World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka analyses how the World Heritage 'label' is being used by different actors to... Læs mere
The volume brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further American philosopher Judith Butler’s ideas in their own research.
This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China’s marginal spaces and against the... Læs mere
The present monograph examines Charlemagne’s campaign from the perspective of military history but also as part of a complex socio-political... Læs mere
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of... Læs mere
This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography.
The essays pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West.
This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity.
A classic of great insight and profundity by noted Chinese thinker, educator and social reformist Liang Shuming, this book takes readers on an intellectual journey into the five-thousand-year-old culture of China, the world’s oldest continuous civilization.
This book explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities.
In this detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, (Chipko, Narmada and Navdanya) Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice.
Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on... Læs mere