A usable collection : essays in honour of Jaap Kloosterman on collecting social history / edited by Aad Blok, Jan Lucassen and Huub Sanders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kloosterman, Jaap, honouree.

Blok, Aad, editor.

Lucassen, Jan, editor.

Sanders, Huub, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Institute of Social History--History.

International Institute of Social History.

Social history.

Curatorship.

Research institutes--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Research institutes.

History.

Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

489 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Established in Amsterdam in 1935, the International Institute of Social History is one of the world's leading research centres. Its exceptional research collections owe much to its former director Jaap Kloosterman. The contributors offer a rare insight into the history of the institute and the motivation behind devoting a lifetime to collecting social history sources.

Contents:

Part I The Emergence of Social History Collections

1.1 Prolegomena to a Social History of Dutch Archives / Eric Ketelaar Ketelaar, Eric 40

1.2 The founder of the iish, as Experienced by his Daughter Interview with Claire Posthumus / Huub Sanders Sanders, Huub 56

1.3 Looking for Traces of Huizinga His Relation with N.W. Posthumus, Based on Unpublished Letters and a Text / Huub Sanders Sanders, Huub 66

1.4 Working for the Institute Kees de Dood, N.W. Posthumus and the International Institute of Social History, 1940-1950 / Alex Geelhoed Geelhoed, Alex 84

1.5 The Persistent Life of the British Merchant / Co Seegers Seegers, Co 100

1.6 Harry Stevens, the British "Correspondent" of David Rjazanov's Institute On the History of Collecting at the Marx-Engels Institute (1927-1931) / Irina Novichenko Novichenko, Irina 108

1.7 The Importance of Friendship The Shared History of the IAV/IIAV and IISH / Francisca de Haan Haan, Francisca de, Annette Mevis Mevis, Annette 142

Part II The European Collections of the iish: Acquisitions and Catalogues

11.1 A Broken Mirror The Library of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis / Bert Altena Altena, Bert 158

11.2 The Archives of Hendrik de Man A Tragedy / Wouter Steenhaut Steenhaut, Wouter 170

11.3 Trying to find a Masked Man An Unfinished Investigation / Marien van der Heijden Heijden, Marien van der, Franck Veyron Veyron, Franck 186

11.4 La Rosa de Foc Collecting Anarchist Materials / Andrew H. Lee Lee, Andrew H. 198

11.5 The Key to the Library's Collection Rules and Practices / Coen Marinus Marinus, Coen 208

11.6 From Ice Age to Global Warming The Libraries of the Amsterdam IISH and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) / Rüdiger Zimmermann Zimmermann, Rüdiger 222

11.7 Does a History Research Institute Need its Own Archive? / Karl Heinz Roth Roth, Karl Heinz 234

11.8 A Manuscript Found at the Institute / Kees Rodenburg Rodenburg, Kees 240

11.9 Did Castoriadis Suppress a Letter from Pannekoek? A Note on the Debate regarding the "Organizational Question" in the 1950s / Marcel van der Linden Linden, Marcel van der 252

11.10 Matriarchy and Socialism French Precedents / Francis Ronsin Ronsin, Francis 264

11.11 Neo-Malthusians A Photograph / Jenneke Quast Quast, Jenneke 276

11.12 Secret Suitcases Dutch Communist Party Papers / Margreet Schrevel Schrevel, Margreet 284

11.13 Long live the Library! The Book Collections of the IISH in particular the KNAW Library / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Meerkerk, Elise van Nederveen 292

11.14 The iish as a Trailblazer in Technology in the 1990s Jaap Kloosterman's Transformative Breakthroughs / Henk Wals Wals, Henk 302

Part III The IISH and Eastern Europe

11.1 Publications of Posrednik and Svobodnoe Slovo Publishing Houses in iish's Russian Collections / Els Wagenaar Wagenaar, Els 310

111.2 Bakunin and Bacon Cake E-editing in Social History / Lex Heerma van Voss Voss, Lex Heerma van 318

111.3 The Activities in Moscow after 1991 and Memorial / Francesca Gori Gori, Francesca 330

111.4 Rescue Efforts in Post-Soviet Moscow / Nana Adler Adler, Nana 342

11.5 Archival Revolution and "Intellectual Access" in Russia ArcheoBiblioBase in Moscow and Amsterdam / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy 352

111.6 Sources for Writing the History of Russia and the Soviet Union National and Transnational Perspectives / Gijs Kessler Kessler, Gijs 376

111.7 The Making of Collective Memory The Politics of Archive in the Soviet Azerbaijan / Touraj Atabaki Atabaki, Touraj, Solmaz Rustamova-Towhidi Rustamova-Towhidi, Solmaz 386

Part IV The IISH Goes Global

IV.1 The long Journey of the dhkp Archive From the Turkish Prisons to the iish / Zülfikar Özdogan Özdogan, Zülfikar 400

IV.2 The Egyptian and Sudanese Communist Collections / Roel Meijer Meijer, Roel 408

Iv.3 Collecting under Uncertainty The Creation of the Chinese People's Movement Archive / Tony Saich Saich, Tony 418

IV.4 From Dhaka with Love The Nepal Nag Papers and the Sino-Soviet Split / Willem van Schendel Schendel, Willem van 426

IV.5 The Role of Archives and Archivists in the Contemporary Age in Ensuring the Transmission of Collective Memory / Stefano Bellucci Bellucci, Stefano 434

IV.6 Gunnar Mendoza A Life to Share / Rossana Barragán Romano Romano, Rossana Barragán 442.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789089646880

9089646884

OCLC:

881214434