Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 133, Issue 2, 2020

Abstract Beyond national history. The Rawagede Massacre told as an entangled history In a historic first, the ruling of a civil court in The Hague in 2011 obliged the Dutch state to take responsibility for a mass execution perpetrated by Dutch military in the West Javanese village of Rawagede in 1947. Sixty-four years after the end of Indonesia’s struggle for independence (1945-1949) some justice has been served. This article ex Read More

Abstract The Thin Coherence of the Enlightenment: Equality, Society, and Religion in Enlightenment Encyclopaedias One of the key trends in scholarship on the Enlightenment since the early 1980s has been the fragmentation of the movement into numerous strands based variously on national context, religion, or philosophical school, a fragmentation that risks emptying the signifier ‘Enlightenment’ of all meaning. This a Read More

Abstract Europe and the rise of Germany, 1830-1871. The German Question in European perspective A century and a half ago Bismarck’s Reichgründung fundamentally changed Europe’s states system. It marked the end of a quest for German unity that, since the 1830s, had been a central theme of European politics. This era has so far received little attention, and only a few historians appreciate that the rise of Ger Read More

Abstract Konrad Adenauer’s blueprint for a united Europe. Rescuing the Christian Occident (1949-1963) In his role as German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer proved to be an important force in the process of European integration. His thinking about European unity was determined by the peculiarly German notion of Abendland (Occident). How did Adenauer’s concept of the Christian Abendland inspire his blueprint for Euro Read More

Abstract The origin of the Dutch dairy breeds and its significance for their conservation as living heritage The three dairy breeds that dominated Dutch dairying in the twentieth century – Black and White, Red and White, and Groningen Whitehead – were first described by agriculturalist Iman van den Bosch on the basis of a quantitative analysis of their bodily dimensions. However, Van den Bosch did not analyse his data statisti Read More

Abstract Digital Access to the Legal Files of those tried for Nazi collaboration in the Netherlands: Possibilities and Impossibilities This article reflects on the findings of a pilot project called Triado that digitized a sample of the 4km of legal files created by the Special Jurisdiction for investigating Dutch Nazi collaboration (CABR) in the years after the Second World War. We show that large scale digitization may help to analyze com Read More

Abstract The mobilization of the nègres blancs d’Amérique. Shame and political symbolism as a legitimization for revolutionary violence in Québec (1963-1973) In research on liberation movements, or other social movements, academics tend to look at rational and material motivations – economic, political, social, geographical, and demographic – for revolutionary action. In this article I want to emphasize the leading role Read More

Abstract Erotic Censorship: The Second Sexual Revolution in Censorship of Pornographic Movie Posters in Belgium (1970-1980) This article studies the relationship between the second sexual revolution, pornography, and censorship by analyzing censorship of pornographic film posters in Belgium between 1970 and 1980. The prosecution of offences against decency declined in the Belgian courts throughout the seventies, Read More