This thesis addresses a central question within the field of economic and social history: the ‘Great Divergence’ debate, which seeks to understand why the West prospered while the rest of the world did not. It explores its ...

In these times of pandemics, increasing social inequalities, civic unrest and the rise of illiberalism, populism, anti-European Union politics and the ‘fake news’ ideology, it is important to revisit Woolf’s pacifism and ...

In chapter 28 David Baneke discusses the transformation of astronomy from a Big to a 'mega' science. Astronomy changed from being big, in terms of relying on big telescopes, to being big in terms of involving huge networks ...

Previous studies have reported perceptual advantages, such as when discriminating non-native linguistic or musical pitch differences, among first year infants growing up in bilingual over monolingual environments. It is ...

This paper revisits the debate between van Craenenbroeck & van Koppen (2002, 2007) on the one hand and Haegeman (1990, 1992, 2004) on the other regarding the status of clause-initial subject doubling in Dutch dialects. ...

This paper investigates the question of the directionality of Agree in the domain of complementizer agreement (CA). Germanic and Bantu patterns of CA provide prima facie evidence of both downward and upward-probing relations, ...

Previous research showed an emerging appreciation of literary narratives on second reading, whereas such effects fail to occur for the same narratives depleted of literary features. This might suggest that appreciation is ...

After stroke, patients can experience visual hypersensitivity, an increase in their sensitivity for visual stimuli as compared to their state prior to the stroke. Candidate behavioural mechanisms for these subjective ...