Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 129, Issue 4, 2016

Abstract Seasonal labour and migration in Roman Italy Cities in Roman Italy offered work to many thousands of people in all kinds of sectors. Most of that work was more or less permanent, and much of it required skill and expertise. The urban economy was subjected to periods of expansion and contraction which were partly cyclical and seasonal, partly due to such external factors as imperial policy. As a result, the labour de Read More

Abstract ‘The Belgians ran at the first shot.’ The battle of Waterloo and the rhetoric of cowardice For many generations British historians have decried the conduct of the Dutch troops at the battle of Waterloo as cowardly, an accusation which Dutch and Belgian historians, in their turn, have tried time and again to refute. This accusation of cowardice results from the exclusive and uncritical use a chauvinistic British historiogr Read More

Abstract Raising proper communists. Bringing up children in the communist movement, 1918-39 The aim of this article is to understand better how, during the interwar years, the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) tried to bring up children of communist families in accordance with communist ideology. Which norms and values were considered important and how were they conveyed? Which media and strategies we Read More

Abstract1 ‘How the bride doth suffer the groom’s wrath.’ Sexual violence and the Dutch armed forces in Indonesia, 1945-50 Members of the Dutch armed forces committed various acts of sexual violence, from exploitation to assault and rape, against Indonesian civilians during the decolonisation war of 1945-1950. Based on new research in archives and the egodocuments of veterans, which unearthed 79 cases of s Read More

AbstractThe charisma of Henk Sneevliet and the party culture of the Revolutionary Socialist Party in the NetherlandsRecent scholarship on the history of political parties has emphasized the need to research party culture, thereby focusing on the interaction between party leaders and their supporters. This article, however, claims that in order properly to understand party culture, due attention must be paid to the internal w Read More

Abstract Imperial anxieties. Security and empires in historiography Recent events have brought to light the possible links between nineteenth-century imperialism and current-day security issues. In the relevant literature, however, there has been little attempt to analyse the historical relationship between security and empires. The conference ‘Security and empire. Mechanics of securitization in imperial spaces’, held in Read More