Books published by Amsterdam University Press

The lute's cultural impact throughout the Dutch Golden Age

Eisenstein's virtual map of the world of all cinema-related media.

An interdisciplinary team of linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and educationalists video-recorded and studied mathematics lessons in two Dutch secondary education schools with pupils of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. The study minutely analyses verbal and non-verbal communication in these classes to answer the overall question: ¿How do teachers¿ and pupils¿ ways of interaction in the multicultural classroom lead to inclusion or exclusion on a cognitive and social level?¿. The different chapters in this book reflect different methodological and theoretical perspectives such as Realistic Mathematics Education, Conversation Analysis, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy. Inclusion and exclusion appear as strongly multifaceted processes involving mastery of the language, social and ethnic backgrounds, cognitive abilities, peer relations, and yes, character, knowledge and dedication of the teacher.This book is of interest not only to researchers of classroom interaction and multilingual and multiethnic schools, but also gives more than a handful of advice for present-day and future teachers and policy-makers. This volume is part of the research project ¿Social Cohesion¿ [Sociale Cohesie] of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This project seeks attention for questions about social cohesion in Dutch society. The research results enable to gain perspectives that are relevant to government policy.

Fascinating insight into the future of television and cinema in the digital age.

The Celestine monks of France represent one of the most unheralded but influential monastic reform movements of the later Middle Ages. This book argues their importance as a mirror of the political, intellectual, and Christian reform culture of their age.

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence.

A topical history of nationalism provides also a surprising perspective on Europe's contemporary identity politics

Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.

David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theatre in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, became a memorial museum, and how it will continue to be a meaningful site for future generations.

This book charts the history of Teylers Museum from its inception until Lorentz' tenure. From the vantage point of the Museum's scientific instrument collection, it gives an analysis of the changing public role of Teylers Museum over the course of the 19th century.

This is a comprehensive study of the archaeology of early medieval Essex, giving new insights into the dynamics of coastal societies in contemporary north-western Europe.

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth.

This book gives an informed and compelling insight into the modern biography, exploring its history and different components such as genre, points of view, the lives of famous biographers themselves, and other aspects through an alphabetical structure.

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth- to the seventeenth-centuries.

This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911.

This study uncovers the active role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities.

This book analyses the manuscripts of the Citeaux, copied and illustrated during a period of intense reform at the monastery, that demonstrate the interdependence between art, liturgy, and reform.

Paula Albuquerque's original research and experimental films, presented in this book, expose fictionalising elements in archival webcams and explore video surveillance as an urban condition.

Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time.

This book provides a wide-ranging account of the social, political, cultural, and literary functions of the French language in Russia from c. 1700 to 1917.

This book introduces new methods of research for studying the Alexiad, aiming primarily at analysing Anna Komnene's literary expression.

This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.

This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures.

This study showcases the longevity of Ottonian myths and the ideological expressions of the tenth century storytellers.

Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography.

This book encompasses the contributions presented at the scientific symposium of prominent scientists who gathered in 2016 in Husum, Germany, a landmark event in sharing knowledge on the common history, landscape, cultural heritage of the Wadden Sea Region.

This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time.

This book explores how the Spanish kingdoms were highly influenced by the arrival of the Dominican and Franciscan friars in the thirteenth century.

This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and maintain one of the world's most generous and inclusive welfare systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or "conservative" rather than socialist-dominated governments for most of the post-war period.

This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya.