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2,681 search results for “american history” in the Public website

• History, Arts and Culture of Asia (MA) (60EC)

  The MA in History, Arts and Culture of Asia is designed for students interested in taking a humanities-related approach to the study of countries or regions in pre-modern, modern or contemporary Asia.

• Staff members Dossier: Leiden - Latin America

  These are the staff members of the Leiden - Latin America and the Caribbean Centre

• About this minor Latijns-Amerikastudies (Spaans/Portugees)

  Everything you need to know about the minor Latijns-Amerikastudies (Spanish/ Portuguese).

• Visiting Researchers Institute for History

  Visiting Researchers at the Leiden University Institute for History

• Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World Research output

  This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the first centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history.

• Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture Research output

  Carsten Stahn has just published Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture. The book is part of the OUP Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Series.

• Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies Arts and Culture (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Medieval and Early Modern History: Europe in its Global Context

  Leiden’s Institute for History has an exceptionally strong expertise in premodern European history in its global context, with specialists whose interests cover virtually the whole continent.

• A Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation Liveable Planet

  This study aims to provide a long time perspective of human landscape manipulation. Studying the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems is of great importance to establish the character of past 'natural' landscapes and to enhance the management of current ones.

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  Bente de Leede PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maarja Seire PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right News - 8 August 2022

  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.

• Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 Research output

  This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world history.

• The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History Research output

  This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.

• Linking crises: Connections between climate change and COVID-19 during American, Canadian, Dutch, and Lithuanian national elections (2020-2021) Research output

  The aim of this research is to understand the linking of crises for the combination of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Latin America and the UN Research project

  Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

• Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History Research output

  In this paper, Kantorowicz aims to track the persistent effect of former partitioning borders on property tax rates in Poland.

• CIA and Crypto AG rewrite history – Clingentael Spectator Research output

  It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.

• Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930 Research output

  This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar.

• Rethinking Crime and Punishment Research output

  In his lecture, Professor Platt discussed some of the main arguments from his latest book entitled “Beyond these Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States”

• Students go on virtual exchange to Virginia: 'This is the most fun programme there is' News - 22 June 2023

  University lecturer Dario Fazzi and postdoctoral researcher Gaetano Di Tommaso set up a virtual collaboration with the United States last year thanks to a VIS grant. And it was a such a success the project will be repeated next year. Fazzi is looking forward to once again offering his students a multicultural…

• The Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation Research project

  This project studies the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems to establish the character of past “natural” landscapes and enhance the management of current ones.

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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Duindam Academic director/ Professor of Early Modern History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maartje Janse Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Regulation of vegetative development and life history strategy in plants Research project

  How is vegetative development regulated in plants and how does this affect a plant’s life history strategy?

• Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community Research output

  This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.

• Show people, A history of the film star Research output

  Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

• History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

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  Caroline van Eck Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Da Jin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus of African Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor Art history, expecially before 1800

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Limin Teh University Lecturer Modern Chinese History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geke Burger PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster Research output

  Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

• Leiden lifestyle as inspiration for Americans News - 11 April 2017

  The much-discussed documentary 'Cobblestone Stories' by American anthropologist Mark Neupert can be seen in Leiden's Trianon cinema on 23 April. In an interview published earlier on this site Neupert explained what makes Leiden so special for him. 'The idea is to show my American students that there…

• Tanja Masson-Zwaan in Scientific American News - 28 June 2019

  This week an article was published in the American popular science magazine Scientific American on the uncertainty surrounding the extent to which territory can be claimed on the moon.

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  Bart van der Boom University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Patrick Dassen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrew Shield University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joost Augusteijn Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pieter Slaman Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Kiri Paramore Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul van Trigt Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Why Leiden University North American Studies (MA)

  Leiden University offers ambitious students the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.