The Netherlands certainly appear to be title contenders again after losing to the United States in the Cup final four years ago. After finishing above the Americans in Group E this time, the Dutch overcame South Africa at Sydney Football Stadium through
Both Brabant and Limburg have long been known as so-called Generaliteitslanden – colonies, in effect, of much mightier (and richer) Holland (North & South, in the west of the country). And convenient economic milk cows to boot; for Amsterdam especially. Another dichotomy was religious: B...
In recent months, the governments of Britain, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands have all faced domestic criticism. Equipment sent with many of the newly arriving troops, as part of the ISAF expansion into the south, has been chosen for speed and mobility, rather than armour protection. Al...
that developed in the later years of the 17th century. This was the time when the Dutch Republic gained international primacy over world trade, with luxurious goods imported from East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Still lifes such as those by Willem Kalf and...
he crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Nova Scotia and then roughly followed the coastline south to North Carolina before reversing course again and heading up what’s now called the Hudson River. In the end, shallow waters forced him to turn around, by which time he realized the river would not...
Thousands of South Africans are protesting against the planned survey with demonstrations taking place around the country and an online petition which garnered around 286 000 signatures as of Thursday morning. But what is all the fuss about? What exactly is seismic surveying and why is it bad fo...
The implementation of apartheid, often called “separate development” since the 1960s, was made possible through the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans as either Bantu (all Black Africans), Coloured (those of mixed race), or white. A fourth category—Asian ...
According to substratists, creoles were formed by the languages previously spoken by Africans enslaved in the Americas and the Indian Ocean, which imposed their structural features upon the European colonial languages. There are three main versions of this position. The first invokes influence from ...
Religious beliefs and ethnocentrism, a comparison between the Dutch and white South Africans 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 23 作者:H Pieterse,PLH Scheepers,JVD Ven 摘要: _html_urlhttp://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/14412 关键词: Article / Letter to editor 被引量: 1 ...
303 pp. € 35,00 The story of the more than three thousand Africans that were acquired for the Dutch Indian Army (KNIL) in the nineteenth century. 99 KHAN MAJLIS, Brigitte. Indonesische Textilien. Wege zu Göttern und Ahnen. Bestandkatalog der Museen in Nordrhein- Westfalen. Köln,...