Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road

This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a …

When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?

This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future. Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration of the energy transition has challenged the notion that oil revenues are sufficient to sustain oil eco…

Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey

This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national…

Risiko und Unsicherheit in der modernen islamischen Praxis

Das Prinzip der Versicherungen als kalkulierbare Übernahme von Risiken entstand in Europa bereits im späten Mittelalter. Trotz ihrer hohen wirtschaftlichen Relevanz wurden sie jedoch erst im 19. Jahrhundert vollständig rechtlich institutionalisiert. In der islamischen Welt hingegen waren Versicherungen bis zur Zeit des Kolonialismus nahezu unbekannt. Als westlicher Kulturimport wurden sie da…

Siebenbürgen zwischen Großungarn und dem österreichischen Gesamtstaat

Die Edition des Briefwechsels von Guberniumspräsident Ludwig Folliot von Crenneville und Hofkanzler Franz von Nádasdy umfasst die Jahre 1861 bis 1863. Beide prägten die Politik ihrer Zeit. Ihre Korrespondenz ist eine bemerkenswerte Quelle zu den inneren Mechanismen von Verwaltung und Machtausübung im Habsburgerreich in der Endphase des gesamtstaatlichen Kaisertums Österreich. Mit dem Oktob…

Die Ukraine als Objekt russischer Großmachtansprüche

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Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa

This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or…

Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia

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Re-Configurations

This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and comparative manner

Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: East Cambridge (Second Edition)

This series, called the Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, was among the first inventories of its kind in America.Shortly after the Cambridge Historical Commission was established it embarked on the task of surveying Cambridge's architectural resources. The Commission published five reports, from 1964 to 1977, on each area of the city. This series, called the Survey of Architectural …