Fr. 116.00

Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution - The Making of Humanitarianism

English · Hardback

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This book traces the emergence of European humanitarian culture through the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Drawing on an exceptionally rich body of pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, it uncovers how victims of persecution first learned how to employ the printing presses in the Dutch Republic to raise transnational solidarity.

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  • Introduction

  • 1: The paradox of intervention

  • 2: A silent persecution

  • 3: Covering a refugee crisis

  • 4: Selling the last war of religion

  • 5: Between eschatology and enlightenment

  • Conclusion: Beyond the confessional divide



About the author

David de Boer is a lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD from the University of Konstanz and Leiden University (joint doctoral degree) and held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, the Leibniz Institute of European History, and the European University Institute. His work mainly focuses on religious conflict, migration, and the politics of memory. His recent publications include Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe (2023, co-edited with Geert Janssen) and Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery (2021, co-edited with Malte Griesse and Monika Barget).

Summary

This book traces the emergence of European humanitarian culture through the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Drawing on an exceptionally rich body of pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, it uncovers how victims of persecution first learned how to employ the printing presses in the Dutch Republic to raise transnational solidarity.

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