Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
(2024)
“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did ...
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 ...
Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology
(1978)
This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
(2024)
“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did ...
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 ...
Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico
(2019)
This English translation of Sorel’s Study on Vico opens the way to a radical re-evaluation not only of Sorel’s trajectory, but of his French intellectual contexts, and the anarcho-syndicalism he is sometimes said to represent ...
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 ...
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 ...
Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico
(2019)
This English translation of Sorel’s Study on Vico opens the way to a radical re-evaluation not only of Sorel’s trajectory, but of his French intellectual contexts, and the anarcho-syndicalism he is sometimes said to represent ...
The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo
(2014)
The establishment of Kushite rule over Egypt during the eighth and seventh centuries BC resulted in a state of extraordinary geographic dimensions and ecological diversity, stretching from the tropics of Sudanese Nubia ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2011)
This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a ...
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 ...
The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo
(2014)
The establishment of Kushite rule over Egypt during the eighth and seventh centuries BC resulted in a state of extraordinary geographic dimensions and ecological diversity, stretching from the tropics of Sudanese Nubia ...
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
(2011)
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary ...
Music and Knowledge: A Performer's Perspective
(2017)
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
Music and Knowledge: A Performer's Perspective
(2017)
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
'The House of the Priest'
(2022)
'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. ...
On the Old-Javanese Cantakaparwa and Its Tale of Sutasoma
(1967)
Indonesia
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
(2011)
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary ...
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 ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2011)
This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a ...
The Author as Annotator
(2022)
What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow ...
The Diary of Heinrich Witt (10 vols.)
(2015)
The diary of Heinrich Witt (1799-1892) is the most extensive private diary written in Latin America known to us today. Written in English by a German migrant who lived in Lima, it is a unique source for the history of Peru, ...
Quranic Arabic
(2022)
This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical ...
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...
Of Worlds and Artworks
(2024)
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht
(2023)
Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss ...
Quranic Arabic
(2022)
This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical ...
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
(2015)
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book ...
Ports, Piracy and Maritime War
(2013-01-01)
In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially ...
Practicing Safe Sects
(2018)
In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally ...
A Guide to the Heavens
(2023)
This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblem book Pia desideria (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It discusses ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, ...
Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
(2022)
Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into ...