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Blockchain and Private International Law
(2023)
Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding ...
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
(2025)
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of ...
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
(2022)
Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover ...
Towards the Olympian Gods
(2025)
This book draws on extensive research into Baroque ceiling painting in Bohemia and Moravia. Three case studies of residential decoration present different representational strategies used by 17th century noblemen. Emphasis ...
Buchblogs zwischen Passion und Profession
(2025)
Digitization has changed the way people communicate about books. New practices, such as book blogging or social reading, cannot be directly classified by traditional socio-cultural categories such as “literary criticism”, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 21 (2015)
(2017)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Theaterlobby attackiert Zirkus
(2023)
Anders als heute war der Zirkus um 1900 überaus erfolgreich in Berlin – so erfolgreich sogar, dass er für das bürgerliche Literaturtheater eine bedrohliche Konkurrenz darstellte. Dies führte nicht nur zu Diskreditierungen ...
Servants of the Kingdom
(2010)
Minister of the Word, shepherd and teacher—the titles of Dutch pastors exude authority and prestige. In the course of the nineteenth century, however, their social position was slowly undermined by the separation of church ...
Krieg und Kriegserinnerung im Museum
(2017)
Die Studie vollzieht die Entwicklung des polnischen historischen Selbstbildes in Bezug auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg nach, wie es in Geschichtsmuseen über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahrzehnten hinweg bis in die Gegenwart ...
An Introduction to the Japonic Languages
(2022)
Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or ...
Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit?
(2020)
With God, for Fatherland and Humanity is the first comprehensive study of the internationalism of freemasons. It examines, with a focus on Germany, England, France and Italy, how European masonic umbrella associations ...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
(2019)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding ...
The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār
(2024)
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of ...
The Dream of the North
(2014)
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and ...
Truth and Responsibility: A Personalist Reading of Newman
(2023)
This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of ...
The Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría
(2024)
This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the ...
Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium
(2025)
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally ...
Field Station Bahia
(2023)
This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in ...
Provozierte Bewunderung
(2022)
Bewunderung ›passiert‹ nicht einfach, sie wird provoziert und instrumentalisiert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge untersuchen, mittels welcher Verfahren und zu welchen Zwecken Bewunderung in sozialen, medialen und ...
European Citizenship under Stress
(2020)
European citizenship is facing numerous challenges, including fundamental rights and social justice considerations. These get amplified in the context of Brexit and the general rise of populism in Europe today. This book ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 16 (2010)
(2013)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
(2022)
Case studies in the dynamic, contested, exciting, constant, and ever evolving relationship between Buddhism and the state across pre-modern East Asia.
Signaturen der Vielfalt
(2024)
Female authors from the Varnhagen Collection such as Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chézy, Amalie von Imhoff, Amalie Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Amalie von Voigt, and ...
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
(2020)
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers ...
International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events
(2022)
This book explores the interplay between International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) risks. An all-hazards approach is adopted to cover events of intentional, accidental and natural origin, and ...
Männer über sich
(2024)
Who and what is a ‘male writer’? While ‘writing women’ are almost a genre in their own right, represented in popular and scholarly anthologies, ‘male’ writing, which has probably shaped ideas of masculinity more than any ...
Alltag – Erinnerung – Aufarbeitung an der Universität Wien
(2025)
Remembering is an active, collaborative process to slow down collective forgetting. The historical institutes of the Historical and Cultural Studies Faculty at the University of Vienna are increasingly dealing with their ...
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
(2008-01-01)
This books provides a detailed analysis of the social structure of the First Crusade (1096 – 1099) along with an original assessment of the sociology of its contemporary or near contemporary sources.
Handbook of Leaving Religion
(2020)
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The ...
Iconic Turn in den christlichen Konfessionen
(2025)
Visual imagery has always been part of Christianity, whereby the different ways in which Christian denominations deal with images has become an identity marker, oscillating between icon and aniconism. With the iconic turn ...
The Power of Parables
(2023)
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their ...
Placemaking in Practice Volume 1
(2023)
Placemaking has become a key concept in many disciplines. Due to an increase in digitization, mobilities, migration and rapid changes to the urban environments, it is important to learn how planning and social experts ...
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
(2019)
The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, ...
Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents
(2021)
This work investigates the different writing materials in use in Egypt during the 11th century and the reason for their diversity.; Readership: Academics and specialists working in the Cairo Genizah and in writing material ...
Vulnerability
(2024)
This collection presents studies on a wide range of discursive positions marked by vulnerability and investigates the functions of (self-)positioning actors as vulnerable in contemporary social discourses. As a phenomenon ...
Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean
(2024)
The volume presents a comparative perspective on victors and vanquished according to the categories of remembering victory and defeat, practices of celebrating victory and triumphs as well as the culture of dealing with ...
Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
(2025)
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but ...
Modal Pragmatics
(2024)
Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not ...
Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja
(2013)
Making a Living between Crisis and Ceremonies offers an account on the practice of everyday life of the Torajan people both in the highlands of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) and elsewhere (Makassar, Jakarta, ...
Die Verfolgungsgeschichte der Göttinger Sinti
(2025)
The treatment of the Sinti minority was characterized by rejection, mistrust, and criminalization and has a history spanning at least 200 years. Rainer Driever's study is dedicated to the general development and – in ...