Publications
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Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents
(2025)
Concealing Agents addresses the invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in history and historiography. With studies ranging from modern to contemporary history, language and translation studies, and ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2015)
The highlights of this volume include the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Copernicus`s death. Political developments in Europe remain an important concern for Gottsched. He devotes close attention to the situation ...
Empty-Base Explanation
(2023)
Why does a dough rise? We might cite the presence of yeast as a reason why and explain the mechanism by which one brings about the other. This book investigates the idea of Empty-Base Explanation, in which a phenomenon is ...
Jugendkommunikation und Dialekt
(2017)
By examining communication among young people in East Tyrol, this study offers for the first time detailed insight into everyday conversation between Austrian adolescents. The central theme of this corpus-based analysis ...
Talking Dialogue
(2021)
The modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide significance. Based upon genuine archival work, the authors of the present book reconstruct the history of the movement from 1900 to 2000. Looking at central episodes in ...
Portals of Globalization
(2019)
This book investigates the planning of Mumbai's ports and free zones, focusing on periods of global and regional change: the early British Raj, independence, and economic liberalization. The port and free zone projects ...
Modern Hebrew in Israel
(2025)
Scholars have been asserting that there are no dialects in Modern Hebrew, which makes Israel an interesting case for variationist linguistic theorising. This pioneering book investigates categories Hebrew speakers use for ...
Gestalterinnen
(2023)
Women designers, many of them Jewish, played a decisive role in the development of Viennese modernity during the interwar period. This book presents new research on designers, photographers, journalists, and patrons who ...
Empirismus und Ästhetik
(2022)
Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Henry Home combined empiricism and aesthetics to create an empiricist aesthetics that was received and transformed in the German-speaking world. In the tradition of John ...
Lumières nouvelles sur le sacré
(2024)
After the rediscovery of the art of stained glass in the 19th century, artists reinvested in the glass arts and infused them with modernity, breaking with historicism. This was true of artists belonging to the Groupe de ...
The Legacy of Early fraciscan Thought
(2021)
The influence of later medieval fraciscans on subsequent scholarly developments has been widely acknowledged. However, the legacy of early fraciscan thought, as it developed in fraciscan thinkers who worked in the first ...
Light verbs
(2025)
Light verbs are semantically reduced verbs that simultaneously exhibit a heavy verb usage. The papers in this volume examine light verbs from different perspectives in various languages and address questions such as: What ...
Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands
(2023)
In Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Levant, Arabic printing began with the work of Antim the Iberian, a scholar and metropolitan of Wallachia, and Athanasios III Dabbās, patriarch of the Church of Antioch and metropolitan ...
Tense, aspect and discourse structure
(2024)
The twelve essays gathered in this volume address phenomena currently debated in tense and aspect research, elaborating on three thematic cores: 1) the context-sensitivity of tense and aspect and their relationships with ...
Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside
(2025)
How did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas? Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside analyzes the social and administrative mechanics of the fiscal regime in late antique Egypt by focusing on key actors. ...
Applications
(2022)
Volume 3 describes how resource-aware machine learning methods and techniques are used to successfully solve real-world problems. The book provides numerous specific application examples: in health and medicine for risk ...
Berliner Weltliteraturen
(2021)
This volume uses case studies to present the international literary exchange that took place in and around Berlin in the years directly following the construction of the wall and to show how cultural political activities ...
Diskurse – digital
(2022)
The aim of this publication is to expand the program and methodological inventory of discourse linguistics in two ways: firstly, by systematizing the specific descriptive categories and analytical tools available for ...
Gegen den Stand der Dinge
(2016)
Challenging the Status of Things reflects on the current shift in how museums relate to material culture. Contemporary notions in material culture studies, sociology, and art theory ascribe critical power to objects. The ...
Grundrechtsschutz zwischen Karlsruhe und Straßburg
(2012)
Protection of fundamental rights in Europe takes place in a tense balance between EU law, the Convention on Human Rights, and national constitutions. The author draws potential parallels to the relationship between the ...
Materialität und Präsenz spätantiker Inschriften
(2020)
That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time ...
Sakralität im Wandel
(2022)
The sacred spaces of our cities have become more diverse in recent decades. Alongside established institutions, new voices are claiming participation in the coexistence of religious ideas as well as in architectural expression.
New Directions in Geometric and Applied Knot Theory
(2022)
The aim of this book is to present recent results in both theoretical and applied knot theory—which are at the same time stimulating for leading researchers in the field as well as accessible to non-experts. The book comprises ...
The Syntax of Colophons
(2022)
The present volume focuses on the colophons found in several pothi manuscripts from Central, South and South East Asia. Its contributions discuss the colophons’ defining features, thus exposing their ‘syntax’, focusing ...
Reflecting Oil
(2025)
Reflecting Oil presents innovative reflections on crude oil, one of the most important fossil fuels characterising modern life: On the one hand, oil functions as a fuel for unrestricted mobility and on the other, as a basis ...
Jaina Culture in Medieval Karnataka
(2025)
Jaina culture in Karnataka flourished from the early centuries CE, and by the eighth century had achieved a predominance which lasted nearly four centuries. Subsequently, however, the Jainas’ influence waned and they became ...
›Amicus Lucretius‹
(2022)
The book provides the first systematic reconstruction of the reception of Lucretius’ theological and ethical verses in the work of the early modern philosopher Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). It argues that the latter was the ...