Compound Histories

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-90-04-32556-2

Collation

oer.unej.ac.id

Series Title

Cultural Dynamics of Science, Volume: 2

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Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents

Through the application of scientific methods of analysis to a corpus of medieval manuscripts found in the Cairo Genizah, this work aims to gain a better understanding of the writing materials used by Jewish communities at that time, shedding new light not only on the production of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, but also on the life of those Jewish communities.See Less

Complexity and Simplicity

This book is the outcome of an original and interdisciplinary undertaking by the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists based in Wrocław, Poland. One of the fundamental objectives of the Academy is to improve and foster communication between outstanding representatives of various fields of science, the humanities and art. In this regard to close the gap between the sciences, humanities and the …

Quantum Software

The chapter discusses the importance of quantum software and defines it as a multifaceted concept comprising a theoretical, engineering, and application viewpoint. Hence, it covers aspects of quantum software theory, quantum software systems, as well as quantum software laboratory. The chapter also outlines the entire book and its individual chapters structured into three parts on quantum s…

Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers Johan (1622-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), two successful textile entrepreneurs and radical republican theorists during the apex of Dutch primacy in world trad…

Combining Economic and Political Development

Since 2011, democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa have mostly failed to consolidate and have been hindered by the difficult economic heritage of previous authoritarian governments. Yet newly established democratic governments must deliver on the expectations of their people, especially the poorer strata, otherwise disillusionment may open the door to restoration of authorit…

Colours on East Asian Maps

With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map’s content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours …

Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913

In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objecti…

Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 …

This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American Independence in 1776. Land argues that the three cities developed large, global networks of maritime commerce and exchange that created tension between merchants and the British Empire which sought to enforce mercantilist policies to constrain American trade to within the Bri…

Public Financial Management and Internal Control

This chapter describes the key aspects of public financial management and internal control reform, viewed through a managerial lens. It describes how, without a thorough appreciation of the linkage with management, this reform will at best fail to meet the intended objectives and at worst could add to administrative bureaucracy and hence costs. These are recurrent themes throughout th…