Research projects
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From India to Indenture
This PhD research will examine the life courses of Indian indentured labourers who migrated between 1830 and 1920 from the colony of British India to several parts of the world.
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The Alongshore City: Early Modern Colombo and the Creation of a Global South Hub (1550–1820)
This project aims to investigate the socio-environmental impact of several successive waves of ecosystem-engineering regimes which established themselves in and around the port city of Colombo in the early modern period.
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Missing Dutch Girls
This project focuses on patterns and determinants of excess mortality among Dutch girls between 1 and 15 between 1864 and 1930.
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Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean
The goal of this project is to make information about the populations of Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles available online for the public and for scientific research.
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In search of the perfect match
This project will explore the transition from instrumental to romantic partner choice following the emergence of the love-match ideal in England that became internalized in nineteenth-century western countries
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Unequal treatment?
This PhD research delves into the evolution of healthcare during the long 19th century by exploring the ‘health transition’ within hospitals.
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The changing burden of disease
This study tests the epidemiological transition theory with data from registers that kept track of everyone who died in Amsterdam during the period from 1854 to 1926.
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Lifting the burden of disease. The modernisation of health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam 1854-1940
As the current corona crisis shows, the history of infectious diseases in western societies is far from over. However, we had somehow forgotten about that heavy burden of infectious diseases in the past, how heavy it was, and what it looked and felt.
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Integration and Social Mobility: The Descendants of Early Modern Immigrants in Amsterdam, 1660-1811
This project addresses one of the major questions in Dutch migration history: what happened to the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of Germans, Flemings and Scandinavians who migrated to the Dutch Republic in the early modern period?
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HIP-NL: A Historical Income Panel for the Netherlands
This project will create a unique large-scale historical income panel for 200,000 individuals in the Netherlands between 1851 and 1922.
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Exporting Empire, 1600-1800: Making the Dutch Early Modern Economy
This project answers the question: why was Dutch industry (nijverheid and trafieken) able to grow despite the overall decline of the Dutch economy after the 1670s? It answers this question by looking at the mostly neglected role of industry
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Care for the vulnerable in the 19th and early 20th centuries
The support of the vulnerable in our society is a hot issue; not only today but also in the past. In the past one discovers discussions by governmental institutions and churches about the question who takes care of the people living.
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The Paramaribo Ward Registers
In this project data from the Paramaribo Ward Registers (1828-1846) will be made available as a FAIR database that can be used for both scholarly research and by a wider public for family history.
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Recognizing Extracted Entities for the Historical Database Suriname Curacao
A team of the Historical Database Suriname and Curacao is developing a method to integrate automated handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology and entity recognition into the workflow.
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Building a Research Agenda
This project is a collaboration with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname (AdK). Its goal is to promote a research agenda to a new generation of historians that have enrolled in the BA History and the 3-year MA History programme at the AdK.
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Kitchen or Capital?
By analyzing financial accounts of Guelders’ landed nobility in the eighteenth century, this research reveals the daily involvement and responsibility of Dutch elite women and, more importantly, the dynamics behind it.
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Legacies of Bondage
This project will involve the construction of a database of the Surinamese population that existed between 1830 and 1950. It will combine the individual records of both enslaved, bonded labourers from China, India and Indonesia and free citizens.