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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 ...
International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
(2012-01-01)
Sexual violence is a particular brand of evil that women have endured—more than men—during armed conflicts, through the ages. It is a menace that has continued to challenge the conscience of humanity—especially in our ...
Grading Goal Four
(2020)
Grading Goal Four explores the tensions, threats and opportunities within Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education, aiming to support its rights-based implementation and to build capacity for strengthened ...
The Gospel of Thomas and Plato
(2018)
In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov offers the first systematic discussion of the Platonist impact on the Gospel of Thomas, arguing that Platonism is indispensable to making sense of those sayings that have ...
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
(2023)
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide ...
Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting | catalogue
(2019)
This is the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This printed catalogue is an appendix to the book Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual ...
Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage
(2016)
In Caliphate and Kingship Jo Van Steenbergen presents a revisionist cultural biography, a critical edition and an annotated translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk, a summary history of the ḥağğ and Muslim rule by Egypt’s leading ...
Revolutionäre Familien
(2025)
Wie prägte das politische Selbstverständnis deutschsprachiger Revolutionsflüchtlinge nach 1848/49 ihr transatlantisches Familienleben? Und wie beeinflussten – umgekehrt – ihre Ehefrauen und Kinder den Umgang mit der ...
Internationale Bildungskooperation im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache
(2024)
Collaboration research is a multidisciplinary and international research area, the complexity of which is also reflected in the multitude and diversity of face-to-face, digital and hybrid exchange formats. This includes, ...
In the Shadow of War and Empire
(2023)
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans ...
Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
(2019)
This study explores whether and how enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by comparing Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish law. Readership: ...
Kämpfer auf dem Schlachtfeld – Kämpfer in den Texten
(2024)
In this book, Helen Wiedmaier analyses the depiction of men as fighters in written sources from the 14th and early 15th century which depict the battles at Gammelsdorf (1313), Morgarten (1315), Mühldorf (1322) and Sempach ...
Doubts on Avicenna
(2015)
In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This ...
Selbstorganisation im Sozialismus
(2019)
Diese Arbeit stellt die nationalen Rotkreuzgesellschaften Polens und der Tschechoslowakei als Beispiele für Selbstorganisation im sozialistischen Staat vor. Als Teil der internationalen Rotkreuzbewegung unterschieden sich ...
Grenzleben in Ceuta und Melilla
(2024)
Sara Mehlmer's microhistorical study offers surprising insights into the actions of Spanish actors in the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta. Life in these enclaves at the end of the 19th century was characterized not only by ...
Zwischen Krieg und Frieden
(2013)
Landgraf Philipp von Hessen wurde in der Forschung bislang als der aus religiösen Gründen prinzipiell opponierende Dauerrivale des Kaisers im Reich dargestellt. Dagegen zeigt die vorliegende Studie unter Zuhilfenahme neuer ...
Treasured Oases
(2022)
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry ...
Kooperationen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften gestalten
(2020)
Wie funktionieren Kooperationen in einem per se interdisziplinären Umfeld mit verschiedenen Herangehens- und Arbeitsweisen, Fragestellungen, Erwartungen und Zielvorgaben und welche Erfahrungen wurden damit im jeweiligen ...
Physics in Minerva’s Academy
(2025)
This monograph explains how, in the aftermath of the battle over René Descartes’ philosophy, Newton’s natural philosophy found fertile ground at the University of Leiden. Newton’s natural philosophical views and methods, ...
Spieltexte der Comœdianten
(2020)
In Europa rückte die Herausbildung eines modernen Berufstheaters vielerorts ins Zentrum nationalkulturellen Selbstbewusstseins. Die Commedia dell’arte, Werke von Shakespeare, Lope de Vega oder Molière avancierten dabei zum ...
Colours on East Asian Maps
(2023)
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an ...
The Afterlives of Extraction
(2023)
The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated ...
Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness
(2016)
The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, ...
Guido Adlers Erbe
(2017)
Die Bibliothek und das Schrifttum Guido Adlers (1855–1941), des prominentesten Vertreters der Musikwissenschaft der Universität Wien, wurde von den Nationalsozialisten unter reger Beteiligung von Mitarbeitern der Universität ...
The Books Sānk and Pātanğal
(2024)
Al-Bīrūnī (ca. 973-1050) was an innovative encyclopaedist thinker. He is particularly known to have investigated into India of his time. Yet, his life and the circumstances of his encounter with Indian languages, culture ...
Hierarchies
(2024)
The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This ...
Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet
(2019)
The selected and revised articles in this volume by Hans Bakker deal with Indian culture, religion and history: Hinduism, epigraphy, archaeology, iconography in combination with Sanskrit textual studies. The studies focus ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 4 (1994)
(1996)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective.
Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia
(2025)
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses ...
The Dissolution of Mind
(2002)
This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind’s architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a ...
Jesus and Other Men
(2018)
In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels. Readership: Anyone interested in masculinities and gender in the ...
Periodical Studies Today
(2022)
Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary ...
Space is the Ultimate Luxury
(2025)
This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have succeeded against all odds to stay on their ...
Kollektives Schreiben
(2022)
Gegenüber dem einsamen Schreiben als vermeintlichem Normalfall moderner Textproduktion erarbeitet der vorliegende Sammelband erstmals eine umfassende Systematisierung und Theoretisierung kollektiven Schreibens. Der Sammelband ...
Epistolare Epistemik
(2025)
Dieser Band untersucht die epistemische Funktion des Briefes, d. h. seine Rolle als Medium der Wissensvermittlung, in der Korrespondenz des Publizisten und Diplomaten Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785–1858) mit dem ...
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries
(2017)
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and ...
The Intellectual and Cultural Origins of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric Project
(2023)
Chaïm Perelman, alone, and in collaboration with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, developed the New Rhetoric Project (NRP), which is in use throughout the world. Sir Brian Vickers, in his historical survey of rhetoric and philosophy ...
Imaging and Imagining Palestine
(2021)
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and ...
Crossroads of Cuisine
(2020)
Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in ...
Duell unter Abwesenden
(2025)
The conflict between Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Elector John Frederick of Saxony and Landgrave Philip of Hesse demonstrates how closely political power and its communicative framework were ...
Statistics and Probability in High School
(2016)
Statistics and probability are fascinating fields, tightly interwoven with the context of the problems which have to be modelled. The authors demonstrate how investigations and experiments provide promising teaching ...
The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses
(2018)
This collation presents the evidence for the earliest Latin versions of Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians and Galatians, enabling scholars to examine the development of the biblical text at an important early stage in its history. ...
Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity
(2022)
This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues (makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous ...
History of Wills, Testators and Their Families in Late Medieval Krakow
(2021)
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from ...
Unilateral Sanctions in International Law and the Enforcement of Human Rights
(2022)
Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights ...
Orthodoxy in the Agora
(2024)
The radical socio-political changes in the wake of the fall of communism in many predominantly Orthodox countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe have triggered an intense interest in formulating a specifically Orthodox ...
Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths
(2022)
The 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy provides perspectives through case studies from the global Souths focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, ...
Relationality and Learning in Oceania
(2020)
Relationality and Learning in Oceania: Contextualizing Education for Development critically engages debates in comparative education and international development relating to context, culture, language and indigenous ...
Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814
(2020)
In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. ...
Al-Maqrīzī’s <i>al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar</i>, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I
(2017)
Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. ...
Vedic Cosmology and Ethics
(2019)
The articles by Henk Bodewitz collected in this volume, published between 1969 and 2013, deal with Vedic cosmology and ethics on basis of a systematic philological study of early Vedic texts, from the Ṛgveda to various ...