Publications
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Early Greek Poets’ Lives
(2010-01-09)
This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a ...
In praise of Prambanan; Dutch essays on the Loro Jonggrang temple complex
(1996)
In praise of Prambanan is devoted to the Hindu-Javanese temple complex of Candi Prambanan, also known by its locally more popular name of Candi Loro Jonggrang. The book has two parts. Part One is a general introduction to ...
Hege und Herrschaft
(2023)
Die Jagd strukturierte das soziale Leben an europäischen Fürstenhöfen vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert maßgeblich mit. Vom Frühling bis in den Herbst verbrachten die Herrscher und ihre Angehörigen einen Großteil ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance - Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
(2013)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism
(2022)
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and ...
De val van Sora
(1939)
Indonesia
Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism
(2022)
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2012)
This volume is a further continuation of the annotated bibliographies on the writings and thought of the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria prepared by Roberto Radice and David Runia for the years 1937–1986 ...
Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022)
(2024)
This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its ...
EqualBITE
(2017)
EqualBITE digs into the messy reality of higher education gender issues, presenting people’s stories, experiences and frustrations and – more importantly – what can be done. University of Edinburgh students and staff share ...
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalimantan
(2012)
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance
(2013-11-01)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move
(2022)
Climate change is forcing us to consider the right of people to leave their disappearing homelands, and the shape this right should take. Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move proposes international protection ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2014)
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, ...
A chain of kings
(2007)
The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, ...
On the Old-Javanese Cantakaparwa and Its Tale of Sutasoma
(1967)
Indonesia
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalimantan
(2012)
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, ...
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe
(2023)
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects ...
Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics around 1945
(2024)
The emergence and downfall of fascism and the Nazi regime in the mid-twentieth century mark the definitive decline of Europe's geopolitical hegemony. The end of the Second World War is the beginning of both decolonization ...
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
(2016)
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte
(2024)
In diesem Buch analysiert Moritz Mähr die Einführung und Entwicklung elektronischer Datenverarbeitungssysteme in der Schweizerischen Bundesverwaltung und deren Einfluss auf die Steuerung der Arbeitsmigration. Die Studie ...
A chain of kings
(2007)
The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
Indonesia
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2017)
"Killed the pilgrims and persecuted them with all kinds of cruelties": Portuguese Estado da India's encounters with the hajj in the sixteenth century / Mahmood Kooria -- "The infidel piloting the true believer": Thomas ...
Collaborative Practical Theology
(2019)
In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in ...
Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space
(2024)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. International law is increasing in relevance to the topic of secession. This book demonstrates that if ...
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models
(2019)
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE. ...
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
(2022)
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.; Readership: All interested in social and economic ...
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
(2016)
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Over de gewoonten en gebruiken der Soendaneezen
(1946)
Indonesia
EqualBITE
(2017)
EqualBITE digs into the messy reality of higher education gender issues, presenting people’s stories, experiences and frustrations and – more importantly – what can be done. University of Edinburgh students and staff share ...
Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space
(2024)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. International law is increasing in relevance to the topic of secession. This book demonstrates that if ...
New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
(2021)
The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it ...
Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics around 1945
(2024)
The emergence and downfall of fascism and the Nazi regime in the mid-twentieth century mark the definitive decline of Europe's geopolitical hegemony. The end of the Second World War is the beginning of both decolonization ...
Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move
(2022)
Climate change is forcing us to consider the right of people to leave their disappearing homelands, and the shape this right should take. Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move proposes international protection ...
Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
(2019)
From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, ...
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
(2015)
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors ...
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
(2015)
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors ...
Conditional Freedom
(2022)
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political ...
Collaborative Practical Theology
(2019)
In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in ...