"At the Shores of the Sky"; Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt

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 that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also be…

"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspec…

“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. Readership: All interested in the worker’s history. Academic libraries would also be interested. Post-graduate and undergradu…

Advanced Methods for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Building Structures

This Special Issue was created to collect the most recent and novel research on seismic performance evaluation of building structures. This issue includes three important topics on seismic engineering for building structures: (1) seismic design and performance evaluation, (2) structural dynamics, and (3) seismic hazard and risk analysis. To protect building structures from earthquakes, it is ne…

Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures

This reprint presents a collection of contributions on the application of high-performing computational strategies and enhanced theoretical formulations to solve a wide variety of linear or nonlinear problems in a multiphysical sense, together with different experimental studies.

"A Road to Peace and Freedom": The International Workers Order and the Strugg…

Zecker examines the multicultural civil-rights activism and union militancy of the International Workers Order and other left-leaning immigrant groups, investigating the program of such organizations regarding civil rights, unionizing, and workplace justice. It looks at what these organizations did that caused the U.S. government to prosecute them and how these groups sought to defend themselve…

Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe : Modes of Materi…

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Making Ammonia : Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Di…

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Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Surv…

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Women Poets, Male Publishers = Myth vs. Market in Post-1960s Britain

We are often told that the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to the rediscovery of forgotten women writers. Without feminist presses such as Virago, these women would have sunk into obscurity. Thanks to Carmen Callil and other trailblazing feminist publishers, a canon of women’s literature emerged, and living writers managed to survive and sometimes thrive in a literary marketplac…

Translation und Marginalisierung = Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Übersetz…

Übersetzungen spiegeln und bestätigen die Normen der zielkulturellen Mehrheitsgesellschaft und ihrer machthabenden Instanzen, wohingegen Anliegen von Minderheiten meist unberücksichtigt bleiben. Diesen oft übersehenen Zusammenhang zwischen Translation und Marginalisierung leuchtet der interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band für die Frühe Neuzeit systematisch aus und rückt jene Menschen, Figu…