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Sexual and reproductive health in china
Sexual and Reproductive Health in China: Reorienting Concepts and Methodology is translated from the original Chinese version and presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the current assessment of the changes in sexual and reproductive health during the past thirty years. This volume and the ot...
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Beyond famagusta: cultural memory and historical imagination
Famagusta has witnessed the rise and fall of empires and dynasties which have left in their wake a rich storytelling legacy. This was a city of extremes, and so while there was certainly political influence, artistic creativity, wealth and piety, there was simultaneously fear, corruption, treache...
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Edicta munerum: advertising and promotion of gladiatorial games in ancient pompeii
Edicta munerum: Advertising and Promotion of Gladiatorial Games in Ancient Pompeii delves into the intriguing realm of behind-the-scenes preparations for the gladiatorial games in ancient Pompeii, shedding light on how advertising played a pivotal role in informing and enticing the public to witn...
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Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies
Over the past two decades, linguistic research into embodiment has paid considerable attention to the human body and its individual parts, particularly within typological and cognitively oriented studies. This volume continues that line of inquiry with a specific focus on the lower limb. It shows...
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Popular science writing for jewish children in the 18th and 19th centuries
This book explores the role of science and technology literature on Jewish education and identity in the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on Hebrew texts for children and youth. It examines how Jewish science popularizers, primarily from the Haskalah movement, incorporated scientific knowledge w...
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Evidentials and modals
This book offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements representing evidentiality in connection to modality, focusing on theoretical/formal perspectives by eminent pioneers in the field and on recently discovered phenomena in Korean evidential markers by native scholars in pa...
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Philosophical approaches to politics and ethics
In Philosophical Approaches to Politics and Ethics, Yang Guorong investigates influential political and ethical topics in Chinese and Western philosophies. This is the first and only English-language translation of the text, originally authored by one of the most influential living philosophers i...
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The artistic object and its worlds
“The best way of being an artist is not to serve a particular art.” The film critic André Bazin believed artists create without boundaries in mind. Literary criticism should be no different. This book is a unique collection that critically reflects on the complex, non-unidirectional, and organic ...
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The common voice
In this volume Adam Fox brings together a collection of his essays on aspects of oral, scribal and printed communication across early modern Britain. These studies explore the relationship between spoken and written transmission, the processes and products of information gathering, and the creati...
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Political agents and cultural mediators
This volume traces the complex, global-scale circulation of procurators as non-state cosmopolitan agents, along with the movement of goods and knowledge, across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, on a scale that was, for the first time, truly global. The provincial congregations and their re...
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From the battlefield of books: essays celebrating 50 years of the taylor-schechter genizah research unit
This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articl...
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Art and politics between the arab world and latin america
Intertwined with the histories of Arab migration to the Americas from the nineteenth century until now, the emergence of competing nationalist narratives within Arab communities in Latin America, and the birth of anti-imperialist and anticolonial struggles, the history of cultural entanglements b...
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The islamic council of norway and the challenge of representing islam in europe
Governments all across Europe have attempted to govern the Muslim population by working with representative Muslim councils. These councils, however, have often been plagued by conflicts and splits. Why? This book is the first attempt to answer this question in full. It does so by zooming in on ...
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Sesostris – scheschonq – sesonchosis
Why Sesostris? Why does the classical antiquity tell stories about this Egyptian hero king of the second millennium BC? On which basis? The contributions of this conference volume try to systematically answer the question how these narratives come into being and grow. It is not a single historica...
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Mālik and medina
This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra’y), dissen...
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England's second domesday and the expulsion of the english peasantry
The world-shaking forced evictions of English peasants during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are treated by most historians as largely a 'Tudor myth'. For them, the peasantry disappeared much later through fair means thanks to industrialisation and trade. Centred on close scrutiny of the r...
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Battlefield emotions in late antiquity: a study of fear and motivation in roman military treatises
Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity is a pioneering work, the first to present a comprehensive analysis of fear and motivation on the battlefields of Late Antiquity. By examining military treatises, Łukasz Różycki identifies means of manipulating the morale of soldiers on the same and on oppos...
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Theory and description in latin linguistics
With contributions by R. Amacker, C. Bodelot, P. Carvalho, W. Dressler, G. Haverlin, R. Maltby
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The locations of (world) literature
Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores the notion of location not simply as geographical, historical, or cultural context but as a standpoint, a position, an orientation, a necessarily partial and particular perspective, however ample it may be, from which writers re...
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Pieter de graeff (1638–1707) and his treffelyke bibliotheek
On 9 July 1709, over 2,300 books were sold at a public auction at the shop of the publishing family Boom in Amsterdam. They comprised the ‘beautiful library’ (treffelyke bibliotheek) of the patrician Pieter de Graeff (1638–1707), member of a prominent regent family. This monograph draws on unpubl...
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Memory, media, and empire in the castilian romances of antiquity
During the 13th and 14th centuries, medieval Castile produced some of the liveliest, most sophisticated vernacular reworkings of narratives inherited from classical and late antiquity, including those about Alexander the Great, the Trojan War, or Apollonius of Tyre. This study recovers the overlo...
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Yearbook of the european convention on human rights / annuaire de la convention européenne des droits de l'homme, volume 66 (2023) (volume ii)
The Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, edited by the Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law, is an indispensable record of the development and impact of the world’s oldest binding international human rights treaty. It reviews the implementation of the Convention both b...
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Empathetic storytelling, volume ii
In the Critical Storytelling series, this latest book elevates the voices of a myriad of authors, using empathetic storytelling to spark transformation in education. Stories connect us through the meaning we make, intricately woven in a diverse tapestry of shared experiences held together with th...
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The crucifixion imagined in stone sculpture of the anglo-saxon kingdoms
This is first full account of the most portrayed figural subject in Anglo-Saxon sculpture: the Crucifixion. It brings together in a single volume a record of every known stone depiction related to the Crucifixion from the pre-Conquest kingdoms, from South West Scotland to the tip of Cornwall, eac...
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From scientific philosophy to myth: an unquiet philosophical journey
Philosophical work can be analyzed from two points of view, the historical and the systematic one. Papers gathered in this book examine the work of Francesco Coniglione from these two poles of philosophical analysis. From the historical point of view, the contributors ask what Coniglione meant wh...
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Governance in iberia and north africa in the long late antiquity
This multi-author work focuses on two regions—in antiquity more united than divided by the Strait of Gibraltar—during the so-called ‘Long Late Antiquity’. While traditional research has described the changes beginning in the late 3rd century as the decline and end of ancient statehood, a ‘governa...
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Theorizing ocean governance: a framework combining governance, science, and law
Ocean governance is emerging as a field of study drawing on and combining different knowledge domains, including governance, science, and law. Assumptions of these three knowledge domains and their relationships are rarely discussed. This study attempts to contribute to such discussion by theory-...
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Heidegger and the question of psychology
In Heidegger and the Question of Psychology: Zollikon and Beyond, Mark Letteri acquaints a broad readership (such as psychotherapists and counselors, not just professional philosophers) with Martin Heidegger’s connections to psychology and related concerns, and offers specialists one of the few m...
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The castle slaves of the gambia river
The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River is the first history of a community of enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century West Africa. It provides a vivid portrait of the people whose labor sustained Atlantic trade—such as Hector, a skilled carpenter. Despite hardships they showed remarkable resilienc...
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Jade-carving chisel and luminous ocean
Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully into English, giving a sampling of his diverse insights into literature and i...
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The second world war in east africa, 1940–1941
As a first of its kind, this edited collection brings together a variety of chapters dealing with different topics that address, where possible, most of the participants involved in or affected by the conflict as well as different, often neglected aspects of the East Africa campaign of the Second...
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The legal status of the financial action task force in the international legal system
The FATF challenges traditional axioms and patently illustrates the dynamics of the international legal system. This book fills a significant gap in academic literature by studying FATF’s legal nature and its responsibilities in the international legal system as an organisation with public author...
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Social psychology and the ancient world
Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between classics and social psychology. Classicists use modern social-psychological insights to interpret ancient texts, while social psychologists engage with classical case studies to refine ...
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Jewish latin american artists
Jewish visual artists living and working in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries broaden an appreciation of the art of the Americas. The anthology addresses an often underacknowledged Jewish presence as part of the aesthetic of the global south providing the general public and scholar...
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Presence in play
Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of theatrical presence to be published. Theatre as an art form has often been associated with notions of presence. The ‘live’ immediacy of the actor, the unmediated unfolding of dram...
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Connecting neuroscience with education
This book provides tools for thinking about how professional and pre-professional educators and policymakers might use research findings to improve learning and teaching in the classroom. It discusses prerequisites such as adopting an empirical perspective, building a knowledge base for evidence-...
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El simbolista discreto josé cabrero y mons
In the words of early 20th-century writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna, José Cabrero y Mons (1871–1954) is the central figure in the novela del Arte. However, he remains the only unknown artist in José Gutiérrez Solana’s iconic painting La tertulia del café de Pombo, one of the most significant works ...
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Iacopone da todi
The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this book offers a contemporary critical assessment on this medieval Franciscan poet of the thirteenth century. Combining philological analyses with thematic studies and philosophical...
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Holocaust, zeit und erzählung
This book examines the interrelationships between trauma, time, and narrative in the novel The Journey (1962) by the scholar, novelist, poet, and Holocaust survivor H. G. Adler. Drawing on Paul Ricœur’s philosophy of time and studies of time in literature, Julia Menzel analyzes how Adler’s novel ...
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Scrittore epicureo anonimo, index epicureorum
P.Herc. 1780 stands out as a real puzzle among the Herculaneum papyri. It is fragmentary, tricky, with scattered words that do not help understand what text it is about. We find mentions of Epicurus and his school (the Kepos, i.e. 'the Garden'), but no references to his philosophy: instead, toget...
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Special judicial mechanism for the crime of aggression committed against ukraine
In May 2025, the Core Group of states finalized the technical work for treaties to establish the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. This tribunal, to be created through a treaty between the Council of Europe and Ukraine, will derive its jurisdiction from Ukraine. The ch...
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Guarino guarini
The seventeenth-century polymath Guarino Guarini is today mainly remembered as one of the most prominent Baroque architects. However, he was also active in a number of other fields such as philosophy, mathematics and astronomy. Philosophically, Guarini is an exceptionally interesting figure becau...
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The emergence of pragmatic markers from chinese compounds in chinese, japanese and korean
The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean offers a new perspective on the evolution of pragmatic markers in language contact and grammaticalization, drawing on data-driven and diachronic studies of Chinese compounds. All the contributors to this vol...
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German moravian missionaries in the british colony of victoria, australia, 1848-1908
Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature...
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The constitution of socialism
To revive the fortunes of socialism, the articulation of a credible and attractive alternative is absolutely essential. Offering an original synthesis of socialism and republicanism, The Constitution of Socialism discusses how society can move beyond capitalism. It outlines an institutional and p...
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Meditatio mortis bei paulus, seneca und clemens von alexandria
This volume explores the writings of Paul, Seneca, and Clement of Alexandria, providing a fresh outlook on conformity with Christ's death as illustrated in Phil 3:10. It examines Paul's concept of meditatio mortis and brings it into discussion with the Stoic tradition of Seneca in the 'West' and ...
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Understanding the greek revolution (1821–1832)
A part of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s, the Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the period. The contributions included in this volume present the most recent research concerning the social, political and cultural history of this major event. Bring...
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Lex ad astra
Outer space has long been considered the last untouched wilderness. However, non-State actors are increasingly active in space, heightening the risk of space pollution. Space law, designed during the Cold War, is State-centric and makes inadequate provision for non-State actors. In the face of th...
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Legal pluralism in qing china
In this book, Max WL Wong provides a new perspective on legal pluralism under the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and provides an argument that in traditional Chinese legal culture the pluralistic normative orders were blended, in parallel with the established state legal system, to become a complexed a...
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John calvin
This volume continues the approach of the original John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers. It begins with eighteen methodological theses on how to study Calvin’s use of the patristic and medieval tradition. There are comprehensive studies of his use of Tertullian, Ambrose, Augustine, Cyril of...
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Buddhist-confucian polemics in seventeenth-century japan
The History of Thought of the Edo Period is a lively area of research. You have the choice between Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, National Studies, and Dutch Studies, none of which was the state ideology, and all of which were practised together in a small, interactive intellectual world. The in...
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Questioning our faith in practice
Practical theology emerged as a discipline steeped in white supremacy, traces of which can be found in some of its most central practices and habits of mind. Identifying the remnants of this legacy allows practical theologians to begin to imagine how to proceed without reinscribing narratives of ...
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Liturgy of empire: reading the mozarabic rite in early modern europe, 1500–1800
Liturgy of Empire examines the European reception of the neo-Mozarabic rite created under the patronage of the Archbishop of Toledo, Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros (1495–1517), in relation to the history of the Mozarabs of Toledo, the development of bibliophilia and libraries, the scholarly study ...
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Burial and memorial in late antiquity
Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284–650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, ...
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Textentstehung und texttradition im numeribuch
Das Verhältnis von Textgeschichte und Literargeschichte wird derzeit auch für den Pentateuch neu diskutiert. Drei Charakteristika von Textentstehung und Textüberlieferung sind dabei von zentraler Bedeutung. Die Studie argumentiert, dass in der Textgeschichte wie in der Literargeschichte qualitati...
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Mind over matter: how spirituality changes lives
Mind over Matter is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how spirituality changes lives in a variety of ways. Unlike much philosophically rooted literature on spirituality, it encourages an understanding of what can be achieved through faith, belief, and self-confidence, without re...
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Observing theatre
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and co-authors take the exploration of the subjective dimension of theatre, its spiritual context, its relation to consciousness and natural law, further than ever before, thanks to the context provided by the thinking of German geobiologist Hans Binder. We present relevant...
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The transformation of tĕhôm
Tehom, the Hebrew Bible’s primeval deep, is a powerful concept often overlooked outside of creation and conflict contexts. Primeval waters mark the boundary between life and death in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East, representing the duality of both deliverance and judgment. This book e...
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Energy and protein metabolism and nutrition
Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition is of increasing importance as greater efficiency and health benefits are sought in feed for animal production. Top scientists from around the world have collaborated in this book to exchange expertise and knowledge on the latest developments in the fie...
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Natural law and domestic government in the early modern period
Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period examines how natural law informed evolving ideas of governance from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through case studies spanning France, the Low Countries, England, Iberia, and colonial America, this volume explores how jurist...
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Haptic interfaces in electronic literature
What happens when reading depends on swiping, tapping, or pressing glass? Haptic Interfaces in Electronic Literature: The Digital Midas Touch explores how digital literature turns ordinary gestures into part of the literary experience itself. Examining works by Serge Bouchardon and other authors,...
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Selective empathy
Selective Empathy: The West Through the Gaze of Gaza takes us to the heart of the greatest moral crisis of our time: the genocide in Gaza. Blending sharp political critique with psychological and global health research, haunting testimonies, and suppressed facts, Roberto De Vogli exposes the mora...
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Apprendre encore les fables de la fontaine
Qui n'a jamais récité une fable de Jean de La Fontaine à l'école, sans se douter qu'elles n'ont pas été écrites pour les enfants ? Le présent ouvrage explore ce paradoxe, en analysant près de 260 éditions illustrées des fables ésopiques publiées pour la jeunesse entre 1500 et 2020. Ces éditions ...
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The story in fiction and film of french collaboration in the occupation and complicity in the holocaust (1940-1944)
This book examines fiction and film narratives that show the active collaboration of the Vichy government with the Nazis in the deportation and murder of the Jews of France. It also explains how these fiction and film narratives affected the official and dominant historical narrative of the 1940-...
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Entangled subjects
Winner of the 2015 ASAL Walter McCrae Russell AwardIndigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and r...
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The orientalist karl süssheim meets the young turk officer i̇sma’il hakkı bey
The book consists of transcriptions and summary translations of two texts in, mostly, Ottoman Turkish, the first of which is the recently discovered second volume of the diary of the German orientalist Karl Süssheim, covering the years 1903-08 which he mostly spent in Istanbul. The second text is...
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Media and education
In this volume, we explore critical questions about Norway's hidden history of racism and its implications today. Why has Norway largely overlooked its role in the transatlantic slave trade? How do media representations shape public perceptions of race? What can education do to confront and disma...
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The modern afterlives of old irish travel narratives
This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Umberto Eco's Baudolino, and the science fiction television franchises Star Trek and Stargate. In doing so, the book ope...
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Chinese research perspectives on population and labor, volume 8
This translated volume is based on the publication Green Book of Population and Labor (No. 20), originally published in Chinese by the Social Science Academic Press (SASS). The focus of this volume is high-quality employment in China. The topics covered include China’s labor market during the F...
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Extractivism across production and social reproduction
This book examines the political economy of natural resource extraction in the Global South across production and social reproduction. Building on a fieldwork which stretched over six years, the book argues that natural resource extraction in the agrarian South is a multi-dimensional development ...
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Navigating the study of myth, ritual, and belief
Sarah Iles Johnston has innovated in the study of myth, ritual, and belief, and her scholarship in these areas informs the contributions to this volume, each of which uses Johnston to innovate in turn. The capacity of Johnston's work to underpin scholarship on phenomena from the ancient Mediterra...
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Reports of judgments, advisory opinions and orders/ receuil des arrets, avis consultatifs et ordonnances, volume 20 (2022-2023)
This volume contains the decisions rendered by the Tribunal in the years 2022 and 2023 in English and French: Procedural Orders and a Judgment (Merits) issued in Delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean, and procedural Orders issued in M/T “Heroic Idun”, Request for Advisory Opi...
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Roman constantinople in byzantine perspective
This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine’s foundation no...
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Ownership regimes in the iberian world (1500–1850)
Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, including doctrine, laws, customs, regional kinship, and community ties. By und...
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Performative identities in culture
This book's primary task is to test the contemporary value of performance and performativity. Performative Identities in Culture: From Literature to Social Media undertakes this task via a host of chapters on a vast spectrum of performativity-related topics such as: literature (British, American,...
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Transgressive city-making and governance
Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices ...
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Harlequin in marketplace culture
Since the late 19th century, the stock characters of the commedia dell'arte, especially Harlequin, Pulcinella and Pierrot, have been making frequent appearances in the world of material and cultural artifacts, in such categories as the entertainment industry, the food market, politics and educati...
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The heirs of avicenna: philosophy in the islamic east, 12–13th centuries
This is the second in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Moving on from the metaphysical and theological concerns covered in the first book, this volume looks at issues in lo...
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Debating economic policy for south africa’s post-apartheid transition: from scholarship and ideology to policy in practice
The reasons for South Africa’s full and rapid post-apartheid embrace of neoliberal economic policy remain controversial. Drawing on the author’s own participation in policy debates, this volume establishes there were alternatives available that were either dismissed or not even considered. Explan...
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The stories of heinrich von kleist: a critical bilingual edition
The stories of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) are a hallmark of German literature, and they are as relevant, engaging and confounding today as ever. Although translated into English previously, this is the first scholarly, bilingual edition of Kleist’s stories, in which his dictional idiosyncras...
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Judging women’s rights, gender & citizenship in ben ali’s tunisia
Tunisia has often been commended for its progressive stance on women’s rights and viewed as a role model for family law reform in the Muslim world. Judging Women’s Rights, Gender & Citizenship in Ben Ali's Tunisia weaves together intimate stories and theory to demystify claims that the progre...
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District twelve
This book offers, at the same time, an imperial history of a region (Northeastern Central Asia under the Achaemenids) and the regional history of an Empire (how the Persians adapted their strategies of governmentality to a geographically challenging, ethnically diverse, and politically impervious...
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Advancing the legal status of women in islamic law
Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic legal tradition and describes how Islamic law entitles individuals to justice according to their status, abilities and potential. In the case of men and women's capabilities, the underlying principle is that they are entitl...
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The ethics of john: retrospect and prospects
Over the past two decades the scholarly conversation has shifted from the practically consensus view that John has little to offer in terms of ethical content to a more robust understanding of how Johannine literature engages ethical questions. This process recently reached a milestone with the p...
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A heretical history of architecture
A Heretical History of Architecture challenges the conventional understanding of significant developments in Western architecture as a series of alignments among dominant ideologies and artistic programs, arguing instead that the most consequential changes in the evolution of artistic and design ...
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Concise handbook of word and music studies
Why are we so often told that poetry is like music – or that it is music? Can music communicate meaning, as literature can? When words and music get together in song, what passes between them? Are they allies or enemies? The Word and Music Association was founded, nearly thirty years ago, to pond...
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A general survey of song-poetry (sanqu) of yuan china (1260–1368)
This book provides a survey of Yuan sanqu, with its principal sections focusing on fundamental theories, compositional features, and historical evolution. Its treatment of qu criticism and bibliography offers a comprehensive perspective on the defining characteristics of sanqu. Serving both as a ...
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Internal self-determination and the prevention of secession in international law
Internal self-determination (ISD) empowers communities to shape their destiny within a state, transforming tension into opportunity. By actively engaging citizens in decision-making, governments can tailor policies to meet unique cultural and economic needs, quelling discontent and building trust...
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Online apologies in japanese
Apologies are ubiquitous in contemporary societies, yet their meanings and functions are rarely straightforward. Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how three Japanese expressions commonly considered apologetic (gomen, su(m)imasen and mōshiwake arimasen) work in a dat...
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Der aufbau des sasanidenreiches
Das Werk präsentiert in zwei Bänden das erste umfassende Gesamtkonzept der Verwaltungs- und Gesellschaftsstruktur des Sasanidenreiches (5.-7. Jh.). In mehr als 1.000 zeitgenössischen Lederdokumenten, Siegeln, Ostraka, Inschriften und Texten, die hier erstmals zusammengeführt werden, berichten die...
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Histories
Histories examined here extend from the ancient to the modern, encompassing also the political and the personal. The reason for examining recent trends in the historiography of the Roman empire is because it is there, at the starting point of the historical trajectory on which the whole of Marxis...
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Co-authorship. collaboration, multiple authorship and the melding of minds in literature, arts and sciences
The volume discusses co-authorship in literature, sciences and art from a historical, comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions focus on texts from India, early China, the Middle East, Graeco-Roman antiquity, Humanism, the Early Modern Period and modern poet...
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Paradise on the instalment plan
Contemporary labour movement thinking about the Australian economy took shape between the depression of the 1930s and the long post-war boom, in the form of moderate and, today much diminished, left nationalist currents. Economic conditions, the level of the class struggle and the political procl...
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International children’s rights instruments
This collection is an essential supplement to the recent academic handbooks on children’s rights studies and international children's rights law. Over the years, the international legal framework on children's rights has evolved into a complex system, which includes United Nations treaties and re...
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Aftermaths of war
Much of the recent literature on cultural demobilisation or remobilisation after the First World War has focused on men and masculinity. By contrast, this interdisciplinary volume of essays sets out to examine the importance of women’s movements and individual female activists to the shaping of p...
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Le malikisme à l’épreuve du nomadisme
Le Malikisme à l’épreuve du nomadisme est un ouvrage sur l’Ouest saharien. C’est une traduction du Kitāb al-bādiya d’al-Šayḫ Muḥamd al-Māmi précédée d’une introduction qui met le livre dans son contexte social et historique. Il explore le paradoxe de l’existence d’une réflexion juridique dans un ...
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Denken und wirklichkeit. aristoteles und hegel über das wesen der substanz
Was ist Wirklichkeit? Diese Frage wird unter Bezug auf den dritten Abschnitt Die Wirklichkeit der Wesenslogik von G.W.F. Hegel thematisiert. Hegels Methode des reinen Denkens wird bis zu der absoluten Substanz nachgezeichnet, die sich als bestimmtes Sein (to ti en einai), Zugrundeliegendes (hypok...
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Stories and memories, memories and histories
This edited volume brings together authors from a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A historian first investigates understudied samizdat literature, a film critic then analyzes Balkan cinema via psychoanalysis, a psychologist examines contemporary European border ...
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Communist politics in ireland 1916–1945
Mike Milotte’s clear and meticulous reconstruction of Irish communism in the 1920s leaves no stone unturned. He reassesses the communist movement and its key figures in light of previously overlooked or misinterpreted material from the Comintern archives. During the revolutionary era, Roddy Con...
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