Contact details

Prof. dr. Michael Wintle, Emeritus Chair of Modern European History
European Studies, University of Amsterdam
Oost-Indisch Huis, room D207C
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Netherlands

email m.j.wintle@uva.nl

Tel. 020-525 2039 Office: 020-525 2280
Fax: 020-525 4625

Personal information

Michael Wintle  (BA, MA, PhD) studied at Cambridge, Ghent and Hull Universities, and held the chair of European History at the University of Amsterdam from 2002 to 2019, where he taught on the degree programmes in European Studies. Prior to 2002, he was Professor of European History at the University of Hull, UK, where he had taught since 1980.

Current research and publications

Areas of research interest:

• European identity
• Eurocentrism
• The visual representation of Europe
• Cartography of Europe
• Cultural aspects of European integration
• Citizenship and civil society in Europe
• European industrialization and the modern socio-economic history of the Low Countries .

Professor Wintle has recently organized international conferences on European identity in the twentieth century, on the British and Dutch colonial empires compared, on Image into Identity, on Europe and the Second World War, on the historical imagination, on Cultures of War and Peace, and on Narratives of War. He has published widely on Dutch and European history, including the following single authored and edited books:

• Pillars of Piety (1987);
• Modern Dutch Studies (1988);
• The Netherlands (1988);
• Zeeland and the Churches (1989);
• State and Trade (1992);
• The Exchange of Ideas: religion, scholarship and art (1994);
• Rhetoric and Reality in Environmental Policy (1994);
• Culture and Identity in Europe (1996);
• Under the Sign of Liberalism (1997);
• An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands (2000);
• The Idea of a United Europe (2000);
• Ideas of Europe since 1914 (2002);
• Image into Identity (2006); 
• Imagining Europe (2008);
• The Image of Europe (2009);
• European Identity and the Second World War (2011);
• The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries (2012);
• Narratives of War (2019);
• Eurocentrism: History, Identity, White Man's Burden (2021).

Narratives of War (2019)

The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Netherlands (2012)  

European Identity and the Second World War (2011)

The Image of Europe (2009)

Imagining Europe (2008)

Image into Identity (2006)

Ideas of Europe since 1914 (2002)

The Idea of a United Europe (2000)

An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands (2000)

Selected recently published articles:

• ‘The Advent of the Black Magus: the creation of a continental hierarchy’, in Order into Action, edited by Klaus Oschema and Christoph Mauntel (Turnhout, Brepols, forthcoming).
• ‘Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: building Eurocentrism’, in Louise Arizzoli and Maryanne Horowitz (eds), Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents (Leiden, Brill,  2020).

• ‘Nationalism and Cartography’, and with Joel Morrison, ‘Projections Used for Geographical Maps’, in Cartography in the European Enlightenment, edited by M.H. Edney & M.S. Pedley, The History of Cartography, vol. IV (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, May 2020),  part 2, pp. 1022-7 and 1119-26.

• ‘The Early Modern Iconography of Europe: visual images and European identity’, in Nicolas Detering, Clementina Marsico and Isabella Walser-Bürgler (eds), Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses of Europe (15th–18th Century) (Leiden, Brill, 2019).

• ‘Europe’s Self-Image at the Time of the First World War, as Expressed in the Visual Arts’, in Breaking Empires – Making Nations? The First World War and the reforging of Europe, edited by Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, et al. (Natolin Warsaw, College of Europe and the Natolin European Centre, Dec. 2017), pp. 203-34.
• ‘Interlocking Identities: Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Europe, in the built environment of the capital’, in Urban Europe: fifty tales of the city, edited by Virginie Mamadouh and Anne van Wageningen (Amsterdam, Amsterdam UP, Dec. 2016), pp. 301-8.
• ‘Islam as Europe’s Other throughout History: some discontinuities’, History [Wiley], 101, issue 344 (Feb. 2016), 42-61.
• 'Japanese World Maps between East and West’, in What’s Left Behind; the lieux de mémoire of Europe beyond Europe, edited by Marjet Derks, Martijn Eickhoff, Remco Ensel and Floris Meens (Nijmegen, Vantilt, Dec. 2015), pp. 120-1, 164-72, 234.
• ‘Verweven identiteiten: de verbeelding van Amsterdam, Nederland en Europa in de bebouwde omgeving van de hoofdstad’, in EU @ Amsterdam: een stedelijke raad, edited by Virginie Mamadouh and Anne van Wageningen (Amsterdam, Amsterdam UP, Dec. 2015), pp. 299-307.
• ‘Visual Representations of European Values in the Eighteenth Century: between tradition and modernity’, in Europa und die Moderne im langen 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Olaf Asbach (Hannover, Wehrhahn Verlag, 2014), pp. 245-70.
• ‘The History of the Idea of Europe: where are we now?’, Perspectives on Europe, 43/1 (Spring 2013), 8-12.
• 'Visualizing Europe from 1900 to the 1950s: identity on the move', in M Hewitson & M D'Auria (eds.), Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the European idea, 1917-1957 (Oxford: Berghahn, 2012) pp. 205-225.
• 'Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands and the Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century', in H Dunthorne & MJ Wintle (eds.), The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 1-18.

• 'Visualizing Commerce and Empire: decorating the built environment of Amsterdam', in M. de Waard (ed.), Imagining Global Amsterdam: history, culture, and geography in a world city (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012), pp. 67-82.

• 'Der Stier', in Europäische Erinnerungsorte ,edited by Pim den Boer, Heinz Duchhardt, Georg Kreis & Wolfgang Schmale, 3 vols (Munich, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012), vol. II, Das Haus Europa , pp. 17-29.

• 'Ideals, Identity and War: the idea of Europe, 1939- 70' , in European Identity and the Second World War , e dited by M.J. Wintle and M. Spiering (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ), pp. 1-20.

• 'Seeing Europe from Elsewhere: a continent in words and pictures', in B. Drechsel & C. Leggewie (eds), United in Visual Diversity: images and counter-images of Europe ( Innsbruck , Studienverlag, 2010), pp. 199-213.

• 'Visualizing the Continents: European othering and identity in the age of Enlightenment ', in The European Mind: narrative and identity , edited by Henry Frendo, 2 vols (Msida, MaltaUniversity Press, 2010), vol. II, pp. 729-40.

• 'Personifying the Past: national and European history in the fine and applied arts in the age of nationalism', in Narrating the Nation: representations in history, media and the arts , edited by S. Berger, L. Eriksonas & A. Mycock, Making Sense of History 11 (Oxford, Berghahn, 2008), pp. 222-43.

• 'Europe as seen from the Outside: a brief visual survey', in Imagining Europe: Europe andEuropean civilisation as seen from its margins andby the rest of the world, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , edited by M.J. Wintle (Brussels, Peter Lang PIE, 2008), pp. 23-48. 

• 'History and Public Opinion: the historical profession and the French - Dutch rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty',  Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden , 122/1 (2007), 105-12.

• 'Diet and Modernization in the Netherlands during the Nineteenthand Early Twentieth Centuries', in Food, Drink and Identity in Europe , edited by Thomas M. Wilson ( Amsterdam , Rodopi, 2006), European Studies: an Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, 22, pp. 63-84.

• 'Visual Representations of Europe in the Nineteenth Century: the age of nationalism and imperialism', in A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe 1789-1914 , edited by Stefan Berger ( Oxford , Blackwell, March 2006), pp. 11-28.

• 'Protestant Dominance: the Netherlands', in Sheridan Gilley & Brian Stanley, eds , The Churches and NationalIdentities , vol. 8, part II of The Cambridge History ofChristianity (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, Jan. 2006), pp. 333-41 & 633-4.

• 'Looking Outwards: the inclusivity of European identity', in Soziales Europa? Perspektivendes Wohlfahrtsstaates im Kontext von Europäiserungund Globaliserung , edited by A. Baum-Ceisig & A. Faber ( Wiesbaden , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005), pp. 63-76.

• 'What's in a Continent? The borders of Europe before and after 1990', in Grenzüberschreitungen: Differenz und Identität im Europader Gegenwart , Forschungen zur Europäischen Integration 12, edited by Holger Huget, et al. (Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005), pp. 173-92.

Inaugural lecture at Amsterdam, 2003

Europa and the Bull, Europe, and European Studies: visual images as historical source material , inaugural lecture delivered at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, 10 December 2003 (Amsterdam, Vossius Press, April 2004), 36p.