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 […]
Meet the Author & Presenters
Lecture | Booklaunch – CoGloSS | Oosters Genootschap | Leiden University Press The Open Door to Hidden Paganism. Abraham Rogerius’s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651) Author: Benjamin Leathley (Università di Bologna) Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025 Time: 15:00 – 17:00 Location: P.J. Veth Nonnensteeg 1-3, 2311 VJ Leiden Room1.01 Series COGLOSS Seminars 2024-2025 Benjamin […]
LUP booth at ESSHC!
Step back in time to explore our rich collection, that delves into the exciting history of social sciences. Join us at the 15th edition of the ESSHC! Bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. A lively exchange of intimate sessions, the conference welcomes topics ranging from all […]
Ebook launch The Eighty Years War
With popular demand for our printed edition, we are now launching the ebook of The Eighty Years War From Revolt to Regular War, 1568-1648. The Eighty Years War offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutch Republic. In 1648 the Spanish empire agreed to a peace treaty that […]
Demons and Thunder
By writer Jan Wim Buisman in a featured series about his book Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. This blog was originally published by the John Adams Institute. Enlightened Protestants and Catholics both wanted to liberate simple folk from ignorance, fear, and superstition by good instruction. In enlightened eyes, fear of thunderstorms was not only evidence […]
Religious Reactions to Thunderstorms
By writer Jan Wim Buisman in a featured series about his book Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. This blog was originally published by the John Adams Institute. That God addresses people directly in thunder and lightning was a generally accepted idea in the religious mentality of the sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century West. That notion of […]
A New Invention: Franklin and the Netherlands
By writer Jan Wim Buisman in a featured series about his book Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. This blog was originally published by the John Adams Institute. Benjamin Franklin visited the Dutch Republic on two occasions. When he and his son William travelled in the Austrian Netherlands and the Dutch Republic in August and September […]
Lightning, Volcanism and Earthquakes!
By writer Jan Wim Buisman in a featured series about his book Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. This blog was originally published by the John Adams Institute. This year, Iceland once again proved itself to be a volcanic island. You will remember that as of February 8, 2024 a couple of volcanoes produced […]
