Publications
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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 ...
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
(2013)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
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, ...
Over de gewoonten en gebruiken der Soendaneezen
(1946)
Indonesia
'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'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Writing Tamil Catholicism
(2022)
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
Indonesia
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
(2013)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Digital Fashion Communication
(2022)
Fashion is an integral part of popular culture, closely intertwined with tales, magazines, photography, cinema, television, music and sports...up to the emergence of dedicated exhibitions and museums. Fashion is undergoing ...
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 ...
Cracking Facebook
(2020)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
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 ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
Writing Tamil Catholicism
(2022)
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with ...
Digital Fashion Communication
(2022)
Fashion is an integral part of popular culture, closely intertwined with tales, magazines, photography, cinema, television, music and sports...up to the emergence of dedicated exhibitions and museums. Fashion is undergoing ...
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 ...
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
(2016)
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under ...