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 ...