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Medical Mercenaries, Masculinities, and Transimperial Science between the Dutch East Indies and G...

This book examines the environmental history of the Napoleonic Wars through the lens of everyday ...

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Mainland Southeast Asia's great river systems sustain the world's largest inland fishery and prov...

This volume analyses water management in pre-1500 Middle Eastern cities. Managing access to fresh...

Being a citizen is not just about holding a passport or being allowed to vote. It is also about h...

Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) was a Dutch colonial official whose work took him all over the worl...

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojir , nicknamed 'Tommy,' made headlines across Am...

This book examines the dynamics of a 'return to custom' in post-independence Timor-Leste; a set o...

The concept of 'real legal certainty' provides a much needed corrective to the general attention ...

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated wit...

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defence College of Japan (now the C...

Gum Arabic has been seen as a symbol of the 'noble Orient' and later as a symbol of trouble. It i...

This study opens a dialogue between first and twenty-first century successes and failures in our ...

This book presents three of the works of Abdu.l-Bah., son of the founder of the Bah..i Faith, dea...

'In Praise of Ambiguity' presents a discourse about the seriousness of play. Erasmus and Huizinga...

The Large Faramarzname (Faramarzname-ye bozorg), a poem from the Persian epic cycle dated to the ...

From 1652 until 1795, the Cape of Good Hope was a Dutch settlement marked by tensions, often port...

Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Pe...

The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding sta...

This book collects contributions by Richard T. Griffiths on the history of European integration, ...

This book examines the role of Persian literature in politics in the tumultuous period of Iranian...

The Secret Lives of Artworks is a collection of essays on the phenomenon that viewers treat works...

Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread...

The quantity of scholarship on Persian literature is enormous. Yet works of literary criticism an...

After violent protests across the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indo...

'Big Books in Times of Big Data' examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms o...

A Brief History of Islam in Europe presents an overall presentation and discussion of development...

Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When the...

Walt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been read by diverse audien...

How is it possible that three playwrights in the early modern Dutch Republic wrote dramas based o...

The proclamation of Jihad by the Sultan-Caliph in Constantinople, after the Ottoman Empire's entr...

This collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The fir...

During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln's administration engaged in protracted n...

World History - a Genealogy charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth con...

The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia introduces the pioneering concept...

The aim of Sharia Incorporated is to provide unbiased and contextual information about a topic th...

Terrorism has arguably been one of the defining factors of our age. In many parts of the world, i...

In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of ...

On October 29, 2023, the Republic of Turkey will celebrate its centennial. The foundation of the ...

Centuries of intense and involuntary migrations deeply impacted the development of the creolised ...

The Russia-Ukraine war is a multifaceted beast. It ranges from fighting on the ground to high dip...

Spanning Malaysia's post-independence period, and using the repression-mobilization nexus as a ke...

Parvin E'tesami (1907-1941) is among the few Persian female poets, who has gained nationwide popu...

Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) t...

'Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19' makes...

This new and now unabridged English translation of Huizinga's 'Autumntide of the Middle Ages' ('H...