Lauren Lauret
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Lauren Lauret
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Historian | assistant professor of Dutch History @Leiden University | working on Dutch ruling elite and impact of colonialism on politics
(2/2) Jones, E. (2011). Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia (1st ed., pp. xi–xi). Cornell University Press. doi.org/10.7591/j.ct...
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September 13, 2024 at 3:23 PM
(1/2) Burke, K. (2022). ‘I Hope it Tastes Good’: Gender, Race and Class in Colonial Kitchens in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire. Gender & History, 34(3), 690–707. doi.org/10.1111/1468...
‘I Hope it Tastes Good’: Gender, Race and Class in Colonial Kitchens in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire
This article examines the intersections between gender, domestic slavery, maritime empires and food in the early modern world, focusing on the Dutch East India Company's empire in the Indian Ocean du...
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September 13, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Three men on a 🚣‍♂️ van Jerome K. Jerome
May 31, 2024 at 1:52 PM
And more to follow in the next few months - I'll keep you 📫
May 30, 2024 at 9:01 AM
My contribution deals with the lobby of slave owners, inspired by British precedents ao - 'No Emancipation without Compensation. Slave Owners' Petitions and the End of Slavery in the Netherlands, 1833-1873'

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No Emancipation without Compensation : Slave Owners’ Petitions and the End of Slavery in the Netherlands, c. 1833-1873 | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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May 30, 2024 at 8:59 AM
@dirkalkemade.bsky.social asked the pertinent question: 'Why was Slavery not Abolished in 1798? Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Batavian Revolution'

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Why was Slavery not Abolished in 1798? : Humanity and Human Rights in the Batavian Revolution | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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May 30, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Philip Post wrote the second contribution 'A Benign Empire? The Instrumentalisation of Abolitionism in the Moluccas, 1817-1879'

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A Benign Empire? The Instrumentalisation of Abolitionism in the Moluccas, 1817-1879 | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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May 30, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Esther Baakman opened the series with the article 'From Valuable Merchandise to Violent Rebels: Depicting Enslaved Africans in the Dutch Periodical Press in the 17th and 18th centuries'

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From Valuable Merchandise to Violent Rebels : Depicting Enslaved Africans in the Dutch Periodical Press in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Revi...
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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May 30, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Might also just cross the Channel I'm afraid

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Dutch police clash with pro-Palestine protestors at Amsterdam university
University staff denounced “extreme” violence by police toward student protestors.
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May 23, 2024 at 1:15 PM
He did!
May 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Mantel's Cromwell trilogy brought me back to historical fiction, after shifting to contemp / Sci-Fi / postapocaliptic novels to balance out doing a history PhD. Should have read 'The last of the 🍷' when I was 18. Closer to my field now, but good fun: 'The secret diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'.
May 13, 2024 at 12:29 PM