Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 132, Issue 3, 2019

Abstract Time-honoured friends. French influence on the formation of the princely court of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland In 1806, at Napoleon’s behest, Louis Bonaparte suddenly became the foreign king of a former republic. Confronted with the problem of finding competent and trustworthy senior court dignitaries in this alien environment, he initially resorted to appointing French friends and confidants. Louis’ choice was far f Read More

Abstract A colonial culture along the Zaan. Rice mills and the imagination of an imperial space, c. 1870-1914 This article argues that the extensive rice milling industry that thrived in the Zaan region around 1900 contributed to a Dutch colonial culture, by presenting itself as part of a natural division of labour between colony and metropole that rested on European colonial rule. Processing large amounts of Javanese and Burm Read More

Abstract A dull political battle. An analysis of the political news coverage in De Telegraaf, 1902-1914 In 1893, De Telegraaf was founded as a response to the ‘boring news coverage of the bourgeois press’. As a self-declared neutral newspaper, inspired on the emerging Anglo-American mass press, the young daily was the odd one out in the Dutch bourgeois-journalistic landscape. This contribution shows how De Telegraa Read More

Abstract The House of Europe? Aachen’s Carolingian heritage and the German collective memory Due to its history as the centre of the Carolingian Empire and the coronation city of the Holy Roman Empire, Aachen’s heritage was appropriated by nineteenth and twentieth century German nationalists. It was used by the Wilhelminian and the National-Socialist regime as a symbol of German pride. After the Second World War Read More

Abstract No small affair. The Netherlands and the declaration of human rights, 1948-1957 The 1970s have often been indicated as the decade when human rights rose to significance in the international arena. In the period before, states supposedly showed little genuine interest in them. In this article, it is shown that the Dutch government was already committed to establishing a far-reaching, binding human rights regime d Read More

Abstract The Birth of Sustainable Development: Towards a History of Sustainability Sustainable development is one of the key political issues on the international agenda. The concept emerged in the 1970s and was shaped by nature conservation experts who worked for international organisations like IUCN and UNESCO. These experts developed and introduced three influential albeit different interpretations of sustain Read More