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Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
his handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from over 300 newspapers, the...
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Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from over 300 newspapers, the
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Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from over 300 newspapers, the...
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Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms
This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the...
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- 978-90-04-51498-0
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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia : Oxford, Bodleian Library, M…
Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia provides the princeps diplomatic edition and a comprehensive study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268. The manuscript, produced in the Iberian Peninsula in the late thirteenth century, features a biblical glossary-commentary in Hebrew that includes 2,018 glosses in the vernacular and 156 in Arabic, and to date is the only manuscript of thes…
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- '9789004461222
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- The Iberian Religious World, Volume: 7
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Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation
This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation inevitably leads to the global standardisation of some forms, successful technicisation depends on local appropriation that takes place in the interstitial zones of translation. Th…
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Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local hist…
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- 9789004461277
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- Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 196
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Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…
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- 9789004410305
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- 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 340 Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 340 Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 340
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Treasured Oases: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s Dunhuang Studies
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong Kong’s global heyday. Jao and Dunhuang had a special relationship that this book makes accessible in English for the first time. Inside, Jao proposes an entirely…
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- '9789004522558
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- 266 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i, Volume: 2
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Value without Fetish : Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’ in Ligh…
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his…
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- 9789004449909
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- Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 227
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