This book compares the process of postwar welfare state development in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom by analyzing the role of the labor union movement in the creation and expansion of... Show moreThis book compares the process of postwar welfare state development in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom by analyzing the role of the labor union movement in the creation and expansion of social policies. It argues for a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of organized labor in welfare state development. It emphasizes that welfare state development is mainly about redistribution of income and risk within the worker category. Based on this premises, the book has set out to understand under what circumstances unions are willing to redistribute income and risk among workers. It argues that this depends foremost on their organizational blueprint. Show less
Traditional histories of Early Modern trade and trade networks have ignored a potent truth -- that trade, and the networks constructed for the pursuit of this trade, were far more fluid and far... Show moreTraditional histories of Early Modern trade and trade networks have ignored a potent truth -- that trade, and the networks constructed for the pursuit of this trade, were far more fluid and far more open to merchants of varying backgrounds than has heretofore been admitted. It is this idea that undergirds this work. This study shows that economic links between networks comprised of a multiplicity of ethnicities, backgrounds, and/or religions were mutually beneficial and often long-lasting by delving deeply into the networks employed by three Sephardic merchants in Amsterdam between 1595 and 1640 – Manoel Rodrigues Vega, Manoel Carvalho, and Bento Osorio. Show less
Burgerzin en soldatengeest neemt vanuit het perspectief van het Nederlandse officierskorps de moeizame relatie tussen volk, leger en vloot onder de loep. Hoe beoordeelden de officieren in de jaren... Show moreBurgerzin en soldatengeest neemt vanuit het perspectief van het Nederlandse officierskorps de moeizame relatie tussen volk, leger en vloot onder de loep. Hoe beoordeelden de officieren in de jaren 1832-1914 deze relatie en welke mogelijkheden tot verbetering zagen zij? Het antwoord op deze vragen voert langs tal van boeiende kwesties, waaronder de ambivalente houding van de officier tot de politiek, de strijd voor de persoonlijke dienstplicht, de omstreden rol van de kazerne als opvoedingsinstituut, de invloed van de Dreyfus-affaire op de militaire rechtspraak en het 'roode'gevaar op de vloot. Het overkoepelende thema, dat al deze kwesties samenbindt, was de zoektocht van het officierskorps naar het juiste midden tussen de drang tot verburgerlijking van de krijgsmacht en de noodzaak tot behoud van de militaire eigenheid. Een zoektocht die met felle interne debatten gepaard ging. Deze studie rekent af met het idee van het officierskorps als een eensgezind conservatief bolwerk, terwijl zij tevens laat zien dat de zogeheten populariteit van de vloot in de praktijk weinig voorstelde. Show less
The history of American slave family life has been circumscribed by two shortcomings. First, historians have long disagreed over the extent of slave agency in the development of slave families.... Show moreThe history of American slave family life has been circumscribed by two shortcomings. First, historians have long disagreed over the extent of slave agency in the development of slave families. Second, historians have tended to overemphasize the experiences of enslaved people in the cotton South, and rarely studied slave families from a comparative perspective. This study addresses both of these issues by examaning, from a comparative perspective, the boundaries and opportunities for slave family life in three distinct agricultural regions of the American South: Fairfax County, Virginia; Georgetown District, South Carolina; and St. James Parish, Louisiana. Show less
