Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in early modern arts.
This book is a multi-language collection comprising over fifty translations of the poem 'Lenga di mama' ('Mother Tongue') by Curaçao-born poet Hilda de Windt Ayoubi, published here alongside three additional poems each providing a different perspective on the mother tongue.
This book rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s.
The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. Here conditions were... Læs mere
Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy.
This volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the... Læs mere
Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond is aboutitems like elaborately crafted and... Læs mere
This book charts the rise of contestation over the meaning of “Europe”, particularly in light of the coronavirus crisis and Brexit.... Læs mere
Summarizes the main results of the research into the nature, explanation and aftermath of the extreme violence used by the Dutch armed forces.
The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting important moments of self.reinterpretation in the sampradaya’s interaction with different social milieus.
The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state–civil society relationship affects the recent surge of civic urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei.
This book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action.... Læs mere