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The Making of Middle Indonesia = Middle Classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s
What holds Indonesia together? 'A strong leader' is the answer most often given. This book looks instead at a middle level of society. Middle classes in provincial towns around the vast archipelago mediate between the state and society and help to constitute state power. 'Middle Indonesia' is a social zone connecting extremes. The Making of Middle Indonesia examines the rise of an indigenous mi…
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- 9789004265424
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- 318 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual = Studies in Archaic and Classic…
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the various modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. It covers diverse poetic genres in a range of contexts radiating outwards from the original performance(s) to encompass their broader cultural settings, the later reception of the poems, and finally also thei…
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- 9789004314849
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- 404 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements
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Integration in Rome and in the Roman World : Proceedings of the Tenth Worksho…
Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces and cities includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. These multifaceted processes take place at various levels in society and at different places, over a long period of time. In this volume, these processes are analysed and reflected on from different pers…
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- 978-90-04-25667-5
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 17
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Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : Selected Papers
This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna’s scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Part One studies the ways in which Greek medicine is related to its historical and cultural background (poli…
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- 978-90-04-23254-9
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- Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume: 40
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Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank
For the first time, this book presents the complete collection of Greek inscriptions of Gebel el-Silsila East – Ancient Egypt’s largest and most important sandstone quarry, including lists of names and professions of individuals involved in the quarry expeditions. The inscriptions are described, illustrated and analysed and placed within their archaeological context based on careful documen…
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- 978-90-04-54069-9
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- xvi, 356 pp
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- The Swedish Expedition to Gebel el-Silsila, Volume: 1
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Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models : Studies in…
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven paper…
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- 978-90-04-41259-0
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- xiv, 408
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 428
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Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context : A Tal…
This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the new text, discussing in turn issues around Galen’s literary production…
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- 978-90-04-38330-2
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- vi + 296 pp
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- Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume: 52
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Frontiers in the Roman World : Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop of the Inter…
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network ‘Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some thirty European, North American and Australian universities. This volume focuses on different ways in which the Roman Empire…
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- 978-90-04-21503-0
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 13
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Handbook of Contact Mechanics = Exact Solutions of Axisymmetric Contact Problems
This open access book contains a structured collection of the complete solutions of all essential axisymmetric contact problems. Based on a systematic distinction regarding the type of contact, the regime of friction and the contact geometry, a multitude of technically relevant contact problems from mechanical engineering, the automotive industry and medical engineering are discussed. In additi…
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- 9783662587096
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- XVI, 347 ill; lamp
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Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World
The volume provides a collection of studies on citizenship in the Graeco-Roman world and the political and philosophical reflection on it. It encourages the reader to complement the traditional institutional approach to citizenship with a broader perspective.
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- 407
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- 9789004352612
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements
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