Publications
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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 ...
Early Modern Privacy
(2022)
An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of ...
Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective
(2015)
Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the ...
Politics, Society and Culture in Orthodox Theology in a Global Age
(2022)
The articles in the book show that today’s Orthodox theology is constructively relating to modernity in politics, society and culture. In 20 articles very prominent Orthodox theologians and experts on Orthodox theology and ...
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 ...
De betekenis van het Mohammedaanse recht in het hedendaagse Egypte
(1960)
Indonesia
Compound Histories
(2017)
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 explores the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, placing chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 7 (1997)
(2001)
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 ...
Municipal Magdeburg Law (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) in Late Medieval Poland
(2021)
In this volume, Maciej Mikuła analyses the extant texts of the Ius municipale Magdeburgense, the most important collection of Magdeburg Law in late medieval Poland. He discusses the different translation traditions of the ...
Katholische Dunkelräume
(2022)
Seitdem 2010 der frühere sexuelle Missbrauch am Berliner Canisius-Kolleg bekannt wurde, wird auch in Deutschland intensiv über den sexuellen Missbrauch an Minderjährigen durch Vertreter der katholischen Kirche diskutiert. ...
Traces of Ink
(2021)
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman ...
Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners
(2018)
To contend with others is to contend with ourselves. The way we “other” others, by identifying and reinforcing social distance, is more a product of who we are and who we want to be than it is about “others.” Strangers, ...
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
(2018)
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme. ...
Syria's Monuments
(2016)
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2020)
Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be ...
Zeitlichkeit und Geschichtlichkeit des bewegten Bildes in der Gegenwartskunst
(2021)
Time and temporality are not only inherent to the moving image because it is time-based, but also because it is able to reflect on time – through its materialization in the image, through the revelation of distinct layers ...
Lost Books
(2016)
Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different ...
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
(2019)
The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a ...
Reconstructing Syntax
(2020)
Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical ...
The Paradox of Openness
(2015)
Openness implies bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. The Paradox of Openness analyses the tensions encountered when openness is applied to the quest for democracy and markets, freedom and truth, compliance and ...
The Sa'dan-Toraja
(1979)
Indonesia
The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches
(2023)
The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming ...
Javanese Literature since Independence
(1979)
Indonesia
Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages
(2007)
A case study examining the history of a house of English Augustinian canons, this book reveals the ways in which Plympton Priory formed connections with the laity, the episcopacy, the secular clergy, and the Crown in the ...
The Language of Paul Muldoon
(2020)
This book interprets the multifarious writing of the Irish-American word wizard, Paul Muldoon, who has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as ‘the most significant English-language poet born since the second ...
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 ...
Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
(2023)
With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural ...
Our Mythical Childhood...
(2016)
This volume offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in the literature for youngsters by applying regional perspectives from East-Central and Western Europe, Africa, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, and ...
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 ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 5 (1995)
(1997)
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 ...
Taking a Common Concern Approach to Economic Inequality
(2022)
Through the lens of cooperative sovereignty and the common concern of humankind concept, this book contemplates what kind of transnational corporate taxation system would be necessary for appropriately dealing with rising ...
Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400
(2007)
In this monograph the dialogue production between 1200 and 1400 is presented in a detailed repertory. Building on this material, the author describes four genres of dialogue (didactic, polemical, introspective and philosophical ...
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, ...
Sterben und Tod öffentlich gestalten
(2022)
Die Thematik „Sterben und Tod“ erlebt seit den 2010er-Jahren in den Künsten einen enormen Aufschwung, der sich beispielsweise im neuen Genre „Autobiografische Sterbeliteratur“ manifestiert. Indem die Künste bestimmte ...
The European Union and the Arctic
(2017)
The European Union and the Arctic examines the roles the EU can and should play in shaping Arctic governance to ensure sustainable development in the Arctic region. Readership: The target audience of the book includes ...
The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
(2022)
This book presents a reconstruction of pre-Islamic Arabian religion based on epigraphic and archaeological sources.
Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers
(2016)
Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations. Readership: All ...
Selling Sex in the City
(2017)
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty ...
In Leijdeckers voetspoor
(1978)
Indonesia
Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law
(2019)
In Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law, Odile Ammann examines the methodology and reasoning which domestic courts, including Swiss courts, use to interpret international law. She argues that ...