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Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh
Beyond Orientalism

This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment.

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Leonard Blussé
A Colonial Tragedy

"In October 1740, a tragedy unfolded in Batavia, the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java. Faced with a spontaneous Chinese peasant uprising, Batavia's vengeful in…

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Esther Captain, Onno Sinke
Resonance of Violence

Views the terrifying Bersiap period against the backdrop of the violent first phase of the Indonesian National Revolution.

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Hong Chen
Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Context

What does it mean to a family when parents go abroad for economic gains while leaving their children behind? How do they maintain a family when living in different areas, separated for years? How do emerg…

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Chien-Peng Chung
Competing Nationalisms in China's Borderlands

This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of t…

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Alin Ciupalã
Women in Romania's First World War

In August 1916, the Kingdom of Romania (Wallachia and Moldova) entered the First World War, leading in 1918 to a union with Transylvania and Bessarabia. Alin Ciupalã's book considers the contribution of w…

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Alexis Culotta
The Frescoed Facade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political,…

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Olivia Dear, Sarah Dear
Behaviour in the Classroom

Behaviour in the Classroom, The Practical Guide is for any teacher who wants to make their classroom environment a better one for children to learn in. Olivia Dear and Sarah Dear, drawing on their diverse…

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Lucas van der Deijl
Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)

A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640-1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas trans…

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Beate Fricke
Creation and Creativity in Medieval Art

Creation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and i…

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Dag Nikolaus Hasse
What is European?

It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European?, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubl…

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Edwin Hoogschagen
B-32 Dominator

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was a powerful American bomber used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Notably, it holds the distinction of being the last Allied aircraft to see combat in th…

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Miguel Ibanez Aristondo
Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives

How are the environmental conflicts of our time intertwined with the legacies of Spanish imperialism and early modern globalization? In Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavatin…

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Frank Ijpma, Thomas van Gulik
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected

In the 'Anatomy lessons' that were painted for the Surgeons' Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

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Jerome Jamin
L'Imaginaire du Complot

This book explores the importance of conspiracy rhetoric within populist and far right speeches in Europe and the United States. It shows how a "New World Order" plot give to populist and far ri…

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Hyun-Ah Kim
Music, Rhetoric and Christian Hebraism in Early Modern Europe

This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the "first German humanist" Johannes Re…

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Remy Limpach,
Stumbling in the Dark

A thorough analysis of the Dutch-Indonesian battle for intelligence.

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Bert Lamers
MS Rotterdam

Five weeks after the withdrawal of the legendary 'Rotterdam' (V), Holland America Line introduced the 'Rotterdam' (VI) in November 1997. With her gross tonnage of 59.652 she was and still is a remarkable …

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Józef Lobodowski,
The Thickets

This novel is the first part of the Ukrainian Trilogy of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski. Written between 1955 and 1960, the action of the trilogy plays out, for the most part, in the Kuban area…

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Asja Makarevic
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War

Bosnia-Herzegovina is still considered a post-war country. The concept of "post-war" implies that the country and its people are tied more strongly to the past than they are oriented towards the…

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