De Moderne Tijd - Volume 6, Issue 4, 2022

Abstract ‘That each one endeavors to exert his weak powers’. Resilience and Cholera in the nineteenth century This paper applies the concept of resilience, as operationalized through the capacity to learn, strategize and implement lessons after crises, to the situation in the city of Utrecht during and after the three major cholera epidemics that raged through Europe. It examines and discusses the learning capacities in the Read More

Abstract Resilience behind bars. Emotional practices in the prisons of Rotterdam and ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1800-1830 This article focuses on the emotional resilience of prisoners that affected both the prison community and their personal selves by using sources from the prison archives of Rotterdam and ‘s-Hertogenbosch from the years 1800-1830. Concentrating on emotional practices of fear, sadness, and anger, this con Read More

Abstract From ‘mutual aid’ to ‘ignorance and prejudice’. Changes in literary representations of adversity in the countryside, 1850-1914. In nineteenth-century Dutch village tales, rural communities often face adversity due to natural hazards. However, representations of (dealing with) adversity change over time. In early village tales (ca. 1850-1885), natural hazards are portrayed as unavoidable, whereas some early tw Read More