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Book SynopsisWith contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different parts of the world, challenging assumptions that the story of global co-operation can be traced exclusively to the 1844 Rochdale Co-operative Society. Contributors are: Amélie Artis, Nikola Balnave, Patrizia Battilani, Johann Brazda, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana, Kay-Wah Chan, Bernard Degen, Danièle Demoustier, Espen Ekberg, Dulce Freire, Katarina Friberg, Mary Hilson, Mary Ip, Florian Jagschitz, Pernilla Jonsson, Kim Hyung-mi, Akira Kurimoto, Simon Lambersens, Catherine C LeGrand, Ian MacPherson, Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo, Alain Mélo, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, Joana Dias Pereira, Michael Prinz, Siegfried Rom, Robert Schediwy, Corrado Secchi, Geert Van Goethem, Griselda Verbeke, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Mirta Vuotto, Anthony Webster and John Wilson.Trade Review"Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelves. It very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation." - Stefan Berger, "What is New in the History of Social Movements?", in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.115-127] "By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades." - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127–142 [DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000670] "The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail—and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global." - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction  Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore 2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses  Mary Hilson SECTION 1: Origins and Models Introduction to Section 1  Mary Hilson 3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945  Mary Hilson 4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure  Geert Van Goethem 5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption  Simon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo 6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939  Mary Hilson 7 Canadian and us Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political Implications  Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand 8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections  Jessica Gordon Nembhard 9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade  Katarina Friberg SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention Introduction to Section 2  Silke Neunsinger 10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970  Michael Prinz 11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operatives  Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy 12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century  Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira 13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860–2010  Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo 14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth  Kim Hyung-mi 15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China – A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political History  Mary Ip and Kay-Wah Chan SECTION 3: Challenges to Business Introduction to Section 3  Greg Patmore 16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective  Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave 17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present  Ian MacPherson 18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand  Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore 19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina  Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana 20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operatives  Greg Patmore 21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain  Corrado Secchi SECTION 4 Consolidation Introduction to Section 4  Mary Hilson 22 Going Global. The Rise of the cws as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further Research  Anthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency  Patrizia Battilani 24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative  Bernard Degen 25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century  Pernilla Jonsson 26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan  Akira Kurimoto 27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010  Espen Ekberg Conclusion 28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future  Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where and why the Principia was appropriated by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. Particular focus is laid on the methods of transmission of Newtonian ideas via university textbooks and popular works written for educated laymen and women. At the same time, challenges to the Newtonian consensus are explored by writers such as Marius Stan and Catherine Abou-Nemeh who examine Cartesian and Leibnizian responses to the Principia. Eighteenth-century attempts to remodel Newton as a heretic are explored by Feingold, while William R. Newman draws attention to vital new sources highlighting the importance of alchemy to Newton. Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.Trade Review“This is a well-balanced collection that will be of great value to Newtonian scholars. Summing up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.” M. Dickinson, Maine Maritime Academy. In: Choice Connect, Vol. 55, No. 5 (January 2018). “This is a collection that includes a number of important papers, and it should not be overlooked by anyone with a serious interest in Newton or in eighteenth-century Newtonianism.” John Henry, University of Edinburgh (emeritus). In: Isis, Vol. 110, No. 1 (March 2019), pp. 168–169. “The volume Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe is an exemplary treatment of how revolutionary science becomes de rigeur, through its introduction, opposition to, and eventual overtaking of the preexisting paradig, in this brilliant composite study of how Newton’s mathematical and physical theories changed the nature of science, as taught and understood in early modern Europe.” Cheryl Kayahara-Bass, Oshawa, ON. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 557–560.Table of ContentsList of Contributors 1 Introduction  Elizabethanne Boran Part 1: Introducing Newton 2 The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in Naples  Claudia Addabbo 3 Newton and the Spanish Artillerymen  Juan Navarro Loidi 4 The Practical Tradition of Dutch Newtonianism  Gerhard Wiesenfeldt 5 Science for Ladies? Elizabeth Carter’s Translation of Algarotti and “popular” Newtonianism in the Eighteenth Century  Sarah Hutton 6 Irish Newtonian Physicians and Their Arguments: The Case of Bryan Robinson  A.M. Roos, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.S.A. Part 2: Challenging Newton 7 Controversies over Comets: Isaac Newton, Nicolas Hartsoeker, and Early Modern World-making  Catherine Abou-Nemeh 8 ’s Gravesande’s and Van Musschenbroek’s Appropriation of Newton’s Methodological Ideas  Steffen Ducheyne 9 Newton’s Concepts of Force among the Leibnizians  Marius Stan 10 How Did Berkeley Read Newton?  Luc Peterschmitt Part 3: Remodelling Newton 11 Newton’s Reputation as an Alchemist and the Tradition of Chymiatria  William R. Newman 12 Isaac Newton, Heretic? Some Eighteenth-Century Perceptions  Mordechai Feingold Index

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Book SynopsisSeventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.Trade Review"This is an important addition to the literature on the art market in Paris, covering a new area of the subject and linking the taste for Dutch and Flemish paintings of the eighteenth century to that of the later-nineteenth." Adriana Turpin, The Society for the History of Collecting, July 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword  Marc Fumaroli List of Illustrations A Note on Currencies 1 From Eyesores to Blue Chip Art  Origins of the Parisian Marketplace for Netherlandish Painting  Art Publications and the Dissemination of Information  France as International Tastemaker for Golden Age Art After 1740  Royal Collections and Northern Masters, 1777–1792  The Twilight of the Auction Business, 1775–1825  The Fate of Golden Age Art Under Terror and Inflation  The Louvre and the “Artistic Conquests” in Belgium and the Netherlands  The Post-Revolutionary Market for Netherlandish Art  The Expanding Mass Market for Copies and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie  Golden Age Art and Popular Culture  Netherlandish versus Italian Art  The Parisian Apartment – a Bourgeois Space for Art 2 On the Art of Surviving the Revolution: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun  Art Dealer to the Ancien Régime’s Elite, 1776–1789  Painful Adjustments, 1789–1795  Co-Conspirator of Jacques-Louis David, 1792–1794  From The Ministry of Finance to the Louvre, 1794–1799  A Long Good-Bye from the Louvre, 1799–1803  A Difficult Comeback as Dealer-Expert, 1801–1804  Deceptions of the Napoleonic Age, 1807–1813 3 A Long Good Bye to the Palais Royal: The Northern Pictures in the Orléans Collection  The Art Collections in the Palais Royal until 1780  Inside the Art Deal of the Century  The Netherlandish Pictures of the Palais Royal Collection  A Look Inside the Galeries De Bois 4 Liberty’s Toll on Beauty’s Price  Myths and Realities of the Parisian Auction Market in the 1790s  Turnover of the Parisian Art Auction Market and its Economic Context, ca. 1775–1850  The Evolution of Prices for Netherlandish Art in Revolutionary Paris  Bidding Wars: The Picture Trade with Great Britain  The “Guilty Industry” and Netherlandish Art 5 Netherlandish Art in France: A History of Taste and Money across Three Centuries  Poussinists versus Rubenists  The Marquis D’argens and Academic Prejudices Against Northern Art  The Re-Evaluation of Netherlandish Aesthetics from David to Thoré  The Politicization of Nehterlandish Art in the Nineteenth Century  Class, Taste, and the First Art Price Rankings Appendix Bibliography Photograph Credits Index

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Book SynopsisLa Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale deals with the history, the historical geography and the cultural sociology of Phrygia Paroreios and Northern Pisidia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale traite de l’Histoire, de la géographie historique et de la sociologie culturelle de la Phrygie Parorée et du Nord de la Pisidie aux époques hellénistique et romaine (IVe s. av. J.-C.-IVe s. ap. J.-C.).

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Book SynopsisPatrons of the Old Faith is the first full-length study on the Catholic nobility in the Dutch Republic. Based on a detailed prosopographical analysis and through the examination of their marriage strategies, interaction with Protestants, religiosity and contributions to the Holland Mission, Jaap Geraerts shows how the behaviour of the Catholic nobility was highly distinctive and differed from their co-religionists and Protestant peers as it was influenced by a specific set of noble and Catholic values. Due to the synthesis of their noble and confessional identities, the Dutch Catholic nobility in Utrecht and Guelders acted as patrons of their faith and were instrumental for the survival of Catholicism in the Dutch Republic.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgement ix List of Figures and Tables xi List of Abbreviations xii xiii Introduction 1 1 A Restrictive Marriage Strategy 29 2 Interaction with Protestants 71 3 Religiosity 129 4 Shaping the Missio Hollandica 190 Conclusions. Confessional Nobilities in Post-Reformation Europe 250 Appendix A: Charitable Donations Made by Catholic Nobles 267 Appendix B: Priests Housed by Catholic Nobles 269 Appendix C: Godparents of the family De Wael van Vronestein 273 Bibliography 276 Index 313

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is the last in the Entangled Balkans series and marks the end of several years of research guided by the transnational, “entangled history” and histoire croisée approaches. The essays in this volume address theoretical and methodological issues of Balkan or Southeast European regional studies—not only questions of scholarly concepts, definitions, and approaches but also the extra-scholarly, ideological, political, and geopolitical motivations that underpin them. These issues are treated more systematically and by a presentation of their historical evolution in various national traditions and schools. Some of the essays deal with the articulation of certain forms of “Balkan heritage” in relation to the geographical spread and especially the cultural definition of the “Balkan area.” Concepts and definitions of the Balkans are thus complemented by (self-)representations that reflect on their cultural foundations.Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration Notes on Contributors Preface The Balkans: Region and Beyond Roumen Daskalov The Concept of the Balkans/Southeastern Europe Diana Mishkova Space and Communications in the Balkans Alexander Vezenkov Time and Timekeeping in the Balkans: Representations and Realities Andreas Lyberatos An “Alsace-Lorraine of the Balkans:” Historians, Public Diplomacy, and the Romanian-Bulgarian Dispute over Dobrogea Constantin Iordachi The Search for National Architectural Styles in Serbia, Romania, and Bulgara during the second half of the 19-the Century and the First Decades of the 20-th Century Ada Haidu The “Balkan House”: Interpretations and Symbolic Appropriations of the Ottoman-Era Vernacular Architecture in the Balkans Tchavdar Marinov Block № 18, Auschwitz Rossitza Guentcheva Index

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Book SynopsisThe Making of A Modern Art World explores the artistic institutions and discursive practices prevailing in Republican Shanghai, aiming to reconstruct the operational logic and the stratified hierarchy of Shanghai’s art world. Using guohua as the point of entry, this book interrogates the discourse both of guohua itself, and the wider discourse of Chinese modernism in the visual arts. In the light of the sociological definition of ‘art world’, this book contextualizes guohua through focusing on the modes of production and consumption of painting in Shanghai, examining newly adopted modern artistic practices, namely, art associations, periodicals, art colleges, exhibitions, and the art market.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1 Introduction: The Hierarchy of Shanghai’s Art World Chapter 2 Institutionalisation as Practice: Societies, Periodicals, and Colleges Chapter 3 The Appropriation of New Cultural Capital: Art Exhibitions Chapter 4 The Business of Art: The Art Market Chapter 5 Conclusion Appendix 1 Biographical Notes Appendix 2 Art Societies Established during the Years 1929–1936 Appendix 3 Art Periodicals Established during the Years 1929–1936 Appendix 4 Survey of Exhibitions held during the Years 1919–1937 Appendix 5 Prices for 4-foot Landscape Paintings in the Hall Scroll Format during the Years 1929-1937 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.Table of ContentsList of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History 8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index

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Book SynopsisEmpire of the Senses brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships. From early French interpretations of intercultural touch, to English plans to restructure the scent of Jamaica, these essays elucidate different ways the expansion of rival European empires across the Americas involved a vast interconnected range of sensory experiences and practices. Empire of the Senses offers a new comparative perspective on the way European imperialism was constructed, operated, implemented and, sometimes, counteracted by rich and complex new sensory frameworks in the diverse contexts of early America. This book has been listed on the Books of Note section on the website of Sensory Studies, which is dedicated to highlighting the top books in sensory studies: www.sensorystudies.org/books-of-noteTrade Review“This volume edited by Hacke and Musselwhite presents substantial, thought-provoking research in the blooming field of sensory history of the Americas, allowing for a deeper understanding of early modern European association of specific sensory regimes with imperial authority.” Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, University of Zurich. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 347-349.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds  Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite Part 1: Cultural Encounters 1 Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters  Céline Carayon 2 Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Conquista Espiritual (1639)  Jutta Toelle 3 Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-century New France  Michaela Ann Cameron Part 2: Colonial Subjectivity 4 The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the Caribbean  Annika Raapke 5 Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic World  Marília dos Santos Lopes Part 3: Structures of Knowledge 6 Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of Knowledge  Daniela Hacke 7 Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the Senses  Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy 8 “Delightful a Fragrance”: Native American Olfactory Aesthetics Within the Eighteenth-century Anglo-American Botanical Community  Andrew Kettler Part 4: Colonial Projects 9 The Aromas of Flora’s Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-century English Atlantic  Kate Mulry 10 Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-/Early Eighteenth-century British Empire  Rebekka von Mallinckrodt Index

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Book SynopsisIn Patriotic Cooperation, Diana Junio offers an account of a cooperative venture between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China, known as the Border Service Department, that carried out substantial social programs from 1939 to 1955 in China’s Southwestern border areas. Numerous scholars have argued that Chinese state-religion relations have been characterized primarily by conflict and antagonism. By examining the history of cooperation seen in the Border Service Department case, Diana Junio contends that these relations have not always been antagonistic; on the contrary, under certain conditions the state and the church could achieve a mutually beneficial goal through successful cooperation, with a strong degree of sincerity on both sides.Trade Review"Dr. Diana Junio has given us a thoroughly researched, welldocumented, and carefully written account of the Border Service Department, a strategic venture founded by the Chinese Church of Christ and the Nationalist Regime to advance evangelistic and development work among ethnic populations in southwestern China during the Second World War. The rich empirical findings and analytical insights should appeal to scholars interested in the political, military, sociocultural and religious history of Republican China.” — Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Maps and Figures Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 The Establishment of the Church of Christ in China Chapter 2 From Petition to Cooperation Chapter 3 The Cooperative Creation of the Border Service Department Chapter 4 Serving the Border Peoples with a Wartime Agenda Chapter 5 The Challenges and New Focus in the Bsd’s Postwar Services Chapter 6 Embedding Evangelism within the Border Service Program Chapter 7 Different Regimes, the Same Patriotism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American legal and literary scholar William Ian Miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the honorand, who is equally at home discussing legal history, Icelandic sagas, English literature, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture. Professor Miller's colleagues and former students, including distinguished academic lawyers, historians, and literary scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe, break important new ground by bringing little-known sources to a wider audience and by shedding new light on familiar sources through innovative modes of analysis. Contributors are Stuart Airlie, Theodore M. Andersson, Nora Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Jordan Corrente Beck, Carol J. Clover, Lauren DesRosiers, William Eves, John Hudson, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Kimberley-Joy Knight, Simon MacLean, M.W. McHaffie, Eva Miller, Hans Jacob Orning, Jamie Page, Susanne Pohl-Zucker, Amanda Strick, Helle Vogt, Mark D. West, and Stephen D. White.Trade Review"The lineup in this invigorating Festschrift is a starry one. Perhaps more important, it seems genuinely to reflect the ways in which William Ian Miller has inspired a great range of scholars of legal history, Icelandic sagas, and violence, as well as emotions more broadly. The authors have done an effective job of pulling together a volume with intellectual coherence. Though there is not space here to discuss each contribution, I can attest that all are insightful and of high quality. This is a rewarding volume: a particular strength is to show how unexpected sources can shed light on more well worked topics. [...] This is a stimulating volume that resonates with a number of crucial themes for medievalists". Hannah Skoda, in Speculum, 95 (3), 2020.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: In Search of Miller  Stephen D. White Bill the Boundless  Jordan Corrente Beck Miller(ed) in St Andrews  Kimberley-Joy Knight and John Hudson Part 1 
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Historical Sources 1 Hot Anger and Just Indignation: Justificatory Strategies in Early Modern German Homicide Trials  Susanne Pohl-Zucker 2 Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law  Elizabeth Papp Kamali 3 Threats and Intimidation in Anglo-Norman Legal Disputes  William Eves 4 Courts and Rule-Making in Eleventh-Century Western France  M. W. McHaffie 5 Standing up in Court: Gender and Genitalia in Fourteenth-Century Zurich  Jamie Page 6 How To Be Remembered: Securing the Memoria of a Slain Person in Medieval Denmark  Helle Vogt Part 2 
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Literary Sources 7 Telling Evidence in Njáls Saga  Carol J. Clover 8 Widening Horizons in Njáls Saga  Theodore M. Andersson 9 Feud in the State: The Conflict between Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Baardsson  Hans Jacob Orning 10 ‘Waltharius’: Treasure, Revenge and Kingship in the Ottonian Wild West  Simon MacLean Part 3 
Comparative Perspectives 11 Braveheart and Sexual Revenge  Robert Bartlett 12 Stringer’s Saga: Njal and The Wire  John Hudson and Mark D. West 13 ‘An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance’? The Middle Ages, Vengeance and Movies  Stuart Airlie 14 Getting a Head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Narratives of Enemy Decapitation in Ashurbanipal’s Sources  Eva Miller Epilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence in Sense and Sensibility  Nora Bartlett Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by William I. Miller  Compiled by Lauren DesRosiers and Amanda Strick Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life after the Shoa. The origins of Dutch Jewry trace back to diverse locations and ancestries: Marranos from Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi refugees from Germany, Poland and Lithuania. In the new setting and with the passing of time and developments in Dutch society at large, the religious life of Dutch Jews took on new forms. Dutch Jewish society was thus a microcosm of essential changes in Jewish history.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Part 1: Messianic Hopes and Redemption 1 The Phoenix, the Exodus and the Temple: Constructing Self-identity in the Sephardi Congregation of Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period  Limor Mintz-Manor 2 In the Land of Expectation: The Sense of Redemption among Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews  Matt Goldish Part 2: Aspects of Daily Religious Life 3 Religious Life among Portuguese Women in Amsterdam’s Golden Age  Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld 4 The Amsterdam Way of Death: R. Shimon Frankfurt’s Sefer ha-hayyim (The Book of Life), 1703  Avriel Bar-Levav 5 Reading Yiddish and Lernen: Being a Pious Ashkenazi in Amsterdam, 1650–1800  Shlomo Berger Z”l 6 From Yiddish to Dutch: Holiday Entertainment between Literary and Linguistic Codes  Marion Aptroot Part 3: Jewish Religion in Troubled Waters: The Dutch-Sephardi Diaspora Overseas 7 A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in Curaçao  Evelyne Oliel-Grausz 8 The Dutch Jewish Enlightenment in Surinam, 1770–1800  Jonathan Israel Part 4: Ceremonial Dimensions 9 Jewish Liturgy in the Netherlands: Liturgical Intentions and Historical Dimensions  Wout van Bekkum 10 Paving the Way: “Deaf and Dumb” Children and the Introduction of Confirmation Ceremonies in Dutch Judaism  Chaya Brasz Part 5: Jewish Identity and Religiosity 11 Religion, Culture (and Nation) in Nineteenth-century Dutch Jewish Thought  Irene E. Zwiep 12 “Religiosity” in Dutch Jewish Art in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries  Rivka Weiss-Blok Part 6: The Master: Images of Chief Rabbi Jozeph Zvi (Hirsch) Dünner 13 “The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob”: Joseph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch-Jewish Memory Culture  Bart Wallet 14 Image(s) of “The Rav” through the Lens of an Involved Historian: Jaap Meijer’s Depiction of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Dünner  Evelien Gans Part 7: Religious Life after the Catastrophe: Post-1945 Developments 15 The Return to Judaism in the Netherlands  Minny E. Mock-Degen 16 Vanishing Diaspora? Jews in the Netherlands and Their Ties with Judaism: Facts and Expectations about Their Future  Marlene de Vries

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Prize In To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle, Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay provide a full treatment of one of the major battles of the Hundred Years War. The authors have investigated the background to Nájera, traced its immediate events, and laid out its effects on Iberia and the principal adversaries in the Hundred Years War.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2019 Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Prize, awarded by the U.S. Commission on Military History for the best book on military history published in 2017 or 2018. The awarding committee praised the volume as ‘a genuinely original scholarly contribution... comprehensive, balanced, and insightful... this 600-page magnum opus will significantly enhance our understanding of military history during a seminal period of human development.’ "This is an immensely thorough and detailed study of the battle of Najera. The event itself is often dismissed by modern writers as an exotic adventure by the Black Prince, a mere adjunct, and a futile one, to the ‘real substance’ of the ‘Hundred Years War’ which remains such a focus for historians, and especially those interested in military development. But this book is much more than simple ‘metal-bashing’ […] In this valuable analysis of the battle of Najera, its causes and consequences, the authors discuss topics of wide general interest to military historians, notably the problems of logistics and the desirability (or otherwise) of battle. The great virtue of the account is that it is built upon the sources which are discussed and evaluated throughout. But its greatest value undoubtedly lies in the translations of sources in the appendices. This is an important book based on solid and careful scholarship". John France, in De Re Militari April 2019.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Authors’ Academic Biographies List of Maps, Tables and Genealogies Introduction Part 1: Background 1 Intersecting Conflicts  1 Introduction  2 The Reconquista  3 Hundred Years War 2 Three Who Ruled  1 Introduction  2 Pedro “the Cruel”  3 Pere “the Ceremonious”  4 Enrique “the Bastard” 3 A Clash of Kings  1 Introduction  2 The Spark  3 A War of Words  4 Aragon’s Attempt to Avoid Conflict  5 Opening Stages  6 Failure of Papal Diplomacy  7 Castilian Motives  8 Escalating Hostilities  9 The Castilian Exiles  10 Pedro’s Alliances and the Role of Granada  11 An Increasingly Brutal Conflict 4 Foreign Policy and Foreign Intervention (1365–1366)  1 Introduction  2 Collecting Foreign Enemies: France and the Papacy  3 An English Alliance  4 The French Intervention That Wasn’t  5 The Rise of the Free Companies  6 The Companies enter Iberia (1365–1366)  7 A Royal Loss of Nerve? (Spring, 1366)  8 Aragonese Reclamations  9 A Triumph and a Flight Part 2: Campaign and Battle 5 Preparations for Invasion (1366–1367)  1 Introduction  2 Journey to Aquitaine  3 An English Welcome  4 Winning English Aid  5 Recruitment and Preparation  6 Events at Angoulême  7 The Diplomatic Chessboard: Trilateral Negotiations  8 Aragonese Indecision  9 The Muster at Dax  10 England’s Strategic Conundrum  11 Castilian Moves and Countermoves (1366–Spring, 1367) 6 The Campaign (February–April 2, 1367)  1 Introduction  2 A Mountain Crossing  3 Campaigning in “the Hungry Season”  4 Marching to Vitoria: Feint or Blunder?  5 A Royal Defection  6 England’s Hour of Discontent  7 Facing Starvation  8 To Fight or not to Fight: The Crucial Question  9 End Run To Logroño  10 The War of Words 7 The Battle of Nájera (April 3, 1367)  1 Introduction  2 The Castilian Army  3 English Advantages and an “English Bow”  4 The Numbers Game  5 English March to the Battlefield  6 Chivalric Niceties and Knightly Housekeeping  7 The Battle Begins  8 The Wager of Battle  9 The Role of the Longbow  10 The Face of Battle  11 Learning from Discrepancies?  12 Defeat, Pursuit, and Massacre  13 The Reason Why Part 3: Aftermath 8 Defeat from the Jaws of Victory  1 Introduction  2 An Unusual Court of Chivalry  3 The Initial Quarrel  4 Non-Payment of War Debts  5 Live to Fight Another Day  6 The King is Dead/Long Live the King  7 The Hundred Years War Renewed: The First Period of English Defeat  8 The Turning Wheel of Fortune Conclusion Appendix A: Lists of Participants from Five Sources  A.1 Pedro López de Ayala, Crónica de Pedro I  A.2 The Chandos Herald  A.3 Jean Froissart’s Chronicle  A.4 John of Reading  A.5 Anonymous Canterbury Chronicle Appendix B: Document Translations  B.1 Treaty of Alliance between Pedro I of Castile and the Crown of England (June 22, 1362)  B.2 Pere III’s Secret Agreement at Monzón to Support Enrique de Trastámara’s Bid for the Castilian Crown (March 31, 1363)  B.3 Royal Letter of Pedro I Conferring upon Fernando de Castro the Lands and Titles of Count of Castañeda, Lemos, and Sarria (June, 1366)  B.4 Agreement between Pedro I of Castile, Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, and King Charles II of Navarre allowing an Anglo-Gascon Army to Traverse Navarre (Fall, 1366)  B.5 Letters of Pedro I to the City of Murcia (Spring, 1367)  B.6 Letter of the Black Prince to his Wife, Joan of Kent, Concerning the Victory at Nájera (April, 1367)  B.7 English Response to Pedro I’s Appeal for Renewed English Aid (1368) Appendix C: Chronicle Translations  C.1 Pedro López de Ayala’s Crónica de Pedro I  C.2 The Chandos Herald’s Life of the Black Prince  C.3 The Chronicles of Jean Froissart  C.4 Crónica of Pere III [Pedro IV]  C.5 The DuGuesclin Memoirs  C.6 Chronique des Quatre Premiers Valois  C.7 The Anonymous Chronique Normande  C.8 Chronique des Regnes de Jean II et Charles V  C.9 Latin Poem by Walter of Peterborough  C.10 Latin Poem by an Anonymous pro-English Author  C.11 Chronicle of King Fernando by Fernão Lopes  C.12 Monastic Chronicles Appendix D: Western European Royal Dynasties of the Fourteenth Century  Kings of England  Kings of France  Kings of Castile  Kings of Crown of Aragon  Kings of Navarre  Kings of Portugal Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts. It is edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, and is intended as a companion volume to Volume 17, which focused on literature and the press. This new volume considers the life and work of exiled women politicians, academics and artists, among others, examining the ways – both positive and negative - in which their exile affected them. The sixteen contributions, which are in English or German, set out to throw new light on aspects of gendered relations and experiences of women in exile in Great Britain and Ireland. Contributors are: Jana Barbora Buresova, Rachel Dickson, Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Gisela Holfter, Hadwig Kraeutler, Ulrike Krippner, Dieter Krohn, Gertrud Lenz, Bea Lewkowicz, Sarah MacDougall, John March, Iris Meder, Irene Messenger, Merilyn Moos, Felicitas M. Starr-Egger, Jennifer Taylor, Gaby Weiner.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Erratum Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel 1. The Society for the Furtherance of the Critical Philosophy (SFCP): A Foundation of German Female Refugees and their British Comrades in 1940 Dieter Krohn 2. Gertrud Meyer (1914-2002). Ein politisches Leben im Schatten Willy Brandts Gertrud Lenz 3. Layers of Concealment: Post-War Cultures of Surveillance and Secrecy in the Lives of Jewish Refugees, as Exemplified by the Case of Steffi Dinger Gaby Weiner 4. “A heart in transit”: The Unusual Life of Lotte Moos Merilyn Moos 5. Hana Benešová: The Forgotten First Lady Jana Barbora Buresova 6. Marriages of Convenience as a Strategy to Escape to the UK Irene Messinger 7. Women Refugee Academics at the University of London Felicitas M. Starr-Egger 8. Reformpädagoginnen im englischen Exil Inge Hansen-Schaberg 9. Women Exile Photographers John March 10. Charlotte Bondy ‒ a Graphic Designer in Exile Jennifer Taylor 11. Elisabeth Tomalin ‒ Emigrée Designer 1912-2012: “The only joy in life is being creative. Everything else is more or less pain” Rachel Dickson 12. “‘Meine Heimat’ is in my heart and my head”: Women artists in exile: Susan Einzig (1922-2009) and Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959) Sarah MacDougall 13. Female Fate or: Alma Wittlin’s Quest for Democracy Hadwig Kraeutler 14. Women Gardeners and Garden Architects from Vienna, in Austria and in Exile Ulrike Krippner and Iris Meder 15. Marginalised Voices ‒ Women in Irish Exile Gisela Holfter 16. Does Gender Matter? Reflections on the Role of Gender in Women’s Oral History Narratives Bea Lewkowicz Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a tribute to the work of legal and social historian and Arabist Rudolph Peters (University of Amsterdam). Presenting case studies from different periods and areas of the Muslim world, the book examines the use of legal documents for the study of the history of Muslim societies. From examinations of the conceptual status of legal documents to comparative studies of the development of legal formulae and the socio-economic or political historical information documents contain, the aim is to approach legal documents as specialised texts belonging to a specific social domain, while simultaneously connecting them to other historical sources. It discusses the daily functioning of legal institutions, the reflections of regime changes on legal documentation, daily life, and the materiality of legal documents. Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Léon Buskens, Khaled Fahmy, Aharon Layish, Sergio Carro Martín, Brinkley Messick, Toru Miura, Christian Müller, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Mathieu Tillier, and Amalia Zomeño.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Maaike van Berkel, Léon Buskens and Petra M. Sijpesteijn Notes on Contributors Bibliography Rudolph Peters Rudolph Peters and the History of Modern Egyptian Law, Khaled Fahmy I. REGIME CHANGE AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS The Qadis’ Justice according to Papyrological Sources (Seventh–Tenth Centuries C.E.), Mathieu Tillier Delegation of Judicial Power in Abbasid Egypt, Petra M. Sijpesteijn The Mahdi’s Legal Opinion as an Instrument of Reform: Issues in Divorce, Inheritance, False Accusation of Unlawful Intercourse and Homicide, Aharon Layish II. PRACTICES OF RECORDING AND VERIFYING Identifying the ʿudūl in Fifteenth-Century Granada, Sergio Carro Martín and Amalia Zomeño Crimes without Criminals? Legal Documents on Fourteenth-Century Injury and Homicide Cases from the Ḥaram Collection in Jerusalem, Christian Müller From Trash to Treasure: Ethnographic Notes on Collecting Legal Documents in Morocco, Léon Buskens Notes for a Local History of Falsehood, Brinkley Messick III. DAILY LIFE Waqf Documents on the Provision of Water in Mamluk Egypt, Maaike van Berkel Ottoman amān: Western Ownership of Real Estate and the Politics of Law Prior to the Land Code of 1876, Maurits H. van den Boogert A Comparative Study of Contract Documents: Ottoman Syria, Qajar Iran, Central Asia, Qing China and Tokugawa Japan, Toru Miura

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers, investigates modes of receiving and responding to Greeks, Greece, and Greek in early modern Europe (15th-17th centuries). The book's seventeen detailed studies illuminate the reception of Greek culture (the classical, Byzantine, and even post-Byzantine traditions), the Greek language (ancient, vernacular, and 'humanist'), as well as the people claiming, or being assigned, Greek identities during this period in different geographical and cultural contexts. Discussing subjects as diverse as, for example, Greek studies and the Reformation, artistic interchange between Greek East and Latin West, networks of communication in the Greek diaspora, and the ramifications of Greek antiquarianism, the book aims at encouraging a more concerted debate about the role of Hellenism in early modern Europe that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries, and opening ways towards a more over-arching understanding of this multifaceted cultural phenomenon. Contributors: Aslıhan Akışık-Karakullukçu, Michele Bacci, Malika Bastin-Hammou, Peter Bell, Michail Chatzidakis, Federica Ciccolella, Calliope Dourou, Anthony Ellis, Niccolò Fattori, Maria Luisa Napolitano, Janika Päll, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Niketas Siniossoglou, William Stenhouse, Paola Tomè, Raf Van Rooy, and Stefan Weise.Trade Review“Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe: 15th–17th Centuries is an engaging and wide-ranging volume for both historians and classicists, detailing with a diverse range of Greek receptions in this important period.” - Harriet Lander, University of Nottingham, in: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2021), pp. 181–183Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe  Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers Part 1: Access and Dissemination Part 2: Learning, Teaching, and Printing Greek 1 Aldus Manutius and the Learning of Greek: the Aldine Appendix  Paola Tomè (†) 2 From a Thirsty Desert to the Rise of the Collège de France: Greek Studies in Paris, c.1490–1540  Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 3 Teaching Greek with Aristophanes in the French Renaissance, 1528–1549  Malika Bastin-Hammou 4 A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (1490–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century Louvain  Raf Van Rooy 5 Greek History in the Early-Modern Classroom: Lectures on Herodotus by Johannes Rosa and School Notes by Jacques Bongars (Jena, 1568)  Anthony Ellis Part 3: Migration, Exchange, and Identity Cultural Encounters and Exchanges between ‘Greek East’ and ‘Latin West’ 6 From “Bounteous Flux of Matter” to Hellenic City: Late Byzantine Representations of Constantinople and the Western Audience  Aslihan Akişik-Karakullukçu 7 Icons of Narratives: Greek-Venetian Artistic Interchange, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries  Michele Bacci 8 Barbaric and Assimilated Hellenes: Textual and Visual Images of Greek Scholars between Lapo da Castiglionchio (c.1405–1438) and Paolo Giovio (1483–1552)  Peter Bell 9 Maximos Margounios (c.1549–1602), his Anacreontic Hymns, and the Byzantine Revival in Early Modern Germany  Federica Ciccolella Perspectives on Greek Migrants in the West 10 Love and Exile in Michael Marullus Tarchaniota: Geographical Exile, Spiritual Homelessness  Niketas Siniossogliou 11 The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 Iliad and the Unprosodic New Trojans  Calliope Dourou 12 From Courts to Cities: Greek Migration, Community Formation, and Networks of Mutual Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Italy  Niccolò Fattori Appropriations and Use: Cultural & Religious History, Archaeology, and Antiquarianism 13 The Greekness of Greek Inscriptions: Ancient Inscriptions in Early Modern Scholarship  William Stenhouse 14 Pirro Ligorio (1513–1583) and Greek Antiquity  Michail Chatzidakis 15 Ancient Coins and the Use of Greek History in Sicilia et Magna Graecia by Hubertus Goltzius (1525–1583)  Maria Luisa Napolitano Humanist Greek and the Reformation 16 Hyperborean Flowers: Humanist Greek Around the Baltic Sea, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Janika Päll 17 “Graecia transvolavit Alpes”: the Evaluation of Humanist Greek Writing in Germany by Georg Lizel (1694–1761)  Stefan Weise General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConfronting Capital and Empire inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University’s philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun. Confronting Capital and Empire presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment?Trade Review"There are no weak essays in the entire volume. The editors did a wonderful job screening for the best material on the subject and one can only hope that this will open up new pathways in comparative continental thought, with more books eventually published in this area to accommodate the new style of East-West" -Dr Bradley Kaye, in Marx&Philosophy Review of Books, 8 July 2019.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx’s Critique of Modernity  Viren Murthy, Fabian Schäfer and Max Ward Part 1: The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics 1 Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History  Harry Harootunian Part 2: Rethinking Nishida Kitarō with Marx 2 The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time: With Marx, With Nishida  William Haver 3 Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness: On the Problem of Inversion in Marx and Nishida  Elena Louisa Lange 4 Nishida Kitarō and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy  Christian Uhl Part 3: Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism 5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese Imperialism  Naoki Sakai 6 Aleatory Dialectic  Takeshi Kimoto 7 Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller: Or, Reading Philosophy as Metanoetics as Narrative  Max Ward Part 4: The Legacies of the Kyoto School Philosophy 8 The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide’s Phenomenology of Matter  Gavin Walker 9 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society  Viren Murthy 10 The “Logic of Committee” and the Newspaper Doyōbi (Saturday): Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Political Praxis  Aaron S. Moore 11 Yanagida Kenjūrō: A Religious Seeker of Marxism  Satofumi Kawamura 12 A Secret History: Tosaka Jun and the Kyoto Schools  Katsuhiko Endo Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Policemen to Revolutionaries uncovers the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yin Cao argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated the formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this Chinese city one of the overseas hubs of the Indian nationalist struggle. By adopting a translocal approach, this study elaborates on how the flow of Sikh emigrants, largely regarded as subalterns, initially strengthened but eventually unhinged British colonial rule in East and Southeast Asia.Trade Review"[...] it is worth reading From Policemen to Revolutionaries for its creative and global thinking on migration history, modern Chinese history, Indian history and British imperial history. Furthermore, the study draws impressively on an abundance of global primary sources in various languages (English, Chinese, Indian), from official archives (Shanghai Municipal Council, Colonial Office, Indian Office) to local newspaper (London, India, Singapore, California, Hong Kong, Shanghai)". Jiang Jiaxin, in Crossroads, 19 (2020), pp. 99-115.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction  Sikh Migration in the Context of Global Migration  Shanghai in the Translocal Networks  Revisiting Sikh Diaspora and British Imperial History  Rescuing Shanghai Sikhs from Nation  Sources and Structure 1 Establishing the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai  Hong Kong as the Reference  The Rise and Decline of the Localization Policy in the smp  A Martial Race in Motion  “They were Unsuitable for Shanghai”: Rejecting the Sikh Scheme  New Bottle with Old Wine: Revival of the Sikh Scheme  Conclusion 2 The Journey of Isser Singh: A Sikh Migrant in Shanghai  A Peasant’s Son in the Punjab  Optimizing the Migration Plan  The Road to Shanghai  Accommodating the Sikhs  Policing Hongkou  “A Man Who Gives Considerable Trouble”  An Unending End  Conclusion 3 Kill Buddha Singh: The Indian Nationalist Movement in Shanghai, 1914–1927  Go to North America!  The Rise of the Ghadar Party  The Politicization of Sikhs in Shanghai  Turning to the Left  From Hankou to Shanghai: The Ghadar Hubs in China  “I kill Him Because He was a Bad Man”  The Rise of a Surveillance Network  Conclusion 4 A Lone Islet or A Center of Communications? Shanghai Sikhs and The Indian National Army  The Birth of the ina and the Unification of Shanghai Sikhs  The ina in Crisis and the Hardship of Shanghai Sikhs  Subhas Chandra Bose and the Total Mobilization  The Mobilization of the Sikhs in Shanghai  The End of a Legend  Conclusion Conclusion: Circulation, Networks, and Subalterns in Global History Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGenerosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile is a work of history studying the social and political context encountered by Kosovar refugees fleeing their homeland to Australia at the height of the NATO-led war against Serbian forces in 1999. The flight of the Kosovar refugees changed Australia's asylum seeker policy forever, and a new test for international humanitarianism had begun. Today refugee crises globally beg the international community to embrace a generosity of spirit. A question this book asks is whether there are limits to generosity, inhibited by nationally contextual and historical perspectives. Generosity and Refugees examines the role of the media in framing public understandings of refugees with intriguing parallels for understanding the contemporary political climate internationally.

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Book SynopsisFabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrialization, borrowing and mixing ideas originating in domains such as corporate identity formation, mediatization, scientification, technological innovation, mechanization, capitalism, mass production, medicalization, educationalization, artistic production, and social utopia, while competing with other interest groups who pursued their own goals. The book looks at different focus areas of modernity, and analyzes how humans created, mediated, and interacted with the technospheres of modern societies. Contributors: Klaus Dittrich, Irma Hadzalic, Frederik Herman, Enric Novella, Ira Plein, Françoise Poos, Karin Priem, and Angelo Van Gorp.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Figures  List of Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors  Illustration Credits  Introduction  Karin Priem and Frederik Herman Part 1: Modeling Subjectivities 1 Machines, Masses, and Metaphors: The Visual Making of Industrial Work(ers) in Interwar Luxembourg  Ira Plein 2 Photography as a Space for Constructing Subjectivities: Luxembourg’s Steel Dynasties and the Modern Workforce As Seen Through the Glass Plate Negatives from the Institut Emile Metz  Françoise Poos 3 Buddhism, Business, and Red-Cross Diplomacy: Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert’s Journeys to East Asia in the Interwar Period  Klaus Dittrich Part 2: Mapping Bodies and Senses 4 “Sensuous Geographies” in the “Age of Steel”: Educating Future Workers’ Bodies in Time and Space (1900–1940)  Karin Priem and Frederik Herman 5 The Eye of the Machine: Labor Sciences and the Mechanical Registration of the Human Body  Frederik Herman and Karin Priem Part 3: Engineering Social Change 6 Germs, Bodies, and Selves: Tuberculosis, Social Government, and the Promotion of Health-Conscious Behavior in the Early Twentieth Century  Enric Novella 7 Transatlantic Iron Connections: Education, Emotion, and the Making of a Productive Workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910–1960)  Irma Hadzalic 8 Requiem for Gary: Cultivating Wasteland in and beyond the “Age of Steel”  Angelo Van Gorp  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using previously untapped corporate and official archives, trade data and a rich documentary record, the study explores the roles of cable producers, scientists, administrators, and local Chinese and indigenous traders. It reveals how a global trade may transcend technological, geographic and cross-cultural challenges, even hostilities. Motivations and outcomes are more complex than simple commercial gain.Trade Review'[The book] is packed with informative graphs correlating the booms and busts in cable laying between 1850 and 1900 with trends in the trade in gutta percha and associated goods. Drawing on both anthropological literature and economists’ analyses of global commodity chains, [Godfrey] illuminates the very different meanings gutta percha acquired as it moved from the forests of Borneo to the cable factories of London before finally being laid to rest at the bottom of the sea. Godfrey devotes her opening chapters to sketching the history of the cable industry and the workings of the gutta percha markets in Singapore, but her real focus is on the forests and peoples of Sarawak. [...] That the global cable network of the Victorian era owed its existence in part to Iban headhunters’ pursuit of Chinese jars, is just one of the surprising insights to be gleaned from Godfrey’s fascinating book.' Bruce J. Hunt (University of Texas), in: Technology and Culture, Volume 61, Number 4, October 2020, pp. 1247-1248. 'In important ways, this book helps to further our understanding of Sarawak's economic development, building on seminal works by Daniel Chew and Ooi Keat Jin. But this thorough and perceptive study also encourages its readers to consider Sarawak's contribution to globalization through telegraphy and, therefore, to the contributions Sarawak and its people made to technological innovation and advancement. The care with Godfrey seeks to delineate both the material and the cultural of imagined factors involved in the gutta trade, and their intersection, provides a rare and welcome example of the cultural content and context of economic development being recognized. Intelligently illustrated, with informative diagrams and charts, Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha makes a original and important contribution to our understanding of Sarawak history and, indeed, to Sarawak's contribution to World history. J.H. Walker (Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia), in: Borneo Research Bulletin, Volume 49, pp 313-316.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Currency Values, Weights and Measurements Glossary Introduction Part 1: Submarine Telegraphy: The Forces of Science and Commerce 1 The Significance of Gutta Percha and the Rise of Submarine Telegraphy   Gutta Percha and its Significance   The Development and Significance of Submarine Telegraphy 2 Gutta Percha and the Challenge of Submarine Telegraphy   Gutta Percha and Submarine Telegraphy – The Early Years   Growth Years of Submarine Telegraphy and its Dependence upon Gutta Percha 3 The Rise and Challenges of the Gutta Percha Trade   The Lands of Plenty: Southeast Asia and Regional Trade   The European Hunt for Gutta Percha 4 Factory to Forest: Opportunity at the Periphery   Singapore and the Development of the Gutta Percha Trade   The Trade Comes to Sarawak via Singapore Part 2: Power, Profit and the Periphery 5 The Gutta Percha Trade of Sarawak   Sarawak, its People and the Brooke Administrations   Significance and Growth of the Gutta Percha Trade in Sarawak 6 Operation of the Gutta Percha Trade in Sarawak   The Trade Network   Overland Trade Paths   Trade Venues: Bazaars and Outports   Credit and Barter 7 Impact of the Gutta Percha Trade – Opportunity   Interaction with the External Market   The Changing Nature of Sarawak Imports   Prestige Goods or Pusaka 8 Impact of the Gutta Percha Trade – Change and Challenge   Monetization   Changing Social Relations and the Gutta Percha ‘Wars’ 9 Conclusions Appendix 1 Gutta Percha Appendix 2 Statistical Material References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn Khaldūn in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Alhazen, and al-Ghazālī in the East. The work also explores literary criticism, calligraphy, music, belles-lettres (adab), and erotic literature, and highlights the contribution of Arab humanism to shaping the field of Aesthetics in the West.Trade Review"This is an English translation of the major work on the topic in modern times, and is well worth having. It is an excellent translation, clear and fluent. [...] The book is an impressive size, over 900 pages and represents an impressive scholarly contribution to the area." - Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 64/1 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface to the English Translation Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1) Contemporary Historiography of Arab-Islamic Aesthetic Thought a) Western Criticism b) Arabic Criticism 2) Aesthetic Theory and Arab Andalusi Aesthetics 1. Beauty and the Arts in the Rise of Written Arabic Culture 1.1. Pre-Islamic Sensibility and the Vocabulary of Aesthetics 1.1.1. The Supernatural Origin of Artistic Creation 1.1.2. The Physical and Luminous Character of Beauty in Pre-Islamic Poetry. Woman as an Aesthetic Object and Agent 1.1.3. The Arts and Architecture in Pre-Islamic Poetry 1.2. The Great Message of Revelation and Its Aesthetic Dimension 1.2.1. Beauty and Absolute Perfection in the Word and the Divine Order a) The Inimitability of the Quran b) The Creator c) Creation 1.2.2. Artistic Creation in the Sacred Texts a) The Problem of Figurative Representation b) Architecture and Sculpture in the Quran c) Prophethood and Poetry d) Music in the Hadīth 1.2.3. The Development of the Arts under the New Politico-Religious Order of Islam 2. The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Arts in Classical Arab Culture 2.1. The Arts in the Arab-Islamic Encyclopedia 2.1.1. The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in the East 2.1.2. The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in al-Andalus and the Maghrib a) The Arts in the Ẓahiri System of Knowledge b) Ibn Bājja: the Practical Arts and Classifications of Intellectual Knowledge in the Founding of Andalusi Falsafa c) Ibn Ṭufayl’s Self-Taught Philosopher: Man in a state of Nature Neither Produces nor Conceives of the Arts d) The Arts and Knowledge in Ibn Rushd’s Rationalist Scheme e) The Arts in Ibn Khaldūn’s Study of Society 2.2. The Brethren of Purity’s Neopythagorean and Neoplatonic Concepts of Art, and al-Tawḥīdī’s School in Baghdad 2.2.1. The Brethren of Purity’s Pythagorean Theory of Art a) The Geometric Order of the Universe b) The Harmonious Concord of the Cosmos c) Ideal Proportion, the Key to Artistic Perfection d) The Manual Arts and Artistic Creativity 2.2.2. The Aesthetic Neoplatonism of al-Tawḥīdī’s School in Baghdad a) Thought, Art, and inspiration b) Artistic Form and the Unicity of God c) Artistic Creation as the Emanation of the Soul and the Perfection of Nature d) The Nature of Beautiful Form e) The Language Arts: Prose, Verse, and Rhetoric f) Musical Harmony and Its Affinity with the Soul g) Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī’s Treatise on Calligraphy and the Foundations of the Genre in Arabic 2.3. Calligraphy among the Sciences of Language in Ibn al-Sīd of Badajoz 2.4. Revelation, Morality, and Art in the Work of Ibn Ḥazm 2.4.1. The Divine Origin of the Arts and their Human Transmission 2.4.2. The Perfection and Immutable Order of Divine Creation 2.4.3. Man’s Works and Revelation: Architecture, Images, and Music in Ibn Ḥazm’s jurisprudence a) Mosques in a Juridical Treatise from Tenth-Century Cordoba. A Moral Warning about Architecture b) Religious and Lay images in Ibn Ḥazm c) The Ẓahiri Faqīh on Music 2.4.4. Ibn Ḥazm’s Theory and Criticism of Poetry a) The Moral Character of Poetry b) Poetic Concepts and Classes: Technique, Naturalness, and Skill c) Ibn Ḥazm’s Rhetoric d) The Quran is Radically Inimitable 2.5. Mimesis as the Definition of Art in Eastern Falsafa 2.5.1. The Origin and Development of the Concept of Mimesis in Classical Eastern Islam: Mattā, al-Fārābī, and Ibn Sīnā a) Mattā and the Arabic Version of Mimesis b) Mimesis in al-Fārābī’s Theory of Art: Ethics, Politics, and Imagination c) Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and his translation of Aristotle’s Poetics 2.5.2. Mimesis as a Unifying Concept of the Arts in Eastern Falsafa 2.5.3. Artistic Fulfillment: Elements for an Aesthetics of Falsafa 2.6 The Theory of Artistic Mimesis in Andalusi Thought and Criticism 2.6.1 Rhetoric and Poetics in Ibn Rushd’s Ethical and Rationalist Thought 2.6.2 Ibn Rushd’s Poetics between Rhetoric and Ethics a) Ibn Rushd’s Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-Shiʿr and Its Greek original b) The Nature and Types of Arabic Poetry. The Averroist Concept of Mimesis c) The Ethical Purpose of Poetry d) The Components of Eulogy e) Harmonious and Unified Composition f) The Relationship of Poetry to Truth g) Representation of Misfortunes and Defects h) The Characters that Eulogy Should Represent i) Modes of Imitation in Poetry j) Rhetorical Elements: Extrinsic Aspects, Wordplay, and Taghyīr or Alteration k) Criticizing Poets’ Falsehoods 2.6.3 The Pleasures of Imitation as a Path to Ethical Education in Ibn Rushd’s Versions of the Rhetoric and the Poetics a) The Various Mimetic Arts: Natural Disposition, Technique, and Faithfulness b) The Enjoyment That Every Artistic Imitation Brings c) The Pleasure of Poetry Should Serve its Ethical Goals 2.6.4 Ḥāzim al-Qarṭājannī: From the Theory of Mimesis to a Total Arabic Aesthetics a) Theory and Definition of Poetic Ideas b) Poetry’s Perceptual and Intellectual Dimension c) Truth is not an Issue in Poetry. Definition of Poetry d) Muḥākāt and Takhyīl: A Profound Conception of the Imitative Arts e) Toward a General Arabic Aesthetics: Imitation, Imagination, Astonishment, Pleasure. An Aesthetics of Light and Reflection f) Harmonious Composition of the Qaṣīda. Critical Judgment 2.7 The History, Sociology, and Definition of the Arts in Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima 2.7.1 The Arts in the Development of Human Civilization and as a Manifestation of Power a) The Geographic Factor, and Moderation as the Physical, Moral, and Aesthetic Ideal b) The Arts in the Nomadic-vs.-Sedentary Debate. Necessity and Opulence c) The Arts in Ibn Khaldūn’s Semiotics of Power 2.7.2 Ibn Khaldūn’s Urbanism a) Urban Life Follows the Rise of State Power b) The City’s Site and Basic Services c) The Ancient Arabs and Architecture 2.7.3 Ibn Khaldūn’s Definition of the Arts a) The Arts Consist of Both Theory and Practice b) The Art of Construction c) The Art of Carpentry d) The Art of Calligraphy e) Ibn Khaldūn’s Concept of Poetry 3 Aesthetic Perception and the Definition of Beauty in Classical Arabic Thought 3.1 Theory of Knowledge and Definition of Beauty in the Thought of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba 3.1.1 Reason versus Imagination. Ibn Ḥazm’s Theory of Knowledge a) The Nature of the Human Soul b) The Perceptive Structure of the Soul. Rational, Sensory, and Linguistic Knowledge c) The Importance and Specificity of Visual Perception d) Ibn Ḥazm’s Theory of Colors and Classical Arab Physics 3.1.2 Physical Beauty in Ibn Ḥazm’s Writings on Love a) The Ethical Framework of Love b) Conceptualization of Love and Beauty c) Spiritual Affinity and Physical Forms d) Love against Reason. Transformations in Aesthetic Judgment e) Ibn Ḥazm’s Participation in the Aesthetics of Light f) The Fleeting Nature of Beauty 3.1.3 The Metaphysical Meaning of Ibn Ḥazm’s Aesthetics a) Beauty as a Spiritual Accident b) The Divinity and Supernatural Beings Cannot be Defined in Aesthetic Terms 3.1.4 Ethical and Moral Beauty 3.2 Aesthetic Syntheses in Arabic Erotic Literature after Ibn Ḥazm 3.3 The Metaphysics and Perception of Beauty in Classical Arabic Falsafa 3.3.1 Aesthetic Principles and Concepts in the Arabic Version of Plotinus’s Enneads 3.3.2 Al-Fārābī’s Metaphysical Aesthetics a) The Beauty and Perfection of the First Cause b) The Perfection and Beauty of Non-Corporeal Substances and Heavenly Bodies c) Perfection and Beauty of the Human Being Compared to Those of the First Cause d) Modes of the Perception and Fulfillment of Beauty 3.3.3 Divine, Intellectual, and Physical Beauty in Avicenna’s Metaphysics a) Definition of Divine Beauty and Goodness b) Perception of Beauty in Ibn Sīnā’s Theory of Knowledge c) Metaphysical Perception vs. Sensory Perception: Pleasure and Appropriateness, the Ascent to Supreme Felicity 3.4 Theory of Perception and Aesthetic Contemplation in the Andalusi Falsafa of Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl 3.4.1 Ibn Bājja’s Theory of Perception a) Faculties of the Soul and the Theory of Forms b) Sense Perception. Vision and Color Theory. Acoustic Perception c) Intermediate Faculties: Common Sense and the Imaginative d) The Rational Faculty: Universals, Spiritual Forms, and Higher Knowledge 3.4.2 Parameters of Ibn Bājja’s Transcendental Aesthetics a) Ibn Bājja’s Theory of Pleasure. Contemplative Aesthetic Delight 3.4.3 Ibn Ṭufayl and Gustatory Union with Divine Beauty 3.5 Sensibility and Intellection: Ibn Rushd’s Shaping of Aesthetics as a Conceptual Field 3.5.1 Ibn Rushd’s Theory of Sensibility. Visual Perception as the Nucleus and Paradigm of Sensory Knowledge a) The Judicious Function of the Senses b) Visual Perception and Color Theory c) Sensibles in the Soul 3.5.2 Common Sense, Imagination, and Cogitatio: The Judgment of the Senses and Artistic Composition 3.5.3 Reason, Imagination, and Intellection 3.5.4 Nature, Art, and Knowledge. Ibn Rushd’s Aesthetic Order 3.6 Ibn al-Haytham’s Optics and the Creation of an Arabic and Universal Theory of Aesthetic Visual Perception 3.6.1 Visual Knowledge and Aesthetic Knowledge a) The Distinctive Faculty and Its Syllogistic Visual Functions b) The Innate and Experiential Nature of Aesthetic Knowledge 3.6.2 Ibn al-Haytham’s Theory of Aesthetic Perception a) The Beauty of Individual Visible Properties b) Beauty as a Combination of Visible Properties. Proportion and Formal Harmony c) Ugliness as the Absence of Beauty d) Circumstances and Alterations of Aesthetic Perception. General Moderation of Visual Factors 3.6.3 On Ibn al-Haytham’s Artistic Terminology 3.7 Al-Ghazālī’s Aesthetics between Theology (Kalām) and Sufi Mysticism (Taṣawwuf) 3.7.1 Love for Both Sensible and Divine Beauty 3.7.2 Definition of Sensible and Artistic Beauty 3.7.3 The Superiority of Internal Beauty 3.7.4 Spiritual Faculties for Mystical Knowledge and Aesthetic Taste 3.8 Harmony and Appropriateness: Aesthetics in the Historical Evolutionism of Ibn Khaldūn 3.9 The Other Side of Reason. The Aesthetic Core of Ibn ʿArabī’s Sufism 3.9.1 Mystical and Universal Love a) “God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty” b) “Beauty Reached in Thee Her Utmost Limit: Another Like Thee Is Impossible” c) “God Created Adam in His Own Image” 3.9.2 Imagination versus Reason a) Theory of Gnostic Understanding b) The Science of Imagination 3.9.3 Divine Beauty and Majesty. Ibn ʿArabī’s Aesthetics in the Dialectic of Tanzīh and Tashbīh a) Tanzīh and Tashbīh: The Form of God b) The Aesthetics of the One and the Many c) Beyond Iconoclasm d) Seeing God e) Divine Majesty and Beauty in the Soul 3.10 The Aesthetic Vocabulary of the Poems of the Alhambra 3.10.1 The Divine Origin of Beauty 3.10.2 The Sovereign as Aesthetic Agent 3.10.3 The Aesthetic Narcissism of Architecture Conclusion 1 Aesthetics at the Center of Arab Anthropology and Humanism 2 Arabic Aesthetic Concepts and Islamic Art 3 Arabic Aesthetic Thought in al-Andalus Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisSelling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious “sin cities” around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore and from Casablanca to Chicago. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication. Contributors are: Pascale Absi, Dlila Amir, Deborah Bernstein, Francesca Biancani, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Amalia L. Cabezas, Susan P. Conner, Satarupa Dasgupta, Mfon Umoren Ekpootu, Raelene Frances, Pamela Fuentes, Sue Gronewold, Hanan Hammad, Shawna Herzog, Philippa Hetherington, Nicole Keusch, Liat Kozma, Julia Laite, Nomi Levenkron, Mary Linehan, Maja Mechant, Fernanda Nuñez, Marion Pluskota, Cristiana Schettini, Hila Shamir, Yvonne Svanström, Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, Michela Turno, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, and Mark David Wyers.Trade Review"It provides a densely rich and complex look at five hundred years of social, economic, and political entanglements that will fascinate global and world historians, as well as those interested in colonial, urban, and migration history. In providing novel approaches to understanding the contested theories and practices around sold sex, Selling Sex in the City is an essential, even if very large, handbook for activists and political actors engaged in debates around sex work and human trafficking". Ruth Ennis, in Comparativ, vol. 29(6), (2019).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction  Magaly Rodríguez García, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss Part 1: Urban Overviews Section 1: Europe 2 Selling Sex in Amsterdam  Marion Pluskota 3 Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges  Maja Mechant 4 Sex for Sale in Florence  Michela Turno 5 A Global History of Prostitution: London  Julia Laite 6 Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia  Philippa Hetherington 7 The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris  Susan P. Conner 8 Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change  Yvonne Svanström Section 2: Africa and the Middle East 9 Prostitution in Cairo  Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani 10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca  Liat Kozma 11 Selling Sex in Istanbul  Mark David Wyers 12 Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective  Mfon Umoren Ekpootu 13 Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010  Deborah Bernstein, Hila Shamir, Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir Section 3: The Americas 14 A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires  Cristiana Schettini 15 Prostitution in the us: Chicago  Mary Linehan 16 Prostitution in Havana  Amalia L. Cabezas 17 Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006  Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes 18 The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosi (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries  Pascale Absi 19 Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation  Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini Section 4: Asia-Pacific 20 Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present  Satarupa Dasgupta 21 Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954)  Isabelle Tracol-Huynh 22 Prostitution in Shanghai  Sue Gronewold 23 Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt  Shawna Herzog 24 Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788  Raelene Frances Part 2: Thematic Overviews 25 “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010  Marion Pluskota 26 Working and Living Conditions  Raelene Frances 27 Migration and Prostitution  Nicole Keusch 28 Prostitution and Colonial Relations  Liat Kozma 29 Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work  Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette 30 Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work  Mark David Wyers 31 A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 32 The Social Profiles of Prostitutes  Maja Mechant Part 3: Conclusion 33 Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss

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Book SynopsisCoping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.Trade Review'Coping with the Future is a landmark study of divination in East Asia, mainly for its depth and breadth of scholarship, but also for the impact it will have in elucidating an esoteric subject for a wider audience. The Käte Hamburger Center, under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to be commended for funding the studies published herein and we applaud Michael Lackner for the years of effort he has dedicated to this project. With this groundbreaking work, if not before, he has distinguished himself as a leader in the field.' Stephen L. Field, Trinity University, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.2 (2020).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Michael Lackner Part 1: Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant 1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination  Marco Caboara 2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du  Bent Nielsen 3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China  Paul W. Kroll 4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China  Vincent Durand-Dastès Part 2: Divination and Religions 5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon  Esther-Maria Guggenmos 6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources  Dominic Steavu* 7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau  Anne C. Klein Part 3: Divination and Politics 8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric  Martin Kern 9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea  Park Kwon Soo Part 4: Divination and Individual 10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge  Liao Hsien-huei 11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination  Kim Yung Sik 12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China  Stéphanie Homola 13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea  Jennifer Jung-Kim Part 5: Mantic Arts: When East Meets West 14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture  Che-chia Chang 15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts  Chu Pingyi 16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China  Li Fan and Michael Lackner 17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea  Jun Yong Hoon Part 6: Reflections on Mantic Arts 18 How to quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China  Andrea Bréard 19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques  Matthias Hayek 20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea  Oh Sanghak Index

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Book SynopsisOpera was a prominent political forum and a potent force for nineteenth-century nationalism. As one of the most popular forms of entertainment, opera could mobilize large crowds and became the locus of ideological debates about nation-building. Despite its crucial role in national movements, opera has received little attention in the context of nationalism. In Staging the Nation: Opera and Nationalism in 19th-Century Hungary, Krisztina Lajosi examines the development of Hungarian national thought by exploring the theatrical and operatic practices that have shaped historical consciousness. Lajosi combines cultural history, political thought, and the history of music theater, and highlights the role of the opera composer Ferenc Erkel (1810-1893) in institutionalizing national opera and turning opera-loving audiences into a national public.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Opera and National Consciousness 1 National Opera as a Political Force 2 The Struggle for a National Theater 3 Taking the Stage: Opera in the Hungarian Theater 4 Hunyadi László 5 Bánk Bán Conclusion: The Opera Chorus and the Voice of the People Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in French in 2004, Matei Cazacu’s Dracula remains the most authoritative scholarly biography of the Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). Its core is an exhaustively researched reconstruction of Dracula’s life and political career, using original sources in more than nine languages. In addition Cazacu traces Dracula’s metamorphosis, at the hands of contemporary propagandists, into variously a bloodthirsty tyrant, and an early modern “great sovereign.” Beyond this Cazacu explores Dracula’s transformation into “the vampire prince” in literature, film and folklore, with surprising new discoveries on Bram Stoker’s sources for his novel. In this first English translation, the text and bibliography are updated, and readers are provided with an appendix of the key sources for Dracula’s life, in fresh and accurate English translations.Trade Review"This book is the new standard for Dracula studies. Summing Up: Essential." W. L. Urban, Monmoth College, in: CHOICE 55.6 (2018). "Bram Stoker’s iconic depiction of Dracula left a lasting mark on portrayals of vampires in popular culture. However, as Matei Cazacu outlines in his careful study of Vlad Tepes III (the Impaler), the biography of the Wallachian prince is far more complex and nuanced than the figure’s portrait in gothic fiction. In Stephen Reiner’s new edited version, which offers a clear, crisp translation of Cazacu’s French original with an updated bibliography, students and scholars alike will find edifying material on the history of Vlad III and the ways in which he appeared in German, Russian, Latin, and Balkan accounts... This first translation of Matei Cazacu’s Dracula conveys the richness of the original and the depth of the source material consulted in the biography of Vlad III. The accuracy devoted to the text by the editor and translators is admirable. Dracula will undoubtedly prove useful in curricula focusing on folklore, history, and medieval studies. It opens to English-readers the complexity of Vlad III’s rule and the ways in which his legacy was utilized in history, literature, and film." Colleen Lucey, Univserity of Arizona, in: The Polish Review 64.1 (2019). "[Cazacu's] intimate knowledge of the primary sources, his impressive command of languages, and his overall erudition are truly impressive. But what makes this book a truly compelling read is the author's skilled storytelling. Cazacu is a raconteur, and the book's appeal and considerable success... is due to its ability to address two audiences at once. The book is academically solid and showcases a wide breadth of scholarship, but it does not shy away from blood and gore... The book is a treat for readers interested in Vlad/Dracula or in the fifteenth-century history of Wallachia". Marian Comaon, in: Renaissance Quarterly 73.4 (2020).Table of ContentsPreface to the 2004 Edition, by Matei Cazacu Introduction to the 2004 Edition, by Matei Cazacu Introduction to the English Translation, by Stephen W. Reinert Abbreviations List of Illustrations, Genealogies, and Map Map and Genealogies 1 Exile as a Way of Life  “A Fortress on the Water”  The Basarab Dynasty  Mircea the Old  The Ottoman Danger  Wallachia—Strategic and Economic Issues  The Succession Crisis of 1420  Vlad Dracul’s Youth  Transylvania, Land of Welcome  Vlad Dracul, Protector of Transylvanians  Finally, the Throne of Wallachia 2 A Prince and His Sons (1436–1448)  A Peace Treaty with Murad II  The Remarriage of Vlad Dracul  Murad II’s 1438 Campaign in Transylvania  Vladislav, King of Poland and Hungary  János Hunyadi, Defender of the Transylvanian Frontier  Vlad Dracul, Prisoner of the Turks  The Disaster of Varna  The Campaign of 1445 on the Danube  The Conflict with János Hunyadi and the Death of Vlad Dracul  Vladislav II Installed on the Wallachian Throne 3 First Reign and New Exile (1448–1456)  A Transylvanian Childhood  A Wallachian Adolescence  Hostage in Ottoman Territory (1444–1448)  Dracula’s First Reign (1448)  Exile in Moldavia  The Accord with János Hunyadi 4 The Reign (1456–1462)  “Mark of Red Iron”  “A Fierce and Dreadful Appearance”  The Princely Council of Wallachia  Wallachian Society in the Fifteenth Century  Very Restless Neighbors  “To Rule and Govern Accordingly”  Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458)  Vlad Dracula Alone Against Everyone  Bloody Easter  “And Beheaded Him Near His Tomb . . .”  A Moldavian Danger? 5 The Conqueror of Constantinople  Five Hundred Young Men  Dracula’s Danubian Campaign  Alone Against the Turks  Warrior of the Night  Radu the Handsome Assumes Power  Crusade or Internal Peace? 6 Propaganda, Exile, and Death (1463–1476)  The Improbable Treachery  The 1463 German Pamphlet  The Hungarian Manipulation  Dracula’s Liberation  “But He Was Pierced by Many Lances . . .”  A Face Covered With a Silk Cloth  Vlad and Mihnea: The Children of “The Devil”  The Descendants of the Sons of the Impaler 7 Tyrant or Great Sovereign?  The Evolving Die Geschicht Dracole Waide (The History of Voievod Dracula)  The Incarnation of Evil  A Pious Prince?  Dracula “The Beloved”  Discovery of the Russian Accounts of Dracula  The Tale of Voievod Dracula, A Political Manual Used by Ivan III  Laonikos Chalkokondyles  In the Entourage of Mahmud Pasha  Chalkokondyles’ Disappearance 8 Dracula and Bram Stoker  Of Bats in General . . .  . . . and of Dracula in Particular  “Not On the Lips But On the Throat . . .”  Stoker a Plagiarist?  Marie Nizet and her Captain Vampire  The Romanian “Journey” of Marie Nizet  A Family History  Billy the Kid Versus Dracula  A New Golden Age 9 The Vampire in Romania  How to Proceed with a Strigoi  The Vampire’s Identity Card  The Christianization of Vampirism  Vitamin C, Weapon Against Vampires Conclusion Dead Vampires and Living Vampires Appendix Chronology Geschichte Dracole Waide (Anonymous, 1463) Von ainem wutrich der hies Trakle waida von der Walachei (Michel Beheim, 1416–1474) ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞEΙΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ: Historiarum Demonstrationes (Laonikos Chalkokondyles c. 1423–c.1474) Skazanie o Dracole voevode (Fyodor Kuritsyn 1486) Die Geschicht Dracole Waide (Anonymous, 1488) Glossary Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis previously unpublished 1931 dissertation by Gaines Post covers the interaction of the papacy with multiple universities from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and makes his research and observations available on a range of topics, such as papal intervention and influence in the areas of licensing to teach, scholarly privileges, financial support, and dispensations for study.Trade Review''This volume represents a still-valuable work of scholarship and an appropriate tribute to a major scholar of the previous century.'' Paul Knoll, in Reinassance Quarterly , LXXII, NO.1 (2018). "This book originated as the dissertation of Professor Gaines Post (d.1987), written under the direction of Charles Homer Haskins at Harvard University and approved in 1931. [...] We have Professor William J. Courtenay to thank for bringing this book to print. Courtenay's editorial interventions in the text appear light; he offers the book both as an original contribution to research into the rise of the universities but also as a window into the research conducted by Charles Homer Haskins and his students at Harvard'. [...] Post's careful and patient narrative of the emerging legal relationships complements these later analyses with the timely reminder that legal, juridical, and material conditions played significant roles in the formation of the university cultures". Robert J. Porwool, in Sixteenth Century Journal vol. 1, n.2, 2019.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: The Papacy and the Constitution of the Universities 1 The Twelfth Century—Alexander III and the Licentia docendi 2 The License-System of the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century 3 The License-System in Universities of Ecclesiastical Origin Influenced by Paris 4 The License-System in Universities of Secular Origin 5 The License-System: Conclusion; the Licentia ubique docendi 6 Jurisdiction 7 The Papacy and the Internal Development of the Universities Part 2: The Papacy and the Members of the Universities Introduction to Part 2 8 The Papacy and the Masters  §1 Masters’ Salaries in the Mediaeval Universities  §2 Patronage of Masters 9 The Papacy and the Students  §1 Ecclesiastical Benefices  §2 House-Rents  §3 Colleges 10 Conclusion: The Papacy and the Founding of the Universities Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisThe fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook, Kanz al-fawāʾid fī tanwīʿ al-mawāʾid, is a treasure trove of 830 recipes of dishes, digestives, refreshing beverages, and more. Here, for the first time, it has been meticulously translated into English and supplemented with a comprehensive introduction, glossary, illustrations, and twenty-two modern adaptations of its recipes.Trade ReviewWinner of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (1st Prize, Translation from Arabic into English.) click here. Shortlisted for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018 in the categories Translation and Culinary History click here. "Historians are quite fortunate that Nawal Nasrallah has continued to gift us with her edited translations of Arabic cookbooks from the medieval Islamic world.Overall, Nasrallah’s edition is a pleasure to read. The organization is easy to follow, the notes full of important information, and the color pictures suitable and complementary. Kanz al-fawāʾid brings medieval Cairene and Egyptian history to life and will serve as a critical primary source not only for food historians but also those interested in medieval Islamic trade, agricultural, consumption, and social history." - Febe Armanios in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 141.1 (2021). "A formidable intertwined offering from a historian, translator, cook, cooking instructor and writer... Nasrallah succeeds in giving a clear, simple and practical text in English to many of the 830 recipes which are difficult to understand and use, even for an Arabic speaker with culinary experience... After the full translated text, Nasrallah adds a helpful alphabetical glossary with an explanation of terms, methods and general commentaries, translations and correlations with dishes known today. Nasrallah ends her book with a fantastic contribution of 22 modern adaptations of some recipes from Kanz. All recipes were tried and photographed by the author. They are well written, easy to follow, and the outcome, as tested by this author, is delicious." - Hala N. Barakat, in: Madamasr (August 25, 2018) click here. "For culinary enthusiasts as well as for those fascinated by Egypt’s heritage, the very first English-language translation of a mediaeval Egyptian cookbook entitled Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table. A Fourteenth Century Egyptian Cookbook will come as a thrilling revelation." - Aziza Sami, in: Al-Ahram Weekly (August 31, 2018) click here. "Nasrallah provides her readers not only with an annotated translation, but also details of texts and manuscripts, and excellent and detailed glossaries, helpfully divided into classes of food such as vegetables and legumes, fruits and nuts and so forth, as well as kitchen and cooking implements and culinary terms." Susan Weingarten, in: Mediterranean Historical Review, 33:2 (2018) "The tremendous linguistic and contextual expertise that has gone into the preparation of this book has paid off. It is not only an invaluable historical document for the better understanding of the material culture and foodways of pre-modern Egyptian society, but also a fine example of thorough research and scholarly responsibility to one's material." - Leyla Rouhi, in: Al-Masāq, 30/3 (2018) "Cet ouvrage contient tout ce que l’on peut attendre de la traduction d’un livre de cuisine médiéval : une traduction sérieuse (...), une présentation qui permette au lecteur, même non spécialiste, d’apprécier l’originalité du texte, des glossaires efficaces et une petite touche de gourmandise." - Audrey Caire, in: Arabica 65 (2018) "N. Nasrallah nous propose ici un travail exceptionnel. Sa minutie et son expérience passée de la traduction d’ouvrages culinaires confère à ce livre une valeur scientifique indéniable, mais aussi une dimension sociale, vivante de ce que fut la cuisine arabe médiévale. Cette oeuvre réjouira tout autant le chercheur en quête d’informations que l’amateur curieux de mettre en pratique une cuisine riche, variée et colorée, nous rappelant que, contrairement à la cuisine occidentale, la cuisine arabe sut conserver les goûts, les produits et les modes de cuisson médiévaux et que l’on peut toujours, à une table de Tunis, du Caire ou de Damas, se faire une idée assez précise des plaisirs culinaires qu’éprouvaient les mangeurs pour qui l’auteur du Kanz rédigea son livre." - Veronique Pitchon, in: BCAI 33 (2019) Read an interview about the book with the author on Marcia Lynx Qualey's blog ArabLit: click here.Table of ContentsPREFACE NOTES ON TRANSLATING THE TEXT INTRODUCTION PART I: THE MAKING OF KANZ AL-FAWĀʾID 1. The Text 2. The Provenance 3. Date and Sources 4. A Case of Abridged Borrowing: Kanz al-fawāʾid and Zahr al-ḥadīqa PART II: MEDIEVAL EGYPTIAN FOOD CULTURE 5. Diet and Formation of a Cuisine 6. What was Cooking in Medieval Cairo? 7. The Culture of Food and Cooking 8. Shopping and Eating out PART III 9. Medieval Egyptian Cooking as Reflected in Kanz al-fawāʾid 10. Eating in Good Health INFINITE BENEFITS OF VARIETY AT THE TABLE (ENGLISH TRANSLATION) Chapter 1: Indispensable Instructions for Cooks Chapter 2: How to Knead Bread Dough and Bake It; and Making Varieties of Bread: Enhanced (muṭayyab), Seeded (mubazzar), Salted (mamlūḥ), and More Chapter 3: Measures Taken When Drinking Water: muzammal, and Chilled with Ice (thalj maḍrūb) Chapter 4: Qualities of Air-Cooled Water and What the Physicians Said About It Chapter 5: Miscellany of Dishes Chapter 6: Making murrī (Liquid Fermented Sauce), and Preserving Juice of Sour Unripe Grapes (māʾ al- ḥiṣrim) and Lemon Juice (māʾ al-laymūn) Chapter 7: Eggs Cooked as Omelets and Other Dishes Chapter 8: Vegetarian Dishes (muzawwarāt al-buqūl) for the Nourishment of the Sick Chapter 9: All Kinds of Dishes Made with Different Varieties of Fish Chapter 10: Making All Kinds of Sweets (ḥalwā) Chapter 11: Digestive Stomachics (juwārishnāt), Electuaries (maʿājīn), and Drinks (ashriba) Offered Before and After the Meal Chapter 12: Making fuqqāʿ (Foamy Beer), and Other Drinks Chapter 13: Dried-Apricot Compote (naqūʿ al-mishmish) Chapter 14: Making Preparations Which Relieve Nausea (adwiyat al-qaraf) Chapter 15: Making Mustard [Condiments], Mild and Pungent-Hot Chapter 16: Making Table Sauces (ṣulūṣāt) Chapter 17: Dishes Made with Dairy (albān): kawāmikh (Fermented Condiments), jājaq (Drained-Yogurt Condiment), Condiments with kabar (Capers) and zaʿtar (Thyme); bīrāf (Clotted Cream); and the Like Chapter 18: All Kinds of Pickled Turnip and Onion, Pickling Fruits and Vegetables of All Kinds, and Preserving Lemon, Damascus Citron and the Like, in Salt Chapter 19: Making Cold Dishes (bawārid) Chapter 20: On Aromatics (ṭīb), and Properties of Toothpicks (khilāl) Made from Willow Wood (ṣafṣāf) and Egyptian-Willow Twigs (ʿīdān al-khilāf) Chapter 21: Varieties of Aroma-Diffusing Incense Which Fortify Spirit and Heart; Aromatizing Pills; Deodorants; and Other Preparations Chapter 22: Top Quality Perfumed Powders (dharāʾir mulūkiyya) and Other Preparations Chapter 23: Storing Fresh Fruits and Keeping Them to Use After Their Season GLOSSARY 1. Beverages for Pleasure and Health 2. Breads, Grains, Pasta, Noodles, and Sweet and Savory Pastries 3. Dairy 4. Desserts, Sweeteners, and Conserves; for Pleasure and Health 5. Dishes and Prepared Foods: Main and Side Dishes, Snacks, Condiments, Pickles, Dips, and Table Sauces 6. Fats and Oils 7. Fruits and Nuts 8. Ingredients Used in Foods and Medicinal Preparations: Herbs, Spices, Aromatics, Minerals, Food Colors, and Seasoning Sauces 9. Kitchen and Cooking Implements, and Culinary Techniques and Terms 10. Meat 11. Medical Terms, Medicinal Preparations, and Personal Hygiene and Perfumes 12. Vegetables and Legumes 13. Weights and Measures APPENDIX: A TASTE OF TIME: MODERN ADAPTATIONS OF TWENTY-TWO RECIPES FROM THE KANZ AL-FAWĀʾID WORKS CITED INDICES

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Book SynopsisThe English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Contributors 1 Introduction: Protestant England and the English Bible  Robert Armstrong 2 ‘So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages’: Religious Imagery and Bible Learning  Lucy Wooding 3 The Laity and the Bible in Early Modern England  Ian Green 4 Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical Texts  Mary Morrissey 5 Early Modern Catholic Perspectives on the Biblical Text: The Bellarmine and Whitaker Debate  Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin 6 The Catholic Contribution to the King James Bible  Gordon Campbell 7 Bible Reading, Puritan Devotion, and the Transformation of Politics in the English Revolution  Crawford Gribben 8 ‘Not the Word of God’: Varieties of Antiscripturism during the English Revolution  Ariel Hessayon 9 ‘Syllables governe the world’: Biblical Criticism, Erudition, Heterodoxy and Thomas Hobbes  Justin Champion Index

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Book SynopsisBefore the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.Trade Review“This is a significant book and deserves to be widely read. Its chapters are ably argued and impressively researched. Major themes recur such as ideas of community libraries and the place of libraries in local and national identity, while the thorny question of fiction is well-rehearsed.” Keith Manley, in: Library & Information History, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2018), pp. 184-185. “Towsey and Roberts’s undertaking is unique and sets a new standard for historical exploration of library history. Without hesitation, I recommend thus important book for all libraries whose mission is to support and maintain access to quality research.” Edward A. Goedeken, Iowa State University. In: Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019), 121-123.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Mark Towsey and Kyle B. Roberts Part 1: Empire and Enlightenment 1 Building Religious Communities with Books: The Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650–1710  Louisiane Ferlier 2 Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-House Library in the Mid-eighteenth Century  Markman Ellis 3 Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica  April G. Shelford 4 Affleck Generations: The Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck, 1695–1825  James J. Caudle 5 Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Library of Naturalist José Vieira Couto  Júnia Ferreira Furtado Part 2: Revolution and Nation Building 6 Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-Century American Subscription Library Collections  Cheryl Knott 7 Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771–1850  Sue Roe and Loveday Herridge 8 Challenging Institutional Ambitions: The Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789–1795  Rob Koehler 9 A “Quaint Corner” of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780–1830  Katie Halsey Part 3: Institutionalisation and Expansion 10 From Private Devotion to “Public” Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and Their Benefactors  Rachel Eckersley 11 The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810–1825  Annika Bautz 12 Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: The Easton Library Company  Christopher Phillips 13 Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library of Boston  Lynda K. Yankaskas Part 4: Public Libraries 14 Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries  Tom Glynn 15 From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain  Alistair Black Bibliography of Secondary Works Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook.Trade ReviewEach essay concludes with an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and all are informed by meticulous use of evidence and careful argumentation; texts cited in their original language include English translations. Seldom can an essay be categorized within a single discipline such as philology, social history, folklore, Quellenforschung, or material culture because the authors explore their subject matter for its significance in a range of medieval and modern contexts. - Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction  Amelia Brown 1 Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine Chronicles  Roger Scott 2 Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400–620  Michael Edward Stewart 3 The Orient Express: Abbot John’s Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. AD 700  Ann Moffatt 4 Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine Court  Yvette Hunt 5 Nikephoros Phokas as Superhero  John Burke 6 Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of Amalfi  John Duffy 7 Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition  Maria Mavroudi 8 A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human Reason  Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides 9 Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist Europe  Michael Champion 10 The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the City  Nigel Westbrook and Rene Van Meeuwen 11 Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-century Wallachia  Alfred Vincent 12 Yeats’s Two Byzantiums  Penelope Buckley Conclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New Millennium  Bronwen Neil General Index

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Book SynopsisGender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard Part 1 Representations of Femininity 1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan Radu Leca 2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock Prints Nayeon Kim 3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century China Kristen L. Chiem 4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady Eguchi Ikumi Kaminishi Part 2 Women as Makers 5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern Kyoto Elizabeth Lillehoj 6 Reconfijiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony Ying-chen Peng 7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History Charlotte Horlyck Part 3 Constructions of Gender and Interactions with the West 8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948) Sunglim Kim 9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 Christina M. Spiker Index

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Book SynopsisFor almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marx’s seminal work Capital while they had access to just some of Marx’s economic manuscripts. This changed in 2013 with the publication of all the known economic writings of Marx and Engels in the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). One can now reconstruct the lines of intellectual development, and one can also explore in detail how Friedrich Engels went about compiling volumes II and III of Capital from the vast legacy of manuscripts that Marx left behind after his death in 1883. It should be possible, now, to develop a more comprehensive and accurate picture of Marx as an economic theoretician. This volume of essays aims to initiate this process. Contributors are: Christopher J. Arthur, Matthias Bohlender, Timm Graßmann, Jorge Grespan, Gerald Hubmann, Heinz D. Kurz, Marcel van der Linden, Kenji Mori, Fred Moseley, Lucia Pradella, Geert Reuten, Regina Roth, and Carl-Erich Vollgraf.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Marcel van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann 2 Editing the legacy: Friedrich Engels and Marx’s Capital  Regina Roth 3 About the beginning and end of capitalism. Observations on the consequences possibly derived from the discoveries of MEGA²  Jorge Grespan 4 Marx’s further work on Capital after publishing Volume 1: on the completion of Part II of the MEGA²  Carl-Erich Vollgraf 5 Marx after the MEGA² edition: a comment  Heinz D. Kurz 6 The development of Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit in the four drafts of Capital  Fred Moseley 7 Did Marx relinquish his concept of capital’s historical dynamic? A comment on Fred Moseley  Timm Graßmann 8 The redundant transformation to prices of production: a Marx-immanent critique and reconstruction  Geert Reuten 9 Comment on Geert Reuten  Christopher J. Arthur 10 Karl Marx’s Books of Crisis and the concept of double crisis: A Ricardian Legacy  Kenji Mori 11 Marx meets Manchester. The Manchester Notebooks as a starting point of an unfinish(ed)able project?  Matthias Bohlender 12 Marx’s itineraries to Capital: on Matthias Bohlender’s ‘Marx meets Manchester’  Lucia Pradella Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlongside the ‘critical theory’ of the Frankfurt School, West Germany was also home to another influential Marxist current known as the Marburg School. In this volume, Marburg disciple Lothar Peter traces the school’s history and situates it in the political discourse and developments of its time. The renowned political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth plays a large role, but unlike most histories of the Marburg School Peter also takes the sociologists Werner Hofmann and Heinz Maus into account as well as their many students and successors. They were united by the conviction that teaching and scholarship must necessarily be tied to the practical goal of transforming society – an approach that met with considerable opposition in the harshly anti-Communist atmosphere of the period. This book was first published in 2014 as Marx an die Uni. Die "Marburger Schule" – Geschichte, Probleme, Akteure by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-38-94-38546-0. With a new Introduction by Ingar Solty.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction  Ingar Solty 1 Abendroth School or Marburg School?  1 What Constitutes a School of Thought?  2 Why the ‘Marburg School’? 2 First Phase: Gradual Formation, 1950 to the Mid-1960s  1 Social and Political Context  2 Wolfgang Abendroth (1906–85)  3 Students, Doctoral Candidates, Staff 3 Second Phase: Emergence of an ‘Epistemic Community’, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s  1 Social and Political Context  2 Werner Hofmann (1922–69)  3 Heinz Maus (1911–78)  4 Abendroth, Hofmann, and Maus’s Understanding of Marx and Marxism  5 The Marburg and Frankfurt Schools: ‘Social Critique’ or ‘Artistic Critique’?  6 Dominance of the Marxist Paradigm 4 Third Phase: Continuity and New Challenges. Abendroth’s Retirement to the Early 1980s  1 Social and Political Context  2 The Political Sociology of Worker Consciousness and the Trade Unions (Frank Deppe)  3 The History of German Social Democracy (Georg Fülberth and Jürgen Harrer)  4 Studying Fascism (Reinhard Kühnl)  5 The Political Sociology of Latin America (Dieter Boris)  6 External Pressure, Administrative Interference, Difficult Encounters  7 A Controversial History of the Trade Unions  8 Theoretical Conflict: The Identity of Marxism 5 The Marburg School since the 1980s  1 A Premature Farewell  2 A Contribution to Constitutional Law (Peter Römer)  3 Marburg in the Historikerstreit (Reinhard Kühnl)  4 Activities and Interactions in the Academic Sphere 6 Fourth Phase: From the ‘Epochal Rupture’ of 1989–90 to the Early 2000s  1 Social and Political Context  2 Confronting the ‘Epochal Rupture’ (Georg Fülberth)  3 Reacting to a Changed Situation  4 Excursus: A Conversation between Ulrich Beck and Frank Deppe on the State of Political Opposition in Germany 7 Scholarly Focuses since the 1990s  1 Research Activity and a New Conflict  2 Social Movements in Latin America (Dieter Boris)  3 Capitalism and Kapitalistik (Georg Fülberth)  4 Political Thought from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Frank Deppe) 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Making Ethnicity, Simon Schlegel offers a history of ethnicity and its political uses in southern Bessarabia, a region that has long been at the crossroads of powerful forces: in the 19th century between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, since World War I between the Soviet Union and Romania, and since the collapse of the Soviet Union between Russia and the European Union’s respective zones of influence. Drawing on biographical interviews and archival documents, Schlegel argues that ethnic categories gained relevance in the 19th century, as state bureaucrats took over local administration from the church. After mutating into a dangerous instrument of social engineering in the mid-20th century, ethnicity today remains a potent force for securing votes and allocating resources.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Maps and Figures Notes 1 Introduction  1 Central Questions  2 History and Anthropology, Some Methodological Implications  3 Locating the Field Site and Choosing a Name for It  4 A Brief Historical Outline  5 Ethnicity, Natsional’nost’, and Nationality: Definitions and Translations  6 Chapter Structure 2 Administering the Periphery from Horseback  1 The State’s Hunger for Tax and Men  2 Colonists out of the State’s Sight  3 Keep It Separate, Keep It Simple  4 Bureaucracy Evolving: the Church Gives Way to the State  5 The Categories of the Census Taker and the Ethnographer  6 Ethnicity in Revolutionary Minds 3 Persuasion and Paranoia—Romania’s Rule in Bessarabia 1918–44  1 Newcomer Elites in a Hostile Land  2 Spying on Minorities  3 Counting and Categorizing Minorities  4 Ethnicity as a Proxy for Trustworthiness  5 Bringing the Past into Line  6 Eugenics and Ethnic Cleansing 4 Politically Desirable Theory and Its Way into Folk Theory  1 The Imperial Roots of Diverging Ethnicity Concepts  2 Self-Identification vs. Ascription—Who Gets to Draw Ethnic Boundaries?  3 State-Approved Concepts of Ethnicity in Post-War Soviet Academia  4 Gut Feeling and Folk Theories of Ethnicity  5 Grand Scheme Planning and the “Primordial Trap” 5 Ethnic Minorities and Soviet Newcomers  1 Ethnicity and the Hierarchy of Trust in Post-War Southern Bessarabia  2 The Stewards of a New Model State  3 Ethnicity Performed in Public  4 Soviet Education and the Friendship of Peoples  5 Stagnation and Revived Ethnic Consciousness 6 Post-Soviet Instability, Clientelism and the Persistence of Ethnic Boundaries  1 The Power of Benefaction  2 The Roots of Clientelism in Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Networks  3 Ethnicity in Local Politics: Three Strategies  4 Political Representation and the Pressure to Choose a Clear-Cut Ethnic Identity  5 When Clear-Cut Boundaries Encounter Fuzzy Identities 7 The Narratives and Techniques that Maintain Ethnic Boundaries  1 Pure and Impure Language  2 Religion’s Ambiguous Role in Marking Ethnicity  3 Common Historical Experience and Collective Memory  4 Processed Folklore  5 Genetic Narratives of Ethnic Belonging  6 Generalizing the Inside, Omitting the Outside 8 Conclusion—Delimiting Ethnic Groups as a Tool of Statecraft  1 The Significance of Ethnicity: Continuities and Ruptures  2 When Ethnic Boundaries Become Obstacles  3 Ethnic Boundaries, Whom Do They Serve?  4 Narratives and Techniques  5 The Trouble with Fuzzy Boundaries  6 Ethnicity as a Beacon of Stability References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of “space” and “place”, which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.Trade Review“This edited volume is indispensable for anyone pursuing research in the formation of the cultures of modernity. The students of the history of culture, literature, art, and architecture of late medieval and early modern period of the West will equally find this book an important addition to their resources.” Mehran Qureshi, in: Reading Religion, 1 October 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations 1 Realms of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cultures: An Introduction  Christine Göttler Part 1: Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, Shifts, and Transformations 2 Petrarch’s Constructions of the Sacred Solitary Place in De vita solitaria and Other Writings  Karl A.E. Enenkel 3 Monastic Solitude as Spiritual Remedy and Firewall against Reformation: Cornelius Musius’s Reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566)  Karl A.E. Enenkel 4 Concepts of Solitude in Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea  Dominic E. Delarue 5 ‘Sacred Woods’: Performing Solitude at the Court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria  Christine Göttler Part 2: Solitude in the Pictorial and Emblematic Imagination 6 Anachoretic Ideals in Urban Settings: Meditational Practices and Mural Painting in Trecento Italy  Raphaèle Preisinger 7 Constructing the Imaginary Desert of the Soul in Emblematic Literature  Agnès Guiderdoni 8 Emblemata solitariae Passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the Solitary Passion of Christ  Walter S. Melion Part 3: Landscapes of Solitude 9 Giovanni Bellini’s San Francesco nel deserto  Oskar Bätschmann 10 Landscapes and Visual Exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al Quirinale  Steffen Zierholz 11 Alone at the Summit: Solitude and the Ascetic Imagination at the Sacro Monte of Varallo  Carla Benzan Part 4: Architectures of Solitude 12 Dead Men Talking: The Studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in Mourning and the Petrarchan Tradition  Christiane J. Hessler 13 Sociable Solitude: The Early Modern Hermitage as Proto-Museum  Arnold A. Witte 14 A Solitude of Permeable Boundaries: The Abbey of La Trappe between Isolation and Engagement  Mette Birkedal Bruun 15 Mirrors and Memories: The Chinese Mirror Cabinet at the Hermitage near Bayreuth  Marie Theres Stauffer Part 5: Solitude in Antiquarian and Natural History 16 The Prophetess in the Woods: The Early Modern Debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and Vola  Bernd Roling 17 Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a Lonely Bird in Poetry and Natural History, from Petrarch to Buffon  Paul J. Smith Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThroughout the early modern period, the nymph remained a powerful figure that inspired and informed the cultural imagination in many different ways. Far from being merely a symbol of the classical legacy, the nymph was invested with a surprisingly broad range of meanings. Working on the basis of these assumptions, and thus challenging Aby Warburg’s famous reflections on the nympha that both portrayed her as cultural archetype and reduced her to a marginal figure, the contributions in this volume seek to uncover the multifarious roles played by nymphs in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, garden architecture, and indeed intellectual culture tout court, and thereby explore the true significance of this well-known figure for the early modern age. Contributors: Barbara Baert, Mira Becker-Sawatzky, Agata Anna Chrzanowska, Karl Enenkel, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Michaela Kaufmann, Andreas Keller, Eva-Bettina Krems, Damaris Leimgruber, Tobias Leuker, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, Bernd Roling, and Anita Traninger.Trade Review“This volume fills a gap in scholarship in terms of the breadth and rigor of its engagement with the construction of the nymph as an early modern cultural emblem. [...] The numerous, high-quality color reproductions of art objects ranging from paintings to garden statuary enhance the studies included and give a fuller understanding of the multimodal nature of the representations of the nymph. The breadth of mediums examined and the geographic range are particularly appreciated, as they capture the reality of this figure’s prevalence in early modern Europe. This is, in fact, the greatest strength of the volume, as it productively elucidates a range of manifestations, fulfilling the promise it makes to explore this idyllic figure throughout early modern culture.” Melinda A. Cro, Kansas State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Summer 2020), pp. 718–719.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations 1 Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture  Anita Traninger and Karl A.E. Enenkel Part 1: Nymphs Between the Visual Arts and Literature 2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega  Anita Traninger 3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300–1770  Karl Enenkel 4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence  Barbara Baert 5 ‘Who, Then, is the “Nympha”?’ An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni Frescoes  Agata Anna Chrzanowska Part 2: Literary Representations 6 Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento  Christoph Pieper 7 An Epiphanic Figure with the Power To Bind: Lia’s Role in Boccaccio’s Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine  Tobias Leuker 8 Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics  Andreas Keller 9 Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society’s Nymphs  Damaris Leimgruber Part 3: Garden Architecture 10 The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti’s Villa at Lainate  Mira Becker-Sawatzky 11 Nymphs Bathing in the King’s Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta  Eva-Bettina Krems Part 4: Music 12 Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music Around 1500  Wolfgang Fuhrmann 13 The Nymph’s Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self  Michaela Kaufmann Part 5: Aetiology and Antiquarianism 14 Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry  Christian Peters 15 Our White Ladies on the Graves: Historicisations of Nymphs in Early Modern Antiquarianism  Bernd Roling Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisImagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales and Scotland, to Hungary and Ruthenia, while both narrative and other types of evidence, such as legal texts, are drawn upon. What emerges is how the characteristics and aspirations of communities are exemplified and legitimised through the presentation of the past and an imagined picture of present. By means of its multiple perspectives, this volume offers significant insight into the medieval dynamics of collective mentality and group consciousness. Contributors are Dániel Bagi, Mariusz Bartnicki, Zbigniew Dalewski, Georg Jostkleigrewe, Bartosz Klusek, Paweł Kras, Wojciech Michalski, Martin Nodl, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Euryn Rhys Roberts, Stanisław Rosik, Joanna Sobiesiak, Karol Szejgiec, Michał Tomaszek, Tomasz Tarczyński, Przemysław Tyszka, Tatiana Vilkul, and Przemysław Wiszewski.Trade Review"The volume’s greatest strength is that it shows a multitude of detailed views on the idea of community, providing a broad overview of medieval sources, created at different times and in different socio-cultural contexts". Tomasz Pełech, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 16.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Map Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Part 1: Dynasty and Power 2 Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe in the 11th–13th Centuries  Dániel Bagi 3 Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the 10th-12th Centuries  Zbigniew Dalewski 4 ‘Rex imperator in regno suo’ – An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse  Georg Jostkleigrewe Part 2: Spirituality 5 The King and the Saint against the Scots. The Shaping of English National Identity in the 12th Century Narrative of King Athelstan’s Victory over His Northern Neighbours  Tomasz Tarczyński 6 Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th Centuries  Michał Tomaszek Part 3: Social Condition and Gender 7 The Law as an Element Organizing and Identifying a Community in the Narratives of the Origins of the Kingdoms of Britain, (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae, John of Fordun, Chronica Gentis Scottorum)  Bartosz Klusek 8 Creating the Past and Shaping Identity – Angevin Dynastic Legend (‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’)  Karol Szejgiec 9 Creating Knightly Identities? Scottish Lords and Their Leaders in the Narratives about Great Moments in Community History (between John Barbour’s The Bruce and Blind Hary’s Wallace)  Wojciech Michalski 10 People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social Identities  Tatiana Vilkul 11 The Identity of Self-Governing Groups (Guilds and Communes) in the Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity  Andrzej Pleszczyński 12 The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of Penitentials  Przemysław Tyszka Part 4: Region 13 A Surfeit of Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and the Idea of Britain  Euryn Rhys Roberts 14 Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe (11th-15th C.)  Przemysław Wiszewski 15 The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th Century  Stanisław Rosik Part 5: We and the Others 16 Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People  Mariusz Bartnicki 17 Czechs and Germans; Nationals and Foreigners in the Work of Czech Chroniclers: From Cosmas of Prague (12th Century) to the Chronicle of the So-called Dalimil (14th century)  Joanna Sobiesiak 18 Corporative Interests Versus Nationalism. Prague University at the Turn of the 15th Century  Martin Nodl 19 The Imagined Communities of Heretics: Constructing the Identity of the Religious Enemy in the Late Middle Ages  Paweł Kras Index

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Book SynopsisLost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories examines the idea of lost knowledge, reaching back to a period between myth and history. It investigates a peculiar idea found in a number of early texts: that there were civilizations with knowledge of sophisticated technologies, and that this knowledge was obscured or destroyed over time along with the civilization that had created it. This book presents critical studies of a series of early Chinese, South Asian, and other texts that look at the idea of specific “lost” technologies, such as mechanical flight and the transmission of images. There is also an examination of why concepts of a vanished “golden age” were prevalent in so many cultures. Offering an engaging and investigative look at the propagation of history and myth in technology and culture, this book is sure to interest historians and readers from many backgrounds.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii List of Figures xiv 1 Speculations and Fantasies 1 1 Lost Knowledge, Technology, and the Patterns of History 1 2 The Nature of Ancient Knowledge 5 3 A New Approach 11 4 The Sources 14 5 Technology in the Remote Past: the Case of Frederick Soddy 19 6 Speculations and Methods 35 2 Ancient Tales of Flying Machines 40 1 Two Types of Tales 40 2 Chinese Stories of Flying Machines 45 3 Korean Accounts of Flying Machines 56 4 South Asian Tales of Flying Vehicles 75 5 Ainu Stories of Flying Machines 89 6 Hopi Lore about Flying Vehicles 96 7 Tales from Oceania about Flying Vehicles 99 8 A Synthesis of Traditions in the “Flying Horse” Tales 101 9 Terms and Types 110 3 Magic Mirrors and Early Televisions 114 1 Mirrors in History 114 2 Two Chinese Diagnostic Mirrors 123 3 A Mirror to Locate Illness and a Mirror to “Illuminate the Bones” 126 4 Looking into Chinese Mirrors 131 5 Mirrors, Meaning, and Context 134 6 Another Diagnostic Device 136 7 Mirrors and Medicine 138 8 Jīvaka’s Diagnostic Device 140 9 A Magic Mirror Trick? 142 10 Traditions of Transmitted Images in Central American and Persian Cultures 149 11 Prester John and Western Traditions of Long-Distance Mirrors 158 12 Remote Communication in the Works of Paracelsus and Francis Bacon 163 13 Traditions Concerning Special Mirrors and Telescopes 166 14 Chinese Tales of Image Transmission 171 15 Technology in Context 175 4 The Missing Land of Atlantis 177 1 A Question of Identity 177 2 Atlantis in Plato’s Timaeus 182 3 Plato and the Idea of History 190 4 The Geography of Atlantis 202 5 Fiction, Myth, and History 209 6 Transmission, Memory, and Text 214 7 Atlantis in Plato’s Critias 218 8 Atlas, Atlantis, and a Question of Interpretation 236 9 Ancient Views of the Remote Past 238 10 Numbers and Technical Detail in the Story of Atlantis 245 11 Atlantis: in Search of an Interpretation 255 5 Rings and Dangerous Powers 271 1 The Nature of a Folktale 271 2 The Tale of Gyges in Plato’s Republic 273 3 The Background and Setting of the Tale of Gyges 277 4 The Elements of the Tale: the Cave 280 5 The Elements of the Tale: the Horse 282 6 The Elements of the Tale: the Body 284 7 The Elements of the Tale: the Ring 292 8 Conclusions: Technology and the Fate of a Civilization 297 6 The Nature, Encoding, and Transmission of Knowledge 308 1 Storing Knowledge 308 2 Transmission through Time 310 3 The Concept of “Encoding” 318 4 Knowledge and Loss 325 5 Knowledge and Myth, Knowledge in Myth 338 6 Changing Knowledge, Changing History 346 7 Conclusions — What Did They Mean? 353 1 Technology and the Concept of the “Golden Age” 353 2 More on the “City of Brass” 360 3 Knowledge Transmission and Cyclical History 363 4 How Far Back? 368 5 The Methods for the Transmission of Knowledge 375 6 The Idea of “Lost Knowledge” and the Nature of Myth 378 7 Looking at the Texts 383 8 Reading Texts 388 9 Towards the Future 391 Bibliography 395 Index 452

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses different dimensions of cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-speaking world which have caused much debate, such as migration and globalisation. The volume includes contributions from leading specialists in History, Musicology, Literary Studies, Anthropology and Political Sciences. It focuses on specific processes in Brazil, Portugal, West Africa, Angola, and other parts of the world, from the sixteenth century to the present. Central topics are intercontinental trading elites, the cultural impact of forced and voluntary migration, the republic of letters, the possibilities created by freemasonry and liberalism, the adaptation of the Azorean Holy Ghost Feast to the United States, international links of conservative politicians, the international projection of the new Angolan elite, architecture and urban planning. Contributors are: Vanda Anastácio, Cátia Antunes, Paulo Arruda, Francisco Bethencourt, Toby Green, Philip J. Havik, David R. M. Irving, João Leal, Giovanni Leoni, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, António Costa Pinto, and Phillip Rothwell.Table of ContentsPreface  Francisco Bethencourt Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Cosmopolitanism: The Fortunes of a Word  Francisco Bethencourt Part 1: Expansion and Empire 2 On Cosmopolitanism and Cross-Culturalism: An Enquiry into the Business Practices and Multiple Identities of the Portuguese Merchants of Amsterdam  Catia Antunes 3 Pluralism, Violence and Empire: The Portuguese New Christians in the Atlantic World  Toby Green 4 Cosmopolitan Bravado: Gendered Agency and the Afro-Atlantic Encounter  Philip J. Havik 5 Early Modern Imperialism and Cosmopolitanism  Francisco Bethencourt Part 2: Early Modern Civility 6 Music and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Lusophone World  David R.M. Irving 7 Women Writers in an International Context: Was the Marchioness of Alorna (1750–1839) Cosmopolitan?  Vanda Anastácio 8 Freemasonry and Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Hipólito José da Costa (1774–1823)  Paulo H. de M. Arruda Part 3: Modern Cultural Practices 9 Cosmopolitanism versus Internationalism: Távora, Siza and Souto Moura  Giovanni Leoni and Howard Sugar 10 Cosmopolitan Trends in the Class Structure of Pepetela’s Work  Phillip Rothwell 11 Migrant Cosmopolitanism: Ritual and Cultural Innovation among Azorean Immigrants in the usa  João Leal Part 4: Modern Political Practices 12 The Appeal of Fascism: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism in Early 20th-Century Portugal  António Costa Pinto 13 The New Elite, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Inequality in Contemporary Angola  Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Index

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Book SynopsisIn Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England, Anne Thompson shifts the emphasis from the institution of clerical marriage to the people and personalities involved. Women who have hitherto been defined by their supposed obscurity and unsuitability are shown to have anticipated and exhibited the character, virtues, and duties associated with the archetypal clergy wife of later centuries. Through adept use of an extensive and eclectic range of archival material, this book offers insights into the perception and lived experience of ministers’ wives. In challenging accepted views on the social status of clergy wives and their role and reception within the community, new light is thrown on a neglected but crucial aspect of religious, social, and women’s history.Trade Review“Thompson's book will prove of immense value to scholars of the Reformation and of early modern marriage, but its treatment of sixteenth-century gender expectations, interpersonal relationships within and outside of marriage, and charitable giving in a time of profound religious and economic change is deserving of a wider, non-specialist audience.” Jennifer McNabb, University of Northern Iowa. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1405–1407.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Better to Marry than to Burn? Attitudes to Clerical Marriage among the Elizabethan Clergy 2 The Making of Clerical Marriages 3 ‘As Common as the Cartway’? The Social Status of Clergy Wives 4 ‘A Mirror of Virtue and Integrity’: Expectations of the Elizabethan Clergy Wife 5 Clerical Marriage and Charitable Giving 6 The Reception of the Clergy Wife: Reactions to a Religious and Social Innovation Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuakers and Native Americans examines the history of interactions between Quakers and Native Americans (American Indians). Fourteen scholarly essays cover the period from the 1650s to the twentieth century. American Indians often guided the Quakers by word and example, demanding that they give content to their celebrated commitment to peace. As a consequence, the Quakers’ relations with American Indians has helped define their sense of mission and propelled their rise to influence in the U.S. Quakers have influenced Native American history as colonists, government advisors, and educators, eventually promoting boarding schools, assimilation and the suppression of indigenous cultures. The final two essays in this collection provide Quaker and American Indian perspectives on this history, bringing the story up to the present day. Contributors include: Ray Batchelor, Lori Daggar, John Echohawk, Stephanie Gamble, Lawrence M. Hauptman, Allison Hrabar, Thomas J. Lappas, Carol Nackenoff, Paula Palmer, Ellen M. Ross, Jean R. Soderlund, Mary Beth Start, Tara Strauch, Marie Balsley Taylor, Elizabeth Thompson, and Scott M. Wert.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface VII  Acknowledgements  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction  2 The Lenape Origins of Delaware Valley Peace and Freedom  Jean R. Soderlund  3 Apostates in the Woods: Quakers, Praying Indians, and Circuits of Communication in Humphrey Norton’s New England’s Ensigne  Marie Balsley Taylor  4 “The Calamett, a Sure Bond and Seal of Peace”: Native-Pennsylvania Treaties as Religious Discourse  Scott M. Wert  5 “Cast Under Our Care”: Elite Quaker Masculinity and Political Rhetoric about American Indians in the Age of Revolutions  Ray Batchelor  6 “Strong Expressions of Regard”: Native Diplomats and Quakers in Early National Philadelphia  Stephanie Gamble  7 “The Great Spirit Hears All We Now Say”: Philadelphia Quakers and the Seneca, 1798–1850  Ellen M. Ross  8 The Meddlesome Friend: Philip Evan Thomas among the Onöndowa‘ga’: 1838–1861  Lawrence M. Hauptman  9 Tunesassa Echoes and the Temperance Struggle: A Family Tradition at Tunesassa Quaker Indian School, Allegany Indian Reservation across Generations  Thomas J. Lappas  10 Of African and Indian Descent: Creating Mission and Memory in Western Ohio, 1805–1850  Dr. Tara Strauch  11 “A Damnd Rebelious Race”: The U.S. Civilization Plan and Native Authority  Lori Daggar  12 Remembering and Forgetting – Local History and the Kin of Paul Cuffe in an Upper Canadian Quaker Community  Mary Beth Start  13 Saving Indians by Teaching Schoolgirls to Work: Quakers, the Carlisle Institute, and American Indian Assimilation  Elizabeth Thompson  14 Quaker Roles in Making and Implementing Federal Indian Policy: From Grant’s Peace Policy through the early Dawes Act Era (1869–1900)  Carol Nackenoff and Allison Hrabar  15 The Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing our History and Ourselves  Paula Palmer  16 A Shared Vision for Healing  John Echohawk

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Book SynopsisIn Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi‘i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran, Maryam Moazzen offers the first systematic examination of Shi‘i educational institution and practices by exploring the ways in which religious knowledge was produced, authenticated, and transmitted in the second half of Safavid rule (1588-1722). By analyzing the deeds of endowment of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī and other mosque-madrasas built by the Safavid elite, this study sheds light on the organizing mechanisms and structures utilized by such educational foundations. Based on the large number of ijazās and other primary sources including waqfiyyas, biographical dictionaries and autobiographies, this study also reconstructs the Safavid madrasas’ curriculum and describes the pedagogical methods used to transmit religious knowledge as well as issues that faced Shi‘i higher learning in early modern times.Trade Review"This is a work of considerable scholarship. It is based on many primary sources, for instance, "biographical dictionaries, autobiographies, ijāzas, deeds of endowment (waqfiyyas), chronicles and historical sources, European travelers’ accounts, anthologies and polemics written by Safavid ʿulamā, administrative accounts and chancery literature, and works written by Safavid ʿulamaʾ” (p. 24). All are supported by a notable command of the secondary literature in the field. The outcome is a book that, for the first time, tells us how Safavid madrasas worked, and what and how they taught. It is a considerable achievement." - Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 139/3 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Style Introduction  Imperializing Twelver Shiʿism and Its Impact on Shiʿi Higher Learning  The Reaction of the Sunni ʿUlamāʾ  Madrasas and the Consolidation of Shiʿism in Persia  The Permissibility of Collaborating with Temporal Power  Shiʿi Higher Learning in Safavid Iran 1 Mosque-Madrasas of Safavid Isfahan  Pre-Safavid Mosque-Madrasas  Safavid Mosques and Madrasas  After ʿAbbās the Great  The Largest Shiʿi Madrasa  Conclusion 2 The Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī: Waqfs, Administrative Structure, and Academic Life  Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn’s Objectives in Establishing the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī  The Deeds of Endowment of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī  Analysis of the Endowed Properties  The Administrative Structure of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī  Conclusion 3 Reshaping Shiʿa Cultural Memory: Commemorative Rituals and Constructing Identity  Contextualizing Cultural Memory  Safavid Madrasas and Commemorating Cultural Memory  The Instructional Values of Commemorative Rituals  Madrasas and Social Coherence  Reconfiguring Cultural Memory  Conclusion 4 The Safavid Curriculum: Conflicting Visions, Contested Triumphs  Safavid Scholars and the Concept of Knowledge (ʿilm)  Towards Reconstructing the Curriculum of the Safavid Madrasas  The Uṣūlīs and the Curriculum  The Curriculum of the Madrasas of Safavid Isfahan  Akhbarism and Its Impact on the Safavid Curriculum  The Curriculum of Safavid Madrasas during the Reign of Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn  Conclusion 5 Engagement with Religious Knowledge: Dialogical and Hermeneutical Modes of Transmission  Safavid Pedagogy: Legal Rationalization or Authentic Knowledge  Teaching and Learning Methods  The Place of Texts in Learning and Etiquette Pertinent to Writing and Shelving Books  Teachers and Learning  The Language of Instruction  Travel in Pursuit of Knowledge  Studying and Marriage  Graduation  Conclusion 6 Safavid Pedagogical Approaches: Theories, Application, and Practices  Mullā Ṣadrā and the Problem of Conventional (rasmī) Learning  Muḥsin Fayḍ Kāshānī and Epistemic Certitude  Muḥaqqiq Sabzawārī’s Review of Safavid Higher Learning  Muḥammad Zamān Tabrīzī’s Observations  Conclusion Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index of Places Index of Subjects and Terms Index of Persons

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Book SynopsisClimate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe’s share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions. Contributors include: Clara Brandi, Rüdiger Glaser, Iso Himmelsbach, Claudia Kemfert, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Claus Leggewie, Franz Mauelshagen, Geoffrey Parker, Christian Pfister, Dirk Riemann, Lea Schmitt, Jörn Sieglerschmidt, Markus Vogt, and Steffen Vogt.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction—Tracing and Replacing Europe’s Carbon Culture  Claus Leggewie and Franz Mauelshagen Part 1: Ideas 1 Complexion and Climate: An Attempt at an Outline of Weather Outlooks in Europe from the Beginnings until Today  Jörn Sieglerschmidt 2 Theological Perspectives in the Ethical Debate about Climate Change  Markus Vogt Part 2: Past 3 Long- and Short-Term Central European Climate Development in the Context of Vulnerability, Food Security, and Emigration  Rüdiger Glaser, Dirk Riemann, Steffen Vogt, and Iso Himmelsbach 4 History and Climate: The Crisis of the 1590s Reconsidered  Geoffrey Parker 5 The “Black Swan” of 1540: Aspects of a European Megadrought  Christian Pfister Part 3: Memoirs 6 The Birth of Climate History  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Part 4: Present 7 EU Climate Leadership? Europe’s Role in Global Climate Negotiations  Clara Brandi 8 Energy Transition in Germany: Sonderweg or Role Model?  Claudia Kemfert 9 Changing Climates, Changing Spaces, Changing Times: Adaptation and Conflict on the West Frisian Island of Ameland  Lea Schmitt Part 5: Prospects 10 The Age of Uncertainty: The Challenges of Climate Change for the Insurance Business  Franz Mauelshagen 11 Climate Change and Future Pasts: Preliminary Considerations on a Historiography of the Future  Claus Leggewie Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Roman Empire has long held pride of place in the collective memory of scholars, politicians, and the general public in the western world. In Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome's remarkable development. Hoyer surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state.Trade Review"Daniel Hoyer’s, Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE offers an even-handed appraisal of current debates in Roman economic history as well as novel interpretations derived from numismatic and epigraphic sources. (...) this book manages to tell a cohesive and compelling story through an intensive study of a limited body of evidence and a flexible although occasionally frustrating methodological framework.(...) His book ultimately presents a credible picture that deserves attention." Colin P. Elliott in BMCR 2018.11.40Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Roman Emperors 1 Introduction: Approaching the Imperial Roman Economy  1 Central Aims of the Book  2 Who Will Read This? Target Audiences  3 Lingering Questions about Imperial Rome  4 The Many Faces of Roman Economic History  5 From Fine-Grained to ‘Big Picture’: Methods and Treatment of the Evidence  6 The Contribution of Modern Thinking to Ancient Problems  7 Book Organization  8 Terms and Definitions 2 The Gift That Kept on Giving: Perpetual Endowments and the Role of Prosociality in Rome’s Economic Development  1 The Evolution of Prosocial Traits from the Early Days of Rome  2 Prosociality, Charity, and Social Capital: How Elite Benefaction Came to Be  3 Perpetual Foundations: The Gift That Kept on Giving  4 What Lies under the Epiphenomena? 3 Investing in the Roman Economy: Material Evidence for Economic Development  1 Benefactions as Wealth Generators  2 Investment Opportunities in the Roman Economy  3 Money in the Roman Economy: The Numismatic Evidence  4 Supplying the Demand: Coinage, Monetization, and Market Development 4 Aligning Public and Private Interests: Public Building, Private Money, and Urban Development  1 Public Needs and Private Incentives  2 Rome: A World of Cities  3 Public Building in the Cities of Roman Africa: A Case Study  4 Urbanization and the Development of the Non-Agrarian Sectors  5 The Surprisingly Short Reach of the Roman State  6 The Public Deeds of Private Citizens  7 Aligning Interests 5 Measuring Economic Performance beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Roman Living Standards  1 Real Growth in the Pre-Modern World? Debates, Controversies, and Confusion in Roman Economic History  2 Proxy Evidence: Extrapolation or Hypothesis Testing?  3 Rome’s 99 %: Economic Capacity and the Distribution of Wealth  4 Sharing the Spoils of Success: Increasing Living Standards with Public Goods  5 Collective Action and Prosociality in the Creation of Public Goods 6 From Prosociality to Civil Strife: Conflict, Stagnation, and Growing Regional Divides in the Third Century CE  1 An Overview of the ‘Crises’ of the Third Century  2 What Really Happened after 235 CE?  3 Money, Investment, and Markets  4 Production and Exchange  5 The End of Roman Prosociality? Conclusion: Rome’s Place in a Global History of Development Appendix 1: List of Inscriptions from the Western Empire Recording Interest being Drawn Appendix 2: List of Building Inscriptions from the North African Provinces Recording the Sponsor Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 13th volume of theBerichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyruskunden aus Ägypten lists, in alphabetical order of papyri, the new corrections of readings and datings of published documents, as well as supplementary information, as they have appeared in recent literature. This volume is the first to have been compiled on the basis of the newly created BL-interface.

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Book SynopsisWhat is the place of women in global labour policies? Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women’s work. It asks: what was the role of women’s networks in shaping ILO policies and what were the gendered meanings of international labour law in a world of uneven and unequal development? Women’s ILO explores issues like equal remuneration, home-based labour, and social welfare internationally and in places such as Argentina, Italy, and Ghana. It scrutinizes the impact of both power relations and global feminisms on the making of global labour policies in a world shaped by colonialism, the Cold War and post-colonial inequality. It further charts the disparate advancement of gender equity, highlighting the significant role of women experts and activists in the process. Contributors are: Paula Lucía Aguilar, Lucia Artner, Eloisa Betti, Chris Bonner, Eileen Boris, Akua O. Britwum, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Dorothea Hoehtker, Pat Horn, Sonya Michel, Silke Neunsinger, Renana Jhabvala, Marieke Louis, Yevette Richards, Mahua Sarkar, Kirsten Scheiwe, Françoise Thébaud, Susan Zimmermann “This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor and international/transnational history.” – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine, USA “This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO’s role in securing social justice for women workers around the world and asks how that role might change as the world of work is transformed in the next century.” — Celia Donert, University of Liverpool “This exciting collection provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come.” – Elisabeth Prügl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, GenevaTrade Review"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Elizabeth Faue, in: CHOICE, 56:4 (2018) "This collection provides a thorough overview of the shifting position of women – and of concerns about women’s work, gender equity, and gender policy – within the International Labor Organization (ILO) from 1919 to the present. [...] This is a comprehensive and rigorous discussion of women as both subjects and objects of the ILO. It will be valuable to anyone working on the history of international organizations, transnational activism, gender and labour activism, and/or the intersections between race, class, and gender in the twentieth century". Nicole Bourbonnais. Endorsements: “This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO’s role in securing social justice for women workers around the world over the past hundred years, and asks how that role might change as the world of work is itself transformed in the next century. Essential reading for scholars and students interested in the history of labour, feminist activism, social rights and international organizations.” - Celia Donert, University of Liverpool “This is an exciting collection that provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It brings to life a feminist and historical perspective—broadening the consideration of women at the ILO to an exploration of gender politics, intersectionally weaving race, class, and coloniality into such politics, exploring the power of the ILO’s gender expertise to define new realities, recognizing the institutional conflicts between the ILO and the UN regarding gender politics during the Cold War, valorizing the power of women’s and feminist networks, bringing into view the translations of ILO ideas into multiple contexts around the world, and showing how the very meaning of work needs re-evaluation when women’s experiences are taken seriously. In addition to doing all this, the collection offers rich empirical materials based on original research. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come.” – Elisabeth Prügl, Professor of International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva “Women’s ILO is a groundbreaking anthology that explores how women’s transnational political networks have shaped the International Labour Organization and how the ILO has sought to create standards for work conditions for women throughout the 20th century. In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ILO, founded in 1919, this volume brings together established as well as emerging scholars from across the globe to explore issues related to women, labor, and international regulation. The essays, written by historians and social scientists, have a broad geographical as well as chronological reach. The authors explore issues related to gender, work, and economic justice in the global South and North. They also trace the developments of the ILO, women’s networks, and gendered regulations across the interwar years, World War II and the Cold War, and the rise and expansion of neoliberalism and globalization. This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor, and international/transnational history.” – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Annotated List of Organizations and Abbreviations/Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Century of Women’s ilo  Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker and Susan Zimmermann Part 1: The Work of Transnational Networks 1“The Other ilo Founders”: 1919 and Its Legacies  Dorothy Sue Cobble 2Difficult Inroads, Unexpected Results: The Correspondence Committee on Women’s Work in the 1930s  Françoise Thébaud 3International Networking in the Interwar Years: Gertrud Hanna, Alice Salomon, and Erna Magnus  Kirsten Scheiwe and Lucia Artner 4Equality’s Cold War: The ilo and the un Commission on the Status of Women, 1946–1970s  Eileen Boris 5The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ilo, and the International Trade Union Movement, 1950s–1980s  Silke Neunsinger 6Transnational Links and Constraints: Women’s Work, the ilo, and the icftu in Africa, 1950s–1980s  Yevette Richards 7Informal Women Workers Open ilo Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s–2010s  Chris Bonner, Pat Horn and Renana Jhabvala 8Women’s Representation at the ilo: A Hundred Years of Marginalization  Marieke Louis Part 2: Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards 9Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919–1947  Susan Zimmermann 10Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907–1941  Paula Lucía Aguilar 11Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women’s Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s–1960s  Eloisa Betti 12Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ilo Standards  Akua O. Britwum 13Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ilo, 1980s–2010s  Sonya Michel 14When Maternity is Paid Work: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century  Mahua Sarkar Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributions of Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law: Courts, Statutes, Contracts, and Legal Scholarship show the wealth of sources which historians of commercial law use to approach their subject. Depending on the subject, historical research on mercantile law must be ready to open up to different approaches and sources in a truly imaginative and interdisciplinary way. This, more than many other branches of law, has always been largely non-state law. Normative, ‘official’, sources are important in commercial law as well, but other sources are often needed to complement them. The articles of the volume present an excellent assemblage of those sources. Anja Amend-Traut, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher, Olivier Descamps, Ricardo Galliano Court, Eberhard Isenmann, Mia Korpiola, Peter Oestmann, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Edouard Richard, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, Guido Rossi, Bram Van Hofstraeten, Boudewijn Sirks, Alain Wijffels, and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Heikki Pihlajamäki, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy and Dave De ruysscher 2 Mercantile Conflict Resolution in Practice: Connecting Legal and Diplomatic Sources from Danzig c. 1460–1580  Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz 3 Justitia in Commerciis: Public Governance and Commercial Litigation before the Great Council of Mechlin in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century  Alain Wijffels 4 Honore et utile: The Approaches and Practice of Sixteenth-century Genoese Merchant Custom  Ricardo Galliano Court 5 The Abandonment to the Insurers in Sixteenth-century Insurance Practice: Comparative Remarks and (A Few) Methodological Notes  Guido Rossi 6 Historiographical Opportunities of Notarized Partnership Agreements Recorded in the Early Modern Low Countries  Bram Van Hofstraeten 7 How Normative were Merchant Guidebooks? Of Customs, Practices, and … Good Advice (Antwerp, Sixteenth Century)  Dave De ruysscher 8 Sources of Commercial Law in the Dutch Republic and Kingdom  Boudewijn Sirks 9 The Files and Exhibits of the Imperial Chamber Court and Aulic Council as Sources of Commercial Law  Anja Amend-Traut 10 Legal, Moral-Theological, and Genuinely Economic Opinions on Questions of Trade and Economy in Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-century Germany  Eberhard Isenmann 11 The Birth of Commercial Law in Early Modern Sweden: Sources and Historiography  Heikki Pihlajamäki 12 Svea Court of Appeal Records as a Source of Commercial Law: The Founding Year of 1614  Mia Korpiola 13 Tracing the Speculation Bubble of 1799 in Newspapers, Court Records, and Other Sources  Margrit Schulte Beerbühl 14 The Rise of Usages in French Commercial Law and Jurisprudence (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries): Some Examples  Edouard Richard 15 On the Origins of the French Commercial Code: Vicissitudes of the Gorneau Draft  Olivier Descamps 16 Court Records as Sources for the History of Commercial Law: The Oberappellationsgericht Lübeck as a Commercial Court (1820–1879)  Peter Oestmann Index of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects

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