Publications
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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, ...
Renegotiating boundaries
(2007)
For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the ...
Otto Bauer (1881-1938)
(2016-11)
This work depicts Otto Bauer as the main politician of the SDAP and attempts a critical-analytical interpretation of his socio-political theories, which are shown against the background of the debates within the First and ...
Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics
(2023)
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. ...
Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru
(2017)
Based on extensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products, prepared ...
Becoming Human
(2020)
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, ...
Inklusive Verwaltung
(2014)
Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung ...
Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
(2024)
“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did ...
The Shaping of Professional Identities
(2024)
This thought-provoking research anthology adopts a postmodern stance and fills in a gap of knowledge for the education of professional development in teacher education, health sciences and the arts. Allowing subjectivity ...
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 ...
Proyección de la Escolástica jesuita española en el pensamiento británico
(2024)
Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), José de Acosta (1540–1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke ...
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“
(2024)
The study focuses on the coevolution of visual media and the critical reorientation of postmodern historical novels. By establishing categories of analysis that combine narratological aspects with aporias of historiography, ...
The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity
(2024)
The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a systematic category ...
The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress
(2016)
What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya ...
Final Frontiers
(2024)
Das Meer ist die größte Medientheoriemaschine der Welt. Denn „Welt“ muss auf See immer erst medientechnisch ermöglicht werden. Die primäre Infrastruktur, durch die das Meer operationalisiert und historisiert wird, ist das ...
Parting of the Ways
(2024)
The essays collected in this volume are the proceedings of an international conference held in Vienna (Austria) in September 2022 on the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians. They demonstrate that the beginnings ...
Anatomie und Physiologie der Seele bei Leonardo da Vinci
(2024)
Leonardo da Vinci war kein gläubiger Christ. Er schrieb um 1500: »Seele und Leben sind unglaubwürdige Dinge… Gegen das Wesen Gottes und der Seele sträuben sich die Sinne«. Die Seele ist bei Leonardo eine visuell dominante ...
Stalin vs Gypsies
(2024)
In their centuries-old history, the Roma (formerly known as Gypsies) experienced many difficult moments and cruel trials from their arrival in Europe until now. The history of the Roma in the USSR is no exception in this ...
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 ...
Geltung und Macht
(2011)
Der Frankfurter Schule entwachsen entwickelte der einst staatsskeptische und fundamentalkritische Jürgen Habermas eine positive Theorie des demokratischen Rechtsstaates. Doch das gelang ihm nicht ohne Brüche. Christian ...