Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 132, Issue 2, 2019

Abstract Time in the historical sociology of Ibn Khaldûn The Islamic thinker Ibn Khaldûn (1332-1406) developed a historical sociology in which change and its counterpart, habit, were essential components. There is a remarkable similarity to the ideas of later Western sociologists such as Weber and Bourdieu. The emergence of power in rural areas is followed by violent migration to urban ones, and the formation of dynast Read More

Abstract Press censorship and the Court of Holland, 1749-1800 The Dutch Republic is often presented as having relative freedom of press already in the seventeenth century. However, it has been argued that censorship increased during the eighteenth century because of more efficient co-ordination between authorities. This paper examines this claim by examining trials and bills in the provincial court of Holland (Hof van Ho Read More

Abstract All roads lead to... an institution? Institutionalisation trajectories of deaf people in East Flanders, 1750-1950 Comparing the life courses of deaf people with those of their siblings, we examine in this article the institutionalisation trajectories of deaf people in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century East Flanders. Despite an increase in institutionalisation in the nineteenth century, our analysis shows that institutionalisation wa Read More

Abstract In the service of two masters: military chaplains during the First World War This article treats the work of the British Anglican, German Protestant and French Catholic military chaplains during the First World War. Based on a wide range of sources, the author aims to answer the question of whether these men experienced role tension. This is the tension between their religious and secular responsibilities; between Read More

Abstract Firm, but inconspicuous. The Netherlands and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (1973-1983) This article reconsiders the role of the Netherlands in the Conference on Security and Co-operation (CSCE) in Europe in times of both détente (1973-1979) and crisis (1980-1983). This conference was meant to channel the Cold War in a more peaceful direction, but soon turned into a clash between Western Read More