Lex Heerma Van Voss
Department of History and Art History - Economic and Social
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Lex Heerma van Voss studied social and economic history in Utrecht and paris. His research is focussed on the history of social security, comparative global long term history of occupations (dockers, textile workers, prostitutes) and the history of the North Sea area in the Early Modern Period, especially the influence of the Dutch Republic as the first modern economy in this area. He is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
Research Interest
History of Politics and Society (MA)
Publications
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Heerma van Voss, A.F. (2014). Dilemmas of the Welfare State - Discovering the Dutch. In Jaap Verheul & Emmeline Besamusca (Eds.), Discovering the Dutch - On Culture and Society of the Netherlands (pp. 57-66) (10 p.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, M1 - Chapter.
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Heerma van Voss, A.F. (2014). Bakunin and Bacon Cake. E-editing in Social History. In Huub Sanders, Jan Lucassen & Aad Blok (Eds.), A Usable Collection - Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History (pp. 318-329) (12 p.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, M1 - Chapter.
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Rodriguez GarcÃa, M., van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. & Heerma van Voss, A.F. (2015). Selling Sex in the City. Prostitution in World Cities, 1600 to the Present. Leiden: Brill, M1 - Book.
