Volume 42. Issue 1 (2022)

Table of contents

Whole Issue

Cover

From the editor / De la part de la rédactrice en chef / Van de redactie •  i-xiii

Articles

Patricia Emison • 1-26
Bruegel, peasants, and politics

Henk van den Belt  • 27-52
A “mighty stream” of anti-intellectualism: Johan Huizinga, his age, and ours

Leah Niederhausen  • 53-76
Representations of a nation? Comparing the Dutch 1956 National Monument and the 2021 National Holocaust Monument of Names

Reviews

Art

Nienke Bakker and Nicole R. Myers (eds) • 77-80
Van Gogh and the olive groves
Reviewed by Cliff Edwards

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Erwin Mortier and Stijn Huijts • 81-86
Angel’s throat
Reviewed by Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans

Biographies & Case studies

William Barker • 87-92
Erasmus of Rotterdam: The spirit of a scholar
Reviewed by Riemer A. Faber

Michaela Valente • 93-98
Johann Wier: Debating the devil and witches in early modern Europe
Reviewed by Hans de Waardt

Arthur Eyffinger • 99-104
T. M. C. Asser (1838-1913): ‘In quest of liberty, justice, and peace’
Reviewed by Joost Blom

Jurjen A. Zeilstra • 105-112
Visser ‘t Hooft, 1900-1985: Living for the unity of the Church
Reviewed by John A. Vissers 

Mary Eggermont-Molenaar  • 113-120
De Juta-kinderen van Sunny Home tot een bunker in Berlijn
Reviewed by Paul Knevel 

Christopher Joby • 121-124
John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch literary identity in the seventeenth century
Reviewed by Ole Peter Grell

Language

Christopher Joby • 125-130
The Dutch language in Japan (1600-1900): A cultural and sociolinguistic study of Dutch as a contact language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Reviewed by Ivo Smits

Jelle Stegeman • 131-138
Grote geschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal
Reviewed by Marijke van der Wal

Robert Wilkinson and René Gabriëls (eds) • 139-146
The Englishization of higher education in Europe
Reviewed by Rias van den Doel

Piet van Sterkenburg • 147-154
Rot zelf lekker op: Over politiek incorrect en ander ongepast taalgebruik
Reviewed by Inge Genee

Literature

Sadiqa de Meijer • 155-158
alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language
Reviewed by Stephen Cain

Cees Nooteboom • 159-164
Leaving: A poem from the time of the virus
Reviewed by Désiréé Schyns

Pieta van Beek and Annemarié van Niekerk • 165-170
My mother’s mother’s mother: South African women’s writing from 17th-century Dutch to contemporary Afrikaans
Reviewed by Callie Long

Jef Last • 171-176
Mon ami André Gide
Reviewed by Leonid Livak

Alisa van de Haar and Dirk Schoenaers (eds) • 177-182
Francophone literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600)
Reviewed by Adrian van den Hoven

Charles Pacius de La Motte/ Hans Bots, Sébastien Drouin, Jan Schillings et Ann Thomson (eds) • 183-186
Lettres de La Motte à Pierre Des Maizeaux (1700-1744)
Reviewed by Julien Perrier-Chartrand

History

John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm (eds) • 187-192
Frisians of the Early Middle Ages
Reviewed by Catherine Hills

Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries • 193-196
Atlas of material life: Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century
Reviewed by Milja van Tielhof

Marc van Alphen, Jan Hoffenaar, Alan Lemmers and Christiaan van der Spek • 197-200
Military power and the Dutch Republic: War, trade and the balance of power in Europe 1648-1813
Reviewed by Jonathan Israel

Charles H. Parker • 201-206
Global Calvinism: Conversion and commerce in the Dutch empire, 1600-1800
Reviewed by Guido van Meersbergen

Pieter C. Emmer and Jos J. L. Gommans • 207-212
The Dutch overseas empire 1600-1800

Pieter C. Emmer
Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse slavenhandel
Reviewed by Paul M. M. Doolan

Gert Oostindie (ed) • 213-218
Colonialism and slavery: An alternative history of the port city of Rotterdam
Reviewed by Jeroen Dewulf

Guido van Meersbergen • 219-224
Ethnography and encounter: The Dutch and English in seventeenth-century South Asia
Reviewed by Zoltán Biedermann

Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert (eds) • 225-228
The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, trade, and violence in Early Modern Asia
Reviewed by Suzanne Moon

Paul M. M. Doolan • 229-234
Collective memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering decolonization
Reviewed by Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson

Rutger Bregman • 235-238
Humankind: A hopeful history
Reviewed by Michiel Horn

Political science

Piet de Rooy • 239-244
A tiny spot on the earth: The political cuture of the Netherlands
Reviewed by Edward Anthony Koning

Antilles

Gert Oostindie and Alex van Stipriaan (eds) • 245-250
Antilliaans erfgoed
Reviewed by Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger

Eric A. Eliason • 251-254
The island of lace: Drawn threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean
Reviewed by Ryan Espersen

Marcel Weltak • 255-260
Surinamese music in the Netherlands and Suriname
Reviewed by Corinna Campbell

Race

Francio Guadeloupe • 261-266
Black man in the Netherlands: An Afro-Antillean anthropology
Reviewed by Jason N. Vasser-Elong

Mieke Kirkels and Chris Dickon • 267-274
Dutch children of African American liberators: Race, military policy and identity in World War II and beyond
Reviewed by Allison Blakely

World War II & History of the Jews

Jan Schneider • 275-280
In de hel van Birma: Ooggetuigenverslag uit de kampen langs de Birma-Siam spoorlijn 1942-1945
Reviewed by Eveline Buchheim

Mirjam Schwarz and Hans Bouman • 281-284
‘Ik hoop dat alles weer gewoon wordt’: Het aangrijpende verhaal van een Joods meisje in Winterswijk tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Reviewed by Katja Happe

Jaap W. Focke • 285-290
Machseh Lajesoumiem: A Jewish orphanage in the city of Leiden
Reviewed by Peter Tammes

Hans Blom, David J. Wertheim, Hetty Berg and Bart T. Wallet (eds) • 291-298
Reappraising the history of the Jews in the Netherlands
Reviewed by Dan Michman

Rudolf Dekker • 299-304
Plagiarism, fraud and whitewashing: The grey turn in the history of the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940-1945
Reviewed by Remco Ensel

Rosemary Sullivan • 305-311
Het verraad van Anne Frank: Het baanbrekende onderzoek van een internationaal coldcaseteam in Nederland
Reviewed by Bettine Siertsema