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"Those Infidel Greeks" (2 vols.)
(2021)
The documents edited by H. Şükrü Ilıcak in Those Infidel Greeks comprise the English translations of select documents from the Ayniyat Registers on the Greek War of Independence preserved in the Ottoman State Archives. The ...
Table Talk
(2023)
"Table talks" have long been a familiar genre of writing for jurists, theologians, politicians, and novelists. In this little volume, leading law and religion scholar John Witte offers thirty sage reflections on how to ...
The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
(2022)
This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and in which ways ...
Funding International Development Organizations
(2022)
Financing development requires access to financial resources. The AIIB Yearbook of International Law Volume 4 explores the role of international organizations in the development of local capital markets, their legal status ...
Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2024)
In international law interpretation is ubiquitous. However, whereas in the case of treaty interpretation, this process has been codified in Articles 31-33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the interpretation ...
Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2024)
In international law interpretation is ubiquitous. However, whereas in the case of treaty interpretation, this process has been codified in Articles 31-33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the interpretation ...
The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture
(2018)
This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and ...
Locura y trauma en la ficción centroamericana reciente
(2023)
In this book, Marileen La Haije offers a thorough and innovative analysis of the intersections between madness and trauma in recent Central American literature on (post)war. A central argument of her study is that these ...
Locura y trauma en la ficción centroamericana reciente
(2023)
In this book, Marileen La Haije offers a thorough and innovative analysis of the intersections between madness and trauma in recent Central American literature on (post)war. A central argument of her study is that these ...
Dialectics of Spontaneity
(2015)
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song. Readership: All interested in Chinese literature, aesthetics and ...
Jüdische Kunsthändler und Galeristen
(2021)
The study contributes to the cultural history of the modern art trade in Switzerland, focusing on the work of Jewish art dealers and gallery owners. The Moos, Bollag and Aktuaryus were among the first art dealer families ...
Experten der Erschließung
(2021)
Der Glaube an die Segnungen, aber auch die Zwangsläufigkeit des technischen Fortschritts entwickelte sich in der Phase des Hochimperialismus zu einer wirkmächtigen Ideologie, von der auch deutsche Ingenieure profitierten. ...
A Bibliography of Sign Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on Sign Languages was compiled on the occasion of the 20th international Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic ...
Experten der Erschließung
(2021)
Der Glaube an die Segnungen, aber auch die Zwangsläufigkeit des technischen Fortschritts entwickelte sich in der Phase des Hochimperialismus zu einer wirkmächtigen Ideologie, von der auch deutsche Ingenieure profitierten. ...
Transformational Ethics of Film
(2021)
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ...
Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period
(2020)
In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966–1998) during the early independence ...
The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture
(2018)
This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and ...
Treason
(2019)
Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical ...
Treason
(2019)
Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical ...
Dialectics of Spontaneity
(2015)
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song. Readership: All interested in Chinese literature, aesthetics and ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul
(2022)
This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul
(2022)
This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion ...
Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs
(2013)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields ...
The Body of Evidence
(2020)
In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the ‘signs of the corpse’, from necromancy to forensic medicine. ...
A world of water: Rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories
(2007)
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from ...
Handbook of Megachurches
(2020)
This innovating edited volume provides a broad but detailed overview of a relatively recent significant development in church organisation, the megachurch. Its aim is to capture empirically and theoretically the megachurch ...
Handbook of Megachurches
(2020)
This innovating edited volume provides a broad but detailed overview of a relatively recent significant development in church organisation, the megachurch. Its aim is to capture empirically and theoretically the megachurch ...
The Body of Evidence
(2020)
In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the ‘signs of the corpse’, from necromancy to forensic medicine. ...
Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period
(2020)
In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966–1998) during the early independence ...
Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
(2016)
Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context ...
Waropense teksten (Geelvinkbaai, Noord Nieuw-Guinea)
(1956)
Indonesia
At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands
(2012)
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote ...
Thauma(u)topoiesis
(2024)
Mithilfe der poetologischen Diskriminierung des Wunderbaren gelingt es der Gattung Roman, sich als kulturelles Leitmedium der anbrechenden Moderne zu konstituieren. Gleichzeitig lässt sich beobachten, dass in Romane immer ...
Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
(2016)
Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context ...
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
(2021)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous ...
Doing Interpretation
(2021)
Wer interpretiert, tut etwas. Dieser schlichte Umstand trat mit dem practice turn verstärkt in den Fokus hermeneutischer bzw. interpretationstheoretischer Debatten. Wo steht die Diskussion heute? Wohin soll sie sich bewegen? ...
Doing Interpretation
(2021)
Wer interpretiert, tut etwas. Dieser schlichte Umstand trat mit dem practice turn verstärkt in den Fokus hermeneutischer bzw. interpretationstheoretischer Debatten. Wo steht die Diskussion heute? Wohin soll sie sich bewegen? ...
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
(2019)
The years leading up to the suppression of the Jesuits and the forty-one years, beginning in 1773, of the actual suppression, are analysed here, with special attention to individuals not usually covered in works dealing ...
Wann war Arabien? Historische Zeiterfahrungen im Kontext einer Forschungsreise (1761-1767)
(2021)
Im 18. Jahrhundert befanden sich Zeiterfahrungen in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel: So lautet eine der einflussreichsten Thesen zum historischen Übergang in die ‚Moderne‘. Was aber bedeutet ‚Zeitenwandel‘, wenn er in ...
On the Margins
(2020)
This title is available in its entirety in Open Access. Living on the margins of German society, Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin explored common ground. Based on a number of private archives, the study discusses ...
De slimme en de domme
(1976)
The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text ...
Creating Kabuki Plays
(2010)
This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, ...
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
(2021)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous ...
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
(2022)
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which ...
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
(2019)
The years leading up to the suppression of the Jesuits and the forty-one years, beginning in 1773, of the actual suppression, are analysed here, with special attention to individuals not usually covered in works dealing ...
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
(2022)
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which ...
The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD
(2018)
In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, ...
A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale
(2015)
This volume constitutes the first reference grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew hagiographic tales composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. It presents a thorough survey of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, ...
Beyond Empire and Nation; The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1960s
(2012)
The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political ...
Transformational Ethics of Film
(2021)
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ...
On the Margins
(2020)
This title is available in its entirety in Open Access. Living on the margins of German society, Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin explored common ground. Based on a number of private archives, the study discusses ...
Unraveling the Nagoya Protocol
(2014)
The Nagoya Protocol is an unprecedented international environmental agreement that equally addresses development, distributive justice, and environmental sustainability. With a balanced view of the various possible ...
Banggaisch adatrecht
(1947)
Indonesia
Roman Gods
(2009)
Drawing exclusively on the evidence from urban Rome up to the age of Constantine, the book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of "god" along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ...
Roman Gods
(2009)
Drawing exclusively on the evidence from urban Rome up to the age of Constantine, the book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of "god" along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ...
Curaçao and Guzmán Blanco
(1975)
Indonesia
The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity
(2024)
The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a systematic category ...
Global Antisemitism
(2020)
The essays are written by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, intellectual backgrounds, and perspectives, and address the conference’s two inter-related areas of focus: global antisemitism and the crisis of modernity ...
Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Humanitarian Relief in Non-international Armed Conflict
(2024)
How to legally assess the situation when humanitarian actors in non-international armed conflicts are arbitrarily denied access to the affected civilian population? The book answers this question from the perspective of ...
Global Antisemitism
(2020)
The essays are written by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, intellectual backgrounds, and perspectives, and address the conference’s two inter-related areas of focus: global antisemitism and the crisis of modernity ...
Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism
(2023)
Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these ...
The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia
(1958)
Indonesia
The Law of the Seabed
(2020)
The Law of the Seabed offers a timely analysis of the most pressing legal questions raised by the use and protection of natural resources on and underneath the world’s seabeds. Readership: University students, lecturers, ...
The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD
(2018)
In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, ...
Creating Kabuki Plays
(2010)
This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, ...
Governing New Guinea; An oral history of Papuan administrators, 1950-1990
(2012)
This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences governing their country. These administrators were the brokers of development. After graduating from the ...
Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Humanitarian Relief in Non-international Armed Conflict
(2024)
How to legally assess the situation when humanitarian actors in non-international armed conflicts are arbitrarily denied access to the affected civilian population? The book answers this question from the perspective of ...
Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism
(2023)
Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these ...
A Bibliography of Sign Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on Sign Languages was compiled on the occasion of the 20th international Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic ...
Loetoeng Kasaroeng
(1949)
Indonesia
Loetoeng Kasaroeng
(1949)
Indonesia
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
(2023)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including ...
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
(2023)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including ...
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)
(2023)
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘books of fiefs’) are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping ...
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)
(2023)
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘books of fiefs’) are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping ...
Maria Petyt
(2015)
Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many ...
Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity
(2024)
What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of ...
Essays on Marx’s Capital
(2024)
In this book Geert Reuten presents 21 of his previously published essays on the three volumes Marx’s Capital, dating from 1991–2019. The essays largely take the form of a summary of Marx’s text (a Volume or its Parts or ...
Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics
(2023)
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. ...
Behind the Story: Ethical Readings of Qurʾānic Narratives
(2024)
Behind the Story: Ethical Readings of Qurʾānic Narratives is a pivotal work that presents groundbreaking research on the Qurʾānic narrative as a literary genre with profound moral significance. It underscores the genre's ...
Jan Company in Coromandel 1605-1690
(1962)
Indonesia
The Ever-Reviving Phoenix
(2024)
For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 ...
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
(2015)
This book examines large-scale land acquisitions, or
Ovid, Death and Transfiguration
(2023)
Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous ...
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900
(2024)
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied ...
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wanted to marry their cousins or in-laws. In this case, bridal couples had to apply for a papal dispensation and this meant a hurdled, lengthy and also expensive ...
Streik! Fabrikunruhen, jüdische Gesellschaft und staatliche Behörden in den nordwestlichen Gouvernements des Russischen Reiches 1895-1904
(2021)
Die Arbeit basiert auf umfangreichen Quellenbeständen aus Archiven in Russland, Belarus, Litauen und den Niederlanden. Sie leistet einen Beitrag zur Geschichte der Proteste jüdischer Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter im Russischen ...
Musical worlds in Yogyakarta
(2012)
Musical worlds in Yogyakarta is an ethnographic account of a vibrant Indonesian city during the turbulent early post-Soeharto years. The book examines musical performance in public contexts ranging from the street and ...
Stalin vs Gypsies
(2024)
In their centuries-old history, the Roma (formerly known as Gypsies) experienced many difficult moments and cruel trials from their arrival in Europe until now. The history of the Roma in the USSR is no exception in this ...
Een 16de eeuwse Maleise vertaling van de Burda van al-Būṣīrī
(1955)
Indonesia
Private International Law: A Hungarian Perspective
(2024)
This book provides a concise and analytical introduction to private international law in Hungary: international jurisdiction of courts, choice of law (applicable law) and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial ...
The Peasants' Revolt of Banten in 1888
(1966)
Indonesia
Contemporary Indonesian Film; Spirits of Reform and ghosts from the past
(2012)
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and ...
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic
(2017)
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic explores the ways in which diasporic African-Jamaican writers employ cultural referents aesthetically in their literary works to challenge dominant European literary discourses; articulate ...
Outline of Dani Morphology
(1966)
Indonesia