Between local debts and global markets: Explaining slavery in South and Southeast Asia, 1600-1800
- Project lead: Matthias van Rossum
- Duration: 01-01-2016 to 28-02-2019.
- Grant: € 250.000 by NWO (VENI)
Research Projects
The IISH conducts research in Project Clusters.
- Global Developments
- Individual Strategies
- Collective Strategies
- Data Projects
This is an overview of all Research Projects within the four clusters.
Research Projects
Commodity Frontiers: Capitalist Transformations of the Global Countryside During the Past Six Centuries
This large multi-year project aims to study the long history of commodity frontiers through an interdisciplinary research design that uses both written archival sources and fieldwork.
Luxury and Labour, a global trajectory of diamond consumption and production, 16th -19th century
In the past four hundred years large scale circulations of people, ideas and commodities took place, leading - amongst other things - to shifts in labour relations worldwide. Many historians share the idea that consumption plays an important role in the production of these commodities and therefore also in shaping labour relations.
Naval shipyards: Laboratories of capitalism
Naval Shipyards in the Atlantic World as Centers of Innovation in Production, Administration and Labor Control (1720-1870)
- Project lead: Pepijn Brandon
- Project start: 2016
- Grant: € 250,000 (€ 125,000 IISH) by NWO [VENI]
- Partners: Free University Amsterdam
The Historical Dynamics of Industrialization in North-Western Europe and China, 1800-2010
- Project lead: Bas van Leeuwen
- Project start: 2015
- Grant: circa € 1,400,000 by European Research Council | ERC Starting Grant
Historical Prices and Wages (HPW)
Data on prices and wages are among the most important sources of information in social- and economic-historical research, especially for the pre-statistical period. HPW collects this data.
Value of the Guilder versus Euro
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Exploring the recent History of Labour Union Practices
- Projectleader: Matthias van Rossum
- Junior researcher: Moira van Dijk
- Student-assistants: Loran van Diepen, Rosa Kösters en Bob Scholte
