This volume examines popular imperial culture in the Netherlands around the turn of the twentieth century.
This book provides an accessible framework for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia through the lens of global governance in health and labour.
Drawing from a unique archive of sources, this book investigates the rise and fall of different coalitions of contenders, from... Læs mere
This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed.
Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities –or lay Catholic brotherhoods– founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century.
This collection of essays joins a small group of other studies bringing modern Japanese Confucianism to international scholarly notice, largely covering the time period between the Bakumatsu era of the mid-19th century and the 21st century.
Consists of eleven essays that explore how artists have imaginatively engaged with this monumental human drama, examining a range of alternative modes of representation that provide striking new takes on the experiences of these precarious populations.
Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and... Læs mere
Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership.
This is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of... Læs mere
Provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which religious communities tackle humanitarian crises in contemporary Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
On the one hand, this study uncovers how approaches to knowledge production differed in the 17th century as compared... Læs mere