Merdeka Author(s): Harry Poeze (Author), Henk Schulte Nordholt (Author), Gioia Marini (Translator) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 23, 2024 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 456 pages ISBN-10: 9048560837 ISBN-13: 9789048560837 Book Description Under the slogan ‘Merdeka!’ the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence, a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new narr...
Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France Author(s): Aleksandra Nicole Pfau (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 202 pages ISBN-10: 1041182694 ISBN-13: 9781041182696 Book Description The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Mediev...
Real Life Cryptology Author(s): Benedek Láng (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: July 11, 2018 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 9462985545 ISBN-13: 9789462985544 Book Description A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was ...
Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550) Author(s): Andrea Leerdam (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 480 pages ISBN-10: 1041190875 ISBN-13: 9781041190875 Book Description In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist r...
Machseh Lajesoumim: A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890-1943 Author(s): Jaap Focke (Author) Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Publication Date: September 21, 2021 Language: English Print length: 384 pages ISBN-10: 9463726950 ISBN-13: 9789463726955 Book Description The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadequate build...
Homer, Troy and the Turks: Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915 (Heritage and Memory Studies) Author(s): Günay Uslu (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: October 16, 2017 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 220 pages ISBN-10: 9462982694 ISBN-13: 9789462982697 Book Description Homer’s stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What’s less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditio...
Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages (Knowledge Communities) Author(s): Micol Long (Editor), Tjamke Snijders (Editor), Steven Vanderputten (Editor), Cédric Giraud (Contributor), Jay Diehl (Contributor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: July 19, 2019 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 302 pages ISBN-10: 9462982945 ISBN-13: 9789462982949 Book Description The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from ...
Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations Author(s): Christina Maags (Editor), Marina Svensson (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 298 pages ISBN-10: 104117683X ISBN-13: 9781041176831 Book Description The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to...
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature Author(s): Liisa Steinby (Editor), Aino Mäkikalli (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 314 pages ISBN-10: 1041183356 ISBN-13: 9781041183358 Book Description This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether t...
Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond: From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis Author(s): Mårten Snickare (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 216 pages ISBN-10: 1041177178 ISBN-13: 9781041177173 Book Description An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the North American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth...
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