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Gids slavernijverleden Curaçao / Slavery Heritage Guide Curaçao

€20,00

Voor veel toeristen die naar Curaçao op vakantie gaan is het slavernijverleden volkomen onbekend. Ook de lokale bevolking is zich hier niet altijd van bewust, ondanks het feit dat de Curaçaoënaars nog steeds de gevolgen van slavernij en kolonialisme ervaren. Voor wie goed kijkt, is deze erfenis overal zichtbaar: in gebouwen, tradities en gebruiken, muziek en eten. De gids voert langs ongeveer 75 locaties.

For many tourists who go on holiday to Curaçao, the history of slavery is completely unknown. The local population is not always aware of this either, despite the fact that Curaçaoans are still experiencing the consequences of slavery and colonialism. If you look closely, this legacy is visible everywhere: in buildings, traditions and customs, music and food. The guide takes you past about 75 locations.

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Gids Slavernijverleden van De Kaap/Slavery Heritage Guide of The Cape

€20,00

De formele koloniale aanwezigheid van Nederland die 150 jaar duurde, heeft een enorme impact gehad op Zuid-Afrika. Wie in Kaapstad rondloopt en bewust rondkijkt, struikelt bijna over de straatnamen, graven, monumenten, gebouwen en kerken die Nederlandse koloniale sporen verraden. Deze gids voert ons langs 80 verschillende locaties in De Kaap die een directe link hebben met het slavernijverleden.

The formal colonial presence of the Netherlands, which lasted 150 years, had a huge impact on South Africa. Anyone walking around Cape Town and consciously looking around will almost stumble over the street names, graves, monuments, buildings and churches that betray Dutch colonial traces. This guide takes us through 80 different locations in The Cape that have a direct link to the slavery past.

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Modern Architecture of Curaçao

€37,50

This book focuses on 25 buildings on the island of Curaçao, constructed between the 1930s and the 1960s, whose designs were influenced by two distinct yet interrelated international architectural styles that emerged in the early 20th century: the Modern Movement and Art Deco.

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Kartika

€39,50

Kartika Affandi learned to paint from her father, mostly in the open air. Her paintings and sculptures embody an essential passion for authentic visual works. The look she gives to her art makes an indelible impression on those who view it, and even now while as she nears the age of ninety, her work ethic is relentless and full of joy and a desire to connect people. It has brought her international fame.

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Berlages Indische reis/Berlage’s Journey to the Indies

€30,00

Berlages Indische Reis is een nieuwe, creatieve herinterpretatie van een honderd jaar oud reisdagboek; een onderzoekingstocht naar ons koloniaal verleden met een frisse, kritische blik op het heden.

Berlage’s Journey to the Indies is a carefully curated new edition of a 100-year-old travel journal that explores the Netherlands’ colonial past from a fresh, critical, and contemporary perspective.

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The border dispute between Suriname and Guyana

€24,50

The border dispute between Suriname and Guyana has its roots in colonial times. This book sheds light on the genesis of the border dispute based on historical documents, while outlining the policy followed by the government of the Netherlands regarding this issue and further focuses on relevant aspects of international law and hitherto underexposed, if not hidden, historical facts. The author hopes that this publication could contribute to a balanced assessment of the problem by both governments in their pusuit of a peacefull solution of the border dispute.

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Gilded Splendor

€24,50

In this cahier, art historians Alette Fleischer (PhD) and Bart Krieger (M.A.) unravel the hidden messages of the black clocks of the Parnassia Collection and categorize them in a novel way. They have aimed to contextualize the pendulum clocks au Noir in the historic timeframe they were created in and displayed (ca 1790-1830) and uncovered some of their iconographic secrets with links to the transatlantic slavetrade, Eurocentrism and the French Enlightenment. Moreover, the two art historians ponder on the question if we, as an emancipated society, are allowed and able to enjoy these pendulum clocks today.

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Art Fallen From Heaven

€34,50

Art Fallen from Heaven, modern Balinese sculpture, offers a new perspective on the origin of modern Balinese sculpture in the 1930s. After the subjugation of Bali by Dutch colonial rule, the driving force for renewal was the shift of patronage by the ruling monarchs to the tourists and the western art market.

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Revisualizing Slavery

€22,50

Revisualizing slavery explores the history of slavery in Asia by focusing on visual sources. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by words such as ‘mild’, ‘guilt’ and ‘domestic’. But this is shifting by new historical research that points precisely to the tougher sides and to similarities with the Atlantic slavery past.

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Building in Indonesia

€39,50

Building in Indonesia 1600-1690 provides an overview of the history of building and the development of the infrastructure in Indonesia from 1600 to 1960.

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Islam at the Tropenmuseum

€34,50

This beautifully illustrated book presents for the first time the rich Islamic collections of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Highlighting over 100 artworks and everyday objects, the author demonstrates how Muslims, from the beginning of Islam to the present day, have expressed their faith in art and culture.

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Common Ground

€37,50

The richness and diversity of Dutch  contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods.

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The Art of Padu Lampe

€19,50

At the occasion of the Padú Lampe Centennial celebration on April 26, 2020, this book is dedicated to his exceptional visual arts career which lasted 8 decades, from his teen years until his 90th year.

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Architecture from the Indonesian Past

€47,50

‘Things are changing and we are changing with it,’ was their motto. Since 1927 uprising broke out against the Dutch in the colony, the crisis followed. They continued to design stoically at Fermont-Cuypers; schools, churches, villas and offices. After Indonesian independence, the firm had a restart until 1958. Their buildings still exist in Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung and many other cities. Indonesia is proud of it. This book tells the story of a productive architecture firm, unique buildings and the people behind them.

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Landmarks from a Bygone Era

€47,50

It goes without saying that one building after the other was built in the Dutch East Indies, the current Indonesia. Newspapers jubilated ‘again a jewel for the city.’ The man behind it was Eduard Cuypers (1859-1927). With his firm he was one of the most celebrated architects in the Netherlands around 1900. He has fallen into oblivion due to changed views in architecture.

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Maternity

€19,50

The book Maternity is the reflection of an inner journey through the emotions in the life of a pregnant woman. The paintings and poems represent the moments and changes a woman experiences, as well as the interaction between nature and the individual.

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The enchanted heemparks of Amstelveen

€14,95

Amstelveen’s heemparks are islands of peace and wonder, where plants and herbs that are indigenous to the Netherlands are shown in enchanting compositions. Experience the beauty of Dutch flora in any season during your stroll in these delightful parks. Revised and updated edition.

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Plantation Houses of Curaçao

€47,50

Plantation Houses of Curaçao offers a comprehensive overview, in words and in images, of all the plantation houses that have been preserved as jewels from the past.

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Three Caribbean Artists

€29,50

A rare glimpse is offered into the lives of three well-known Caribbean artists, their upbringing, work and how they became established and well-known artists.

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Eddy Wegman

€19,50

Eddy Wegman (17 February 1918 – 12 May 1998) was born in Doetinchem, the Netherlands. He left for Curaçao in September 1945, where he had been offered a job at Shell. In Curaçao he devoted the little free time he had largely to his new passion: photography.

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