Publications
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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
Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950
(2020)
From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded ...
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise ...
L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante
(2021)
This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates ...
Modes of Philology in Medieval South India
(2016)
In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the ...
Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context
(2019)
This volume offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the “new” Galen text De indolentia, discovered in 2005. It addresses Galen’s literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution, the Antonine plague, the ...
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study
(2024)
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text ...
The Sa'dan-Toraja
(1979)
Indonesia
Globale Christentümer
(2022)
The book inquires global Christianities under the auspices of unity, diversity, globality, migration, decolonization and Christian minorities. Das Buch diskutiert Herausforderungen von Einheit, Vielfalt, Globalität, ...
Van isolatie naar integratie
(1963)
Een Engelstalige uitgave van Van isolatie naar integratie is verschenen als Deel 80 (1977, ISBN 9789024719624) in de reeks Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
The Shaping of Professional Identities
(2024)
This thought-provoking research anthology adopts a postmodern stance and fills in a gap of knowledge for the education of professional development in teacher education, health sciences and the arts. Allowing subjectivity ...
Frontiers in the Roman World
(2011)
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed ...
Negotiating Asylum
(2000)
How is access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? Which tools does international law offer to solve ...
Missing Dollars
(2024)
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) associated with commodity trade erode the tax base of resource-rich developing countries. Efforts to curb IFFs and reform taxation stumble over enhanced North–South tensions but remain crucial ...
Globale Christentümer
(2022)
The book inquires global Christianities under the auspices of unity, diversity, globality, migration, decolonization and Christian minorities. Das Buch diskutiert Herausforderungen von Einheit, Vielfalt, Globalität, ...
A Subgrouping of Nine Philippine Languages
(1969)
Indonesia
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Frontiers in the Roman World
(2011)
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed ...
L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante
(2021)
This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates ...
Van isolatie naar integratie
(1963)
Een Engelstalige uitgave van Van isolatie naar integratie is verschenen als Deel 80 (1977, ISBN 9789024719624) in de reeks Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Property in Social Continuity
(1979)
This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism.
Property in Social Continuity
(1979)
This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism.
In and Out of Suriname
(2015)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the ...
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
(2008)
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 8 (1998-1999)
(2003)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2011)
Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous ...
De betekenis van het Mohammedaanse recht in het hedendaagse Egypte
(1960)
Indonesia
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day
(2019)
This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people ...
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
(2018)
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences ...
Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
(2023)
As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and ...
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action
(2021)
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action offers researchers, practitioners, donors, and decisionmakers insights into entry points for education systems change needed to reorient human society’s relationship with our ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
Value without Fetish
(2021)
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of ...
New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day
(2019)
This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 8 (1998-1999)
(2003)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679)
(2012)
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coincinding with the Dutch Golden Age, he wrote over thirty tragedies. He was a famous figure in political ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2015)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
(2018)
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences ...
Lords of the land, lords of the sea; Conflict and adaptation in early colonial Timor, 1600-1800
(2012)
European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the ...
Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
(2023)
As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and ...
Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
(2024)
“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did ...
Value without Fetish
(2021)
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of ...
Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology
(1978)
This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account ...
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I
(2016)
This edited volume examines World War I comparatively in both small nations and colonial peripheries. Chapters address subject nations within Europe such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and ...
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I
(2016)
This edited volume examines World War I comparatively in both small nations and colonial peripheries. Chapters address subject nations within Europe such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and ...
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action
(2021)
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action offers researchers, practitioners, donors, and decisionmakers insights into entry points for education systems change needed to reorient human society’s relationship with our ...
Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
(2024)
“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico
(2019)
This English translation of Sorel’s Study on Vico opens the way to a radical re-evaluation not only of Sorel’s trajectory, but of his French intellectual contexts, and the anarcho-syndicalism he is sometimes said to represent ...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2011)
Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous ...
Mapping China
(2016)
This collection includes seven articles from the journal Open Times, a window into contemporary Chinese academic trends. All the articles deal with the topic of “peasants, migrant workers and informal labor,” but each has ...
Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico
(2019)
This English translation of Sorel’s Study on Vico opens the way to a radical re-evaluation not only of Sorel’s trajectory, but of his French intellectual contexts, and the anarcho-syndicalism he is sometimes said to represent ...
The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo
(2014)
The establishment of Kushite rule over Egypt during the eighth and seventh centuries BC resulted in a state of extraordinary geographic dimensions and ecological diversity, stretching from the tropics of Sudanese Nubia ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2011)
This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo
(2014)
The establishment of Kushite rule over Egypt during the eighth and seventh centuries BC resulted in a state of extraordinary geographic dimensions and ecological diversity, stretching from the tropics of Sudanese Nubia ...
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
(2011)
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary ...
Music and Knowledge: A Performer's Perspective
(2017)
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
Music and Knowledge: A Performer's Perspective
(2017)
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
'The House of the Priest'
(2022)
'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. ...
On the Old-Javanese Cantakaparwa and Its Tale of Sutasoma
(1967)
Indonesia
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
(2011)
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary ...
Mapping China
(2016)
This collection includes seven articles from the journal Open Times, a window into contemporary Chinese academic trends. All the articles deal with the topic of “peasants, migrant workers and informal labor,” but each has ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2011)
This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a ...
The Author as Annotator
(2022)
What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow ...
The Diary of Heinrich Witt (10 vols.)
(2015)
The diary of Heinrich Witt (1799-1892) is the most extensive private diary written in Latin America known to us today. Written in English by a German migrant who lived in Lima, it is a unique source for the history of Peru, ...
Quranic Arabic
(2022)
This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical ...
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...
Of Worlds and Artworks
(2024)
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht
(2023)
Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss ...
Quranic Arabic
(2022)
This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical ...
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
(2015)
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book ...
Ports, Piracy and Maritime War
(2013-01-01)
In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially ...
Practicing Safe Sects
(2018)
In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally ...
A Guide to the Heavens
(2023)
This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblem book Pia desideria (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It discusses ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, ...
Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
(2022)
Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into ...
Scorsese and Religion
(2019)
Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are ...
Muslim Empowerment in Ghana
(2024)
This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced ...
Ports, Piracy and Maritime War
(2013-01-01)
In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially ...
The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
(1975)
The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.
Middle Class Pentecostalism in Argentina
(2016)
Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America´s most vibrant religious movement. The study posits that middle class Pentecostalism ...
Töne und Schälle
(2022)
Das Buch liefert die erste Studie zur musikalischen Walser-Rezeption mit über 200 Werken von über 100 Komponistinnen und Komponisten. Anhand der zahlreichen Walser-Vertonungen entsteht eine anschauliche Musik-, Literatur- ...
Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht
(2023)
Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss ...
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
(2018)
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization ...
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
(2018)
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization ...
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
(2013-01-05)
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially ...
Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa
(2024)
What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors ...
The Carib Language
(1968)
Indonesia
The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
(1975)
The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.
Bildhafte Räume, begehbare Bilder
(2022)
Virtuelle Räume bestimmen unsere Kultur heute bereits mehr, als uns bewusst ist. Wir betreten sie sowohl zur Unterhaltung, beim Spielen und Lernen, als auch in der Architektur und in industriellen Arbeitsprozessen. Zugleich ...
Himmlische Vorstellung
(2024)
Religiös zu glauben ist nicht nur ein Fürwahrhalten, sondern bedeutet auch existenziell einzutauchen in einen Imaginationskomplex und bisweilen an einer „ästhetischen Maschinerie“ (Kant) zu partizipieren, um so mit dem ...
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual
(2016)
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the varied modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. Readership: Students and scholars ...
The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden
(2023)
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 17 (2011)
(2014)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
(2022)
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment ...
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...