Publications
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Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944–1972
(2009)
When discovered by local hunters on Guam, Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book sheds light on the reality of the war in the Pacific ...
The Ecosystem Approach in Ocean Planning and Governance
(2018)
Applying much needed legal and social sciences perspectives, the book provides in depth analyses of lessons learned and remaining challenges associated with making the Ecosystem Approach fully relevant and operational in ...
„Sola Admiratio Quaeritur“
(2021)
Die vorliegende Forschung definiert die Literatur der Renaissance neu: Die Bedeutung der aristotelischen Poetik wird zurückgestuft zugunsten innovativer – erstaunlicher – literarischer Ansätze. Das seit langem geltende ...
Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration
(2022)
For the first time, a monograph provides a systematic, in-depth account of contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration and offers a conceptual paradigm that would enhance the quality of the tribunals’ reasoning.; ...
Migration and Islamic Ethics
(2019)
Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences ...
The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek
(2022)
Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new ...
Chains of Gold
(2009)
Using a systems approach, this book examines how transatlantic labor migrations were linked to European circuits of geographic mobility, and explores the development of social networks that were crucial in Portuguese ...
A History of Christianity in Indonesia
(2008-01-09)
Indonesia is the home of the largest single Muslim community of the world. Its Christian community, about 10% of the population, has until now received no overall description in English. Through cooperation of 26 Indonesian ...
Modern Slavery
(2014-10-28)
In Modern Slavery – A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons Dominika Borg Jansson discusses why, despite international anti-trafficking efforts, there are so few trafficking convictions worldwide. ...
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713
(2016)
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access.
Chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks
(2019)
This chapter explores the use and adaptation of the
Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers. It is divided
into two main sections dealing with Greek and Latin authors respectively.
The Impact of the Roman Army (200 B.C. – A.D. 476): Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects
(2007)
This sixth volume of the network Impact of Empire offers a comprehensive reading on the economic, political, religious and cultural impact of Roman military forces on the regions that were dominated by the Roman Empire. ...
Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara
(2020)
Dans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, ...
Rindi
(1981)
The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action.
Religion and the Body
(2012)
This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning. ...
World Christianity
(2020)
World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications ...
The unity of the capitalist economy and state
(2019)
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalism, Reuten shows how ...
Lombok
(1958)
Regional and national history
The Pechenegs
(2021)
In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the ...
Globalization and “Minority” Cultures
(2014)
Globalization and “Minority” Cultures: The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future is a collective work which brings to the forefront of global studies new perspectives on the relationship between ...
Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
(2021)
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining:
- changes ...
Reformation, Revolution, Renovation
(2022)
An account of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and in particular their call for a general reformation, in relation to medieval and early modern traditions and reform programs.; Readership: All interested in early modern ...
Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
(2023)
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the ...
Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia
(2019)
Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread
prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually
regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or ...
Pacifism, Politics, and Feminism
(2019)
This anthology explores the many and varied connections between pacifism, politics, and feminism. Each topic is often thought about in academic isolation; however, when we consider how they intersect and interact, it opens ...
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel
(2019)
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on industrialization and societal transformation in early-twentieth-century Luxembourg ...
Roma Writings
(2021)
The book focuses on the early period of Roma publishing (from the nineteenth century until the Second World War) when the first original texts, fiction and media publications authored by Roma appeared.Based on extensive ...
The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams
(2022)
In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam ...
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
(2022)
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type ...
Childhood Cultures in Transformation
(2020)
This book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalences that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ...
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2
(2020)
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. The impact of the Elements of Theology and the ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV
(2018)
Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.
The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the ...
The Logic of the Laws
(1975)
This study is directed towards providing basic background material for the understanding of South Sumatran social organisation. To this end, four legal codes from the first half of the nineteenth century are presented and ...
An Invisible Thread
(2024)
In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner ...
The Conceptualization of Equality and Non-discrimination as Legal Standards
(2024)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the central concepts figuring in equality and non-discrimination standards across jurisdictions: formal and substantive equality, direct and indirect discrimination, reasonable ...
Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
(2024)
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this ...
Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs
(2024)
Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums ( muraqqaʿs) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums – now in ...
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 Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2025)
This book offers the first broad investigation of the preaching and mobilization of the Third Crusade (1187-92), straddling around 200 sermon texts as well as 100 manuscripts. It addresses the major problem that “crusade ...
Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660–1830 : Management − Professionalisation − Shortcomings
(2025)
This volume demonstrates novel ways to study military health care in Europe from the 1660s to the 1830s. The book uses a sociocultural mode to scrutinize the impact of values, habits and behaviour on the quality and ...
Klosterneuburger Traditionsbuch
(2025)
The “Klosterneuburg Traditionsbuch”, which is now kept in the Augustinian canons' archive, contains over 800 records of the canonry's legal transactions, ranging from its foundation by the Babenberg Leopold III and his ...
Empathie und Perspektivenwechsel in interreligiösen Begegnungen
(2024)
How can the ability to empathise and change perspectives be fostered in primary school children through interreligious encounters? This doctoral thesis offers a comprehensive theoretical foundation (Part I), an empirical ...
The Raghupañcikā of Vallabhadeva Being the Earliest Commentary on the Raghuvaṃśa of Kālidāsa
(2024)
For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem “Lineage of the Raghus” ( Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit literature. Thousands of manuscripts transmit it, and dozens of pre-modern ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Saved from Desert Sands
(2024)
Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of ...
Adalbert Stifter
(2024)
This volume provides evidence that the work of Adalbert Stifter is permeated by forms of violence and "(Ver-)Führung". The study shows that although Stifter's texts are infused with attempts to appease violence, at the ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2024)
This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. ...
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
(2024)
Unveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, ...
Physics in Minerva’s Academy
(2025)
This monograph explains how, in the aftermath of the battle over René Descartes’ philosophy, Newton’s natural philosophy found fertile ground at the University of Leiden. Newton’s natural philosophical views and methods, ...
Storyworlds in Short Narratives
(2024)
This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates ...
Fragments of Languages
(2024)
The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic ...
The Autonomy of the Åland Islands
(2024)
Published on occasion of the 100 year anniversary of the Åland Islands’ autonomy, this book brings up and discusses a number of challenging issues, from constitutional and international law perspectives, concerning both ...
Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
(2024)
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented ...
Knowing - Unknowing
(2024)
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new ...
Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1850)
(2025)
Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, ...
Aufbruch in Grenzen
(2024)
The volume examines the development of the role and profession of Catholic women from the 1960s to the 1980s in the Federal Republic of Germany. Based on the example of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences of North ...
International Children’s Rights Instruments
(2024)
This collection is an essential supplement to the recent academic handbooks on children’s rights studies and international children's rights law. Over the years, the international legal framework on children's rights has ...
Placemaking in Practice Volume 2
(2024)
Starting from theoretical concepts and experiences, the volume is interested in a variety of methods, techniques, approaches and conceptualisations that shape these engagements as well as different methodologies. Engage ...
Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World
(2024)
Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World is an interdisciplinary volume that interrogates varied approaches to environmental and economic thought in classical Islam and in a few contemporary ...
Promoting the “Human” in Law, Policy, and Medicine
(2024)
Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers stepped down from the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine at McGill University in April 2024, a post she held for more than 20 years. Professor Knoppers consistently prioritized ...