De Moderne Tijd - Volume 5, Issue 2, 2021

Abstract ‘In that city I’m going to see the world’s fair’. The Amsterdam World Exposition of 1895 as an instrument to enhance city promotion An objective of the Amsterdam World Exhibition of 1895 was to promote tourism. Two elements were central to this: the status of ‘world city’ on the one hand and the emphasis on historical versus modern aspects of the city on the other. Various stakeholders had an interest in the exhi Read More

Abstract The biography as instrument: patriotic ideals becoming moral positions. C.J. Wenckebach on the ‘murder’ of Leiden’s rector magnificus H.A. Schultens (1749-1793) In the first half of the nineteenth century, it was policy to remain silent about the revolutionary period in the Netherlands that had led to major political changes in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Around 1850, at the end of his life, polit Read More

Abstract The biography as instrument: patriotic ideals becoming moral positions. C.J. Wenckebach on the ‘murder’ of Leiden’s rector magnificus H.A. Schultens (1749-1793) A liberal in the footprints of an old Batavian. Paul Strick van Linschoten’s travelogue (1818) and its translation/adaptation by ‘a statesman’ (1855-1856) In 1818, ex-patriot Paul Strick van Linschoten published a three-volume travelogue Read More