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Human Rights and the Environment : Philosophical, Theoretical and Legal Persp…
This book explores the philosophical, theoretical and legal bases that underpin the linkage between human rights and the environment. Such linkage, grounded in reality, is an innovative way of addressing environmental issues through the lens of a well-established international human rights system. The book argues that a new set of environmental rights is gradually forging its way into internati…
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- 978-90-04-18993-5
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- 192 pp
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- Queen Mary Studies in International Law, Volume: 3
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Human Rights and Law Enforcement at Sea : Arrest, Detention and Transfer of P…
Law enforcement at sea has become an increasingly important tool for combating transnational crime. Such law enforcement operations are commonly directed by multinational missions composed of military rather than police forces, and are often carried out in maritime areas not subject to national jurisdiction. Because of these characteristics, maritime law enforcement operations touch upon many u…
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- 978-90-04-26997-2
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- The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, Volume: 46
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Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa : Philosophical Background and Theological S…
This volume explores Gregory Of Nyssa's concept of human nature. It argues that the frequent use Gregory makes of phusis-terminology is not only a terminological predilection, but rather the key to the philosophical and theological foundations of his thought. Starting from an overview of the theological landscape in the early 360's the study first demonstrates the meaning and relevance of univ…
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- 978-90-04-27432-7
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- xii, 276 pp
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- Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Volume: 46
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How India Clothed the World : The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850
Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generat…
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- 978-90-47-42997-5
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- xviii, 490 pp
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- Global Economic History Series, Volume: 4
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Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. They discuss the institutional and legal his…
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- 978-90-04-49961-4
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- xxii, 443 pp
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 45
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Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet : Studies in the Cultural History of India
The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study o…
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- 978-90-04-41207-1
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- xx, 700 pp
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 20
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History of Wills, Testators and Their Families in Late Medieval Krakow : Tool…
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from so called ‘canonical wills’ to ‘communal wills’. Wysmułek discusses the socio-cultural role of wills and sets them in their contemporary legal, social, and economic co…
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- 978-90-04-46144-4
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- xiv + 403 pp
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- Later Medieval Europe, Volume: 23
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History of the Opium Problem : The Assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian countries and some in Europe and the Americas). Starting in the 16th century, slavery and opium became the two means with which the bodies and souls of men and women in the tr…
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- 978-90-04-22589-3
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- xxvi, 826 pp
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- Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 105
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Histories of Spiritual Traditions in China : A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s E…
Discover China's rich spiritual history through the monumental works of polymath Jao Tsung-i, presented in English for the first time. Throughout his far-reaching discussions of Chinese religious history ranging from prehistoric ancestor worship to Daoist immortality cultism and beyond, Jao’s studies draw upon an immense range of sources, including stele inscriptions, excavated manuscripts, a…
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- 978-90-04-71431-1
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- xvi, 313 pp.
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- Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i, Volume: 6
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Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750
Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres—ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents—developed and were reinterpreted in the …
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- 978-90-04-44029-6
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- xvi, 530 pp
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- Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 177
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