Publications
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The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
(2016)
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under ...
Jesuit Schools and Universities in Europe, 1548–1773
(2018)
A survey of Jesuit schools and universities across Europe from 1548 to 1773 by Paul F. Grendler. The article discusses organization, curriculum, pedagogy, enrollments, and relations with civil authorities with examples ...
Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and his treffelyke bibliotheek
(2025)
On 9 July 1709, over 2,300 books were sold at a public auction at the shop of the publishing family Boom in Amsterdam. They comprised the ‘beautiful library’ (treffelyke bibliotheek) of the patrician Pieter de Graeff ...
Intim und respektabel
(2022-09)
The women’s movement was not only a place of political debate – a large number of activists spent most of their time among women. While “respectability” played a significant role in these circles the gradually growing ...
Educational Supervision
(2025)
The guidebook specifies the role of supervision in education, offering theoretical and practical insights that can help effectively implement supervision in educational settings. It is designed as a resource primarily for ...
Sport under Unexpected Circumstances
(2018)
Sport was an integral part of life in camps during the twentieth century, even in Nazi concentrations camps or in the Soviet Gulag. Traditionally perceived as a symbol of equality, play, and peacefulness, sport under such ...
A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
(2023)
The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other ...
Semiotik der Verewigung
(2020)
This monograph systematically examines, within the intersection of literary and cultural studies as well as semiotics, intralinguistic procedures intended to record information as permanently as possible. In doing so, it ...
Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
(2007)
This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.; ...
Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus
(2022)
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography ...