The Dutch Monarchy and Its Colonial Past: Why History Matters
How deeply was the Dutch monarchy involved in colonialism? And what does that history mean for the Netherlands today? In The Dutch Monarchy and Its Colonial History, 1600–2025, historian Gert Oostindie explores the relationship between the House of Orange-Nassau and the Dutch colonial empire over four centuries. Drawing on an extensive scholarly research project, the […]
Exploring the Many Routes of History
From colonial medicine and the environmental impact of war to eighteenth-century reading culture and the Dutch monarchy’s colonial legacy, Leiden University Press explores the many ways history connects the past to the present. Every October, Maand van de Geschiedenis (Dutch History Month) invites us to look at the past from new perspectives. History is more […]
Award winning book!
Award winning book! Philipp Krauer has won the Thomas Welskopp Dissertation Award of the German Labour History Association for his book Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914. Photographed from left to right: #StefanBerger, President of the #GLHA, the two prize winners #PhilippKrauer and #KorneliaRung as well as […]
Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference
Coming to you from the largest Asian Studies Conference worldwide, we are excited to showcase together with our partner Amsterdam University Press our latest books at #AAS2025! From topics surrounding colonial discourses…to gender research… to religious and political debate… our publications specialize in subject matters that reach right across the Asian continent and its cultures. […]