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Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

At the beginning of this month, my book 'ASML and Dutch Physics' was officially launched with a panel discussion on the perks and challenges of public-private collaboration in science. The book is now available through the website of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social (see links below)

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 Edited by Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, & Henrique Leitão www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Available for download as #OpenAccess - admin.library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner, the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

What is #European? Democracy? Freedom? Many people have one-sided or distorted ideas about this, as professor Dag Nikolaus #Hasse (#History of #Philosophy) shows in a book that is now also available in English @amsterdamupress.bsky.social

CORRECTION!!! This was a duplicate from #62, so changing this entry to... 403. PERSUASIVE GAMING IN CONTEXT 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/persuas... #GameStudies @teresadelahera.bsky.social @jj-58.bsky.social @amsterdamupress.bsky.social #Gaming #Books #Booksky

If you've spent quality time in cyberspace with the Blair Witch or Frank the Bunny, Kim Walden's new book about horror film experiential websites is for you. "A Transmedia Archaeology of Film Promotion Online" @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. Aca-priced, so nudge a librarian. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social is a leading platform for academic debate in the fields of #Religion and #Theology. Keep an eye out for regular special issues on current topics 👀📰 ➡️ www.scienceopen.com/collection/A...

'The Heat of Change: The Study of Religion and Theology in the Netherlands (1989–2024)' - an article published in the @amsterdamupress.bsky.social NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion on #ScienceOpen: 🔗 www.scienceopen.com/document?vid... 🖇️ #Theology #ReligiousStudies #DutchAcademia

Voor @amsterdamupress.bsky.social stelden Frans Willem Lantink en Jeroen Koch de bundel 'Nederlandse historici over #Duitsland. Actualiteit en (dis)continuïteit' samen. De Duitse geschiedenis lijkt alleen maar uit breuken te bestaan, maar kent ook doorgaande lijnen: www.mdnl.nl?p=18462

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship: A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Romance Edited by Jean Brink www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... See the table of contents here: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

There is a new book about the artist from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social – The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782), by Christina Lindeman Read about it at www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

And what's more, it's published open access by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social , so you can read it now and easily teach with it in the autumn if so minded.

AUP and CEUPress will attend the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture Annual Conference, taking place this week at the University of Amsterdam. Drop by our table to browse our latest titles and journals, and chat with us! www.aup.nl/en/events/am...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Want to publish your Gender Studies BA/MA thesis as an academic article? - This is your chance. Curious to learn more? Find all details using the link below. ▶️ www.aup-online.com/upload/TvGen... #GenderStudies #TvG #Academia #AUP

Congratulations to Hillary Nunn on the publication of Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England & British North America Domestic Medicine, Mobility & Manuscript Culture www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, 2025 It appears in "Connected Histories in the Early Modern World."

NEW BOOK SERIES with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ! #photography #mediastudies #arthistory #digitalcultures #aiimages

Great to see this new collection Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, eds @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social in Maritime Humanities 1400-1800 series Out 18/8/25 & available to pre-order: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... ☠️🏴‍☠️⚓

NTT Journal for #Theology and the Study of #Religion by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social has a broad scope and welcomes contributions from religious studies, theology, and a wide range of disciplines within the #Humanities and the #SocialSciences: www.scienceopen.com/collection/A...

'Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America' - a 🆕 book published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen: www.scienceopen.com/book?vid=3e2...

A leading European press with an international outlook - Across the #Humanities and #SocialSciences, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social publish academic monographs, edited collections, handbooks, reference works, textbooks, journals and conference proceedings: www.scienceopen.com/collection/A...

With @sgessner.bsky.social and Nikolaj Bijleveld I publish an edited volume with contributions of many others on Devotees of Science around 1800. It's published with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social and is available (Open Access!) in June (proofs handed in on Monday) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Had a great time talking to Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about #EarlyModern Maternities in the #Iberian Atlantic #skystorians #earlymodernist #gender #IberianHistory @amsterdamupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/early-modern...

Aaron Benanav’s (@abenanav.bsky.social) review of Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilizations, and Labor Reforms in Italy by Eloisa Betti (published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Greg de Cuir's 'Yugoslav Black Wave' is out now! The Yugoslav Black Wave remains the last major postwar European new wave yet to receive sustained critical attention — a gap this book seeks to address. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #yugoslavcinema #yugoslavhistory #cinemahistory #newwave

'Disability & Sanctity in the Middle Ages' is now published with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. For folks interested in visual impairment, I've contributed a chapter exploring visual impairments and sanctity in medieval imagery. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #disabilityhistory #histmed #newpublication

BOOK REVIEW: Frederik DHONDT, "Ineke Huysman en Roosje Peeters eds., Johan de Witt en het Rampjaar. Een bloemlezing uit zijn correspondentie" (Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis CXXXVIII (2025), nr. 1 (May), 83-84) @amsterdamupress.bsky.social 📖 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/book...

New Release! 'Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean', edited by Jill Hilditch and Martina Revello Lami, reimagines how we understand ancient interactions through the lens of ceramics🏺🌍 aup.nl/en/book/9789... #AncientMediterranean #Archaeology

Come by the Arc and AUP booth! $50 hardbacks and $20 paperbacks! @amsterdamupress.bsky.social #kzoo2025

#Uitnodiging voor de presentatie van een #boek over de #librije van #Enkhuizen ... aanmelden kan nog tot 12 mei. Zie: stichting-librije-westerkerk-enkhuizen.email-provider.eu/web/jtorpw9u... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social

The 2025 Louis Peter Grijp lecture will be given by Renée Vulto, author of 'Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period' this week! 🗓️Friday 9 May ⏲️15:00 🗺️Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 20, Utrecht University liederenbank.nl

Out now in #OpenAccess🏙️🔓 Edited volume 'Gentrification and the Media: Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change' explores how media shape our understanding of #urbantransformation. Download the #ebook here 👉https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048557196/gentrification-and-the-media

📅 Op 9 mei 2025 wordt de Louis Peter Grijp-lezing uitgesproken door Renée Vulto! Ze bespreekt de functie van liederen in het politieke debat in Nederland (1780-1815). Wees welkom! 🕒 15:00 - 17:25 📍 Universiteit Utrecht, Grote Zaal Meer info & aanmelden 👉 buff.ly/sfA1Lzq

Wishing I could be in Utrecht next week! Renée Vulto will give the Louis Peter Grijp lecture on 9 May and launch her book, Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period @amsterdamupress.bsky.social

Where would our worker's rights be without the trade union movement? What is democracy without the right to protest? This 1st May, International Worker's Day (otherwise known as May Day), browse #OpenAccess titles on worker's rights, trade unions and protest movements. www.aup.nl/en/promotion...

Congratulations to Leendert van der Miesen on the publication of his new book "Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony: From Sound to Music"! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... It is the 7th volume to be published in the @amsterdamupress.bsky.social book series Scientiae Studies, www.aup.nl/en/series/sc...

Now available to pre-order from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social: Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600, editors Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni & Henrique Leitão www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Publication date: 30/7/2025 #maritimehistory

Henk van Rinsum’s 'Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge' traces the university’s deep entanglement with Dutch colonialism since its founding in 1636 and how this influenced scientific advancement and involvement in #slavery Download via #OpenAccess www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Leendert van der Miesen's 'Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony' delves into the central role of music among the #earlymodern sciences For Mersenne, music was invaluable to understand the inaudible harmonies present in the world & universe at large🎼🐚 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #earlymodsky

My new book is out @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. It's a #textbook that teaches students in #EastAsianStudies about media and #politicalcommunication analysis. And: it's #openaccess! Get it for free here: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789.... #China #Japan #Korea

Started the very interesting and original 'Songs of Liberation in the Netherlands' from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social hope to have a review on @tracesofwar.bsky.social in May. It certainly looks really nice with lots of illustrations. #histbookchat 📚💙

I'm thrilled to keep sharing the open-access edition of my book💜

'Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film' explores how essay films use intermedial forms and audiovisual techniques, tracing this from cinematic modernity to the present through the works of #Godard, #Akerman & #Varda Available #OpenAccess 👉 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #cinematichistory #filmsky

Really looking forward to seeing this volume published next month with @CEU Press (now @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ), containing the first of an unexpectedly lengthy series of studies on 18th century #plague in #Transylvania. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

'Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan' is our latest #OpenAccess edited collection. It highlights how visual representations of plants and animals engendered complex meanings in #earlymodern China and Japan. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #earlymodsky #environmentalhistory

Congratulations to the editors of - and contributors to - Thinking Women and Art in the Long 18th Century: Strategic Reinterpretations Edited by Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann & Melissa Hyde www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social 2025

A volume more urgent than ever, 'Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples' by Barry L. Stiefel offers a timely reimagining of public memory and preservation within marginalised communities. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Congrats to @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social - her fabulous book "Humans: A Monstrous History," www.ucpress.edu/books/humans..., is just out from @ucpress.bsky.social! Surekha is on the advisory board of the @amsterdamupress.bsky.social book series "Monsters and Marvels," www.aup.nl/en/series/mo...

Rosalba Carriera is one of the artists featured in the new #OpenAccess book "Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400–1750: Uncovering the Female Presence," edited by Tracy Cooper & published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...