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Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
(2019)
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication, edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah ...
Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre
(2021)
This book examines the historical ramiÿ cations of the concept of exoticism through a literary analysis of Histoire générale des Antilles written by the Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. The study gives a ...
News in Early Modern Europe
(2014)
News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period. Readership: Postgraduate and undergraduate ...
Empires of the Sea
(2019)
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume develops the category of maritime empire as a specific type of empire in both European and ‘non-western’ ...
The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia
(1958)
Indonesia
The Western Karaim Torah
(2021)
This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against ...
Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy
(2016)
This book examines the administration of justice in the small northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia at the end of the fourteenth century. Through an examination of material from the judicial archives from the period ...
Arabic and its Alternatives
(2020)
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War, taking its starting point in the ...
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
(2015)
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies with a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British ...
The Phonology of Lower Grand Valley Dani
(1961)
Indonesia
Surinaams contrast
(1993)
In-depth study of the Suriname plantations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Based on archival research in England, Suriname, and the Netherlands, this book focuses on the idea that there existed a precarious balance between ...
Buddhism and the Body
(2023)
Mahayana, Theravada, ancient, modern? Even at the most basic level, the diversity of Buddhism makes a comprehensive approach daunting. This book is a first step in solving the problem. In foregrounding the bodies of ...
The Making of Middle Indonesia
(2014)
What holds Indonesia together? In The Making of Middle Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken develops an innovative historical explanation that looks beyond national elites to middle classes in provincial towns. Readership: The ...
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java
(2014)
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, ...
Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty: Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education
(2015)
This book analyses the challenges of globalisation and uncertainty impacting on working and learning at individual, organisational and societal levels. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
The lands west of the lakes; A history of the Ajattappareng kingdoms of South Sulawesi 1200 to 1600 CE
(2009)
The period 1200-1600 CE saw a radical transformation from simple chiefdoms to kingdoms (in archaeological terminology, complex chiefdoms) across lowland South Sulawesi, a region that lay outside the ‘classical’ Indicized ...
Poets of Hope and Despair
(2018)
an account of the response of the Russian Symbolist poets to the Great War and the Russian revolutions of 1917. Readership: All interested in Russian modernism, especially Symbolism, and Russian history of the war years ...
The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
(2022)
The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the ...
Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965
(2020)
Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2017)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice offers a socio-legal account of public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority ...
Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity
(2018)
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, ...
Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls
(2022)
Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present ...
The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500
(2020)
The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500 presents the results of excavations directed by George A. Reisner and led by Arthur C. Mace. The site of Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, is unusual for its ...
A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation
(2002)
This monograph compares the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation with the 2nd-century A.D. Greek work of Artemidoros and five medieval Arabic dreambooks and demonstrates that it was based on Islamic Arabic ...
Locating Religions
(2016)
This collection of articles applies concepts developed in the wake of the so-called “spatial turn” to the field of religious studies.; Readership: All interested in processes of interaction between societies and inidividuals ...
Omani Mehri
(2018)
This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects ...
Education, Learning, Training
(2014)
In Education, Learning, Training: Critical Issues for Development, renowned scholars and practitioners examine shifts in global education policy and practice over the last 50 years.
Recollecting Resonances : Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters
(2014)
Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.
Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature
(2018)
Antifascist literature repurposed Nazi stereotypes to express opposition. These stereotypes became adaptable ideological signifiers during the political struggles in interwar Germany and Austria, and they remain integral ...
De regering van Panembahan Sénapati Ingalaga
(1954)
Indonesia
Banggaisch adatrecht
(1947)
Indonesia
De eerste moslimse vorstendommen op Java
(1974)
Indonesia
Curaçao and Guzmán Blanco
(1975)
Indonesia
Waropense teksten (Geelvinkbaai, Noord Nieuw-Guinea)
(1956)
Indonesia
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284
(2011)
This book deals with changing power and status relations between AD 193 and 284, when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, and presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration and ...
Migration and Its Alternatives among the Iban of Sarawak
(1982)
Indonesia
Im Auftrag der Wahrheit
(2021)
What kind of arguments do 20th Century philosophers use to justify and legitimize their own discipline? By reconstructing the positioning established by the three prominent philosophical “paradigms” Phenomenology, Vienna ...
Regulation of Risk
(2022)
Regulation of Risk provides comprehensive insight into regulation of risk in transport, trade and environment. Contributions provide national, regional and international perspectives on pressing questions: How is risk ...
Maria Petyt
(2015)
Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many ...
De slimme en de domme
(1976)
The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
(2011)
Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an ...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
(2019)
This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, ...
Visions of Justice
(2016)
In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions ...
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts
(2020)
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances ...
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone
(2020)
This volume offers a systematic survey of migration histories in the central transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe from the 4th to the 15th century C.E.; Readership: All interested in the medieval history of the ...
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2016)
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial ...
The Principle of Equality in Diverse States
(2021)
This book examines different approaches by which states characterised by federal or decentralized arrangements reconcile equality and autonomy. In case studies from four continents, leading experts analyse the challenges ...
The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power
(2003)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn ...
Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700
(2022)
This book sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and Europe, by discussing how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in Dutch printed works between 1595-1700.; Readership: All interested in early ...
The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948
(2020)
The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.; Readership: Historians of ...
Intra-European Litigation in Eighteenth-Century Izmir
(2021)
This book offers an account of how merchants litigated on the basis of mercantile custom as well as specific legal procedures, using an ensemble of cases brought before the Dutch consul in Izmir in the second half of the ...
Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic
(2021)
The alignment splits in the Neo-Aramaic languages display a considerable degree of diversity, especially in terms of agreement. While earlier studies have generally oversimplified the actual state of affairs, Paul M. ...
Authority and Control in the Countryside
(2018)
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage ...
Beauvoir in Time
(2020)
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's ...
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism
(2020)
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ...
Humanitarianism: Keywords
(2020)
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its ...