Seeking the roots of persistent poverty, Maanik Nath finds that the pervasive high cost and shortage of capital affected the peasant’s ability to invest in land.
Climate change means that we have to deal with history in new ways, Professor Thijs Weststeijn argues in his new book The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate.
Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton) have recently published their new book about Treaty of Lausanne and the post-Ottoman world.
This publication, written by Iva Vukušić, is the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of Serbian paramilitary units during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia.
Jip van Dort, Lauren Gould and Marrit Woudwijk investigated the Dutch attack on Hawija and have compiled their findings in the new publication ‘Hawija’.
A new book on scientific conservation is being published by Professor of the History of Art, Science and Technology Sven Dupré and researcher Jenny Boulboullé.
Building on the book Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner, Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism offers new histories of freedom and republicanism.
Thijs Weststeijn is co editor of this special issue of History of Humanities, in which the focus is shifted to a knowledge perspective from Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
The new OECD publication ‘How was Life? II’ shows economic development and wellbeing in over 40 countries worldwide, in the last 200 years. Jan Luiten van Zanden, professor in Economic history, is one of the authors.
