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Bilingual Europe: Latin and Vernacular Cultures - Examples of Bilingualism an…
Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until deep into the 18th century scientific works were written in it. It is still an official language of the Roman Catholic Church. But why did authors choose for Latin or for…
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- Volume: 239
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- 978-90-04-28963-5
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Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this volume examine the creative methods and strategies that were developed to record color-related information about insects through studies on Hoefnagel’s glazed metal and hand-c…
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- 978-90-04-68455-3
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- xviii, 322 pp
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- Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 7
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In the Shadow of War and Empire : Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Wor…
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists…
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- 978-90-04-68714-1
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- xviii, 374 pp
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- Studies in the Social History of the Global South, Volume: 52/4
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In Search of a Path : An Analysis of the Foreign Policy of Suriname from 1975…
The foreign policy of small states is an often neglected topic, which is particularly the case when it comes to Suriname. How did the young Republic deal with its dependency on the Netherlands for development aid after 1975? Was Paramaribo following a certain foreign policy strategy or did it merely react towards internal and external events? What were the decision making processes in defining …
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- 978-90-04-25367-4
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- xxii, 348 pp
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- Caribbean Series, Volume: 27
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Imagining Chinese Medicine
A unique collection of 36 chapters on the history of Chinese medical illustrations, this volume will take the reader on a remarkable journey from the imaging of a classical medicine to instructional manuals for bone-setting, to advertising and comic books of the Yellow Emperor. In putting images, their power and their travels at the centre of the analysis, this volume reveals many new and excit…
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- 978-90-04-36618-3
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- xxii, 520 pp
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- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume: 18
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Imaging and Imagining Palestine : Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Len…
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political co…
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- 978-90-04-43794-4
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- Open Jerusalem, Volume: 3
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Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the period’s quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture…
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- 978-90-04-68118-7
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- xxxiv, 742 pp
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- Intersections, Volume: 87
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Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks
While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters reveal how knowledge, ideas, and emotions related to bugs are historically and culturally formed.…
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- 978-90-04-71544-8
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- xii, 315 pp
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- Brill's Series in the History of the Environment, Volume: 8
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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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