H-Low Countries strives to create an international community of scholars with diverse methodological approaches, archival experiences, teaching styles, and intellectual traditions. The primary purpose is to develop an international network for discussion and collaboration on issues and ideas relevant to the study of the Low Countries as a whole and to the different national histories in particular.
H-Low Countries is actively recruiting reviewers for its book reviews program. Our current roster of reviewers is weighted somewhat heavily towards the history of the early modern period, New Netherland, and the Holocaust. There are some exciting recent titles that we would like to have reviewed, for example in postcolonial studies. If interested in becoming a reviewer, please see the original CFR for details: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7833/discussions/69501/call-reviewers
Additionally, if you are a publisher and would like to suggest a title for review, please contact us and we can try to match the book to a qualified reviewer. We have reviewers who can review books written in Dutch, German, and other languages. The inventory of books that are sent to H-Net for review and suitable for H-Low Countries is rather small at present and does not appear to contain Dutch presses.
Finally, if you have already contacted us to be a reviewer but have not yet received an assignment, please be patient. We are slowly but surely making assignments. If you wish to review and expand your listed areas of expertise, you may contact us directly.
The following is an edited compilation of jobs posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 17 July 2017 to 24 July 2017. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information and complete listings.
The following is an edited compilation of jobs posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 10 July 2017 to 17 July 2017. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information and complete listings.
The following is an edited compilation of jobs posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 3 July 2017 to 10 July 2017. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information and complete listings.
The following is an edited compilation of jobs posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 26 June 2017 to 3 July 2017. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information and complete listings.
In just under two weeks postgraduate students of Dutch and Flemish history, literature, translation studies and sociology will come together for the second edition of the ACLS Postgraduate Colloquium. This international meeting is designed to foster links between British and Irish Low Countries Studies and scholars from other countries, and to support the next generation of researchers in our field.
Gloria Wekker. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. xiii + 226 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6075-9.
Reviewed by Jessica V. Roitman (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV))
Published on H-Low-Countries (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Isaac Lipschits. Undeliverable: A Letter of Reminiscence. Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold. London: Gainsborough House Press, 2015. 84 pp. $11.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-909719-08-8.
Reviewed by Jessica V. Roitman (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV))
Published on H-Low-Countries (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Memoir of a Youth Cut Short
Oeke Hoogendijk. The New Rijksmuseum. First Run Features, 2015. Documentary film, DVD, 131 min.
Reviewed by Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard
Published on H-Low-Countries (July, 2016)
Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Capturing the Rijksmuseum Reconstruction on Film
Bernard Wasserstein. The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-28138-7.
Reviewed by Mark Meuwese (University of Winnipeg)
Published on H-Low-Countries (January, 2016)
Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Revisiting Dutch-Jewish Responses to Nazism
Thomas E. Burke Jr. Mohawk Frontier: The Dutch Community of Schenectady, New York, 1661-1710. Second Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. Maps, figures, tables. xxiv + 252 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-2706-5.Jaap Jacobs. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America.
