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N.W. Posthumus Institute

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Part of	Universiteit Leiden
Acronym	POSTHUMUS
Address	Doelensteeg 16, 2311 VL Leiden
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Postal address	Postbus 9515, 2300 RA Leiden
Phone	+31-71-5271646
URL	http://www.hum.leiden.edu/posthumus/
Email	nwp -at- hum. leidenuniv. nl
Mission	The N.W. Posthumus Institute is the Research School for Economic and Social History in the Netherlands and Flanders, including research focusing on non-Western history, world history and social-cultural history. The Posthumus Institute promotes innovative and advanced interdisciplinary research in economic and social history by stimulating joint research programs of participating institutes and provides a PhD training in economic and social history.
Addition	The Institute for History of Leiden University houses the administrative office of the N.W. Posthumus Institute since January 1st, 2010. At this moment, fifteen faculties cooperate in the Posthumus Institute: three Belgian faculties, ten Dutch faculties, the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the Centre of Social History of Limburg in Maastricht.

People

Management	Dr. L.J. Touwen

Current research

(the most recent research is at the top)
Collaboration	Too young to die. Excess female mortality at young ages in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Collaboration	The development of the region of North-Groningen as compared to the official government report Threatened existence of 1959, since 1959
Collaboration	Standard of living in Roman Empire
Collaboration	Gender and transnationalism: Moroccan migrants and their descendants in the Netherlands, 1960-2000
Collaboration	'Urban networks in movement'. The influence of the South-Netherlandish 'politique de transit' on the commercial fluxes between the Dutch Republic and the Austrian Netherlands (1713-1789).

All current research..

Completed research

(the most recent research is at the top)
Collaboration	The military daily life in New Holland (1630-1654): The life?s conditions of soldiers of the West India Company
Collaboration	The worlds first stock exchange. How the Amsterdam market for Dutch East India Company shares became a modern securities market, 1602 1700
Collaboration	The Evolution of Visual Arts, Architecture, and Publishing in the Netherlands, 1600-2000
Collaboration	History of achitecture, public housing, urban design and infrastructure in the 19th en 20th century
Collaboration	Weathering different storms: regional agriculture and slave families in the non-cotton south, 1800-1860

All completed research..

Classification

D34000	History

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