Publications
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Knowledge of the Pragmatici
(2020)
Knowledge of the pragmatici analyses pragmatic normative literature in colonial Ibero-America. It explores the circulation and the functions of these media in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. ...
Planter and Peasant
(1978)
Indonesia
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
(2020)
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and ...
The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856)
(2010)
This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society. Readership: All ...
Head-Hunters about Themselves
(1981)
Indonesia
Islam at 250
(2020)
This volume, which pays tribute to the work of G.H.A. Juynboll, is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.; Readership: Specialists ...
Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589
(2016)
Neil Murphy considers the role the French ceremonial entry played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries ...
Van Batavia naar Weltevreden; Het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappan, 1778-1867
(2009)
The Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen), was founded in 1778 to become the predecessor of the National Library and National Museum of the Republik Indonesia. It was ...
Trust in Contemporary Society
(2019)
Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and ...
International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution
(2019)
This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines a series of overarching themes and relationships regarding the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. Readership: ...
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776)
(2023)
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American ...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature
(2014)
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman’s guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human’s calamities and the legal ramifications ...
Male and Female and the Afro-Curaçaoan Household
(1976)
The subject of the present study concerns the relationships between men and women and the composition of household groups among the lower Afro-American strata of the society of Curaçao. The material on which it is based ...
Bilingual Europe
(2015-03-13)
Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until ...
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television
(2012)
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape ...
Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States
(2020)
Jesuits have shaped and been shaped by the history of the United States, from the colonial period through the contemporary era. Catherine O’Donnell explores the Society’s evolving adaptation and resistance to American ...
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
(2018)
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, ...
A Global Radical Waterfront
(2021)
This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport ...
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
(2023)
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being ...
East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century
(2016)
In East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century scholars examine from different angles to which degree the empire was still unified and whether it was perceived as such in the fourth century AD.
Islamic States in Java 1500-1700
(1976)
Indonesia
The Sa'dan-Toraja
(1979)
The present volume consists of two parts, Part I dealing with the natural surroundings and the social and territorial organization of the Sa'dan-Toraja, Part 11 with religious notions, natural and material symbols, and ...
Law and Language in the Middle Ages
(2018)
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how ...
Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
(2014)
To explore Christian-Muslim relations at the dawn of the modern age, this book examines Nicholas of Cusa’s seminal works on the Qur’an and world religions. It also considers Muslim responses to Christianity and other ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3, 2024
(2024)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi
(2020)
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book ...
Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions
(2020)
Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics ...
Recollecting Resonances
(2013)
Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to. ...
Periodical Studies Today
(2022)
Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary ...
The Jesuit Mission to New France
(2010)
A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 24 (2018)
(2020)
Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major internationally-refereed yearbook dedicated to international legal issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. It is published under the auspices ...
Jesus and Other Men
(2018)
In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels. Readership: Anyone interested in masculinities and gender in the ...
The Independence and Impartiality of ICSID Arbitrators
(2017)
In The Independence and Impartiality of ICSID Arbitrators, Maria Nicole Cleis examines the standard of independence required under the ICSID Convention, as evidenced in existing disqualification decisions, and makes novel ...
De factorij der Oostindische Compagnie te Patani
(1938)
Indonesia
The Wolio Language
(1988)
Indonesia
Handlungsspielraum
(2022)
Mit der polnischen Romantik verbindet sich ein Paradigma der ‚Tat‘, das den Freiheitskampf und die aufständische Tradition Polens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert grundlegend prägte. In Debatten über nationale Identität und in ...
Gender in Peacebuilding
(2021)
This volume analyses how and to what effect gender shapes, and is shaped by, peacebuilding initiatives in relation to other social dynamics in the context of local peacebuilding initiatives in Indonesia and Nigeria.; ...
Contemporary Canadian Picture Books
(2021)
This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad ...
History of Wills, Testators and Their Families in Late Medieval Krakow
(2021)
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from ...
Prekäres Erzählen
(2020)
Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Theodor Fontane pursue a precarious narration in the context of the problem of order in modernity. While Fontane’s Der Stechlin attempts to put the rampant ambivalence in its place by means ...
Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World
(2019)
If you work with digital photos of manuscripts or archival materials, Among Digitized Manuscripts provides the conceptual and practical toolbox for you to create a state-of-the-art methodology and workflow. No previous ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IIb
(2014)
Skandapurāṇa IIb presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 31-52 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and English synopsis. ; Readership: All interested in Sanskrit literature, Purana literature, early Saivism, Hindu ...
Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century
(2018)
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news and newspapers, from the early modern period to the eighteenth century, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of ...
Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
(2018)
Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.; Readership: All ...
The Role of International Administrative Law at International Organizations
(2020)
The Role of International Administrative Law at International Organizations, edited by Peter Quayle, is centred on the law of employment relations at international organizations, and divided into four parts. It examines ...
In praise of Prambanan; Dutch essays on the Loro Jonggrang temple complex
(1996)
In praise of Prambanan is devoted to the Hindu-Javanese temple complex of Candi Prambanan, also known by its locally more popular name of Candi Loro Jonggrang. The book has two parts. Part One is a general introduction to ...
Cracking Facebook
(2015)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
(2019)
In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are ...
National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises (Volume 27)
(2021)
The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2012)
This volume is a further continuation of the annotated bibliographies on the writings and thought of the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria prepared by Roberto Radice and David Runia for the years 1937–1986 ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance - Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
(2013)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Etnografie van de Kaowerawédj (Centraal Nieuw-Guinea)
(1962)
Regional and national history
BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research
(2014)
BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book ...
A Poetic History of the Oceans
(2022)
What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements ...
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
(2015)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Dur
Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology
(2024)
Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological ...
A King and a Fool?
(2019)
In A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire Virginia Miller argues that the genre of the Succession Narrative is a satire. Accordingly, this narrative is pejoratively critical of King David. ; Readership: ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2020)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice fills a gap in academic scholarship by examining public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight ...
Stateless Citizenship
(2013-01-06)
Far from integration into the Israeli incorporation regime, Palestinians inside the state are today placed in a paradoxical situation where, as Arab citizens of a Jewish state, they are both inside and outside, host and ...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination
(2018)
In Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to protect people against ...