Tag: Dutch

Free Download Henk-Jan Dekker, "Cycling Pathways: The Politics and Governance of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure, 1920-2020 "
English | ISBN: 9463728473 | 2021 | 404 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Netherlands became the premier cycling country of the world. Why were Dutch cyclists so successful in their fight for a place on the road? Cycling Pathways: The Politics and Governance of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure, 1920-2020 explores the long political struggle that culminated in today’s high cycling levels. Delving into the archives, it uncovers the important role of social movements and shows in detail how these interacted with national, provincial, and urban engineers and policymakers to govern the distribution of road space and construction of cycling infrastructure. It discusses a wide range of topics, ranging from activists to engineering committees, from urban commuters to recreational cyclists and from the early 1900s to today in order to uncover the long and all-but-forgotten history of Dutch cycling governance.

Free Download Rick Honings, "Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830) "
English | ISBN: 9089648275 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity. These early scholars promoted the Dutch language during a time of political upheaval, when citizens needed something to feel proud of. This book examines the impact individual agents had on a crucial stage in the Dutch nation-building process.

Free Download Peter Verstraten, "Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis "
English | ISBN: 9463725334 | 2021 | 482 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis is a sequel to Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (AUP, 2016), but the two studies can be read separately. Because of the sheer variety of Fons Rademakers’ oeuvre, which spans ‘art’ cinema and cult, genre film and historical epics, each chapter will start with one of his titles to introduce a key concept from psychoanalysis. It is an oft-voiced claim that Dutch cinema strongly adheres to realism, but this idea is put into perspective by using psychoanalytic theories on desire and fantasy. In the vein of cinephilia, this study brings together canonical titles (Als twee druppels water; Soldaat van Oranje) and little gems (Monsieur Hawarden; Kracht). It juxtaposes among others Gluckauf and De vliegende Hollander (on father figures); Flanagan and Spoorloos (on rabbles and heroes); De aanslag and Leedvermaak (on historical traumas); and Antonia and Bluebird (on aphanisis).

Free Download Frans-Willem Korsten, "A Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event "
English | ISBN: 9462982120 | 2017 | 248 pages | PDF | 1416 KB
In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is characterised by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque exuberance, irregularity, paradox, and vertigo with scientific rigor, regularity, mathematical logic, and rational distance. In giving a new historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one, this study also offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatisation, moment, and event: concepts that are currently at the centre of philosophical and political debates but the modern articulation of which can best be considered in the explorations of history and world in the Dutch Republic.

Free Download George Bryan Souza, "Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c.1585 – 1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce "
English | ISBN: 1472417003 | 2014 | 346 pages | EPUB | 1528 KB
This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. They are based on exhaustive research and careful analysis of diverse sets of archival materials found around the globe. Written by a leading authority on global maritime economic history and the history of European Expansion, each individual essay addresses a topic of fundamental importance to those interested in knowing more about what merchants did (with which resources and under what conditions) and how they did it, what were the commodities that were incorporated into local, regional, intra-regional and global economies, and what was the role and function of early modern maritime trade and commerce in economic development in general and especially in Asia in the early modern era, from c. 1585-1800. A number of them, in particular, relate the individual or collective merchant experience to specific European (Portuguese and Dutch) imperial projects and their contestation amongst themselves and their indigenous neighbours over portions of the period. Collectively, they form an exposition of a utilitarian view of human activity under a wide-ranging different set of circumstances and conditions but with similar patterns of behaviors and responses that are largely independent from ethnic, racial or religious stereotyping. The work therefore should raise new issues and avenues of research concerning these agents and objects in European Expansion, Asian and Global History.

Free Download Jeroen Dewulf, "Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature during the Nazi Occupation"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 157113493X | PDF | pages: 299 | 13.7 mb
The first book to offer a complete story of the extraordinary proliferation of Dutch clandestine literature under the Nazi occupation.

Free Download Tobias Arnoldussen, "The Social Construction of the Dutch Air Quality Clash: How Road Expansions Bit the Dust Against Particulate Matter"
English | ISBN: 946236639X | 2016 | 458 pages | PDF | 16 MB
From a small policy issue in the 1990s, air quality became a hotly debated public problem in Dutch law and politics in 2004. During the political and legal clash over air quality in the years 2004 – 2010, Dutch infrastructure development and road expansion grinded to all but a halt on account of exceedance of the legal standards for air pollution. Tobias Arnoldussen analyses this sudden emergence of air pollution on the Dutch political agenda by reviewing court cases, policy documents, European Environmental Law and the alarming research data on a new type of air pollution, Particulate Matter. By using social constructivism and discourse analysis as methods of socio-legal inquiry, Arnoldussen relates the emergence of the clash to innovative legal strategies of the environmental movement, the concerns of epidemiologists, ambitious European policy makers and an activist judiciary wielding its substantial political influence. On the level of law and policy the clash is considered to be the result of the increasing Europeanisation of Environmental Law, the failed ecological modernisation of mobility and the increasing role of a precautionary approach in European and Dutch law and policy. [Subject: Environmental Law, Dutch Law, European Law, Public Policy]

Free Download Dutch Home Cooking Cookbook: Hearty Recipes and Sweet Treats from the Netherlands by Martha Stanford
English | August 4, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CW1JSBLN | 84 pages | EPUB | 9.25 Mb
This cookbook brings you the best of Dutch cuisine, from hearty stews to crispy snacks and sweet treats. Dutch food is more diverse than many people think, with influences from Indonesia, Turkey, and Jewish cultures. While traditional Dutch dishes were often simple, today’s recipes blend classic ingredients with international flavors.

Free Download The Dutch Oven Cookbook by Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen
English | January 3, 2017 | ISBN: 1681881462 | 56 pages | MOBI | 0.72 Mb
Dutch Oven is a compact yet comprehensive guide to cooking with this durable, heirloom quality pot. These simple and delicious recipes for one pot cooking offer easy-to-follow instructions that provide new ideas on ways to utilize this versatile vessel, as well as contemporary adaptations of Dutch oven classics. Mouthwatering photography and a section with tips and tricks for using and caring for the cookware are included.

Free Download Donna Merwick, "The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0812222725 | EPUB | pages: 344 | 3.3 mb
The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be-and in so many respects were-at home, but they were not.