Publications

This page presents a selection of recent books. For more publications, please visit the personal pages of our staff.

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    OECD ‘How was life?’-report highlights two centuries of wellbeing around the globe

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    16 March 2021

    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.
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    Shocking history lessons: what disasters can teach us about the resilience of societies

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    27 October 2020

    In the book 'Disasters and History', Utrecht historians describe important lessons we can learn from the history of disasters in society.
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    Tine De Moor co-author of new publication in Energy Research & Social Science journal

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    13 February 2020

    Tine De Moor contributed to the paper 'Transforming innovation for decarbonisation'.
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    Bringing back the national to the study of globally circulating policy ideas: ‘Actually existing smart urbanism’ in Hungary and the Netherlands

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    10 January 2020

    This study by Damion Bunders and Krisztina Varró was recently published by Sage Journals.
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    Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

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    13 December 2019

    In November Camebridge University Press published "Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe". This book is edited by Maarten Prak a.o.
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    Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java

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    3 June 2019

    This book by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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    The Commons in a Glocal World. Global Connections and Local Responses

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    6 May 2019

    On 24 May Routledge publishes 'The Commons in a Glocal World', a book co-edited by Tine De Moor.
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    Capital Women. The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment and Economic Development in Western Europe 1300-1800

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    25 February 2019

    At the end of April 'Capital Women', written by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor and Sarah Carmichael, will be published by Oxford University Press.
    
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    Money, Currency and Crisis: In Search of Trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000

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    18 October 2018

    This volume explores the role of money in economic performance, and focuses on how monetary systems have affected economic crises for the last 4,000 years.
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    The Origins of Globalization. World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800

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    18 October 2018

    When did the process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies?

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