Publications
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Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity
(2013)
This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers presented at a conference organized at Yale University and hosted by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the International ...
Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism
(2022)
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and ...
The Citizenship Experiment
(2019)
Focusing on the United States, France and the Dutch Republic in the revolutionary 1790s, The Citizenship Experiment explores the convergence and divergence of Atlantic citizenship ideals in light of the Haitian Revolution ...
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
(2016)
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes of Roman mobility and migration, discussing i.a. the mobility of the army, of the elite, of women, and war-induced mobility ...
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 ...
Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna
(2021)
Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s ...
C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre
(2025)
How can exploitative living and working conditions be remembered with nostalgia? This monograph offers an analysis of the specific form of the 'nostalgia-based master narrative' used by ex-mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR ...
Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
(2023)
As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and ...
New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day
(2019)
This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people ...
Music and Knowledge: A Performer's Perspective
(2017)
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual
(2016)
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the varied modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. Readership: Students and scholars ...
'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. ...
Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710)
(2017)
In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law in seventeenth-century Livonia, conquered by Sweden. The volume demonstrates how the differences in legal ...
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, ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2014)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2011)
This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a ...
The Wallachian Gold-Washers
(2023)
This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. ...
Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity
(2022)
Classification is an inherent feature of all societies. The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western society for over two millennia. In the middle of the twentieth century, dire consequences ...
Anthologisches Schreiben
(2022)
„Anthologisches Schreiben“ untersucht, wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin und Rudolf Borchardt ihre schriftstellerische Praxis als Traditionspolitik begreifen und modellieren. Die Analyse zeichnet die mind map ...
Canonisation as Innovation
(2022)
Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, ...
Astrophysics, Astronomy and Space Sciences in the History of the Max Planck Society
(2022)
This book provides the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of scientific traditions in astronomy, astrophysics, and the space sciences within the Max Planck Society. Structured with in-depth archival ...
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts
(2022)
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy ...
Die „krumme Bahn der Sinnlichkeit“
(2022)
Der Epoche der Aufklärung wird nicht nur eine besondere Vorliebe für den Sehsinn und das Licht nachgesagt, sondern auch ein bestimmtes ‚Wahrnehmungsmodell‘, das von dem Topos des kalten, distanzierten und klassifizierenden ...
Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology
(2021)
Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology provides a multi-disciplinary reflection on the theme of the covenant, from historical, biblical-theological and systematic-theological perspectives. The interaction between ...
Armenia through the Lens of Time
(2023)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome ...
A Poetic History of the Oceans
(2022)
What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements ...
Critical Storytelling
(2022)
What does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed ...
Bildhafte Räume, begehbare Bilder
(2022)
Virtuelle Räume bestimmen unsere Kultur heute bereits mehr, als uns bewusst ist. Wir betreten sie sowohl zur Unterhaltung, beim Spielen und Lernen, als auch in der Architektur und in industriellen Arbeitsprozessen. Zugleich ...
Dialektik der Schrift
(2022)
Was zeichnet musikalische Schrift aus? In den Notizen und Entwürfen zu seinem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion blickt Theodor W. Adorno hinter das vermeintlich gegenständliche ...
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
(2022)
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which ...
Climate Change Integration in the Multilevel Governance of Italy and Austria
(2022)
How can subnational governments best integrate climate change considerations across policy areas? Which factors contribute to successful integration? With a specific focus on transport, spatial planning policies, and energy ...
Doing Interpretation
(2021)
Wer interpretiert, tut etwas. Dieser schlichte Umstand trat mit dem practice turn verstärkt in den Fokus hermeneutischer bzw. interpretationstheoretischer Debatten. Wo steht die Diskussion heute? Wohin soll sie sich bewegen? ...
Ancient Egypt, New Technology
(2023)
This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the ...
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship
(2019)
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship (EDIC) is very relevant in contemporary societies. Seven European universities are working together in developing a curriculum to prepare their students for this important ...
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 ...
Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies
(2023)
During the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae ...
Gefangen in Mauthausen
(2024)
“Gefangen in Mauthausen” (Imprisoned in Mauthausen) is volume three of a ”major European project on the history of the survivors” (Carlo Moos). It deals with the everyday life of the concentration camp inmates and their ...
A Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development
(2014)
The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes ...
All Things Arabia
(2020)
By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to commodities to historical ...
The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān
(2022)
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a ...