Recent books

The most recent books (co-)authored or (co-)edited by IISH researchers can be found here.

Fighting Free - cover

Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again. The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India

Jan Breman
Tulika Books, February 2024

In the Shadow of War and Empire - cover

In the Shadow of War and Empire. Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

Görkem Akgöz
Studies in Global Social History, Volume 52/4
Brill, December 2023

 1st Edition  The Utrecht Chronicle

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order. A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia

Rombert Stapel
Routledge 2024 (pre-publication September 2023)

Sugar cover

The World of Sugar. How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

Ulbe Bosma
Harvard University Press, september 2023

 

Sowing cover

Sowing: The Construction of Historical Longitudinal Population Databases

Kees Mandemakers, George Alter, Hélène Vézina and Paul Puschmann (eds)
Radboud University Press, Agust 2023. Available in Open Access

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Harvesting: The Results and Impact of Research based on Historical Longitudinal Databases

Sören Edvinsson, Kees Mandemakers, Ken Robert Smith, and Paul Puschmann (eds)
Radboud University Press, August 2023. Available in Open Access

Slavery and Europe

Slavery and Europe: Exploring the Economic Impact of Atlantic Slavery

Matthias van Rossum & Tamira Combrink (eds)
Routledge, August 2023.

Power at work cover

Power at Work: A Global Perspective on Control and Resistance

Work in Global and Historical Perspective, vol. 16.
Marcel van der Linden and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
De Gruyter, July 2023 

 

The Company Fortress cover

The Company Fortress: Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795

Erik Odegard
Leiden University Press, June 2023

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Staat en slavernij. Het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen

Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias Van Rossum en Urwin Vyent (eds)
Singel Uitgeverijen, June 2023

Fada'i Guerrilla Praxis  cover

Fada'i Guerrilla Praxis in Iran, 1970 - 1979. Narratives and Reflections on Everyday Life

Touraj Atabaki, Nasser Mohajer, en Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (eds)
Bloomsbury, June 2023

World Wide Web of Work cover

The World Wide Web of Work - A History in the Making

Marcel van der Linden
UCL Press, May 2023. Available in Open Access

Citizens into Dishonored Felons cover

Citizens into Dishonored Felons. Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

Timon de Groot
Berghahn Books  Inc., April 2023. Available in Open Access

Potosí in the Global Silver Age  cover

Potosí in the Global Silver Age (Sixteenth - Nineteenth Centuries)

Rossana Barragán & Paula C. Zagalsky (eds)
Brill, March 2023.

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The World and The Netherlands. A Global History from a Dutch Perspective

Karel Davids, Marjolein 't Hart, and Manon van der Heijden (eds)
Bloomsbury Academic, February 2023

Tulip Fever cover

Tulip Fever

Henk Looijesteijn
Uitgeverij Verloren, February 2023

Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women cover

The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World

Francisca de Haan (ed.)
Palgrave Macmillan Cham, January 2023

Slavery and Bondage in Asia cover

Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour

Kate Ekama , Lisa Hellman & Matthias van Rossum
De Gruyter, December 2022, Available in Open Access

 

 

Graaf en gouverneur cover

Graaf en gouverneur: Nederlands-Brazilië onder het bewind van Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, 1636-1644

Erik Odegard
Walburg Pers, November 2022

 Cambridge History of Socialism

The Cambridge History of Socialism, vol. I and II

Marcel van der Linden (ed.)
Cambridge University Press, November 2022

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Borders and Mobility Control in and between Empires and Nation-States

Jovan Pešalj, Annemarie Steidl, Leo Lucassen & Josef Ehmer (eds)
Studies in Global Social History; vol. 46, no. 14. Brill, October 2022.

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Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland

Lex Heerma van Voss, Nadia Bouras, Marjolein ’t Hart, Manon van der Heijden, Leo Lucassen & Marijcke Schillings 
Ambo|Anthos, October 2022

Alle familliën cover

Alle familliën hebben armen en rijken. 250 jaar Hofje van mevrouw Van Aerden te Leerdam 1772-2022

Henk Looijesteijn
Hofje van Aerden, October 2022

Entangled Lives cover

Entangled Lives. Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle

Willem van Schendel & Joy Pachuau
Cambridge University Press, June 2022.

Early Modern State cover

The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents. Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart

Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss & Annemieke Romein (eds)
Routledge, June 2022

Gujarat cover

Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics. India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism

Jan Breman & Ghanshyam Shah
Tulika Books, juni 2022 

Patronage, Patrimonialism cover

Patronage, Patrimonialism, and Governors’ Careers in the Dutch Chartered Companies, 1630-1681

Erik Odegard
Brill, June 2022

Flows and Frictions cover

Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces. Histories of Networking and Border Crossing

Willem van Schendel & Gunnel Cederlöf (eds)
Amsterdam University Press, June 2022. 

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Rusland - land dat anders wil zijn

Gijs Kessler
Uitgeverij Prometheus, May 2022

Migratie als DNA cover

Migratie als DNA van Amsterdam, 1550-2021

Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen 
Atlas Contact, December 2021

Revisualizing Slavery cover

Revisualizing Slavery. Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean

Nancy Jouwe, Wim Manuhutu, Matthias van Rossum & Merve Tosun (eds)
LM Publishers, December 2021

Hofjes over de grens cover

Hofjes over de grens. Een Europese erfenis

Henk Looijesteijn
Van Stockum, December 2021

Wage Earners in India  cover

Wage Earners in India 1500–1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context

Jan Lucassen & Radhika Seshan (eds)
SAGE Publications, December 2021

De wereld aan het werk cover

De wereld aan het werk: van de prehistorie tot nu

Jan Lucassen
W Books, October 2021
 

Dwarsliggers cover

Dwarsliggers. Stakers bij de Centrale Werkplaats in Haarlem in 1903 (Haerlem Reeks, no. 21)

Ivo Zandhuis
Uitgeverij Verloren, July 2021

African Voices cover

African Voices from the Inquisition. The Trial of Crispina Peres of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (1646-1668), Vol. I

Toby Green, Philip J. Havik, & Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Oxford University Press, July 2021

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Kolonialisme en racisme: Een postkoloniale kroniek

Jan Breman
Walburg Pers, April 2021