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This collection highlights the need for improved biosecurity in livestock production as a result of increased disease risk, focussing primarily on pig, poultry and beef cattle production. Chapters review the emergence and re-emergence of key pathogens and the role of effective biosecurity measures in mitigating future disease outbreaks.

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth century. Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversation by focusing on the enduring legacy of seventeenth-century Afro-Atlantic Catholics in the broader history of African American Christianity. With h...

Globally, the way the animal production industry copes with infectious diseases is changing. The (excessive) use of antimicrobials is under debate and it is becoming standard practice to implement thorough biosecurity plans on farms to prevent the entry and spread of pathogenic micro-organisms. Not only in farm animal production, but also in facilities where companion animals are kept, including in veterinary practices and clinics, awareness o...

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" a...

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Das Werk Hugo Loetschers ist bisher selten in einer internationalen, multikulturellen Perspektive analysiert worden. Da es traditionell in einem kulturellen (deutschsprachigen) oder sogar nationalen (schweizerischen) Sinn begrenzt wurde, übersah man, dass Loetschers Wunderwelt - Eine brasilianische Begegnung (1979) wegen seiner höchst originellen literarischen Verarbeitung einer Begegnung mit dem Fremden, als frühes Beispiel einer «teilnehmend...

A grammar of the Dutch language written in Portuguese and made for native speakers of Portuguese who are learning Dutch. It includes grammatical exercises and a list of the most used words in the Dutch language with the respective Portuguese translation.

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" a...

The first book to offer a complete story of the extraordinary proliferation of Dutch clandestine literature under the Nazi occupation. The first book to offer a complete story of the extraordinary proliferation of Dutch clandestine literature under the Nazi occupation.