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New edition TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History out now!
Issue 3 of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is out now!
In this issue, you will find a variety of themes:
- JaapJan van Zwieten, PhD at VU Amsterdam, about the privilege of pre-loading in Amsterdam, which . gave members of the Amsterdam skippers’ guilds the first right to take cargo, bypassing the interests of skippers from outside Amsterdam.
- Seb Verlinden, Posthumus PhD at KU Leuven, with an article on research on crisis management by the States of Brabant between 1739 and 1742, based on policy decisions in response to a mass petition from local communities during one of the greatest food crises of the eighteenth century.
- Margo Groenewoud, postdoc researcher at Radboud University published an article about networks of radical black activism in port cities in the Caribbean and America in the 1920s and 1930s and brings together the history of the changing world with a series of micro-histories of individuals who shaped it.
- Thunnis van Oort, postdoc researcher at Radboud University and project leader of the Suriname Tijdmachine [Surinam Time Machine], describes how transcription files of the ward registers of Paramaribo (1828-1847) have been converted into a structured research database and discusses the historical context of this source and illustrates the possibilities and limitations of the dataset.
The new issue is available open-access online. Printed copies can be obtained via Leuven University Press. Please note that PhDs following the PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute can subscribe to the journal at a consideravle reduced rate; you can contact the Office Manager of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for this.
