Samenvatting Between 1957 and 1963, a series of firsts happened in the Soviet Union. The first was the launch of Sputnik, a satellite, on the fourth of October 1957, which was the first-ever object that was shot into orbit. Its radio signal was heard all over the world. Four years later, a young Soviet male […]
Nynke Anna van der Mark | Time Reforms and the Temporal Other – An Analysis of Standard Time and Progressive Time in the Dutch East Indies, 1867-1940
Samenvatting This paper asks how time standardisation and the colonial notion of progressive time acted and interacted in the Dutch East Indies. The colonisation of time was a process that had started long before the nineteenth century, by missionaries who subjected non-Western people to the mission bell and Christian rhythms. It continued with the spread […]
Rosalie Versmissen | Boeren als burgers – Ideeën over burgerschap op het Drentse platteland, 1748
Samenvatting Burgerschap in de vroegmoderne tijd wordt meestal beschouwd vanuit het leven binnen de muren van de stad. Er is tot op heden nog maar weinig aandacht geweest voor de bevolking op het platteland en hun ideeën over burgerschap. Deze studie focust daarom op het agrarische Landschap Drenthe in het jaar 1748. De ingezetenen van […]