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The Sukhovo-Kobylin case is a representative example of nineteenth-century Russian jurisprudence which did not allow persons suspected of a crime to defend themselves but did allow judicial institutions to accept bribes. The story of the case reads like a murder mystery, with all the ingredients of a real thriller: the main character is a rich nobleman with two mistresses. A French milliner was the victim of a gruesome murder on a winter eveni...

Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on nuptiality, fertility and mortality are calculated to test the Malthusian predictions on a so ca...

This book adresses an important issue in historical demography - the differences between reproduction in low pressure and high pressure demographic regimes. The existence of such differences was first noted in 1789 by Thomas Malthus when he contrasted the low pressure European regimes with the high pressure regimes found in the less civilized parts of the world, most notably China and Japan. This contrast, long taken as fundamental by historic...

In the early 1990s, the international community realised that development aid policies could not be effective unless coherence is achieved with other public policies of industrialised nations, the impact of which sometimes weighs much more heavily on developing countries. Consequently, this principle of coherence now constitutes one of the objectives of the international institutions, most notably the European Union which included it in the Ma...

Dit boek biedt een overzicht van de geschiedenis van het strafrecht en homoseksualiteit in Scandinavië 1842-1999, een periode waarin homoseksualiteit verboden was volgens de Scandinavische strafwetboeken. Dit was het geval in de meeste landen in Noord-Europa, maar in dit boek wordt uitgelegd dat de ontwikkelingen in Scandinavië afwijkt van de rest van Europa, mede door de samenlevingsstructuur van de Scandinavische verzorgingsstaat. Vijf wet...

In the previous century, survey data were often collected from random samples from the population. Respondents were questioned in face-to-face, via telephone interviews, or by mail questionnaires. Nowadays, in many polls, people are invited to express their opinion through the Internet. Is this technological progress or a methodological hornets nest or both? In October of 2006, the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) organied a sympos...

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch herring fisheries in the North Sea were considered the most sophisticated and demanding fishing operation in the world. This is the first study to assess the North Sea herring and herring fisheries over the span of several centuries. It contributes to the understanding of pre-modern natural resource exploitation and the role of the natural environment in long-term development of the Dutch herring fisheries.

Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed ¿withering away of the strike¿ in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the ¿resurgence of class conflict¿ in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has been characterized as one of ¿labor quiescence¿. Commentators again predict the strike¿s demise, at least in the former heartlands of capitalism. Patter...

Danielle van den Heuvel examines the role women played in trade in the northern Netherlands. She looks at three forms of commercial enterprise in particular: street selling and stallholding, shopkeeping and international commerce. She uses evidence of female entrepreneurship originating from sources in several urban and rural areas of the country, which allows her to portray the various activities tradeswomen undertook, but also to elaborate o...

In the framework of this study, Turkish in the Netherlands has been scrutinied in a migration context from educational, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. Language achievement in Turkish of immigrant Turkish youngsters living in the Netherlands has been assessed during their first year of Dutch secondary education, within a longitudinal design of written pre- and post-tests. Within a cross-sectional and cross-national design, l...

Mass consumption is never self-evident. Consumption develops in tandem with production and with new social and institutional arrangements. Manufacturing Technology, Manufacturing Consumers considers the relation by focusing on the production and consumption of new technologies. It shows how twentieth-century technologies became socially embedded through the activities and interactions of a host of new institutions and organizations including s...

This study provides an in-depth look at the actual use of mechanisms for coordination and divisions of tasks in a field increasingly important to development efforts. Evidence includes country studies on South Africa, Indonesia, Guatemala, and Mozambique. Concrete recommendations are presented. "Paul Beaulieu" is a professor at the school of management sciences of the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada).

This evaluation focuses on Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific countries and on the agenda period from 2001 to the present.

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The 1960s witnessed a revolutionary change in economic history, to such an extent that in less than ten years time, the discipline was hardly recognizable thereafter. The essentially literary-descriptive method that had characterized economic history since its very beginnings in the second half of the 19th century, gave way to rigorous quantitative testing of mathematically formulated hypotheses, and as a result a host of formerly generally ac...

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In 1990 unknown Maori author Alan Duff suddenly became both famous and notorious in New Zealand for his first novel Once Were Warriors. The violent story of a poor urban Maori family aroused much controversy in New Zealand society, and the Maori community in particular. Many Maori commentators condemned the novel for its negative and allegedly racist portrayal of the indigenous Maori people, accusing Duff for 'hanging out the dirty linen' and ...

The most intriguing question about Indonesia's economic development during the twentieth century is why the country's growth performance has been so erratic and displayed such a high degree of discontinuity. This is connected with the fundamental question about the nature of long-run economic development in Indonesia. So far the economic history of Indonesia has been less systematic than what the available source material would permit. Indones...

This volume describes and analyses the highly successful career of the Dutch physicist and Nobel prie winner P.J.W. Debye (1884- 1966) in the Third Reich. The book sketches the life of a man who lived for science, but at the same time maintained close contacts with influential officials, industrialists and sometimes even politicians. In this context Debye declined to respond in public to the treatment of Jews in society in general and in scien...

An analysis of the dynamics of "Andean-ness" in relation to policy reform and globalization. It addresses new forms of cultural encounter, the validity of tradition in the midst of rapid change, and the alleged dissociation of identities and cultures from their territories.