1st Edition

Rebels with a cause Five centuries of social history collected by the International Institute of Social History

By Jaap Kloosterman, Jan Lucassen Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Every age has had its rebels: socialists, peace activists, sexual reformers, fundamentalists, and more. The collections of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam are full of them. The IISH is the world's largest documentation centre in the field of social history and emancipation movements. This book looks back on seventy-five years of the IISH and its collections, with... Read more
Preface, Working for Labour: three quarters of a century of collecting at the IISH, The Selection, Chapter 1: The West and the Rest, Chapter 2: Eastern Europe, Chapter 3: The Near and the Middle East, Chapter 4: South and Southeast Asia, Chapter 5: Globalization, Anti-globalization, Alter-globalization, Sources, A Few Words of Gratitude

Biography

Jan Lucassen is a senior research fellow of the International Institute for Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam.