Publications
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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)
(2019)
Dirk Jacob Jansen provides an overview of the life and career of the sixteenth-century cosmopolitan courtier, architect and antiquary Jacopo Strada. Readership: All interested in Austrian and Italian Renaissance archtecture, ...
The Nimboran Language
(1965)
Indonesia
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 ...
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 ...
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire
(2019)
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the Roman Empire through three main themes: the emperor and justice, justice in a dispersed empire ...
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 ...
Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries)
(2023)
Potosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still today boasts the world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production 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 ...
Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
(2014)
Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.
Religion, Migration and Identity
(2016)
In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume ...