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New book: Women, Work and Colonialism in the Dutch Empire

This week, the online version of my book "Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java. Comparisons, Contrasts and Connections" has appeared with Palgrave MacMillan. In July, the hardcover…

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Challenging the de-industrialization thesis. Gender and indigenous textile…

Many dependency theorists as well as economic historians have contended that nineteenth-century imperial policies and economic globalization de-industrialized the global ‘periphery’. European metropoles extracted raw materials and tropical commodities from…

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Language

“One can sleep with anyone, but one can only read some people’s words.” Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991 [2nd ed.]), p. 77   One of the great advantages of staying…

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