Tanzania has for some reason always been an important partner in development cooperation for the Netherlands. The African country has always followed its own peculiar development path, being ruled...Show moreTanzania has for some reason always been an important partner in development cooperation for the Netherlands. The African country has always followed its own peculiar development path, being ruled by the same socialist president for over 20 years. Despite the fact that Tanzania was ruled as a one party state, for some reason the way the country was governed seemed to have had some sort of significant appeal to the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs. Did they try to work and cooperate alongside the Tanzanian government or did they let him continue his experiment as long as stability was ensured? Did the Dutch state care so much for Tanzania because they believed in Ujamaa, or at least parts of it? By combining these questions the thesis will show how Netherlands reacted to the economic effects of Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa policy.Show less
Grote culturele veranderingen brengen ook grote religieuse veranderingen. Dionysos groeide van een angstaanjagende natuurgod uit tot het middelpunt van sociale beschaving en persoonlijk genot. Wat...Show moreGrote culturele veranderingen brengen ook grote religieuse veranderingen. Dionysos groeide van een angstaanjagende natuurgod uit tot het middelpunt van sociale beschaving en persoonlijk genot. Wat zat hier achter?Show less
Already during Antiquity, Egypt was famous for its royal mortuary monuments. During the millennia that have passed since the construction of these monuments, the meaning given to them by their...Show moreAlready during Antiquity, Egypt was famous for its royal mortuary monuments. During the millennia that have passed since the construction of these monuments, the meaning given to them by their spectators has altered several times. This study focusses on the interpretation and reuse of the Theban New Kingdom mortuary temples, the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Old Kingdom pyramids at the Giza Plateau during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. Aim of this study is to show how these monuments were interpreted and reused by two different groups of spectators, namely the Graeco-Roman tourists, who came to see these monuments, and the native Egyptians, who lived in the vicinity of these buildings. Moreover, the ways in which the meaning given to these mortuary monuments during the Pharaonic Period survived into the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, are discussed.Show less
People in the host society usually decide the identity of immigrants by immigrant’s descent and race. However, such criteria of judgment easily lead to the “labeling” of immigrants as “non-natives”...Show morePeople in the host society usually decide the identity of immigrants by immigrant’s descent and race. However, such criteria of judgment easily lead to the “labeling” of immigrants as “non-natives” and “forever foreigner”. And this kind of label is quite often placed on Overseas Chinese. Actually, the process of Overseas Chinese integrating into the host society has similarities with the history of the fusion of Hu and Han nationalities in Chinese history. Thus by comparing to the history of Hu and Han nationalities, a new standard to decide the identity of Chinese immigrants has been brought by this paper. The criteria to judge the identity of Overseas Chinese should not be based on descent and race, but on their cultural identity. The purpose of the paper is to enhance understanding of the difficulty of integrating into the host society faced by Overseas Chinese and tries to make some suggestions which may help to improve the hard situation of Overseas Chinese.Show less
The Deacons for Defense and Justice were formed in 1964 by a group of African American men from Jonesboro, Liousiana, who were fed up with the daily threat of Klan-violence. The organization gained...Show moreThe Deacons for Defense and Justice were formed in 1964 by a group of African American men from Jonesboro, Liousiana, who were fed up with the daily threat of Klan-violence. The organization gained reputation for being armed and willing to shoot back at attackers, which was in contrast with the nonviolent strategy as preached by activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. However, as the Movement was progressing, more armed African American organizations were established and the Deacons' faded away against the background of more radical groups such as the Black Panther Party. The Deacons' role within these late years of the Civil Rights Movement is what has been researched in this Master Thesis.Show less
Een onderzoek naar de maritieme kennisuitwisseling tussen de VOC en Japan gedurende de isolatie tijdens de Edo-periode. Het doel van de scriptie was het nuanceren van het zwart-witte beeld dat er...Show moreEen onderzoek naar de maritieme kennisuitwisseling tussen de VOC en Japan gedurende de isolatie tijdens de Edo-periode. Het doel van de scriptie was het nuanceren van het zwart-witte beeld dat er in de secundaire literatuur geschetst werd over het Japan tijdens de isolatie.Show less
This article examines the position of the Dutch planters in Indonesia after the transfer of sovereignty in 1949 until this nationalisation of the Dutch businesses in 1958. It studies the political...Show moreThis article examines the position of the Dutch planters in Indonesia after the transfer of sovereignty in 1949 until this nationalisation of the Dutch businesses in 1958. It studies the political and economic position of these planters and the changes it had to go through after the transfer of sovereignty, in the light of the ongoing New Guinea conflict between the Netherlands and Indonesia. The study argues that the Dutch planters had trouble with adjusting to the new political and social situation, which was hardened by the political relationship between the former colonizer and colonized.Show less
This research focuses on children of post-war Dutch migrants in Australia and their transnational ties to the Netherlands. The main question is how, why and when the transnational ties changed in...Show moreThis research focuses on children of post-war Dutch migrants in Australia and their transnational ties to the Netherlands. The main question is how, why and when the transnational ties changed in different political environments, such as the shift from assimilation to multicultural policy in Australia. The research starts at the migrants' childhood and ends in their later life.Show less
Onderzoek naar het gebruik van de exorbitante rechten door Gouverneur-generaal De Graeff in Nederlands-Indië voor het interneren van communisten naar Digoel. In de jaren 1926-1931 is naar...Show moreOnderzoek naar het gebruik van de exorbitante rechten door Gouverneur-generaal De Graeff in Nederlands-Indië voor het interneren van communisten naar Digoel. In de jaren 1926-1931 is naar aanleiding van een communistische opstand gebruik gemaakt van de exorbitante rechten om zo zonder juridisch proces personen te kunnen interneren.Show less
Historiography has characterised Roman North Africa as consisting of 'two worlds', a world of Roman cities on the one hand and indigenous rural hinterlands on the other. Using geographical analysis...Show moreHistoriography has characterised Roman North Africa as consisting of 'two worlds', a world of Roman cities on the one hand and indigenous rural hinterlands on the other. Using geographical analysis, survey archaeology and discourse analysis, this thesis researches the extent to which the marginal hinterlands (or 'shatter zones') of Late Antique North Africa were integrated into the wider Roman, Mediterranean state space. Despite the topographic difficulties for the Roman Empire to control the mountainous and steppe inland of the region, survey archaeology reveals a landscape that became thoroughly transformed under the later Roman Empire. Integration in the third to fifth centuries ended in the sixth century under the pressure of emperor Justinian's ideology of imperial renovatio.Show less
Deze scriptie behandelt de naoorlogse (1945-1962) strategie en inzet van de Koninklijke Marine op de Nederlandse Antillen. Deze twee zaken worden bezien in een breed kader, waarbij zij aan het...Show moreDeze scriptie behandelt de naoorlogse (1945-1962) strategie en inzet van de Koninklijke Marine op de Nederlandse Antillen. Deze twee zaken worden bezien in een breed kader, waarbij zij aan het Nederlandse buitenlands-, veiligheidsbeleid en marinebeleid worden gekoppeld. Enkele conclusies luiden dat de strategie en inzet werden vormgegeven door de wens om na de soevereiniteitsoverdracht aan de Verenigde Staten van Indonesië in december 1949 wereldwijd actief te blijven en dat Nederland vanuit dit uitgangspunt langdurige en tamelijk succesvolle onderhandelingen met de Verenigde Staten van Amerika voerde over Amerikaanse betrokkenheid bij de verdediging van de strategisch belangrijke eilanden Aruba en Curaçao in oorlogstijd. Tot slot wordt betoogd dat de Haagse vrees voor Venezolaanse annexatiepogingen van de Benedenwindse Eilanden en de opkomst van het communisme in de regio een andere reden vormde voor de gekozen strategische koers. De strategie en inzet kunnen daardoor worden gezien als een samenspel tussen enerzijds de intrinsieke motivatie om wereldwijd actief te blijven en anderzijds externe druk om de verdediging in de West te versterken.Show less
Vanaf de 4e eeuw v.C kwamen de Grieken steeds frequenter in aanraking met andere volken. Het ligt in de lijn der verwachting dat een dergelijke ontwikkeling een impact moet hebben gehad op de...Show moreVanaf de 4e eeuw v.C kwamen de Grieken steeds frequenter in aanraking met andere volken. Het ligt in de lijn der verwachting dat een dergelijke ontwikkeling een impact moet hebben gehad op de Griekse samenleving, zeker op religieus gebied aangezien de Griekse religie gekenmerkt wordt door haar dynamische en open karakter. In deze scriptie staan dan ook de religieuze veranderingen in de 4e en 3e eeuw v.C. centraal. Vervolgens is gekeken of deze veranderingen een effect hebben gehad op het concept goddelijkheid, om zo een volledig beeld te schetsen van de ontwikkeling die de Griekse religie doormaakt.Show less
This thesis compares punishment and social mobility of enslaved Africans and European soldiers in New Netherland. In doing so this thesis analyzes the fluidity between both groups.
