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Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 136, Issue 1, 2023
Volume 136, Issue 1, 2023
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Moet geld rollen?
More LessAbstractMoney before coinage in Archaic and Early Republican Rome
Money existed in the Roman world before the introduction of coinage. Fragmentary information in the written sources suggests the existence of two main forms of money: bronze and cattle. However, this information is often difficult to interpret, due to the problematic nature of the sources, and the pervasiveness in our thinking of a modern concept of money. This article discusses the state of research, and summarizes the evidence about money in Archaic and Early Republican Rome given in the sources. It further discusses how this information, together with archaeological material, informs current interpretations of the actual use of bronze and cattle as money. Finally, it shows how insights from economic anthropology may help us better to understand the sources, especially focusing on ideas about the way money develops, and how its use can be limited to specific spheres of exchange.
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Humor als wapen in de strijd om de ware Nederlander
More LessAbstractWaging war with humour. War-time propaganda in Dutch satirical radio shows during the Second World War
This article analyses how humour and satire were used as propaganda in Dutch satirical radio shows during the Second World War. Through songs and cabaret sketches full of stereotypes, both the nazified Dutch Broadcast Company (Nederlandsche Omroep) and the official broadcasting station of the Dutch government-in-exile in London (Radio Oranje) tried to convince listeners of their message and to ridicule their opponents. The satirical cabaret sketches in the rival radio programmes De Watergeus and Paulus de Ruiter illustrate the propagandistic dilemmas on both sides. The aim was to emphasise oppositions between friends and foes. Yet the two radio shows struggled with how to win over the wavering and undefined group in between. Both had to take into account the fact that many Dutch people could not be easily classified as ‘pro’s’ or ‘anti’s’. These radio programmes tried to address this dilemma by acknowledging the other party but using humour and satire to ridicule them.
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Een beeld zegt meer dan duizend woorden
By Hilde LavellAbstractPicturing parliament. Photojournalists in the Dutch parliament in the 1970s
This article aims to fill a gap in the historiography of parliamentary visual culture and specifically parliamentary photography in the Netherlands. While the 1970s are considered the heyday of parliamentary photography, historical research has mostly focused on the Interbellum and specifically the work of one photographer, Erich Salomon. Research on media in the 1970s concentrates on the impact of the growing popularity of television, when in fact parliamentary photography was also booming during this period. This article explores the impact of parliamentary photography on the Dutch parliament and its members in the 1970s. It makes a distinction between the impact of the presence of photographers in political spaces such as the plenary hall of parliament and the impact of the photographs themselves, their content, and their specific style.
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De klimaatcrisis als koloniale crisis
By Iva PešaAbstractThe climate crisis as a colonial crisis. Perspectives from African environmental history
By reviewing recent works in African environmental history, this article explores the colonial roots of the Anthropocene. I argue that a historical approach is crucial to understand the current climate crisis and its planetary inequalities. This article traces colonial environmental injustices, through examples such as forestry, agriculture and hydroelectric dam schemes, to show how they are reproduced and endure into the present. The exclusionary histories of the nature-culture divide as well as the problematic effects of colonial development schemes poignantly presage the unsustainability of contemporary interventionist climate policies. In this respect, African environmental history provides unique perspectives on the Anthropocene’s unequal dynamics. Historians can play a more prominent role in contemporary debates about the climate crisis by documenting these colonial legacies and in doing so they can contribute to more just and sustainable climate policies.
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