Recent books

The Amsterdam Crates. Margaret Michaelis and Kati Horna in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish title: Las Cajas de Ámsterdam. Margaret Michaelis y Kati Horna en la Guerra Civil
Almudena Rubio
Diputación Huesca, January 2026

A Hydra of Business and Men: The Habsburg Asiento de Negros in Structuring the European Transatlantic Slave Trade

Library of Economic History, Volume 21
Cátia A.P. Antunes, Alejandro García-Monton, Elisabeth Heijmans, Gerhard de Kok, Susana Münch Miranda, Edgar Pereira, João Paulo Salvado, and Julie Svalastog
Brill, 2026

Money of the Masses. Copper Coin Production and Circulation in India 1500-1900

Monetary History of India
Jan Lucassen (ed.)
Manohar, 2026

Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism. A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice

Jan Breman
Routledge, December 2025

Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism - cover

Innovation and Economic Development in Eurasia, 500 BCE-Present: The Roots of Divergence

Frontiers in Economic History

Meimei Wang, Bas Van Leeuwen, Matteo Calabrese, and Dmitry Didenko

Springer Nature, October 2025

Innovation and Economic Development in Aurasia - cover

Chinese Household Registration Data of Yugan County (Jiangxi Province), ca. 1947

Global Economic History Series/The Quantitative Economic History of China, vol. 22, nr. 9
Ye Ma, Bas van Leeuwen, Jieli Li, and Meimei Wang
Brill, October 2025

Chinese Household Registration Data - cover

Leven op een Vulkaan. Franz Junghuhn, een biografie

Ulbe Bosma
Atlas Contact, April 2025

The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals

Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer and Marcel van der Linden (eds)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., April 2025

Rent Strikes. A History of Collective Tenant Actions Across the World

Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf (eds)

UCL Press, November 2025

The Ethiopian Labour Movement. Trade Unions, Collective Action, and Contestation, 1960–2020

Samuel Andreas Admasie
Springer Nature, August 2025

Een mens is geen machine: De Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie 1890-2025

Timon de Groot
WBOOKS, May 2025

Chinese Household Registration Data of Wudu County (Gansu Province), 1947

Minghui Li, Bas van Leeuwen, Meimei Wang, Jieli Li

volume 1: text & data
volume 2: data
volume 3: data

The Quantitative Economic History of China; vol. 8/1-3
Brill, December 2024

“… erkämpft das Menschenrecht”. Vom Aufstieg und Niedergang klassischer ArbeiterInnenbewegungen

Marcel van der Linden
Promedia, September 2024

Van ons, voor ons: 150 jaar veerkracht van consumentencoöperatie Coop

Pieter Steenbergen
Uitgeverij Fagus, April 2024

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. Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

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

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)

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: The Construction of Historical Longitudinal Population Databases

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

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: Exploring the Economic Impact of Atlantic Slavery

Matthias van Rossum & Tamira Combrink (eds)

Routledge, August 2023.

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

Erik Odegard
Leiden University Press, June 2023

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 in Iran, 1970 - 1979. Narratives and Reflections on Everyday Life

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

Bloomsbury, June 2023

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. 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 (Sixteenth - Nineteenth Centuries)

Rossana Barragán & Paula C. Zagalsky (eds)

Brill, March 2023.

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

Henk Looijesteijn

Uitgeverij Verloren, February 2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World

Francisca de Haan (ed.)

Palgrave Macmillan Cham, January 2023

Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women 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: Nederlands-Brazilië onder het bewind van Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, 1636-1644

Erik Odegard

Walburg Pers, November 2022

The Cambridge History of Socialism, vol. I and II

Marcel van der Linden (ed.)

Cambridge University Press, November 2022

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.

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

Henk Looijesteijn
Hofje van Aerden, October 2022

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

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

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

Jan Breman & Ghanshyam Shah

Tulika Books, juni 2022

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

Erik Odegard

Brill, June 2022

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

Willem van Schendel & Gunnel Cederlöf (eds)

Amsterdam University Press, June 2022.

Rusland - land dat anders wil zijn

Gijs Kessler

Uitgeverij Prometheus, May 2022

Migratie als DNA van Amsterdam, 1550-2021

Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen

Atlas Contact, December 2021