Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work
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Michiel de Haas graduated cum laude
On Wednesday 20 September, Michiel de Haas of the Rural and Environmental History group defended his thesis "Rural livelihoods and agricultural commercialization in colonial Uganda: conjunctures of external influences and local…
Publications
Entangled Histories: Unraveling the Impact of Colonial Connections…
In this article I investigate changing household labour relations and women’s work in the Dutch empire. I question how colonial connections affected the division of work between men, women, and…
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Voices from the past
Sometimes, the archives unexpectedly offer a treasure of distant voices from the past. Last week, when I was reading Frances Gouda’s 1995 book Dutch Culture Overseas, I discovered that she…
