Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 128, Issue 4, 2015

Abstract Farming urbanites or urbanized farmers? A tentative study on urban farming in early modern Antwerp This contribution sheds light on the importance of the production and retailing of local food by townsmen. Recent studies on food and the city have neglected this aspect of early modern food provisioning. By looking at individual households and the corporation of the gardeners’ guild, this article glimpses the strat Read More

AbstractJubilees of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Seventeenth-century centenaries and their political contextHistorians generally consider centenaries in the nineteenth century as ‘invented traditions’ and in terms of scale and political motivation emphasise discontinuity with jubilees celebrated in the early modern period. This article, however, contends that centennial jubilees were organised and celebrated widely be Read More

AbstractPolitical representation and electoral malpractice, 1795-1917Elections are generally viewed as a crucial aspect of modern political representation. Recently political theorists and historians have questioned this claim and are opening up the theoretical and historical understanding of representation. In this article we too question the self-evident relationship between representation and election. We do Read More

Abstract The historical novel and national romanticism in the Netherlands, 1790-1899 According to Joep Leerssen ‘national romanticism’ is defined by the artist’s goal (a national political cause) and his means (inspiration is found in the past and present of the nation). This movement spread rapidly through Europe between 1820 and 1870, and Leerssen considers the ‘long tail’ and ‘the banal’ of ‘national romanticism’ mainly a Read More

Abstract Contrite Loe de Jong. Media censorship and the Committee of Action against Neo-Fascism (London 1944) On 10 June 1944 seven signatories issued a pamphlet accusing the Dutch government in exile of secretly preparing an authoritarian regime immediately to follow the German occupation. The members of this Committee of Action against Neo-Fascism belonged to the circle of Radio Orange, the Dutch b Read More