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Rebels with a cause: five centuries of social history collected by the IISH

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

Abstract

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 a focus on creative ideas and people who fought for radical change, from Karl Marx to Aung San Suu Kyi, the French Revolution to the Chinese student revolt of 1989, from the early modern world explorers to today's anti-globalists.

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    Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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    1500-2010

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    • 9789462984103
    • 9462984107

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    Second edition, in which the only change is the foreword --- Originally published on the occasion of the Institute's 75th anniversary in 2010 --- Exhibition Rebels with a cause, the IISH at 75, in the Special Collections Building of the University of Amsterdam, 29 October 2010 - 30 January 2011.

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