Publications
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Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
(2015)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Dur
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 ...
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise ...
L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante
(2021)
This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates ...
Modes of Philology in Medieval South India
(2016)
In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the ...
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 ...
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study
(2024)
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text ...
The Sa'dan-Toraja
(1979)
Indonesia
Globale Christentümer
(2022)
The book inquires global Christianities under the auspices of unity, diversity, globality, migration, decolonization and Christian minorities. Das Buch diskutiert Herausforderungen von Einheit, Vielfalt, Globalität, ...
Van isolatie naar integratie
(1963)
Een Engelstalige uitgave van Van isolatie naar integratie is verschenen als Deel 80 (1977, ISBN 9789024719624) in de reeks Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
The Shaping of Professional Identities
(2024)
This thought-provoking research anthology adopts a postmodern stance and fills in a gap of knowledge for the education of professional development in teacher education, health sciences and the arts. Allowing subjectivity ...
Frontiers in the Roman World
(2011)
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed ...
Negotiating Asylum
(2000)
How is access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? Which tools does international law offer to solve ...
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 ...
Globale Christentümer
(2022)
The book inquires global Christianities under the auspices of unity, diversity, globality, migration, decolonization and Christian minorities. Das Buch diskutiert Herausforderungen von Einheit, Vielfalt, Globalität, ...
A Subgrouping of Nine Philippine Languages
(1969)
Indonesia
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Frontiers in the Roman World
(2011)
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed ...
L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante
(2021)
This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates ...
Van isolatie naar integratie
(1963)
Een Engelstalige uitgave van Van isolatie naar integratie is verschenen als Deel 80 (1977, ISBN 9789024719624) in de reeks Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Property in Social Continuity
(1979)
This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism.
Property in Social Continuity
(1979)
This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism.
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 ...
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, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 8 (1998-1999)
(2003)
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 ...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2011)
Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous ...
De betekenis van het Mohammedaanse recht in het hedendaagse Egypte
(1960)
Indonesia
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day
(2019)
This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people ...
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
(2018)
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences ...
Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
(2023)
As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and ...
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action
(2021)
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action offers researchers, practitioners, donors, and decisionmakers insights into entry points for education systems change needed to reorient human society’s relationship with our ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
Value without Fetish
(2021)
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of ...
New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day
(2019)
This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 8 (1998-1999)
(2003)
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 ...
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 ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2015)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
(2018)
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences ...