124-2 (2009)

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Artikelen

• J. den Hertog, Zelfstandigheidspolitiek. De achtergrond van een cruciale term in het buitenlands beleid van Nederland 1900-1940 – The Policy of Independence. The Background of a Crucial Phrase in Dutch Foreign Policy 1900-1940
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  The phrase ‘policy of independence’ was coined by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Van Karnebeek after the First World War. It has aroused a lot of discussion ever since. The phrase is often portrayed as sign of a change from a passive policy of neutrality to a much more active foreign policy. In this article the use of the phrase and the question of continuity or discontinuity are raised. This is done first of all on the basis of some crucial episodes from the First World War and subsequently the Dutch policy towards the German emperor and crown prince, Belgium and the League of Nations. This contribution argues that throughout those years the Dutch government pursued a policy characterized by activity and adopted an attitude that adhered to international law. Even before 1914 this approach was referred to as ‘independent’. Thereafter, Van Karnebeek coined the phrase ‘policy of independence’ to give expression to this prevailing attitude.
• H.G.J. Kaal, Democratie onder druk. De reglementering van politieke manifestaties in Amsterdam tijdens het interbellum – Democracy under Pressure. The Regulation of Public Politics in Amsterdam during the Interwar Years
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  This article explores the regulation of public politics in the Netherlands during the interwar years. It investigates how this policy was established, which public authorities were responsible for it, and how they accounted for the rather strict regulations. Particular attention is paid to developments in Amsterdam. The article shows that the regulation of political manifestations was not necessarily carried out as a response to actual political unrest, but was increasingly imposed on Amsterdam by the national government. Consequently, the opportunity to organize political manifestations was slowly but surely curbed. Moreover, the centralization and bureaucratization of public order policy amounted to the withdrawal of public order policy from democratic control. During the interwar years the Dutch democracy was therefore challenged by both the strict regulation of public politics, as well as the way in which this policy was established.

Discussiedossier over Verward van geest en ander ongerief

• A. de Regt, Verward van geest en ander ongerief – Mental Disorder and other Encumbrances
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  The three volumes of Verward van geest offer an extensive overview of the history of psychiatry and mental health care in the Netherlands from the 1870s to the present day. The authors show that in order to explain the increase and differentiation in both the type of care arrangements as well as the clients, the correlation between supply and demand has to be studied. The study is not only descriptive, but also an attempt to interpret and explain the developments. To do so, the authors use concepts such as professionalisation, protoprofessionalisation, professional competition, psychologisation, problem culture, and so forth. However, these different concepts are not aggregated under one single theory, and the sum total of the developments is not approached from one central viewpoint. Instead, the authors have opted for an eclectic approach and use different theoretical concepts to explain different parts and episodes of the historical development in its totality.
• H. Pols, Re-Minding the Dutch
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  Verward van geest is commended because of its careful, balanced, detailed, meticulously researched, and comprehensive approach of the development of the psychiatric profession in the Netherlands. The authors relate Dutch developments to initiatives abroad, some of which were taken up by Dutch psychiatrists and developed further. The development of the extensive network of out-patient mental health facilities in particular, which makes the Dutch system stand apart from that of most others, receives a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the history of psychiatry in the former Dutch colonial empire is not covered. The study is applauded for providing a wealth of material that could give a new impulse to discussions about the nature of mental health in the Netherlands, such as the following: How are supply and demand in mental health care related to each other? Do individuals with a lower socio-economic status have adequate access to care? How did the relationship between biological, social, and psychological approaches to mental illness and individual distress change over time?
• T. Bolt, Ander ongerief – Inconvenience
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  Verward van geest en ander ongerief by Harry Oosterhuis and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is a voluminous and sound reference work about the history of psychiatry in the Netherlands. Striving for completeness, however, the authors failed to deliver a synthesis in the true sense of the word. They compiled and pasted an impressive amount of (mostly) secondary literature, but left little room for critical reflection and discussion. Their account of the ‘psychologisation’ of Dutch society from the 1960s onwards is exemplary and one of the main themes of the book. Oosterhuis and Gijswijt-Hofstra (only) summarize the relevant sociological studies on this subject, without addressing their problematic nature or the inconsistencies between them. As a result, their ‘sociologised’ description of the supposed process of psychologisation in the Netherlands is rather superficial and stereotypical.
• H. Oosterhuis, M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, Repliek – Response
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  In our response to the three reviews of our book we focus on five critical points that were made, namely: the presumed absence of a central question and overall explanatory framework; the argument that the work is not a synthesis; the problem of the interplay between the supply of and demand for mental health care; the relation between the perspective of mental health experts and our interpretation of this in terms of cultural pessimism as well as social design; and the objection that our elaboration of the process of psychologisation is unclear. We would like to emphasise that we do indeed present a definition of a central problem in the introduction and that we discuss it extensively and systematically in our conclusion. We also explain what, in our view, a historical synthesis should aim for and that our approach is empirical-historical rather than theoreticalsociological. We believe that we maintain a considerable distance from the actor’s perspective at that time and that the criticism of our description of psychologisation is based on a limited understanding of that term.

Review

• E. Jonker, Antropologie van de moderne geschiedwetenschap? – The Anthropology of Modern Historiography?
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  Jo Tollebeek’s book about the Belgian historian Paul Fredericq is meant to be an example of ‘the anthropology of modern professional history’. The author believes that this anthropology goes beyond older genres. The traditional historiography focused too heavily on the intellectual content of history writing, whereas the sociology of knowledge only looked at the infrastructure of history as a profession. The post-modern deconstruction of the political role of history writing has become rather reductionistic. The anthropological gaze has to combine all of these points of view and then try to embed them in background information. Does Tollebeek succeed in doing this? We certainly get a rich picture of content, social context and professional practice. The thrills of archival research, the routine of day-to-day academic life, and the (management of) emotional ties within the community of scholars in particular, all come alive. It comes at a price, though. The precision and specificity of micro-history make comparisons within larger frameworks and developmentsdifficult. This macro level makes more selection and simplification inevitable.

Recensies

• Foken, J., Im Schatten der Niederlande. Die politisch-konfessionellen Beziehungen zwischen Ostfriesland und dem niederländischen Raum vom späten Mittelalter bis zum 18. Jahrhundert
  ISBN 9783825894283
  J.W. Koopmans
• Hazelzet, K., Verkeerde werelden. Exempla contraria in de Nederlandse beeldende kunst
  ISBN 9789059970267
  E. Stronks
• Gunn, S., Grummitt, D., Cools, H., War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559
  ISBN 9780199207503
  J. Duindam
• Bochove, Chr. van, The Economic Consequences of the Dutch. Economic Integration around the North Sea, 1500-1800
  ISBN 9789052602912
  R.W. Unger
• Brand, H., Müller, L. (eds.), The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea- and Baltic Region in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
  ISBN 9789065508829
  R.W. Unger
• Bos, D., Ebben, M., Velde, H. te (eds.), Harmonie in Holland. Het poldermodel van 1500 tot nu
  ISBN 9789035131491
  J.C.H. Blom
• Mörke, O., Wilhelm von Oranien (1533-1584). Fürst und ‘Vater’ der Republik
  ISBN 9783170176690
  A. Duke
• Adriaenssen, L., Staatsvormend geweld. Overleven aan de frontlinies in de meierij van Den Bosch, 1572-1629
  ISBN 9789070641825
  J. Hanus
• Nellen, H.J.M., Hugo de Groot. Een leven in strijd om de vrede 1583-1645
  ISBN 9789050188340
  C.S.M. Rademaker
• Groesen, M. van, The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634)
  ISBN 9789004164499
  E. van den Boogaart
• Vos, A., Burgers, broeders en bazen. Het maatschappelijk middenveld van ’s-Hertogenbosch in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw
  ISBN 9789087040116
  T. Kappelhof
• Brunn, G., Neutsch, C. (eds.), Sein Feld war die Welt. Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679). Von Siegen über die Niederlande und Brasilien nach Brandenburg
  ISBN 9783830916826
  O. van Nimwegen
• Knegtmans, P.J., Professoren van de stad. Het Athenaeum Illustre en de Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1632-1960
  ISBN 9789053569634
  K. van Berkel
• Knegtmans, P.J., From Illustrious School to University of Amsterdam
  ISBN 9789053569641
  K. van Berkel
• Goldgar, A., Tulipmania. Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
  ISBN 9780226301259
  L. Petram
• Viljoen, R.S., Jan Paerl, a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society 1761-1851
  ISBN 9789004150935
  J. van Goor
• Welten, J., In dienst voor Napoleons Europese droom. De verstoring van de plattelandssamenleving in Weert
  ISBN 9789058264992
  A.J.C.M. Gabriëls
• Schokkenbroek, J.C.A., Trying-out. An Anatomy of Dutch Whaling and Sealing in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1885
  ISBN 9789052602837
  J.R. Leinenga
• Loos, R., Deutschland zwischen ‘Schwärmertum’ und ‘Realpolitik’. Die Sicht der niederländischen Kulturzeitschrift De Gids auf die politische Kultur des Nachbarn Preußen-Deutschland 1837-1914
  ISBN 9783830919285
  F. Wielenga
• Smit, Chr. (ed.), Fatsoenlijk vertier. Deugdzame ontspanning voor arbeiders na 1870
  ISBN 9789035132481
  A. de Regt
• Dorsman, L.J., Knegtmans, P.J. (eds.), Onderzoek in opdracht. De publieke functie van het universitaire onderzoek in Nederland sedert 1876
  ISBN 9789087040147
  R. Abma
• Uuden, C. van, Stokvis, P.R.D., De gezusters Van Vloten. De vrouwen achter Frederik van Eeden, Willem Witsen en Albert Verwey
  ISBN 9789035130876
  F. Dieteren
• Goei, L. de, Hoorn, M. van der, ‘Te gek voor hier, te goed voor daar’. Geschiedenis van de Stichting Beschermende Woonvormen Utrecht (SBWU) 1978-2004
  ISBN 9789053453155
  M. Gijswijt-Hofstra
• Vijselaar, J., e.a., Van streek. 100 Jaar geestelijke gezondheidszorg in Zuid-West Gelderland
  ISBN 9789053453230
  M. Gijswijt-Hofstra
• Dijk, K. van, The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918
  ISBN 9789067183086
  P. Groen
• Bleich, A., Joop den Uyl 1919-1987. Dromer en doordouwer
  ISBN 9789050188180
  J. Bosmans
• Biltereyst, D., Meers, Ph. (eds.), De verlichte stad. Een geschiedenis van bioscopen, filmvertoningen en filmcultuur in Vlaanderen
  ISBN 9789020973310
  B. Hogenkamp
• Nefors, P., La collaboration industrielle en Belgique 1940-1945
  ISBN 9782873864798
  P. Heyrman
• Brouwer, J.W., Ramakers, J.J.M. (eds.), Regeren zonder rood. Het kabinet De Quay, 1959-1963
  ISBN 9789085063544
  R. Stevens
• Reiding, H., The Netherlands and the Development of International Human Rights Instruments
  ISBN 9789050956543
  I. van Dijk
• Cate, A. ten, Sterven voor Bosnië? Een historische analyse van het interventiedebat in Nederland 1992-1995
  ISBN 9789085063575
  H. Reiding

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