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Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration m…
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An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement
The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage…
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An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement
The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage…
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A Collection in Context: Kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlu…
The first volume of the Tu?bingen Numismatic Studies series examines the collection of Karl von Scha?ffer, comprising almost 3000 numismatic objects, which came into the possession of the University of Tu?bingen in 1888, in the context of the history of science. The edition of the complete collection documentation is evaluated by contributions on the history of the university collection, a biog…
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- 978-3-947251-01-8
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A Delicate Choreography: Kinship Practices and Incest Discourses in the West …
The origins of the incest taboo have puzzled many of the most influential minds of the West, from Plutarch to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, David Hume, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Edward Westermarck, and Claude Le?vi-Strauss. This book puts the discussion of incest on a new foundation. It is the first attempt to thoroughly examine the rich literature, …
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The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s = Encounters …
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…
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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down = Revolutions and Labour Relations in Glo…
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions; - the long-term impact of revolut…
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- 348 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 41
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The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe
In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been presented in European historiography as aggressors and destroyers whose appearance led to only chaotic decline and e…
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- East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume: 74
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The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār = Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of the library’s holdings. The chapters in the first volume situate the library, one of the largest in Palestinian history prior to the end of the nineteenth century, in its …
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- Islamic History and Civilization
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The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Gra…
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves of the "Valparaíso" hillock, from then on called "Sacromonte". They became the object of heated discussions in Europe an…
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- Texts and Sources in the History of Religions
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