewd Sirens of Humanity”. The changing shape of pro-slavery arguments in the Netherlands (1789-1814)’, Revista Almanack, Vol. 14 (2016) 3-26
- ‘The Supreme Power of the People: National Ideals and Local Realities in the Batavian Revolution’ (with Karwan Fatah-Black), Atlantic Studies, Vol. 13:3 (2016) 370-388
- ‘The privilege of using their legs: Leaving the Dutch army in the eighteenth century’, in Matthias van Rossum and Jeannette Kamp (eds), Desertion in the Early Modern World. A Comparative History (London, Bloomsbury 2016) 73-93
- ‘Dutch capitalism and slavery: new perspectives from American debates’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, Vol. 12, no. 4 (2015) 117-137
- ‘For the reputation and respectability of the state’. Trade, the imperial state, unfree labor, and empire in the Dutch Atlantic’, in: John Donoghue and Evelyn Jennings (eds), Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1945 (with Karwan Fatah-Black) (Leiden / Boston, Brill 2015) 84-108
- ‘Een “war and society” geschiedenis van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog’, BMGN / Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 129, no. 3 (2014) 51-72
- 'Accounting for power. Bookkeeping and the rationalization of Dutch naval administration', in Jeff Fynn-Paul (ed), War, entrepreneurs, and the state in Europe and the Mediterranean (Leiden / Boston, Brill 2014) 151-169
- ‘Wie raapt de spaanders? Onrust aan de Amsterdamse admiraliteitswerf in ‘rustige jaren’, Holland. Historisch Tijdschrift 45:3/4 (2013) 127-136
- ‘Global power, local connections: The Dutch admiralties and their supply networks’, in: Richard Harding and Sergio Solbes Ferri (eds.), The contractor state and its implications, 1659-1815 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2012) 57-80
- ‘Marxism and the Dutch Miracle: the Dutch Republic and the transition debate’, Historical Materialism Journal 19:3 (2011) 106-146
- ‘Finding solid ground for soldiers’ payment: “Military soliciting” as brokerage practice in the Dutch Republic (c.1600-1795)’, in: Stephen Conway and Rafael Torres (eds.), The spending of states. Military expenditure during the long eighteenth century: Patterns, organisation, and consequences, 1650-1815 (Saarbrücken 2011) 51-82
- ‘“De Oppermagt des Volks”. Radicale democraten in Leiden tussen nationaal ideaal en lokale werkelijkheid (1795-1797)’, Holland. Historisch Tijdschrift 43:1 (2011) 3-23 (with Karwan Fatah-Black)
- ‘Internationalisme en de SP: Kritische kanttekeningen’, Kritiek. Jaarboek voor socialistische discussie en analyse (2009) 202-210
- ‘Rosa Luxemburg’, Kritisch Denkerslexicon, 41 (Diemen 2008) 1-17