Maartje Abbenhuis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1289326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maartje Abbenhuis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maartje |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbenhuis |
| SIGNATURE | ABBENHUIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7820-5060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hidden Victims of the Two World Wars
The Dum-Dum Controversy
Weapons, wounds and warfare
‘The Pound of Flesh is Ours’
Wars are rarely contained or limited affairs. They almost always involve non-belligerent neighbours in some significant way, be it as suppliers of goods or money, as geo-strategic buffers, as conduits for trade, diplomacy, propaganda or other information, as places of refuge or as agents of humanitarian aid, or even (or rather especially) as potential future belligerents. In turn, the primary concern of most neutral communities in time of war is …
Humanitarian bullets and man-killers
In 1899, the delegates at the first Hague Peace Conference outlawed the use of expanding bullets in warfare. Also known as “dum-dum” bullets, their prohibition was largely the product of a media spectacle that evolved around their use in British colonial warfare, a spectacle that focused particularly on the ghastly nature of the wounds these bullets inflicted. This article revisits the “dum-dum” controversy of the 1890s as it played out in the An…
Great Britain, International Law, and the Evolution of Maritime Strategic Thought, 1856–1914, by Gabriela A. Frei
When it comes to nineteenth-century British history, neutrality has long been neglected as a subject of enquiry. Gabriela Frei’s new book focuses on the interconnectivity of British state practices, neutrality and international law in the second half of the ‘long’ nineteenth century. The monograph reminds historians that British maritime strategies in the period 1856–1914 were consistently informed by the advice given by the government’s Law Offi…
This is an Account of Failure’
The Hague conferences of 1899, 1907 and the one not held in 1915 occupy an uncomfortable place in the history of war, peace, and diplomacy. Siloed in a range of sub-disciplines, historians often evaluate the conferences in terms of their relative ‘success’ or ‘failure’. Where diplomatic historians generally marginalise the political relevance of the conferences in explaining the march to global war in 1914, legal historians mobilise The Hague as …
The First Age of Industrial Globalization
This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation and imperial expansion, the industrializing powers of the world helped to create inter-connected global space that left few regions untouched. In ten concise c…
Michael Jonas, Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War
James Crossland. War, Law and Humanity
James Crossland’s rather ambitiously titled book War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914 narrates the activism and agency of two dozen or so men and women in mitigating, restricting, and avoiding the violence and spread of war in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its author does so by explaining not only the agency of these individuals in developing key humanitarian causes—like the Red Cross and the United State…
The Hague Conferences and International Politics, 1898–1915
Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world’s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 – and the third conference of 1915 that was never held – using diplomatic correspondence, newspaper reports, contemporary publications and the papers of internationalist organizations and peace activists. Focusing on the internatio…
An Age of Neutrals
An Age of Neutrals provides a pioneering history of neutrality in Europe and the wider world between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. The 'long' nineteenth century (1815–1914) was an era of unprecedented industrialization, imperialism and globalization; one which witnessed Europe's economic and political hegemony across the world. Dr Maartje Abbenhuis explores the ways in which neutrality reinforced these interconne…
Faultlines
A century ago, the opening of the First World War marked the beginning of a new era of European experience. For more than three decades after the July crisis of 1914, the continent was torn apart by wars, revolutions, political upheavals and depressions. To contemporaries it seemed that the nineteenth-century age of relative peace and limited war had passed for good. The paradox of modern European history's barbaric wars and high civilisations wa…
A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy and Statecraft
Rarely do historians analyse the functions of neutrality in the history of Europe in the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Yet between 1815 and 1914, neutrality played a key part in international developments: it was central to the rise of international law, was negotiated repeatedly by the Great Powers and was used by them to isolate key regions in Europe. In all the conflicts fought in these hundred years or so, there were always more neutrals than be…
Restaging War in the Western World
This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfar
Where war met peace
In wartime, neutral territory beckons as a beacon of safety from the conflict and strife. This was especially true for the neutral Netherlands in the First World War (1914–1918), which was situated within a short distance of the Western Front and was bordered by belligerent Germany and German‐occupied Belgium. The Dutch land border became the country's most important neutrality frontier, functioning as the geographical place where neutrality bega…
In Fear of War
To supervise its international neutrality commitments during the First World War, the Dutch government invoked the emergency powers of the 1899 War Law, imposing a ‘state of war’ or ‘siege’ in 75% of the country’s municipalities, which subsequently witnessed extraordinary military interference in their daily affairs. Implementing the War Law proved confusing, controversial and complex. To impose uniformity, the government and judiciary repeatedly…
A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy and Statecraft
Rarely do historians analyse the functions of neutrality in the history of Europe in the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Yet between 1815 and 1914, neutrality played a key part in international developments: it was central to the rise of international law, was negotiated repeatedly by the Great Powers and was used by them to isolate key regions in Europe. In all the conflicts fought in these hundred years or so, there were always more neutrals than be…
Humanitarian bullets and man-killers
In 1899, the delegates at the first Hague Peace Conference outlawed the use of expanding bullets in warfare. Also known as “dum-dum” bullets, their prohibition was largely the product of a media spectacle that evolved around their use in British colonial warfare, a spectacle that focused particularly on the ghastly nature of the wounds these bullets inflicted. This article revisits the “dum-dum” controversy of the 1890s as it played out in the An…
In Fear of War
To supervise its international neutrality commitments during the First World War, the Dutch government invoked the emergency powers of the 1899 War Law, imposing a ‘state of war’ or ‘siege’ in 75% of the country’s municipalities, which subsequently witnessed extraordinary military interference in their daily affairs. Implementing the War Law proved confusing, controversial and complex. To impose uniformity, the government and judiciary repeatedly…
Where war met peace
In wartime, neutral territory beckons as a beacon of safety from the conflict and strife. This was especially true for the neutral Netherlands in the First World War (1914–1918), which was situated within a short distance of the Western Front and was bordered by belligerent Germany and German‐occupied Belgium. The Dutch land border became the country's most important neutrality frontier, functioning as the geographical place where neutrality bega…
Restaging War in the Western World
This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfar
A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy and Statecraft
Rarely do historians analyse the functions of neutrality in the history of Europe in the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Yet between 1815 and 1914, neutrality played a key part in international developments: it was central to the rise of international law, was negotiated repeatedly by the Great Powers and was used by them to isolate key regions in Europe. In all the conflicts fought in these hundred years or so, there were always more neutrals than be…
An Age of Neutrals
An Age of Neutrals provides a pioneering history of neutrality in Europe and the wider world between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. The 'long' nineteenth century (1815–1914) was an era of unprecedented industrialization, imperialism and globalization; one which witnessed Europe's economic and political hegemony across the world. Dr Maartje Abbenhuis explores the ways in which neutrality reinforced these interconne…
Faultlines
A century ago, the opening of the First World War marked the beginning of a new era of European experience. For more than three decades after the July crisis of 1914, the continent was torn apart by wars, revolutions, political upheavals and depressions. To contemporaries it seemed that the nineteenth-century age of relative peace and limited war had passed for good. The paradox of modern European history's barbaric wars and high civilisations wa…
The Hague Conferences and International Politics, 1898–1915
Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world’s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 – and the third conference of 1915 that was never held – using diplomatic correspondence, newspaper reports, contemporary publications and the papers of internationalist organizations and peace activists. Focusing on the internatio…
The First Age of Industrial Globalization
This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation and imperial expansion, the industrializing powers of the world helped to create inter-connected global space that left few regions untouched. In ten concise c…
Michael Jonas, Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War
James Crossland. War, Law and Humanity
James Crossland’s rather ambitiously titled book War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914 narrates the activism and agency of two dozen or so men and women in mitigating, restricting, and avoiding the violence and spread of war in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its author does so by explaining not only the agency of these individuals in developing key humanitarian causes—like the Red Cross and the United State…
Great Britain, International Law, and the Evolution of Maritime Strategic Thought, 1856–1914, by Gabriela A. Frei
When it comes to nineteenth-century British history, neutrality has long been neglected as a subject of enquiry. Gabriela Frei’s new book focuses on the interconnectivity of British state practices, neutrality and international law in the second half of the ‘long’ nineteenth century. The monograph reminds historians that British maritime strategies in the period 1856–1914 were consistently informed by the advice given by the government’s Law Offi…
This is an Account of Failure’
The Hague conferences of 1899, 1907 and the one not held in 1915 occupy an uncomfortable place in the history of war, peace, and diplomacy. Siloed in a range of sub-disciplines, historians often evaluate the conferences in terms of their relative ‘success’ or ‘failure’. Where diplomatic historians generally marginalise the political relevance of the conferences in explaining the march to global war in 1914, legal historians mobilise The Hague as …
Humanitarian bullets and man-killers
In 1899, the delegates at the first Hague Peace Conference outlawed the use of expanding bullets in warfare. Also known as “dum-dum” bullets, their prohibition was largely the product of a media spectacle that evolved around their use in British colonial warfare, a spectacle that focused particularly on the ghastly nature of the wounds these bullets inflicted. This article revisits the “dum-dum” controversy of the 1890s as it played out in the An…
‘The Pound of Flesh is Ours’
Wars are rarely contained or limited affairs. They almost always involve non-belligerent neighbours in some significant way, be it as suppliers of goods or money, as geo-strategic buffers, as conduits for trade, diplomacy, propaganda or other information, as places of refuge or as agents of humanitarian aid, or even (or rather especially) as potential future belligerents. In turn, the primary concern of most neutral communities in time of war is …
Hidden Victims of the Two World Wars
The Dum-Dum Controversy
Weapons, wounds and warfare
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