Four years of Oddens’ Bookmarks : the fascinating world of maps and mapping

Not everyone will be interested in maps showing the distribution of various species of earthworms in North Dakota1, especially as the design of these maps is not be very impressive either. Nevertheless, there is a link to such maps in Oddens’ Bookmarks2. This is a Website that tries to provide as complete a coverage as possible of all Websites containing cartography. This paper is not attempting to show examples of Websites the bookmarks are linked to. Rather, it gives a short introduction to Oddens’ Bookmarks, referring to the history and development of the site, its contents, the problems I am faced with, and my views of its near future

The experience of state formation. Chronicling and petitioning on the Dutch island of Ameland (c. 1780–1815)

ABSTRACTIn this article I examine how state formation in the revolutionary and Napoleonic period was experienced by inhabitants of the Dutch island of Ameland. I focus on chronicling and petitionin..

De behandeling van blaaskanker vraagt om gecentraliseerde zorg

Quality of care for bladder cancer patients differs between Dutch hospitals. Improving the collaboration between hospitals, focussing on healthcare pathways and outcome measures will be helpful in establishing quick improvements. In this respect it is important to incorporate patient related outcome measures

Discourses of Decline

This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic. ; Readership: Students of republicanism, political culture, intellectual history, the history of political thought, the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the history of the Netherlands, early modern European history, and German history

Discourses of Decline

This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic. ; Readership: Students of republicanism, political culture, intellectual history, the history of political thought, the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the history of the Netherlands, early modern European history, and German history

The greatest right of them all. The debate on the right to petition in the Netherlands from the Dutch Republic to the Kingdom (c. 1750-1830)

Between 1750 and 1830 the Dutch state developed from an oligarchic republic into an enlightened autocratic monarchy via a brief experiment with representative democracy. During this period, there was an ongoing debate about the right to petition. Political actors and opinion-makers addressed the questions to what and to whom this right extended, and what it meant to have such a right. While theorists of the different types of government had sharply contrasting views on the place of the people in the political process, ideas about petitioning, which throughout the period under discussion remained the principal instrument for popular involvement in politics, stayed remarkably stable. Through an investigation of the debate on the right to petition in the crucial transitional phase from the Dutch Republic to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this article contributes to bridging the divide between petition research of the early modern period and that of the modern era.Political Culture and National Identit