Publications
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Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...
Roma Voices in History
(2021)
This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ in local languages). The selection ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 14 (2008)
(2010)
International law
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
(2020)
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers ...
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission
(2020)
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law ...
Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications
(2018)
Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, and Applications is a one-of-a-kind, collective effort to present -theoretically and practically- the most utilized and known methods on timing and time perception. Readership: ...
The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD
(2018)
In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, ...
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
(2018)
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. The contributions in the volume also accommodate and interact with critical insights ...
Snow in the Tropics
(2019)
Snow in the Tropics offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators, companies that are dedicated to transport refrigerated products by ship, from the early 20th century to the present. Readership: ...
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
(2020)
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and ...
Aus der Welt gefallen
(2019)
Drawing from the archive of the Perthes publishing house, this study reconstructs how cast away explorers shaped not only the literary imagination but also the history of cartography. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, ...
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 ...
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange (Expanded Edition)
(2020)
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address ...
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 ...
WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion
(2021)
In WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion, Zaker Ahmad puts a spotlight on the crucial importance of dismantling market barriers and offering incentives to improve clean technology access and ...
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs
(2020)
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs: An Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambezi River Basin offers an innovative approach to the governance of shared watercourses and the ...
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 ...
Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue
(2020)
In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian ...
Europe from Below
(2021)
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the ...
Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction
(2020)
In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes ...
Academia in Crisis
(2019)
This book dissects current commercial, capitalist and fast cultures in universities. It argues that there is no turning back, nor marching on. Under the present regimes ruling universities, all that is left is reflection ...
Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets
(2020)
Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitute proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 13 (2007)
(2009)
International law
Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article
(2020)
This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially ...
Schutz und Andacht im Islam: Dokumente in Rollenform aus dem 14.–19. Jh.
(2020)
Schutz und Andacht im Islam befasst sich mit handschriftlichen Dokumenten in Rollenform, die zwischen dem 14. und 19. Jh. entstanden sind. Die vorgestellten Belegstücke stammen aus unterschiedlichen geographischen Kontexten: ...
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Taha Abderrahmane’s Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives
(2021)
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane ...
Migrants and Religion: Paths, Issues, and Lenses
(2020)
Despite the worldwide dramatic spread of religious-based discriminations, persecutions, and conflicts, both official data and academic literature have underestimated their role as a root cause of contemporary migrations. ...
Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel
(2020)
The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under ...
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950
(2020)
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women ...
Traces of Ink
(2021)
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman ...
"At the Shores of the Sky"
(2020)
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During ...
Hakol Kol Yaakov
(2021)
Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others ...
The Matter of Piety
(2020)
The Matter of Piety provides the fi rst in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety ...
Drug Policies and Development
(2020)
The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical per-spective. Contributions address the drugs and ...
Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
(2011)
"In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the ...
Komodo
(1982)
Indonesia
Albert Jäger (1801-1891) „Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben“
(2023)
In this volume, the previously relatively unknown memoirs of the Austrian historian Albert Jäger (1801-1891) are published for the first time in a scholarly annotated edition. Through his long life, his multiple relationships ...
In Leijdeckers voetspoor
(1978)
Indonesia
Etnografie van de Kaoweraw
(1962)
Indonesia
In Leijdeckers voetspoor
(1974)
Indonesia