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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 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, ...
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 ...
Dialektik der Schrift
(2022)
Was zeichnet musikalische Schrift aus? In den Notizen und Entwürfen zu seinem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion blickt Theodor W. Adorno hinter das vermeintlich gegenständliche ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
(2021)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malecˇková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends ...
The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality
(2022)
What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dialektik der Schrift
(2022)
Was zeichnet musikalische Schrift aus? In den Notizen und Entwürfen zu seinem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion blickt Theodor W. Adorno hinter das vermeintlich gegenständliche ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
(2021)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malecˇková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends ...
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 ...
The Carib Language
(1968)
Indonesia
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, ...
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- ...
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 ...
Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology
(2024)
The “anthropological turn” in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam’s “Anthropology of music” (1964). The present volume intends to correct this picture from a European perspective, presenting insights ...
Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity
(2022)
Classification is an inherent feature of all societies. The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western society for over two millennia. In the middle of the twentieth century, dire consequences ...
Tense and Text in Classical Arabic
(2018-05-06)
This study undertakes to examine the problem of the tenses in Classical Arabic. While aware of the long tradition which shaped the discussion of this subject, and building, in fact, on some important insights offered by ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 14 (2008)
(2010)
International law
Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian
(2025)
During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic ...
Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage
(2017)
Indigenous rights to heritage have only recently become the subject of academic scholarship. This collection aims to fill that gap by offering the fruits of a unique conference on this topic organised by the University of ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 2 (1992)
(1994)
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 ...
Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature
(2004)
This is the first part of a new narratological history of Greek literature, which deals with the definition and boundaries of narrative and the role of narrators and narratees.; Readership: All those interested in ancient ...
Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert aus internationaler Perspektive
(2019)
Der Blick zurück auf den Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert zeigt seine internationale Verflechtung und erleichtert zugleich das Verständnis des Antisemitismus im 20. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart. Denn das 19. Jahrhundert ...
The Jewel of Annual Astrology
(2020)
The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting an interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra ...
Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
(2017)
This issue of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and development trajectories in Latin America, focusing on the Andean region. It aims to enrich our understanding of recent development ...
Authority and Performance
(2015)
One can hardly exaggerate the importance of the church councils in the 5th and 6th centuries. They provide us with great insights into the situation in the late Roman Empire and particularly into the role of the Church at ...
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education
(2020)
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together leading and emerging scholars in adult education in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research, marked by ...
Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014
(2019)
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology ...
Negotiating the Fabric of the African University
(2025)
This book is the first volume of two edited collections that critically assess the historical and contemporary processes that have shaped the formation and transformation of the African university. It provides general ...
Jeremia und seine Verkündigung
(2025)
In seinem Jeremiabuch sucht Werner H. Schmidt mit seiner Darstellung nach Jeremia selbst zurückzufragen. In Aufnahme und Abwandlung von Redeformen und Einsichten seiner prophetischen Vorgänger lässt sich Jeremias Eigenart ...
Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
(2015)
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus ...
Religiöse Sozialisation (muslimischer) Jugendlicher in mediatisierter Welt
(2025)
Erkan Binici’s study examines how (muslim) adolescents, aged 12 to 19, perceive and interpret religion in their everyday media use, based on interviews and documentary method. The findings show that within their media and ...
UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court
(2018)
Galand critically spells out a comprehensive conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to the various limits to the International Criminal Court’s exercise of jurisdiction over ...
Philipp von Stosch: Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing Engraved Gems
(2025)
This book, published with two online appendices, highlights and discusses critically a facet of Stosch that stands in sharp contrast to the dense negative mythology of him as a spy, hoarder and libertine which for a long ...
Die ›Kriegshistoriographie‹ des Orosius
(2025)
Through his way of historical representation, Orosius wants to proof that Christianity is not responsible for the catastrophe of his own time: the sack of Rome in 410 AD. In her study, the author examines Orosius’ numerous ...
Menschenrechte und Gerechtigkeit als bleibende Aufgaben
(2020)
Menschenrechte bilden die Grundlage von Gerechtigkeit, doch sie geraten zunehmend unter Druck. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem universalen Anspruch der Menschenrechte, der Partikularität menschlichen Lebens und den ...
Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature:
(2025)
Are you curious about the contributions of the Islamic intellectual heritage to the field of psychology? Psychological Themes in the Classical Islamic Literature provides a captivating window into the rich Islamic scholarly ...
Religion and Secularity
(2013)
Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of „secularity“ in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.; ...
Aus der Welt gefallen
(2019)
Drawing from the archive of the Perthes publishing house, this study reconstructs how cast away explorers shaped not only the literary imagination but also the history of cartography. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, ...
Philo of Alexandria
(1988)
The first author in which the traditions of Judaic thought and Greek philosophy flow together in a significant way is Philo of Alexandria.This study presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of Philo's knowledge ...
Geschichte im Dienst für das Vaterland
(2018)
Instrumentalisierung der Geschichte zur Legimitation politischen Handelns
Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa
(2000)
This study in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa seeks to demonstrate in what sense and to what extent the philosophical notion of universal human nature functions as the systematic backbone of this church father's theology.; ...
Religion and Ecology
(2024)
This volume is a scholarly endeavor that distinguishes itself from other publications addressing the intersection of faith and environmental stewardship. Assembled through a collaborative effort between the University of ...
Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries
(2020)
Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries explores what kind of context the Nordic region offers for the pursuit of career, how the development of careers are supported and how career guidance is enacted in this ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 20 (2014)
(2018)
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 ...
Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.
Universal Śaivism
(2018)
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. ...
A Structural Commentary on the So-Called Antilegomena
(2024)
The structural approach facilitates exposure of the elements of eschatological teaching characteristic of 2 Peter’s author with its correct or incorrect interpretation. Narratives drawn from Jewish tradition aim to show ...
The Soviet Zone of Germany
(2024)
Anyone who wants to learn how the GDR was analyzed and classified half a decade after its founding by a German-American team of outstanding experts in more than 600 pages will hardly find a better source than this largely ...
Complexity and Simplicity
(2024)
This book is the outcome of an original and interdisciplinary undertaking by the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists based in Wrocław, Poland. One of the fundamental objectives of the Academy is to improve and foster ...
Medicine in Ancient Assur
(2021)
In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offfers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the ...
Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
(2025)
The proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production provide you with 816 papers representing the leading research in livestock genetics around the globe. This book covers all aspects of ...
Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition
(2022)
The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal ...
Religious Transformations in Europe
(2025)
This book focuses on individuals who, in the course of their lives, turned away from their religious communities of origin. In some case, individuals who criticized their religious communities sought to reform them from ...
The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific
(2023)
This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian ...
Blockchain and Private International Law
(2023)
Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding ...
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
(2025)
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of ...
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
(2022)
Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover ...
Towards the Olympian Gods
(2025)
This book draws on extensive research into Baroque ceiling painting in Bohemia and Moravia. Three case studies of residential decoration present different representational strategies used by 17th century noblemen. Emphasis ...
Buchblogs zwischen Passion und Profession
(2025)
Digitization has changed the way people communicate about books. New practices, such as book blogging or social reading, cannot be directly classified by traditional socio-cultural categories such as “literary criticism”, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 21 (2015)
(2017)
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 ...
Theaterlobby attackiert Zirkus
(2023)
Anders als heute war der Zirkus um 1900 überaus erfolgreich in Berlin – so erfolgreich sogar, dass er für das bürgerliche Literaturtheater eine bedrohliche Konkurrenz darstellte. Dies führte nicht nur zu Diskreditierungen ...
Servants of the Kingdom
(2010)
Minister of the Word, shepherd and teacher—the titles of Dutch pastors exude authority and prestige. In the course of the nineteenth century, however, their social position was slowly undermined by the separation of church ...
Krieg und Kriegserinnerung im Museum
(2017)
Die Studie vollzieht die Entwicklung des polnischen historischen Selbstbildes in Bezug auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg nach, wie es in Geschichtsmuseen über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahrzehnten hinweg bis in die Gegenwart ...
An Introduction to the Japonic Languages
(2022)
Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or ...
Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit?
(2020)
With God, for Fatherland and Humanity is the first comprehensive study of the internationalism of freemasons. It examines, with a focus on Germany, England, France and Italy, how European masonic umbrella associations ...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
(2019)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding ...
The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār
(2024)
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of ...
The Dream of the North
(2014)
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and ...
Truth and Responsibility: A Personalist Reading of Newman
(2023)
This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of ...
The Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría
(2024)
This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the ...
Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium
(2025)
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally ...
Field Station Bahia
(2023)
This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in ...
Provozierte Bewunderung
(2022)
Bewunderung ›passiert‹ nicht einfach, sie wird provoziert und instrumentalisiert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge untersuchen, mittels welcher Verfahren und zu welchen Zwecken Bewunderung in sozialen, medialen und ...
European Citizenship under Stress
(2020)
European citizenship is facing numerous challenges, including fundamental rights and social justice considerations. These get amplified in the context of Brexit and the general rise of populism in Europe today. This book ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 16 (2010)
(2013)
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 ...
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
(2022)
Case studies in the dynamic, contested, exciting, constant, and ever evolving relationship between Buddhism and the state across pre-modern East Asia.
Signaturen der Vielfalt
(2024)
Female authors from the Varnhagen Collection such as Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chézy, Amalie von Imhoff, Amalie Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Amalie von Voigt, and ...
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
(2020)
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers ...
International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events
(2022)
This book explores the interplay between International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) risks. An all-hazards approach is adopted to cover events of intentional, accidental and natural origin, and ...
Männer über sich
(2024)
Who and what is a ‘male writer’? While ‘writing women’ are almost a genre in their own right, represented in popular and scholarly anthologies, ‘male’ writing, which has probably shaped ideas of masculinity more than any ...
Alltag – Erinnerung – Aufarbeitung an der Universität Wien
(2025)
Remembering is an active, collaborative process to slow down collective forgetting. The historical institutes of the Historical and Cultural Studies Faculty at the University of Vienna are increasingly dealing with their ...
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
(2008-01-01)
This books provides a detailed analysis of the social structure of the First Crusade (1096 – 1099) along with an original assessment of the sociology of its contemporary or near contemporary sources.
Handbook of Leaving Religion
(2020)
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The ...
Iconic Turn in den christlichen Konfessionen
(2025)
Visual imagery has always been part of Christianity, whereby the different ways in which Christian denominations deal with images has become an identity marker, oscillating between icon and aniconism. With the iconic turn ...
The Power of Parables
(2023)
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their ...
Placemaking in Practice Volume 1
(2023)
Placemaking has become a key concept in many disciplines. Due to an increase in digitization, mobilities, migration and rapid changes to the urban environments, it is important to learn how planning and social experts ...
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
(2019)
The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, ...
Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents
(2021)
This work investigates the different writing materials in use in Egypt during the 11th century and the reason for their diversity.; Readership: Academics and specialists working in the Cairo Genizah and in writing material ...
Vulnerability
(2024)
This collection presents studies on a wide range of discursive positions marked by vulnerability and investigates the functions of (self-)positioning actors as vulnerable in contemporary social discourses. As a phenomenon ...
Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean
(2024)
The volume presents a comparative perspective on victors and vanquished according to the categories of remembering victory and defeat, practices of celebrating victory and triumphs as well as the culture of dealing with ...
Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
(2025)
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but ...
Modal Pragmatics
(2024)
Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not ...
Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja
(2013)
Making a Living between Crisis and Ceremonies offers an account on the practice of everyday life of the Torajan people both in the highlands of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) and elsewhere (Makassar, Jakarta, ...
Die Verfolgungsgeschichte der Göttinger Sinti
(2025)
The treatment of the Sinti minority was characterized by rejection, mistrust, and criminalization and has a history spanning at least 200 years. Rainer Driever's study is dedicated to the general development and – in ...