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Author: Lotte van de Pol (Affiliated fellow of the Research Institute for History and Culture, University of Utrecht)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9780199211401
ISBN 10: 019921140
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 31 March 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
the information on dress and manners given in the seventh and last chapter is so significant that it ought to be brought to the attention of readers. Ann Saunders, Costume Excellent and detailed study...it is the perfect bedside book for the professional - and for the rest of us, too. Petra de Vries, Times Higher Education Van de Pol's is a story that deserves and will richly reward an attentive audience. Doug Catterall, Sixteenth Century Journal Even so cursory a summary of some of the riches of this work reveals its significance at a European level and one must hope one day for a similar in depth study of the London of Moll Flanders Olwen Hufton, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis A rich kaleidoscope of observations on the day-to-day realities of prostitution, which the author presents to the reader with analytical intelligence and without voyeurism... In spite of, or rather because of, its stern objectivity the book is fascinating. Andrew James Johnston, taz, die tageszeitung Lotte van de Pol's fascinating description of the prostitution scene of Amsterdam at times reads like a novel. Prof Peter Schuster, Damal A (near) perfect picture of Amsterdam's prostitution... In recent years we got the picture of the The Embarrasment of Riches, but the embarrassment caused by the lack of riches had never before been mapped out in such a systematic and intelligent way. Michael Zeeman, Volkskrant
Van de Pol's is a story that deserves and will richly reward an attentive audience. Doug Catterall, Sixteenth Century Journal Even so cursory a summary of some of the riches of this work reveals its significance at a European level and one must hope one day for a similar in depth study of the London of Moll Flanders Olwen Hufton, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis A rich kaleidoscope of observations on the day-to-day realities of prostitution, which the author presents to the reader with analytical intelligence and without voyeurism... In spite of, or rather because of, its stern objectivity the book is fascinating. Andrew James Johnston, taz, die tageszeitung Lotte van de Pol's fascinating description of the prostitution scene of Amsterdam at times reads like a novel. Prof Peter Schuster, Damal A (near) perfect picture of Amsterdam's prostitution... In recent years we got the picture of the The Embarrasment of Riches, but the embarrassment caused by the lack of riches had never before been mapped out in such a systematic and intelligent way. Michael Zeeman, Volkskrant
Review of Dutch edition Van de Pol's is a story that deserves and will richly reward an attentive audience. Doug Catterall, Sixteenth Century Journal
Van de Pol's is a story that deserves and will richly reward an attentive audience. Doug Catterall, Sixteenth Century Journal Even so cursory a summary of some of the riches of this work reveals its significance at a European level and one must hope one day for a similar in depth study of the London of Moll Flanders Olwen Hufton, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis A rich kaleidoscope of observations on the day-to-day realities of prostitution, which the author presents to the reader with analytical intelligence and without voyeurism... In spite of, or rather because of, its stern objectivity the book is fascinating. Andrew James Johnston, taz, die tageszeitung Lotte van de Pol's fascinating description of the prostitution scene of Amsterdam at times reads like a novel. Prof Peter Schuster, Damal A (near) perfect picture of Amsterdam's prostitution... In recent years we got the picture of the The Embarrasment of Riches, but the embarrassment caused by the lack of riches had never before been mapped out in such a systematic and intelligent way. Michael Zeeman, Volkskrant
Author Information
Lotte van de Pol is a specialist in social, cultural, and economic history, and women's history of early modern Europe. She received her Ph.D. at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and held positions at the Erasmus University and the Dutch Open University. Her book with Rudolf Dekker, The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe (1989), was translated into five languages. Her research into early modern prostitution resulted in two books, one of which was also translated in several languages. From 2004 to 2007 she worked at the Friedrich Meineke Institute of the Faculty of History of the Free University in Berlin as a member of the research group Egodocuments in Transcultural Perspectives.
