Publications
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Religion and the Body
(2012)
This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning. ...
Chains of Gold
(2009)
Using a systems approach, this book examines how transatlantic labor migrations were linked to European circuits of geographic mobility, and explores the development of social networks that were crucial in Portuguese ...
Globalization and “Minority” Cultures
(2014)
Globalization and “Minority” Cultures: The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future is a collective work which brings to the forefront of global studies new perspectives on the relationship between ...
Globalization and “Minority” Cultures
(2014)
Globalization and “Minority” Cultures: The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future is a collective work which brings to the forefront of global studies new perspectives on the relationship between ...
Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law
(2023)
Can cultural heritage be adequately protected vis-à-vis economic globalization? This book investigates whether and how international economic law governs cultural phenomena by mapping the relevant legal framework, discussing ...
Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law
(2023)
Can cultural heritage be adequately protected vis-à-vis economic globalization? This book investigates whether and how international economic law governs cultural phenomena by mapping the relevant legal framework, discussing ...
Crisis Narratives in International Law
(2021)
This volume offers a series of short and highly self-reflective essays by leading international lawyers on how global crises inform the functioning and theorizing of international law as well as how international law ...
Crisis Narratives in International Law
(2021)
This volume offers a series of short and highly self-reflective essays by leading international lawyers on how global crises inform the functioning and theorizing of international law as well as how international law ...
The Ecosystem Approach in Ocean Planning and Governance
(2018)
Applying much needed legal and social sciences perspectives, the book provides in depth analyses of lessons learned and remaining challenges associated with making the Ecosystem Approach fully relevant and operational in ...
The Ecosystem Approach in Ocean Planning and Governance
(2018)
Applying much needed legal and social sciences perspectives, the book provides in depth analyses of lessons learned and remaining challenges associated with making the Ecosystem Approach fully relevant and operational in ...
Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
(2023)
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the ...
Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
(2023)
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the ...
Reformation, Revolution, Renovation
(2022)
An account of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and in particular their call for a general reformation, in relation to medieval and early modern traditions and reform programs.; Readership: All interested in early modern ...
Reformation, Revolution, Renovation
(2022)
An account of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and in particular their call for a general reformation, in relation to medieval and early modern traditions and reform programs.; Readership: All interested in early modern ...
Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
(2012)
This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Readership: Classicists, Ancient ...
Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
(2012)
This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Readership: Classicists, Ancient ...
Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour
(2015-12-04)
This volume includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (''Pan paniscus'').
Overall it demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or ...
Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour
(2015-12-04)
This volume includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (''Pan paniscus'').
Overall it demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or ...
Shaping Medieval Markets
(2011)
The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets ...
Shaping Medieval Markets
(2011)
The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets ...
Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944–1972
(2009)
When discovered by local hunters on Guam, Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book sheds light on the reality of the war in the Pacific ...
Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944–1972
(2009)
When discovered by local hunters on Guam, Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book sheds light on the reality of the war in the Pacific ...
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
(2023)
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new ...
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
(2023)
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new ...
The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek
(2022)
Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new ...
The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek
(2022)
Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new ...
De garoeda en de ooievaar; Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat
(2010)
The second and updated edition of this new study of the genesis of the Indonesian national state is based on the notion that the birth of that nation grew out of not only the liberation movement but also from the Dutch ...
De garoeda en de ooievaar; Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat
(2010)
The second and updated edition of this new study of the genesis of the Indonesian national state is based on the notion that the birth of that nation grew out of not only the liberation movement but also from the Dutch ...
Art, Play, Labour: the Music Profession in Germany (1850–1960)
(2023)
Germany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad ...
Art, Play, Labour: the Music Profession in Germany (1850–1960)
(2023)
Germany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad ...
Theatre and Its Other
(2022)
In Theatre and Its Other, Elisa Ganser revisits a telling debate on the intertwined natures of dance and dramatic acting; preserved in Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, it reflects complex ...
Theatre and Its Other
(2022)
In Theatre and Its Other, Elisa Ganser revisits a telling debate on the intertwined natures of dance and dramatic acting; preserved in Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, it reflects complex ...
Europe’s Islamic Legacy: 1900 to the Present
(2023)
Seven new scholarly essays present original research that includes rare historical and photographic materials highlighting the significance of Islamic civilization and its vexed legacy in a variety of contemporary European ...
Europe’s Islamic Legacy: 1900 to the Present
(2023)
Seven new scholarly essays present original research that includes rare historical and photographic materials highlighting the significance of Islamic civilization and its vexed legacy in a variety of contemporary European ...
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
(2022)
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type ...
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
(2022)
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type ...
Migration and Islamic Ethics
(2019)
Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences ...
Migration and Islamic Ethics
(2019)
Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences ...
Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration
(2022)
For the first time, a monograph provides a systematic, in-depth account of contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration and offers a conceptual paradigm that would enhance the quality of the tribunals’ reasoning.; ...
Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration
(2022)
For the first time, a monograph provides a systematic, in-depth account of contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration and offers a conceptual paradigm that would enhance the quality of the tribunals’ reasoning.; ...
Printing Spinoza
(2022)
In this descriptive bibliography Jeroen van de Ven examines all editions of Spinoza’s writings published between 1663 and 1694: his exposition of Descartes’s ‘Principles’ with the ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theologica ...
Printing Spinoza
(2022)
In this descriptive bibliography Jeroen van de Ven examines all editions of Spinoza’s writings published between 1663 and 1694: his exposition of Descartes’s ‘Principles’ with the ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theologica ...
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“
(2024)
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“ – so verwies Walter Benjamin bereits 1940 auf die Relevanz von Visualität für die Darstellung von Geschichte. Benjamin hat damit vorweggenommen, was sich in der Folge ...
The unity of the capitalist economy and state
(2019)
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalism, Reuten shows how ...
Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia
(2019)
Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread
prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually
regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or ...
Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia
(2019)
Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread
prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually
regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or ...
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“
(2024)
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“ – so verwies Walter Benjamin bereits 1940 auf die Relevanz von Visualität für die Darstellung von Geschichte. Benjamin hat damit vorweggenommen, was sich in der Folge ...
Human Rights and Law Enforcement at Sea
(2014)
Law enforcement at sea has become an increasingly important tool for combating transnational crime. Such law enforcement operations are commonly directed by multinational missions composed of military rather than police ...
Human Rights and Law Enforcement at Sea
(2014)
Law enforcement at sea has become an increasingly important tool for combating transnational crime. Such law enforcement operations are commonly directed by multinational missions composed of military rather than police ...
The unity of the capitalist economy and state
(2019)
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalism, Reuten shows how ...
Eskapade und Beherrschung
(2024)
Die Studie untersucht, wie in deutschen Kolonialromanen mittels Abenteuernarrationen Krisenerfahrungen der Jahrhundertwende verhandelt werden. Das Abenteuer als um 1900 gleichermaßen tradiertes wie problematisiertes Erzähl- ...
Eskapade und Beherrschung
(2024)
Die Studie untersucht, wie in deutschen Kolonialromanen mittels Abenteuernarrationen Krisenerfahrungen der Jahrhundertwende verhandelt werden. Das Abenteuer als um 1900 gleichermaßen tradiertes wie problematisiertes Erzähl- ...
Pacifism, Politics, and Feminism
(2019)
This anthology explores the many and varied connections between pacifism, politics, and feminism. Each topic is often thought about in academic isolation; however, when we consider how they intersect and interact, it opens ...
World Christianity
(2020)
World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications ...
World Christianity
(2020)
World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications ...
History of the Opium Problem
(2012-01-04)
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian ...
History of the Opium Problem
(2012-01-04)
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian ...
Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
(2021)
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining:
- changes ...
Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
(2021)
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining:
- changes ...
Rindi
(1981)
The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action.