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n 2005 the iish received selected T h e l e t t e r s Iarchival items concerning D a n d E the artist Gerard Hordijk (The f r o m G e r a r d Hague 1899-Amsterdam 1958). H o r d i j k ’s These archival items were part of a l p h a b e t a larger archive that belonged to b o o k l e t , the economist J.J. Klant (neha, p r e s u m a b l y Special Collections, 680). Hordijk, f r o m a r o u n d who has virtually lapsed into 1 9 5 0 . T h e oblivion, was a Dutch artist who l e t t e r D studied painting at the academy f e a t u r e s t h e in The Hague and earned a living t e x t “ D r u k designing theatre sets and murals. d o e n d e He lived in Paris, New York, and d o r s t i g e Amsterdam, travelled extensively, d i k k o p j e s ” , organized exhibitions, and corre- t h e l e t t e r sponded with Piet Mondriaan and collage, and as a combination of [National bureau for art history E t h e w o n - others. The feature item in this file words devised by Hordijk. documentation] in The Hague, d e r f u l b u t is a unique and colourful alphabet The iish presented the items to where they were welcomed as a e v e n l o n g e r booklet by Hordijk. Each letter is the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthis- complement to material previously m o t t o “ E r g s i depicted as a watercolour, as a torische Documentatie (rkd) received from Hordijk’s estate. e e n k e n n i g e eden i e n e i g e n l i j k story i e r g e r l i j k

al h e e r z u c h t i g e i ale gesch i e g e l ” , a l l i t - Sixteenth Friends Day, 24 January 2008 e r a t i o n s

tute of soc t h a t i n E n g - i tuut voor soc nst i l i s h w o u l d i P resentation of the ac q u i s i t i o n s nst

i t r a n s l a t e onal i ccording to the longstanding of Dr. Rahmat Pirnazar, which he The type of biography described i n t o s o m e - onaal i tradition at these meetings, presented to Turaj Atabaki, who above might seem unusual for t h i n g l i k e

nternat A i general matters were discussed is responsible for the Iranian and the ideal collector. Nevertheless, “ t a d p o l e s

Internat first (described at the end of this Central Asian collections at the Pirnazar is such an individual: t r y i n g t o issue), after which the editors Institute (see On the Waterfront 4, for decades he acted as an infor- t r a n s f i g u r e presented their personal selec- 2002, pp. 6-7 and 13, 2006, pp. 9- mal point of contact for Irani- t o t o a d s ” tions from the acquisitions of 13). Born in 1927 in Kermanshah, ans abroad, especially in North a n d “ h o m e l y the past half year (the following Iran, he took his degree from the America. He collected all possible h e d g e h o g eight items), and the meeting Medical School at Teheran Uni- books about Iran during the pe- h o n e s t l y concluded with a lecture by Eef versity in 1958 and subsequently riod of its forced modernization h o p i n g h e ’ l l Vermeij (see pp. 10-13 below). became a reader there. Next, he from the early twentieth century h a v e h o n o r - went to Chicago and then to Win- onwards. His collection of over i f i c h a n d - 2 The Persian library of Dr. nipeg, Canada, where he special- 700 monographs is especially s h a k e ” ( r k d , Rahmat Pirnazar ized in obstetrics, gynecology, and strong in memoirs and other bio- T h e H a g u e ) An institute with a library of 1.5 surgery. In 1966 Pirnazar returned graphical writings of politicians, million volumes needs to be selec- to Iran to become a medical con- bureaucrats, intellectuals, and tive in acquiring old books, in sultant in Teheran and married artists, such as the famous Mo- particular when they are offered his wife Mahin as well. In 1969 hamed Mossadeq (1882-1956) and in bulk. Nevertheless, one type Pirnazar returned with her to Abolhasan Ebtehaj (1899-1998), of collection is and will always be Chicago and was accredited by minister of planning under the especially appealing to us: special- the American Board of Obstetrics shah. His collection also com- ized libraries, carefully brought and Gynecology. Over the course prises nearly all classical works on together during a lifetime of schol- of his extended career, he worked modern political history of Persia arship. Such focused collections at various hospitals in Illinois, and some fine specimens on the are a labour of love, and as a whole finishing up at the Holy Family history of surrounding countries. are worth more than the separate Hospital in Des Plaines. Dr Pir- Some of his children’s books are volumes together. An excellent nazar is presently in retirement in very moving, such as Kitab-i Mus- example of such a library is that California. tatab-i Mathnavi Atfal [The book

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the Japanese campagnonnage R e c e i p t f r o m system, and the idiosyncrasies a n o r d e r b y of A.G. Vreede, the labour com- t h e F rench missioner at Batavia who at the a c t i o n c o m - same time acted as a bishop of the m i t t e e Free Catholic Church and had re- o f 1 0 , 0 0 0 cently ordained the burgomaster p o s t e r of Batavia as a sub-deacon in this s t a m p s a n d theosophical-type church. 1 , 0 0 0 t i c k e t s Instead, we would like to point a t f f 1 7 0 . 5 0 , to a specific event that might 1 3 M a y 1 9 2 4 interest those who know about ( I i s h , the history of collections such as A r c h i v e s ) ours. The occasion is the meeting he had in the afternoon of Tues- day 6 November 1928 with David Borisovich Rjazanov (1870-1938; murdered upon orders from Sta- lin), founder of Moscow’s Marx

The archive has been separated While Thomas has travelled from the papers of Max Nettlau, extensively, this travel log is un- a famous collection of which the doubtedly more varied than the s i definitive inventory was published ones from all his other trips. This eden i last year, thanks in part to a large very long journal comprises 983 story i grant from the Friends (see On the pages, averaging eleven pages per al h i ale gesch Waterfront , 2006, pp. 14-15; 14, day. The end is rather abrupt, i 2007, p. 14). omitting his return from Batavia via Singapore, Colombo, Aden, tute of soc

i 2 Albert Thomas en voyage, and Egypt. Most of the text is de- tuut voor soc nst i i Geneva, 31 October 1928 voted to China, which he crossed nst i – Batavia 22 January 1929 by train from the Russian border onal i A few times a year all Institute at Manchouli via Mukden, Har- onaal i staff members involved in cata- bin, Peking, Hankou, Canton, nternat i loguing, conducting inventories, from Hankou by boat to Nankin

Internat and the like team up to clear larger and Shanghai, and finally to Ja- collections that have been received pan, French Indochina, and the but have yet to be processed for Netherlands East Indies. several reasons. On one such occa- These few lines cannot possibly sion a book with no clear prov- convey a journey of this magni- enance turned up, which proved tude, duly recorded by Thomas’ to have an important content: a personal secretary Dubourg and neatly typed carbon copy without described by his Irish successor a title page, indicating only its ori- E.J. Phelan a few years later. Ex- gins from the “Société des Amis cept for the two weeks that he was d’Albert Thomas Genève”, and absent between Sverdlovsk/Jekat- that it contained the report of a erinenburg and Mukden, because “Voyage r ussie – c hine – j apon he missed the train fulfilling his – indes n eerlandaises” between near-daily duty of posting Tho- November 928 and February mas’ letters, Dubourg was consist- 1929. In fact, these are the per- ently present with his type writer sonal notes of Albert Thomas, to record his boss’ thoughts. Many the French social-democrat who parts of this manuscript contain acted as the first and undoubtedly verbatim recordings of discus- A l b e r t T h o m a s i n J apan, dressed in a ki m o n o , most widely known president of sions. presented to hi m b y J apanese sailors ( a l B e r t the International Labour Organi- Unfortunately we are unable to t h o M a s V I V a n t . u n G r a n d c i t o y e n d u M o n d e . zation (ilo), based in Geneva, include here the vivid, detailed É t u d e s , t ém o i g n a g e s , s o u v e n i r s . O u v r a g e until his sudden death of a heart descriptions of parades on Red p u b l i é par les soins de la S o c i é t é d e s a m i s attack, shortly before he turned 54 Square, the world’s largest open d ’ A l b e r t T h o m a s , G e n è v e 1957, followin g p . in 1932. cast coal mine near Mukden, 3 2 4 , i i s h l i b r a r y, F 1 2 9 4 / 6 4 0 )

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lands might relate to India. We Wilhelmina Gasthuis Hospital of pants in the International Brigades have managed to reconstruct the the University of Amsterdam in returned to the Netherlands and following. the Netherlands. A friend of her received a heroes’ welcome at the The machine factories of Werk- parents, Ben Sajet, who had ties Hotel Krasnapolsky. The album spoor in Amsterdam and of Stork with the Medische Commissie Hulp features photographs of nurses in Hengelo had a long history go- aan Spanje [Medical Committee of and soldiers (primarily Dutch) ing back into the first half of the Spanish Relief] (see On the Wa- from the International Brigades. nineteenth century to manufacture terfront , 2005, pp. 3-5), intro- Trudel van Reemst-De Vries machines for sugar production on duced her to a group of medical (1914-2007) was a student nurse at Java in the Netherlands Indies, volunteers interested in going to the Jewish Hospital in Rotterdam. according to their annual reports Spain. In April 1937 she travelled She also reached Onteniente via B a n n e r o f and commemorative albums at to Spain via Paris together with the Medische Commissie Hulp aan t h e 1 2 0 t h the neha. The onset of the De- some other nurses (including Spanje. After leaving the hospi- B r i g a d a pression led orders from Java to Trudel van Reemst). The Dutch tal there, she joined the “Dutch” M i x t a o f drop sharply, and other markets government had authorized their hospital in Villanueva de la Jara t h e 2 6 t h needed to be found. In 1932 a few mission. At first her group worked in September 1937. This was a d i v i s i o n o f years of successful exports to other at the hospital in Onteniente, hospital of the International Bri- t h e S p a n i s h sugar countries began, especially which received support from gades which received support spe- R e p u b l i c a n to India, where sugar production the Second International. Later cifically from the Netherlands. It a r m y, c o m - continued, thanks to high tariffs. the nurses were each assigned to belonged to the Servicio Sanitario p o s e d i n 1 9 3 7 This was how the Motipur branch work in different places. After of the IBs. f r o m s o l - of A Rahim Usman & Company a few months in Onteniente, After the war Trudel was very d i e r s w h o wound up with machines from Noor went to Albacete, where active helping victims of the Fran- h a d f o u g h t the Netherlands. Stork-Werk- she joined the Communist Party, co regime. Her personal papers, w i t h t h e spoor opened an agency in New because she was impressed with which she entrusted to the Insti- a n a r c h i s t s i Delhi, which was later transferred the aid from the Soviet Union to tute following her death in 2007, C o l u m n a eden i to Calcutta. The representatives the Spanish Republic and believed contain documents reflecting her D u r r u t i story i of the firm in India were – in that the social democrats were not involvement. These papers also ( i i s h , c o l -

al h L e c t i o n i ale gesch chronological order – M. Mohr, doing enough for the cause. She comprise information on later i J.W. Witteveen, Mr Huyting, was then transferred to the field trips to Spain to attend gatherings J . s a n s I and W. Morsman. One of them hospital of the 45th division. In commemorating the IBs. s i c a r t , B G

tute of soc L 2 / 1 9 ). i is likely to have kept this album, late 1938 she and the other partici- The Institute also received files tuut voor soc nst i i which contains many photographs nst i from the factories, as well as of the onal i major earthquake in North Bihar onaal i in 1934. It relates directly to the nternat i study by Ulbe Bosma of the re-

Internat search department about labour relationships in this industry.

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which arrived a few months ago, the country, and the oil embargo P h o t o g r a p h complement the wri archive al- was the most important form of o f D e v i ready present here, although they pressure. However, the major oil P r a s a d f r o m also contain extensive personal companies secretly continued h i s b o o k W a r correspondence with peace or- deliveries to Rhodesia. From the i s a c r i m e ganizations, peace activists, and mid-1970s Martin Bailey, born a g a i n s t conscientious objectors from all in 1947 and a graduate of the h u m a n i t y : over the world and a wealth of London School of Economics, T h e S t o r y o f information about wri activities where he wrote his PhD thesis on W a r R e s i s t - in Asia. Tanzanian foreign policy, started e r s ’ I n t e r - to investigate exactly how the n a t i o n a l , 2 Martin Bailey and the oil companies operated. To this end, 2 0 0 5 ( i i s h boycott he needed to know the precise l i b r a r y, Organizing a collective petition movements of oil tankers, which 2 0 0 5 / 5 1 7 5 ) drive is a classical form of col- required accessing vast quantities lective action (see e.g. above on of documentation. Together with p. 4 Le Groupement de Défense Bernard Rivers, he published in London from 1962, where he des Révolutionnaires Emprisonnés Oilgate. The sanctions scandal became the wri secretary and sub- .en Russie) Later on, economic (1979), for which they received sequently served as the chairman boycotts became popular forms the British Journalist of the Year until 1975. He remained active of collective action and were award. The actions of Bailey and with wri for several decades there- highly effective, provided that Rivers proved immensely success- after – first from London and later they were well organized. The ful. An official UK enquiry was from New Delhi, where he lives to best worldwide examples are per- launched, and in 1980 Rhodesia this day. While writing his book haps the oil boycott of Rhodesia gained independence as Zimba- s i War Is a Crime Against Humanity and subsequently that of South bwe. eden i (2005) about the history of wri Africa. Following Ian Smith’s Bailey and Rivers subsequently story i from its establishment until 1975 Unilateral Declaration of Inde- shifted their attention to South al h i ale gesch (the same year that the Vietnam pendence on 11 November 1965, Africa, in close cooperation with i War ended, also the year that wri sanctions had been imposed on the Shipping Research Bureau in moved to Brussels), he made a tute of soc

i few visits to the iish, where the tuut voor soc nst i i wri archive is kept, and where he nst i conducted his research. onal i From 1942, Devi Prasad worked onaal i with Mahatma Gandhi (see On nternat i the Waterfront 8, 2004, p. 6) as a

Internat teacher and artist in Sevagram, Gandhi’s Ashram, where he became involved in peace educa- tion. Together, the two devel- oped a peace culture. He wrote countless pamphlets and articles about raising people and educat- ing them to live in peace. He also belonged to various non-violent movements that pursued social reforms in India. Devi Prasad helped with cam- paigns for aid to Czechoslovakia (1968), Spanish Conscientious Objectors (1971), the wri campaign against US involvement in Vietnam, the wri campaign to have conscientious objection to military service recognized as a human right, as well as with Opera- T he Bailey collection also co m p r i s e s m aterial fro m o u t s i d e tion Omega for aid to Bangladesh S o u t h e r n A frica, such as this adhesi v e l a b e l u r g i n g c o n - (1971-1972). In the 1940s he was s u m e r s t o b o y c o t t T e x a c o b ecause of its stake in a natural active in the Leave India Campaign g as project off Bur m a’s coast. A nother successful effort: against British rule. o n 2 4 S e p t e mb er 1997 the oil co m pany announced that it was The papers of Devi Prasad, s e l l i n g its stake ( i i s h , Martin Bailey P a p e r s ) .

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A l e a k i n g r o o f a t t h e o f f i c e o f a B u r m e s e e x i l e o r g a n i z a - t i o n i n M a e S o t c a u s e d f o r a n i m p r o m p t u s o l u t i o n . D r y i n g m a g a - z i n e s a n d l e a f l e t s , j u s t n e x t to the fire- p l a c e ( n o t v i s i b l e ) ( P h o t o G r a p h B Y e e f V e r - M E i j ) s i eden i ning more permanent operations • conducting research in a half at the border. Fortunately, this did story i in the region would be a good dozen countries where the iish not happen. He was interrogated al h i ale gesch idea, in part in response to vari- was not active to determine only briefly, and we were able to i ous suggestions from our local whether launching activities there look for our contact across the representatives from Pakistan would be worthwhile. The coun- Thai border. This person would tute of soc

i and Bangladesh. Bangkok was tries were: South Korea, Taiwan, accompany us the rest of the way. tuut voor soc nst i i selected primarily for infrastruc- the Philippines, Cambodia, Note that early in its struggle nst i tural reasons: it is very centrally Nepal and Sri Lanka, and later against the Malaysian govern- onal i located, is easily accessible by air on Malaysia and Hong Kong; ment, the cpm had to seek refuge onaal i transport, and is relatively flex- • seeking opportunities for creat- near the border with Thailand and nternat i ible about issuing visas, enabling ing new history sources. later relocated its operations to

Internat people from South and Southeast Thailand. When the cpm eventu- Asia to attend congresses and The selection of countries has ally signed a peace treaty with the gatherings there. All this is con- changed somewhat over the years. Malaysian and Thai governments ducive to establishing contacts. First, Malaysia and Hong Kong in 1989, several party members In addition, Thailand still has were later tacitly added to the pro- decided to remain in Thailand, a liberal government, which is file. Malaysia was selected in part some of their own free will, others very important for our work. In because of the coincidence that in because they were not pardoned Malaysia or Singapore, for exam- 2003 we obtained the archive of and were therefore not allowed to ple, this would be impossible. the “10th” or Malaysian Regiment return to Malaysia. Upon arriving In late September 2002 I travelled of the Malaysian Communist in the village, we started negotia- to Thailand and opened Bureau Party (in fact, the cpm had only tions immediately but did not get Bangkok, as we called it. At first four regiments: three Chinese to see any of the material at that it was to be a three-year trial and one Malaysian). This acqui- point. Once we had established a project, with an optional three- sition illustrates the problems that rapport, we were shown some of year extension. I was expected arise in the region. Since having the material: the diaries of Suriani to submit monthly substantive the right contacts is essential to and a notebook kept by Abdul- and financial reports and was cultivate confidence, I started lah CD, where he had recorded entitled to return to Amsterdam by flying to Kuala Lumpur to in miniscule handwriting all once a year. I had to figure eve- meet my local contact and then fights in which he was involved, rything else out as I went along. flew with him to Khota Bharu, the routes they had taken, the I left with three missions: from where we were driven to injured, etc. Magnificent histori- • first, as I had done from Amster- the Thai border. Because my con- cal material. In the end we agreed dam, supervising and coordinating tact, a former cpm member, was that copies would be made of the our local representatives (Bang- still blacklisted, a protocol was material and the originals sent ladesh, Pakistan, and Burma); arranged in case he was detained to Amsterdam, and that the iish

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(Bangladesh). Separate accommo- menical or liberal, in a manner terial: what do we collect, dations were recently found for of speaking. You deal with many and what don’t we collect? these archives. Likewise, we are different cultures, religions, Part of the reason why I have put trying to team up with the Thai political beliefs, and operators this question off so long is prob- Labour Museum, which in addi- and need to proceed somewhat ably that – at least as far as the tion to a modest museum has a li- like a chameleon. Literally. archives are concerned – it has brary about the history of the Thai When introducing yourself, bear hardly ever occurred that I had to labour movement, and with which in mind that people want to refuse collections. First, I am the we are developing various projects understand your frame of refer- one to search for material, which to digitize the collections. ence. Are you one of us, and if means that I have already made The third activity entails devel- not, what are you? Who are your up my mind. And this selection oping new historical sources, friends, with whom do you inter- is of course based on various con- usually as oral history. We have act, and whom do you avoid, and siderations: is it generally compat- had an ongoing project in India/ how do you speak about whom? ible with the iish collection, or Bangladesh, featuring video The experience is like walking can I justify that it belongs there? interviews with former leaders of on a tightrope, and you need to Along these lines: are we likely to political parties, farmers’ revolts, watch what you say. Mistakes are obtain more such material, which and the like, for a few years now. sometimes inevitable. I have en- means that I should get this mate- The interviews are conducted by countered a lot of mistrust: many rial now. What is the importance our local representative Shahriar have never heard of the iish and and the significance of the group Kabir, a professional journalist, do not see why they should store or individual concerned? These writer, and film maker. Ahmad Saleem, our representative in Pakistan, has done a project about Pakistani miners and is develop- s i ing another about the history of eden i progressive movements. Other story i oral history projects were con- al h i ale gesch ducted in Indonesia and Central i Asia. A concise guide, including a list of the South Asian Oral tute of soc

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Internat the past five years provide a quan- titative impression: • 8 shiploads, comprising 179 boxes with a volume of 8 m3; • shipments by courier, totaling 530 kilos of (largely archival) material; • over the course of these five years, I have personally brought their materials in Amsterdam. considerations obviously vary de- S o r t i n g a n d about 700 posters and countless How do they know that I am not pending on the country. Second, p a c k i n g o f kilos of Image & Sound mate- cia? Worse, the entire Institute the most urgent consideration is t h e a r c h i v e s rials on my biannual visits to could be cia. Who can guaran- whether the material is in jeop- o f t h e A s i a n Amsterdam. tee that the material will not be ardy (and this may be for various C e n t e r f o r While the exciting stories about used against us? The best remedy reasons and in different ways), t h e P r o g r e s s the circuitous routes that some is to take the criticism or mistrust and can or should we help res- o f P e o p l e s of this material travelled to reach seriously and to talk and talk.... cue it? Of course thirty years of ( a c p p ) i n Amsterdam would unfortunately A basic awareness of the different dealing with books in different H o n g K o n g . exceed the scope of this forum, cultures is also useful, although capacities has cultivated a sense O n t h e b a c k : the collections acquired in recent that is pretty obvious. Show com- of what is potentially interesting J a m e s T a n . years are listed on the web pages mon decency and respect, avoid material. Even then – and this is ( p h o t o G r a p h of the Asia Department (see p. getting irritated, do not let others what makes collecting fun – had B Y e e f V e r - 10 above). Which attributes are lose face, and be patient. This will I faced the same decision a day M E i j ) essential in this line of work? get you a long way. earlier or later, I might have made As with any other collection ac- One question that remains a different choice in the end. tivity, you need to be fairly ecu- concerns the choice of ma-

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{ 14 } { 15 } Christiaan van Bochove The economic consequences of the Dutch Economic integration around the North-Sea, 1500-1800 ISBN: 978 90 5260 291 2, 314 pp., € 29,90 Between 1550 and 1800 the Northern Netherlands went through a period of intense economic development. International trade blos- somed, tens of thousands of foreign workers found employment in the Netherlands and many millions of guilders were channelled abroad to finance foreign commercial undertakings and government policies. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the international impact of Dutch economic development and investigates the economic consequences of Dutch dominance in the areas borde- ring the North Sea. By using a wide variety of sources and literature the author describes the international flows of goods, people and money, focussing on the effects on the prices of everyday goods, the wages of labourers and interest rates. This book shows how, by the end of the eighteenth century, the development of the Dutch economy had turned the North Sea region into an integrated spatial economy that operated at the frontier of what was technologically and institutionally possible. Geschiedenis Antropologie Sociologie Sjaak van der Velden, Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Politieke wetenschap Lyddon, Kurt Vandaele (eds.) Bestuurskunde Strikes around the world Economie Case-studies of 15 countries Communicatiewetenschap ISBN 978 90 5260 285 1: 384 pp. € 39,90 Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? The much-proclaimed ‘withering away of the strike’ in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the ‘resurgence of class conflict’ in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has been charac- Verkrijgbaar in de terized as one of ‘labor quiescence’. Commentators again predict betere boekhandel the strike’s demise, at least in the former heartlands of capitalism. of rechtstreeks bij This unique study draws on the experience of fifteen countries around de uitgeverij the world – South Africa, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, United States, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Covering the high and low points of strike activity over the period 1968–2005, the study shows continuing evidence of the durability, adaptability and necessity of the strike.

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