Books published by Amsterdam University Press

A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.

This book examines the active role of citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of space that continues to encroach various neighborhoods.

This book analyses many versions of the romance from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and England and tells a new story of the life, death, and influences of Amadis.

This book offers a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and representation interdependent to urban spaces in China.

Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism - and charts its loss - in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945 to 1949 also became a powerful symbol o

This collection of essays surveys the richness of creation and creativity in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning between medieval and modern culture.

This first history of Cologne available in English challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.

What allowed the Netherlands to punch above its weight? How should the country build on that achievement?

This book identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling.

This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other.

This book demonstrates how qualities and activities first associated with outlaws were repurposed to depict other transgressive figures in early medieval English, Irish, and Icelandic literature, and their travel throughout the archipelago used to convey moral instruction.

Soul of the Documentary offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By closely reading a diverse body of films-from The Last Bolshevik to Grey Gardens-Hongisto shows how documentary cinema intervenes in the real by framing it and creatively contributes to its perpetual unfolding. The emphasis on framing brings new urgency to the documentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world.

This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research.

This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond.

This book the first comprehensive examination of the Dutch painter Godefridus Schalcken's activities in the four years that he spent in London, surveying his art and concludling with a critical catalogue of all his London-period work.

In this biography, musicologist and historian Frits Zwart carefully examines in great detail a musical life lived by Willem Mengelberg, undeniably the greatest conductor in Dutch music history.

This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses.

This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe.

This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders.

The first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice.

This book studies the life trajectories of protestors during the May '68 civil uprising in France, using statistics and personal narratives to analyse how this activism arose, its impact, and its transmission through generations.

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the margins of heritage sites where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place.

This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.

This book analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.

This book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond.

This anthology analyses low-wage migrant workers in Europe from many perspectives, including migration policies, human rights, economics, and more.

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West.

This book argues that premodern societies were characterised by the quest for Yvirtue.OE