Regionale verschillen in het leven van ongehuwde moeders op het platteland in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, 1730-1846
Sofie De Langhe, Maja Mechant en Isabelle Devos
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Regional differences in the lives of unmarried mothers in the countryside in the Southern Netherlands, 1730-1846
This article presents research on the lives of unmarried mothers in the Southern Netherlands during the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. It compares the consequences of illegitimacy in different socio-economic structures, or social agrosystems. This comparative approach reveals important regional differences and suggests that the social agrosystems and the behaviour of unmarried mothers are strongly linked. The study is based on three indicators that inform us about the social position of unmarried mothers, namely their marriage behaviour, migration and living arrangements. Attention is likewise paid to the profile of unmarried mothers around the time they gave birth as this might have influenced the consequences of the illegitimate childbirth as well.

Les Belges reconnaissants. De houding van Belgische migranten tegenover het Franse nationaliteitsdebat in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw
Saartje Vanden Borre, Elien Declercq en Walter Kusters
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Les Belges reconnaisants. The attitude of Belgian migrants towards the French nationality debate in the second half of the nineteenth century
After the Franco-German war, the Third Republic focussed entirely on the (re) shaping of a French national identity. Birth and socialisation in France grew to be considered as the chief criteria for ascribing nationality to the kin of migrants. First generation migrants though, being born on foreign territory, were not taken into account, since their loyalty towards the host country was strongly doubted. Belgian migrants, who mostly had been settled already for a long time in France, regarded this tendency as unjust. They attempted to express their loyalty towards their host country through several manifestations. However, the new set of regulations concerning nationality and military service which was issued in 1889 left them no doubt that judicially they would always remain foreigners.

Censuurmodaliteiten, disciplineringspraktijken en film. Een comparatieve analyse van de historische receptie van Sergej Eisensteins Pantserkruiser Potemkin (1925) in België en Nederland
Daniël Biltereyst en Thunnis van Oort
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Modalities of censorship, disciplining practices and film. A comparative analysis of the historical reception of Sergei Eistenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925) in Belgium and the Netherlands
This article deals with the historical reception and censorship of one of the most controversial movies in film history, Sergei M. Eisenstein’s Soviet-Russian propaganda film battleship potemkin (1925). After a short overview of its turbulent censorship in major Western European countries, the manuscript compares the Belgian and the Dutch cases. This comparative approach is useful in order to understand the differential effectiveness of the various forces trying to discipline the movie – from local municipalities to political parties, pressure groups and the industry itself. Besides the observation that the Dutch and Belgian cases strongly differ, also from those in countries with an obligatory national censorship system, the article demonstrates how the potemkin event became a site of struggle, the target of intense ideological pressures, debate and different types – modalities – of 'censorship'.

Multinationals en het managen van buitenlandse dochterondernemingen. Een historisch onderzoek naar de relatie tussen ABN AMRO en LaSalle
Gerarda Westerhuis
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Multinationals and their foreign subsidiaries: a historical analysis of the relation between ABN AMRO and LaSalle
Before abn amro was sold and split up in 2007, shareholders had complained about the lack of synergy between the bank’s different foreign activities. This article focuses on the relation between abn amro and its American subsidiary LaSalle National Bank. In the 1980s the bank considered LaSalle an autonomous subsidiary. Due to institutional changes in the late 1980s and 1990s, such as globalization and liberalization of capital markets, the bank felt obliged to lower costs by standardization. abn amro had to integrate its worldwide activities and products. Consequently, LaSalle no longer was considered an autonomous identity but had to be part of a worldwide organization. However, the bank failed for at least the following reasons: the relative size and dominance of LaSalle, the geographic distance between the different home markets, and the different demands traditional banking and investment banking made on the organization. The article shows that the international management literature should add to their theoretical insights these opposite demands that different activities can make on organizations.