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Book SynopsisRefugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories focusses on exiles and forced migrants in British colonies and dominions in Africa or Asia and in Commonwealth countries. The contributions deal with aspects such as legal status and internment, rescue and relief, identity and belonging, the Central European encounter with the colonial and post-colonial world, memories and generations or knowledge transfers and cultural representations in writing, painting, architecture, music and filmmaking. The volume covers refugee destinations and the situation on arrival, reorientation–and very often further migration after the Second World War–in Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Palestine, Shanghai, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Contributors are: Rony Alfandary, Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Albrecht Dümling, Patrick Farges, Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Jyoti Sabharwal, Sarah Schwab, Ursula Seeber, Andrea Strutz, Monica Tempian, Jutta Vinzent, Paul Weindling, and Veronika Zwerger.

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Book SynopsisThe Power of Cities focuses on Iberian cities during the lengthy transition from the late Roman to the early modern period, with a particular interest in the change from early Christianity to the Islamic period, and on to the restoration of Christianity. Drawing on case studies from cities such as Toledo, Cordoba, and Seville, it collects for the first time recent research in urban studies using both archaeological and historical sources. Against the common portrayal of these cities characterized by discontinuities due to decadence, decline and invasions, it is instead continuity – that is, a gradual transformation – which emerges as the defining characteristic. The volume argues for a fresh interpretation of Iberian cities across this period, seen as a continuum of structural changes across time, and proposes a new history of the Iberian Peninsula, written from the perspective of the cities. Contributors are Javier Arce, María Asenjo González, Antonio Irigoyen López, Alberto León Muñoz, Matthias Maser, Sabine Panzram, Gisela Ripoll, Torsten dos Santos Arnold, Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Fernando Valdés Fernández, and Klaus Weber.Trade Review"This set of texts represents a very necessary and fresh updating to the issue of urban life and urban development in Iberia. The work closes with a final balance of the volume coordinator, in which Panzram highlights the need to rewrite Iberian history from an urban perspective, an endeavour to which the reviewed work prominently contributes. It is likewise noteworthy, to conclude, the excellent quality of the edition, significantly enriched with a highly remarkable set of color maps, figures, and pictures providing the reader with very useful tools in order to gain a better understanding of different places and historical realities described in the book". Alejandro García Sanjuán, in Sehepunkte, 20 (2), 2020. This erudite collection of eight essays, bookended by remarks from Panzram (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany), covers the cities of the Iberian peninsula from the Roman and Visigothic periods through the 18th century. [...] Maintaining a high standard of scholarship, this collection would be at home in any academic or research library, particularly those with collections on the history and culture of cities, and the history of Iberia. Summing Up: Recommended". D. C. Kierdorf, in Choice, 57 (1), June 2020.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Maps and Figures Notes on Contributors Maps 1 Introduction: Urban History on the Iberian Peninsula—Current Perspectives  Sabine Panzram Part 1: The City in Spania (4th to 7th Centuries) 2 The Transformation of the City in Hispania between the 4th and the 6th Centuries  Gisela Ripoll 3 The Late Antique City in Spania—Toledo and Recópolis  Javier Arce Part 2: The City in al-Andalus (8th to 11th Centuries) 4 Ornament of the World: Urban Change in Early Islamic Qurṭuba  Isabel Toral-Niehoff and Alberto León Muñoz 5 The Impact of the Arab Conquest on the Planning of the Iberian Cities: Toledo inside Walls  Fernando Valdés Fernández Part 3: The City in the Territories of the “Reconquista” (11th to 15th Centuries) 6 Conquered Cities: Continuity and Transformation of Urban Structures in the Castilian “Reconquista” Territories (11th–14th Centuries)—Toledo and Seville  Matthias Maser 7 The City in the Image/Images of the City: The Lost Tapestry of Valladolid  María Asenjo González Part 4: The City in the Hispaniae (15th to 18th Centuries) 8 Characteristics of Castilian Cities in the 16th and 17th Centuries  Antonio Irigoyen López 9 Ports to “New Worlds”: Lisbon, Seville, Cádiz (15th–18th Centuries)  Klaus Weber and Torsten dos Santos Arnold 10 Epilogue: The Power of Cities—Rewriting the History of the Iberian Peninsula  Sabine Panzram Indices

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Book SynopsisTikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture by Doreen G. Fernandez is a groundbreaking work that introduces readers to the wondrous history of Filipino foodways. First published by Anvil in 1994, Tikim explores the local and global nuances of Philippine cuisine through its people, places, feasts, and flavors. Doreen Gamboa Fernandez (1934–2002) was a cultural historian, professor, author, and columnist. Her food writing educated and inspired generations of chefs and food enthusiasts in the Philippines and throughout the world. This Brill volume honors and preserves Fernandez’s legacy with a reprinting of Tikim, a foreword by chef and educator Aileen Suzara, and an editor’s preface by historian Catherine Ceniza Choy.Trade Review"Tikim as tikman (verb) means to taste food or to try anything. Doreen Fernandez's literary essays on Philippine culinary and alimentary traditions are rightly fabled for their conjugations of tasting and trying in dazzling verbal arabesques. As assays at descriptions and critiques of Philippine cultural formations (assay is archaic form of 'essay') through sensorial samplings of Philippine cuisines, they themselves powerfully incarnate what Benedict Anderson once said of Philippine cultures as constituting ‘a pure mix’!" —Oscar V. Campomanes, Department of English, Ateneo de Manila "Doreen Fernandez was undisputedly one of the best storytellers of our lifetime of what Filipinos eat in their home country. Upon first reading of her essays, one gets introduced to the plot quickly and leaves you savoring every word she writes with meticulous efficiency to uncover layered meanings of culture that form the most basic theoretical foundation in understanding any cuisine. Enjoy the stories that fill these pages, read them many times and one day you will own the knowledge she wanted to share with us." —Amy Besa, Co-Author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near "When their safe houses in Manila were no longer safe, the rebels took shelter at the airy bungalow of Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, a sugar planter’s daughter turned literature professor and food writer. (...) Then, while her guests recuperated by the pool in the cool shadow of a great acacia, she retreated to her desk and resumed the task of documenting the indigenous cooking traditions — scorned and ignored during centuries of colonialism — of an archipelago spanning more than 7,000 islands and nearly 200 languages. (...) Hers was a quiet act of subversion. She revolutionized Filipino food simply by treating it as what it is: a cuisine." Ligaya Mishan, The New York Times, July 30, 2019 "[T]his presents the opportunity to reexamine her work in the context of pressing issues today: disappearing species, the politics of foodways, street vendor economy, or even gender sensitivity, among others, all of which find space in 'Tikim.' (...) Fernandez did all of us a great service — by working hard to explore the multiple layers of Philippine food, culture, and history, she best explained what we mean by food that is ours. By infusing delight and rigor in her writing, she has inspired countless others to do the same. Her invaluable gift is to articulate our collective conscience about food, identity, representation, and power. It is up to us to listen to that conscience. Perhaps my only complaint now is how she has so inaptly titled her book 'Tikim.' When it comes to ingesting food and culture, Fernandez clearly gave us more than just a taste. She gave us a fierce, ravenous appetite." Anna Bueno, CNN Philippines, January 10, 2020 "To learn about French food, one reads Julia Child; Italian food, Marcella Hazan; Indian food, Madhur Jaffrey. To understand Filipino food, one should read Doreen Fernandez, whose work can enlighten ancestral history for the diaspora and explain the foundations of the cuisine for readers outside it." Bettina Makalintal, VICE, October 30, 2020Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Preface Tikim: Just a Taste Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing about Food: Savor the Word, Swallow the World 1 Food and Flavors  1 Balut to Barbecue: Philippine Street Food  2 Here’s to Spirited Holidays  3 Breaking the Fast  4 Sukang Paombong  5 Balut, Kamaru, Sawa: What Exotica Do You Eat?  6 The Lumpia of Silay  7 Si Sugpo: Prawns in Philippine Lore and Culture  8 Ang Mahiwagang Nilaga  9 The Noodles of Our (Long) Lives  10 The Original Pancit Lucban  11 The Vanishing Scene  12 New Ways with Old Dishes  13 Sa Banwa sang Dulce: the Flavors of Negros  14 A Durian Experience  15 Mangoes and Maytime  16 Salty and Sour, Bitter and Sweet: Philippine Flavorings 2 People and Places  1 Inside Information: a Tribute to Mothers  2 On Unperceived Excellences  3 Men in the Kitchen  4 Alta Cocina Filipina: Has It Arrived?  5 Kinilaw Artistry in Old Sagay  6 She Cuts Pastillas Wrappers  7 The Sweet Taste of Success  8 The Filipino Kitchen  9 Restaurant of Yesteryears  10 The Regional Food Adventure  11 What’s Cooking? 3 Books and Other Feasts  1 Food in Philippine Literature  2 A Cookbook and a Billiard Table  3 Pasteleria at Reposteria, 1919  4 Dream Food  5 Mother Cuisine  6 Contrary Thoughts for Valentine’s Day  7 My Personal, Communal Christmas  8 Noche Buena  9 The Festive Table  10 Angono, San Clemente, Giants and Water Pistols  11 Silay, Zarzuelas, and Remembering the Revolution  12 A Town Bejewelled: Philippine Food Art 4 Food in Philippine History  1 The Flavors of Mexico in Philippine Food and Culture  2 A Conversation with Fray Juan de Oliver on Drinking and Drunkenness  3 Beyond Sans Rival: Exploring the French Influence on Philippine Gastronomy  4 Colonizing the Cuisine: the Politics of Philippine Foodways Glossary Sources

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking affected social identity and political behaviour. With examples taken from eleventh- and twelfth-century northern Europe, the author investigates why friendship was praised both by brotherhoods of aristocratic warriors and by brethren within monastery walls. Social and political functions rested on personal connections rather than a strong central state in the High Middle Ages. This meant that friendship was an important pragmatic instrument for establishing social order and achieving success in the game of politics.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction  1 Friendship and Self-Interest  2 Friendship as a Research Topic  3 Thesis  4 The Outline of the Book 1 Ideas of Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Classical Philosophy  1 Friendship in Theory  2 The Terminology of Friendship  3 Friendship in Greek Philosophy  4  Amicitia in Roman Philosophy  5 Friendship in the Apocalyptic Era  6 From Classical Philosophy to the Christian Theology of Late Antiquity  7 Summing Up 2 Friendship and Social Formation in the High Middle Ages  1 Centuries of Upheaval  2 Different Friendship Discourses?  3 The Ecclesiastical Elite   3.1 Collective Identity   3.2 Friendship as a Spiritual and Intellectual Concept   3.3 Spiritalis Amicitia   3.4 The Intellectual Field and the Language of Friendship   3.5 Abbot William’s Collection of Letters   3.6 The Terminology of Friendship   3.7 Living Friendship  4 The Secular Elite   4.1 The Position of the Aristocracy in Society   4.2 The Strategies of the Secular Elite to Legitimize Its Authority   4.3 The Ideal Aristocrat   4.4 The Social Environment   4.5 The Court as a Political Arena  5 Friendship and the Legitimation of Power in Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum   5.1 Saxo’s Classical View of History   5.2 The Audience of Gesta Danorum   5.3 The Spiritual Friendship between Bishop William and Svend Estridsen   5.4 The Friendship Between Bishop Absalon and Valdemar I  6 Collective Pragmatic Friendship: Alliance Systems and Politics  7 The Practical Benefit of Friendship   7.1 Friends and Royal Kinsmen  8 Friendship and the Legitimation of Power  9 Summing Up 3 Friendship in an Oath-Taking Society – A Ritual Perspective  1 The Oath-Taking Society   1.1 Oaths and Friendship   1.2 The Language of Rituals   1.3 Ritual Friendship in a Broader Chronological and Geographical Perspective   1.4 Ritual Friendship – Text and Practice  2 Summing Up 4 Friendship and Lordship in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia  1 Different Forms of Government  2 Friendship as a Form of Lordship – The Power Structure of Traditional Society   2.1 Power Built Up from Below – The Power Basis of Icelandic Chieftains   2.2 The Debate about Political Development in Norway in the Civil War Era   2.3 Protective Relationships and Military Development   2.4 Undermining Lordship – The Struggle for the Throne in Norway   2.5 Friendship and the Political Structure   2.6 The Fruits of Vertical Friendship   2.7 Friendship – A Free Choice?   2.8 Friendship and Mistrust   2.9 Power, Reputation, Violence, and Friendship   2.10 Friendship – A Two-Edged Sword   2.11 The Popular Prince in Heimskringla and Gesta Danorum  3 Friendship and the Christian Ideology of Lordship   3.1 Royal Diplomas and the Sacred Order   3.2 The Intellectual Debate on the Origin of Power   3.3 God’s Friends and Satan’s Henchmen – The Dualistic Conflict Perspective  4 Group Culture and Collective Friendship   4.1 The Ideals, Structure, and Function of the Guilds   4.2 Brotherhood and Continuity  5 Friendship, Brotherhood, and Power Systems in Valdemarian Denmark   5.1 King Valdemar’s Letter to the Gotland Travellers   5.2 The Brotherhood List and Medieval Group Culture   5.3 The Ideology and Function of European Brotherhoods   5.4 Lord and Friend – Lord and Brother?   5.5 The Redirection of Gift Exchange   5.6 Oaths, Brotherhood, and Lordship  6 Summing Up  Epilogue  1 Why Friendship?   1.1 Friendship and Society   1.2 Friendship and Legitimation   1.3 Friendship and Structural Changes   1.4 Friendship as Ideology and Culture Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part I (Regions) introduces the corpus of origin texts from the areas under this volume’s purview. Part II (Themes) identifies key themes that appear in origin legends and introduces new arguments on a wide range of early medieval material. The chapters in Part III (Approaches) conclude the volume by highlighting a range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches to origin legends. Contributors are Lindy Brady, Erica Buchberger, Thomas Charles-Edwards, Michael Clarke, Marios Costambeys, Katherine Cross, Helen Fulton, Shami Ghosh, Ben Guy, Judith Jesch, Catherine E. Karkov, Robert Kasperski, John D. Niles, Conor O’Brien, Alheydis Plassmann, Andrew Rabin, Helmut Reimitz, Robert W. Rix, and Patrick Wadden.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden PART 1: Regions 2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings  Erica Buchberger 3 Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain  T.M. Charles-Edwards 4 Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages  Marios Costambeys 5 Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney  Judith Jesch 6 The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes  Robert Kasperski 7 The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500–800 C.E.  Helmut Reimitz PART 2: Themes 8 The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries  Michael Clarke 9 Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise  Catherine E. Karkov 10 The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends  Conor O’Brien 11 Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity  Robert W. Rix 12 Oral Tradition and Origin Legends  Shami Ghosh PART 3: Approaches 13 Origin Legends and Objects  Katherine Cross 14 Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval Britain and Ireland  Helen Fulton 15 Origin Legends and Genealogy  Ben Guy 16 Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth?  John D. Niles 17 Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome  Alheydis Plassmann 18 Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory’s Decem libri historiarum  Andrew Rabin 19 Conclusion  Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden Index

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Book SynopsisTizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Introduction  1 Utilizing a Colonial Archive in Gunsbach, Alsace  2 Theorizing Hospitals in Africa and the Practice of Biomedicine  3 The Context: Trade, Politics, and Health in Colonial Lambaréné  4 Albert Schweitzer and His Hospital in Lambaréné: a Short Historiography 1 Between Pragmatism and Order: Medical Organization and Daily Routine  1 The Hospital Prior to 1927: Establishment and Adaptation  2 Patient Numbers: Reflecting Global and Local Events in Orderly Records  3 Patients and Their Stay: Strict Conditions, Varied Degrees of Enforcement  4 Patient Motivation: Conceptions of Health and Other Treatments  5 Staff from Europe: Clear Guidelines and Flexible Duties  6 African Staff: Versatile Training and Reliable Service  7 Staff in Comparison  8 Infrastructure: Necessity and Maintenance  9 Conclusion 2 In and Out of Control: Technologies and Patients in Surgery  1 Surgery, Technology, and Control  2 Surgery at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Context and Development  3 Controlling the Surgical Arena: Actors and Organization  4 Technologies of Control: the Example of Lamps  5 Controlling Bacteria: Asepsis and Manual Labor  6 Controlling Patients via Technology: The Example of Anesthesia  7 Beyond the Operating Theater: Limits and Implications of Control  8 Conclusion 3 Dimensions of Ignorance: Discourses and Practices of Obstetrics  1 Depopulation, Domesticity, Ignorance: Framing Maternity Care in Colonial Africa  2 Maternity Services in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  3 Ignoring Training: Recruitment Priorities  4 Giving Birth at and Outside the Hospital  5 Ignoring Context: Maternity Care as a Medical Service  6 Key Areas of Ignorance: Medication and Feeding  7 Conclusion 4 Trial and Error: Drugs and the Treatment of Infectious Diseases  1 Experiments in a Laboratory? The Treatment of Leprosy in Colonial Africa  2 Leprosy in Lambaréné  3 Dysentery in Africa and Lambaréné  4 Trials and Errors: the Use of Pharmaceuticals at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  5 Conclusion 5 Healing and ‘Civilizing’: Community and Safety in Psychiatric Care  1 Psychiatric Services and Ideology in Colonial Africa and at the Hospital  2 The Mentally Ill in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  3 Treating the Mentally Ill at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Drugs and Community  4 Accommodating the Mentally Ill at the Hospital: Perspectives on Safety  5 Conclusion 6 Conclusions  1 Connecting Concepts: the Incoherence of Biomedical Practices  2 The Practice of Global Biomedicine: Schweitzer and the Value of the Local  3 Taxonomies of Global Health and the Albert Schweitzer Hospital Bibliography Archival Sources  Interviews  Published References  Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume represents the first move towards a comprehensive overview of the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. Eschewing a narrow focus on any one theme, it seeks to understand eighteenth-century engagements with antiquity on their own terms, focusing on the contexts, questions, and agendas that led people to turn to the ancient past. The contributors show that a profound interest in antiquity permeated all spheres of intellectual and creative endeavour, from antiquarianism to political discourse, travel writing to portraiture, theology to education. They offer new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Rousseau and Hume, as well as insights into hitherto obscure antiquarians and scholars. What emerges is a richer, more textured understanding of the substantial eighteenth-century engagement with antiquity.

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Book SynopsisRoads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archival and oral history sources, Iva Peša shows the relevance of Mwinilunga to broader processes of colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation. Through a focus on daily life, this book complicates transitions from subsistence to market production and dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Roads through Mwinilunga is a crucial addition to debates on historical and social change in Central Africa.Trade Review'[...] I find Iva Peša’s new book praiseworthy and worthwhile reading for any scholar interested in both the larger theme of social change as well as the lesser topics that she covers." [...] Paul David Wilkin, Anthropology Southern Africa, 43:1, 61-63 '[...] Peša’s research serves as convincing proof of the nonlinear, nondirectional, and evolutionary (continuous) rather than revolutionary (intermittent) nature of the historical process, even under such seemingly punctuated developments as transitions from precolonialism to colonialism and from colonialism to postcolonialism. It is an extremely valuable conclusion that is very well grounded by Peša both in theory and in her analysis of the evidence' [...]. '[...] Peša's book promises to become a much welcome contribution not only to Zambian studies but also to fields beyond. (...) An exceptionally detailed and nuanced description of social change in concrete cultures in changing historical situations, Roads through Mwinilunga is a significant text for theorists in the social sciences who study general trends of institutional transformations.'[...] Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Published on H-Africa (November, 2020) https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55890Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction 1 Paths to the Past: Continuity and Change in Mwinilunga, c. 1750s–1970s 2 Production: Crops, Meat, and Markets 3 Mobility 4 Consumption: Goods, Wealth, and Meaning 5 Settlements and Social Change: Continuity and Change in Village Life Conclusion Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia, the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. In contrast to the conventional focus on the merchants’ networks per se, the chapters of this volume uncover their “networking,” the process in which they constructed and utilized linkages based on the shared concepts such as caste, kin alliances, and religion. By analyzing the interactions between the merchants and the European and Japanese empires, along with Asian states, this volume provides the critical insights into the configuration of the regional economic order in the past and at present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Chi-cheung Choi, Takashi Oishi and Tomoko Shiroyama Part 1: Businesses and Relationships: Networking by Chinese and Indian Merchants 1 Changing Approaches to Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship  Hong Liu and Xin Fan 2 Hometown Connections and Chaozhou Business Networks: A Case Study of Kin Tye Lung, 1850–1950  Chi-cheung Choi 3 Overseas Chinese Remittances in the Mid-Twentieth Century  Tomoko Shiroyama 4 Family, Caste, and Beyond: The Business History of Salt Merchants in Bengal, c. 1780–1840  Sayako Kanda Part 2: Empires, States, and Networks: The Formation of the Asian Regional Economy Section 1: The British EmpireSection 1 5 Indian Merchant Networks and the British Empire: Instrumentality and Agency in a Global Imperial Context  Claude Markovits 6 Bringing a Local Towns into the Global Economy: The Role of Nattukottai Chettiyars on the Malay Peninsula  Tsukasa Mizushima 7 Comparative Perspectives on the Intraregional Networks of Indian Merchants: A Review of the Match Economy from the Perspective of the State and “Big Business”  Takashi Oishi Section 2: Japan and Its Colonies 8 The Asian Merchants’ Networks and Japan’s Trade Recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s  Naoto Kagotani 9 Culture, Market, and State Power: Taiwanese Investment in Southeast Asia, 1895–1945  Man-houng Lin Section 3: The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China 10 Structure and Flexibility in Chinese Merchant Networks: Chinese Chambers of Commerce Overseas in the First Half of the Twentieth Century  Laixing Chen 11 Chinese Migration in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945  Takako Ueda Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other scholars analyse the reception history of images and ideas about Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.). They consider representations of Jesus in the liturgy of the medieval church, Psalters and psalm commentaries, bestiaries, the Glossa ordinaria, and Middle English vitae Christi as well as among the English, the Irish, and Europeans, adherents to the cult of the Holy Name, participants in the Feast of Corpus Christi, and medieval contemplatives, including Bede, Theophylact of Ochrid, Saint Francis, Gertrude the Great, Dante, Julian of Norwich, and medieval English and European visionaries, among others. Contributors are Jane Beal, George Hardin Brown, Aaron Canty, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Thomas Cattoi, Andrew Galloway, Julia Bolton Holloway, Michael Kuczynski, Rob Lutton, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paul Patterson, Linda Stone, Lesley Sullivan Marcantonio, Larry Swain, Donna Trembinski, Nancy van Deusen, and Barbara Zimbalist.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Illustrations Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages Jane Beal 1 Jesus and the Psalms: The Witness of the Latin Liturgical Sequence Nancy van Deusen 2 The Miracles of Jesus in the Writings of the Venerable Bede George Hardin Brown 3 The “Hælend” and Other Images of Jesus in Anglo-Saxon England Larry Swain 4 Christ as an Early Irish Hero: The Poems of Blathmac, Son of Cú Brettan Tomás Ó Cathasaigh 5 The Teaching Logos: Christology and Tropology in Theophylact of Ochrid’s Interpretation of New Testament Parables Thomas Cattoi 6 “I Am”: The Glossa Ordinaria on John’s Gospel Linda Stone 7 Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West Rob Lutton 8 The Unicorn as a Symbol for Christ in the Middle Ages Jane Beal 9 Godly Bridegroom and Human Bride Andrew Galloway 10 Medieval Affective Piety and Christological Devotion: Juliana of Mont Cornillon and the Feast of Corpus Christi Barbara Zimbalist 11 Imitatio Christi and Authority in the Lives of St. Francis Donna Trembinski 12 Vision and Sacrament: Christ’s Humanity in the Spirituality of Gertrude the Great of Helfta Aaron Canty 13 Christ as Turning Point in Dante’s Commedia Victorio Montemaggi and Lesley Sullivan 14 Jesus and the Christ in Two Middle English Psalm Commentaries Michael P. Kuczynski 15 Jesus as ‘Mother’ in Julian of Norwich’s Showing of Love Julia Bolton Holloway 16 Translation Debates and Lay Accessibility in the Meditationes Vitae Christi and Middle English Lives of Christ Paul J. Patterson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Expansion (1686-1746) Elisabeth Heijmans places directors and their connections at the centre of the developments and operations of French overseas companies. The focus on directors’ decisions and networks challenges the conception of French overseas companies as highly centralized and controlled by the state. Through the cases of companies operating in Pondicherry (Coromandel Coast) and Ouidah (Bight of Benin), Elisabeth Heijmans demonstrates the participation of actors not only in Paris but also in provinces, ports and trading posts in the French expansion. The analysis brings to the fore connections across imperial, cultural and religious boundaries in order to diverge from traditional national narratives of the French early modern empire.Table of Contents Acknowledgements General Series Editor’s Preface List of Abbreviations List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Graphs Glossary  Introduction  1When Principals Become Agents  1Structure and Continuity  2Metropolitan Directors  3Upward Social Mobility and the Chamber of Justice  4Safe Investment? Institutional Factors  5Market Access  2Overseas Directors as Mediators  1Overseas and Company Contexts  2Trading Systems and Commercial Actors in Pondicherry and Ouidah  3Multiplicity of Interests within Companies  3Cross-cultural Relations with Rulers  1Sovereign Powers  2Negotiating Cross-cultural Relations  3Competition and Foreign Intermediaries  4Inter-imperial Cooperation  1European Power Dynamics  2Means of Cooperation  3Motives of Cooperation  4Nuances of Competitive Interactions  5Attempts at Self-sustainability  1Accessing Funds  2Integrating Regional Trading Networks  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisTransmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness. Using one of the methodological tools associated with the global history movement, this volume aims to use connectedness to revitalise local and regional networks of exchange and movement. Its case studies collectively point caution toward assuming or asserting global-scale transmission of meaning or items unchanged, and show instead how meaning is locally produced and regionally formulated, and how this is no less dynamic than any global-level connectedness. These case studies by early career scholars range from the movement of cotton growing practices to the transmission of information within individual texts. Their wide scope, however, is nonetheless united by their preoccupation with transmission and circulation as categories of analysing or explaining movement and change in history. This volume hopes to be, therefore, a useful contribution to the growing field of a history of connectivity and connectedness. Contributors are Jovana Anđelković, Petér Bara, Mathew Barber, Julia Burdajewicz, Adele Curness, Carl Dixon, Alex MacFarlane, Anna Kelley, Matteo G. Randazzo, Katinka Sewing and Grace Stafford. See inside the book.Table of Contents  Acknowledgments   List of Maps and Illustrations   Contributors   Introduction    Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery Part 1: Movement of People  1 Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina   Grace Stafford  2 Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations   Julia Burdajewicz  3 A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus. Transfer of Religious Ideas in Western Asia Minor   Katinka Sewing  4 “Slavery” outside the Slave Trade. The Movement and Status of Captives between Byzantine Calabria and the Islamic World   Adele Curness Part 2: Transmitting Traditions  5 ‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance   Alex MacFarlane  6 Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric. An Exile Progymnasma   Jovana Anđelković  7 Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054–5. An Egyptian Perspective on Constantine IX and His Immediate Successors   Mathew Barber  8 The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon. Anna Komnene’s Reproduction of a Lost Family Account of the Doukai   Petér Bara Part 3: Contact  9 The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Ware in 12th-Century Sicily. A Case Study into Economic and Socio-cultural Connections between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and Komnenian Greece?   Matteo G. Randazzo  10 Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850   Carl Dixon  11 By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean   Anna Kelley   index

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Book SynopsisAnna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide. The volume is intended for teachers and students of literature and for general readers. The contributions address facets of Seghers’s large body of work which is characterized by reflections on political events shaping world history and written in a highly imaginative array of narrative styles. The first section focuses on the author’s famous novel The Seventh Cross. Articles in the next two sections analyze her reactions to crises that marked the twentieth century and her connections to other relevant thinkers of her time. The last section features new translations of Seghers’s works.Trade Review“This is an excellent introduction to and scholarly appraisal of one of the 20th century’s most important women writers.” - E.G. Wickersham, Rosemont College USA, in CHOICE Vol. 57.11 2020Table of ContentsContents Note on Translations Note on Orthography Chronology of Seghers’s Life and Works Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: The Seventh Cross: Origins, Relevance, Adaptations  1 Topographies of Escape, Flight, and Migration in Seghers’s Prose  Helen Fehervary  2 Heroes: The Seventh Cross and Seghers’s “Heldenbuch”  Christiane Zehl Romero  3 Allusions to the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish-Christian Gospel and Apostolic Narratives in The Seventh Cross  Helen Fehervary  4  The Seventh Cross: Dignité humaine and Human Rights  Birgit Maier-Katkin  5  The Seventh Crossand Fred Zinnemann’s Cinematic Adaptation  Peter Beicken  6 Expressionism in Pictures: Exploring William Sharp’s Comic Adaptation of The Seventh Cross  Kristy Boney Part 2: From the Historical Avant-Garde to Socialism and Antifascism  7 Netty Reiling’s Student Years at the University of Heidelberg  Christiane Zehl Romero  8 Die Gefährten: Poised Aesthetically between Modernism and Lukácsian Socialist Realism and Politically between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin  Katerina Clark  9 Narrative Approaches to the Holocaust: A Pivotal Decade in Seghers’s Oeuvre  Helen Fehervary  10 The French Connection: Seghers’s Friendships and Work Relationships in and with France  Christiane Zehl Romero  11 Seghers’s Efforts to Write about Postwar Germany  Ute Brandes  12 Anna Seghers, Walter Janka, Wolfgang Harich, and the Events of  Stephen Brockmann Part 3: Seghers and her Contemporaries  13 Visual Encounters: Seghers, Kafka, and Benjamin  Peter Beicken  14 Notes on Seghers and Adorno: Marxism, Post-Fascism, and the Question of Culture  Hunter Bivens  15 “Die herrliche Anna Seghers”: Her Role for Christa Wolf and Brigitte Reimann  Christiane Zehl Romero  16 “… diese unerträgliche Sehnsucht”: Life Journeys and Longing in Reimann, Seghers, and Wolf  Jennifer Marston William  17 Heiner Müller’s Three Confessions: Late Letters to His Father, His Grandfather, and His Literary Mother Anna Seghers  Janine Ludwig Part 4: Seghers in Translation  18 Introduction to The Wayfarers: Chapter One  Hunter Bivens  19 Introduction to “Shelter”  Helen Fehervary  20 Introduction to “The Reed”  Amy Kepple Strawser Index

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Book SynopsisIn Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in contemporary Islamic Java, it had multiple, often surprising, uses in the pre-Islamic society.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures Introduction  1 Old and Middle Javanese Textual Sources: What Can Be Known? part 1: Drinking Landscape in Ancient Java  Introduction to Part 1 1 Twak: Production and Types of Palm Wine  1 Tapping  2 Production  3 Waragaṅ  4 Baḍyag  5 Buḍur  6 Sajəṅ  7 Sayub 2 Beers and Lalasti Inebriating Snacks 3 Fruit Wines and Sugar Cane Wine  1 Sugar Cane Wine and ‘Rums’ in Pre-Islamic Java  2 Māstawa and Sīdhu: Rums in Pre-Islamic Java? 4 Drākṣa: Imported Grape Wine or Chinese Rice Beer? 5 Tuber Beer and Intoxicating Mushroom Brews 6 Distilled Beverages  1 Arrack below the Winds  2 Tampo, pǝṭar, and paṅasih: Alternative Terms for Distilled Drinks 7 Cups That Cheered: Drinking Paraphernalia  1 Drinking Vessels from Natural Materials  2 Pottery Vessels: Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain  3 Glass Cups and Vessels from Silver and Gold 8 Drinking Comportment part 2: Alcohol, Hospitality, and Identity in Java before 1500 CE  Introduction to Part 2 9 Drinking Ascetics and the Status of Alcohol before 1500 CE 10 Palm Wine for Sale: Ambulant Vendors and Market Stalls 11 Alcohol, Intoxication, and the Court Society 12 Alcohol in Marriage Festivities and Conjugal Rituals 13 Alcohol and Its Importance in Javanese Warfare 14 Ancestor Worship, Alcohol, and sīma Ceremonies 15 Alcohol in Javanese Bhairavism and Its Use among the Buddhists  1 Javanese Tantric Systems and Alcohol  2 Alcohol and Its Use and Significance among the Buddhists and Siddha Alchemists 16 Inebriated Men and Intoxicated rākṣasas: Drunkenness 17 Habitual Drinkers: Alcoholism in Pre-Islamic Java? 18 Islamization and Alcohol after 1500 CE Conclusion Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe.Trade Review“The volume’s interdisciplinary approach, grounded in a historical perspective, also proves to be very effective, with a range of topics such as politics, aesthetics, art, education, gender/sexuality being touched upon. In addition to exploring such a variety of topics, a further layer of information is provided in that authors explore not only anarchism but also the different avant-garde communities and groups in existence at the same time. This juxtaposition of groups contributes to the general richness of the volume, as the particularities of certain groups as well as their similarities are revealed.” - Ana Maria Spariosu, European University Institute, Italy in H-Soz-Kult, 14-09-2020 “Statt die Dominanz eines Aspektes über den anderen anzunehmen, wirft die in diesem Bd. eingenommene relationale Perspektive neues Licht auf alte Fragen: in welchem Verhältnis steht eine Bewegung, welche die Autonomie des (entfremdeten) Individuums zum Ausgangspunkt nimmt, zu ihrem parallelen Anspruch, einen gesellschaftlichen Umbruch zu bewirken, mitunter durch die Mobilisierung der Massen? Welche Temporalitäten liegen dem zugrunde, und wie wird mit dem Widerspruch zwischen nostalgisch-primitivistischem Verweis auf die Vergangenheit und einer Zukunftsausrichtung (entweder als Niedergang, Neuaufbruch oder beides) umgegangen? Wie schlägt sich das auf ästhetischer Ebene nieder, und wie können naturalistischer Realismus und neue Formen der Abstraktion innerhalb einer gleichen Bewegung koexistieren? Sind der schöpferische und der destruktive Impetus, die Suche nach Harmonien und die antagonistische Positionierung der Revolutionärin letztlich vereinbar? Von solchen Fragen ausgehend wirbelt der Bd. gängige Vorstellungen zu Anarchismus und Avantgarde durcheinander und liefert anregende Denkanstöße, die nicht zuletzt durch eine sorgfältige Bildauswahl unterstützt werden.” - Pascale Siegrist, German Historical Institute London, UK in Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, Vol. 101 2021 pp. 825-827Table of Contents List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Carolin Kosuch Part 1: Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics  1 The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de SiècleFrance  Richard Shryock  2 Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb of Oscar Wilde  Mark Antliff  3 A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism  Patricia Leighten  4 Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy  Daniela Padularosa Part 2: Fractions: Declining – Pioneering − Redeeming  5 Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics  David Weir  6 ‘We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood’: Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism  Carolin Kosuch  7 ‘Theocratic Anarchism’? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde  Gabriele Guerra Part 3: Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings  8 Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration  Constance Bantman  9 Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art  Federico Ferretti  10 Teaching Revolution through Arts? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited  Piotr Laskowski  Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Environmental Change and African Societies Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermann Part 1 Ideas 1 To See or Not to See: On the ‘Absence’ of Climate Change (Discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania Sara de Wit 2 Perspectives on Climate Change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000 Vimbai Kwashirai Part 2 Past 3 Environmental and Climate Change in Africa: Global Drought and Local Environmental Infrastructure Emmanuel Kreike 4 Shamba Forestry in Colonial Kenya: Colonial Dominance or African Opportunity? Ben Fanstone Part 3 Present 5 I’m Staying! Climate Variability and Circular Migration in Burkina Faso Jonas Østergaard Nielsen 6 Living with a Changing Climate in sub-Saharan Africa: More of the Same Joy Clancy 7 Sustainable Mauritius? Environmental Change, Energy Efficiency, and Sustainable Development in a Small Island State in the Indian Ocean Laura Jeffery 8 Transformative Learning for Global Change? Reflections on the wascal Master Programme in Climate Change and Education in the Gambia Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambo Part 4 Prospects 9 Africa in Transition: What Role for the Environment? Ton Dietz 10 Africa’s High Modernism: Historical Ecologies of Climate Change and Hydrologies of Watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi) James C. McCann 11 Increasing Urbanisation and the Role of Green Spaces in Urban Climate Resilience in Africa Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo- Concha, and Manfred Denich Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEarly modern travelers often did not form part of classic ‘diaspora’ communities: they frequently never really settled, perhaps remaining abroad for some time in one place, then traveling further; not ‘blown by the wind,’ but by changing and complex conditions that often turned out to make them unwelcome anywhere. The dispersed developed strategies of survival by keeping their distance from old and new temporary ‘homes,’ as well as by using information from and manipulating foreign representations of their former countries. This volume assembles case studies from the Mediterranean context, the Americas and Japan. They explore what kind of ‘power(s)’ and agency dispersed people had, counterintuitively, through the connections they maintained with their former homes, and through those they established abroad. Contributors: Eduardo Angione, Iordan Avramov, Marloes Cornelissen, David Do Paço, José Luis Egío, Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi, Paula Manstetten, Simon Mills, David Nelson, Adolfo Polo y La Borda, Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Cesare Santus, Stefano Saracino, and Cornel Zwierlein.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on the Editor Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Cornel Zwierlein Part 1: Dispersed in Ecclesiastical and Diplomatic Networks 1 In Parte d’Infedeli: A Papal Informant in Istanbul (1607–1608)  Edoardo Angione 2 The Album Amicorum of the Athonite Monk Theoklitos Polyeidis and the Agency of Perambulating Greek Alms Collectors in the Holy Roman Empire (18th Century)  Stefano Saracino 3 The Great Imposture: Eastern Christian Rogues and Counterfeiters in Rome, c. 17th–19th Centuries  Cesare Santus Part 2: Dispersed in the Republic of Letters 4 Nomads in the Early Modern Republic of Letters: The Transient Correspondents of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London  Iordan Avramov 5 Travelling Scholastics: The Emergence of an Empirical Normative Authority in Early Modern Spanish America  José Luis Egío 6 Johann Heinrich Callenberg’s Orient  Simon Mills 7 Solomon Negri: The Self-Fashioning of an Arab Christian in Early Modern Europe  Paula Manstetten Part 3: Dispersed by War 8 From Erstwhile Captive to Cultural Erudite: The Career of Korean-Born Samurai, Wakita Kyūbei  David Nelson 9 Stories of Spanish Captivity in Istanbul: From Trauma to Empowerment  Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez 10 Between America and the Maghrib: The Marquis of Varinas and the Weapons of the Exile  Adolfo Polo y La Borda Part 4: Dispersed in Commercial and Political Networks 11 In the Blind Spot of the State: Trieste in the 18th-Century Trans-Imperial Adriatic Society  David Do Paço 12 Religious Feeling and the Construction of a Merchant’s Identity in the Greek Trade Networks of the Late Eighteenth Century  Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi 13 From Bern with Love: The Spy with a Taste for the Exquisite in Early Modern Istanbul  Marloes Cornelissen 14 Dispersed Things: European Merchant Households in the Levant  Cornel Zwierlein Index Rerum Index Locorum Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisEl éxodo español de 1939: Una topología cultural del exilio explores the various stages of the relocation of culture in exile; from French concentration camps, on board ship and finally to residence in Mexico. En El éxodo español de 1939: Una topología cultural del exilio Mónica Jato estudia varias etapas de la experiencia espacial del exilio: en los campos de internamiento franceses, en los barcos rumbo a América y durante el asentamiento en México.Table of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones 1 Introducción: una topología cultural del exilio  1.1 Una sintaxis espacial del exilio  1.2 Otros espacios: el no-lugar y la heterotopía  1.3 A cuestas con la cultura 2 En la frontera francesa: la prensa de las arenas  2.1 De la frontera al campo de concentración  2.2 Prensa y retratos enmarcados  2.3 Encerrados en una playa: los barracones de la cultura  2.4 Escrito en la arena y en el barro 3 El lugar de una pausa: los barcos del exilio  3.1 Los barcos, los textos: una historia oscuramente fantástica  3.2 De la dispersión al encierro perfecto  3.3 Heterotopías: espacios de la otredad  3.4 Un encierro no tan perfecto: stultifera navis 4 Traducciones culturales del espacio mexicano  4.1 ¿Descubriendo España o reinventando América?  4.2 Traducciones de una copia  4.3 “Todo el mundo sabe lo que es un paisaje…”  4.4 ¿El intelectual domesticado? Mirar para ser visto  4.5 De viaje por España a través del paisaje mexicano 5 El espacio hecho morada: los escritores hispanomexicanos  5.1 “Vidas en vilo”: los hijos del exilio  5.2 Señas de identidad  5.3 Posmemoria y exilio heredado 6 De vuelta a la frontera Obras citadas Índice

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Book SynopsisThe focus of Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World is on urban hierarchies and interactions in large geographical areas rather than on individual cities. Based on a painstaking examination of archaeological and epigraphic evidence relating to more than 1,000 cities, the volume offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of Roman Gaul, North Africa, Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In addition it examines the transformation of the settlement systems of the Iberian Peninsula and the central and northern Balkan following the imposition of Roman rule. Throughout the volume regional urban configurations are examined from a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from climate and landscape, administration and politics, economic interactions and social relationships all the way to region-specific ways of shaping the townscapes of individual cities.Trade Review"The relevance of these contributions to the study of regional urban systems across the Roman world is demonstrated not only by the authors’ discussions, but also by the wealth of analytic data, tables, catalogues and appendices supplementing many of these texts. Undoubtedly, the volume provides new information that will be of use to anyone working on the urbanism, economic and socio-political history of the Roman Empire, striking a good balance between archaeological and ancient historical standpoints." - Niccolò Mugnai, University of Oxford, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.01.29 ''This volume successfully champions the ‘regional perspective’ as a fruitful way to analyse the process of urbanisation in the Roman period. The adoption of multiple scales allows the publication to account for the diversity of urban developments, while paying due attention to both pan-imperial and region-specific factors. The publication makes it evident that a number of important insights would have been missed if urbanisation studies remained limited to research on single cities. The larger scale and the systemic context provided by the volume allow for more complex observations about economic integration and about the nature of contacts between individual cities. The volume’s key conclusions about provincial urbanisation and the data it assembles will pave the way for further work on cities in the Roman world.'' - Pawel Borowski, in: The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Luuk de Ligt and John Bintliff 2 A World of 200 Oppida: Pre-Roman Urbanism in Temperate Europe  Manuel Fernández-Götz 3 The Size Distribution of Self-governing Cities in the North-Western Provinces: Trends and Anomalies  Frida Pellegrino 4 The Roman ‘Small Towns’ in the Massif Central (civitates of the Arverni, Vellavii, Gabali, Ruteni, Cadurci and Lemovices): Methodology and Main Results  Florian Baret 5 Towns, Roads and Development Dynamics in the Territory of the Arverni in Roman Times (Auvergne, France)  Frédéric Trément, Florian Baret, Marion Dacko, Jérôme Trescarte, Maxime Calbris, Lise Augustin and Guy Massounie 6 Urbanisation of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Period: Choices, Impositions and ‘Resignation’ of the Newcomers  Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez 7 The Urban Landscape of Roman Central Adriatic Italy  Frank Vermeulen 8 The Impact of Roman Rule on the Urban System of Sicily  Luuk de Ligt 9 Roman Towns and the Settlement Hierarchy of Ancient North Africa: A Bird’s-Eye View  Matthew Hobson 10 A Diachronic and Regional Approach to North African Urbanism  David Stone 11 Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa  Paul Scheding 12 Urbanisation and Population Density: The Case of the ‘Small Municipia’ in the Balkan and Danube Provinces  Damjan Donev 13 Between the River and the Fort: Applying Critical Regionalism to Roman Towns in the Pannonian Basin  Dragana Mladenovic 14 Urban Networks in Early Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace  Michalis Karambinis 15 Regional Perspectives on Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Roman Asia Minor  Rinse Willet 16 From Mountain to Coastal Plain: Settings of Settlements and Stages of Urbanisation in Ancient Lycia  Frank Kolb Index

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Book SynopsisCity Intelligible seeks to integrate a transcendental philosophical anthropology of commoditisation before industrialisation with a social and cultural, thus empirical anthropology of commodity production and exchange that is global, thus inter-cultural. It treats commodification as a singular and privileged evidence of the universal status of human reasoning, and one that grounds the translational character of human exchange throughout the early centuries, and yet that simultaneously founds ubiquitous cultural differentiation. The book constitutes, therefore, a refutation of the predominant tendency in the humanities to represent cultural difference as inhibiting the very possibility of effective intercultural translation. It treats the factors of economic history as forms of cultural expression, but determined, in their turn, by a continuum of complex societal formation from the very beginnings of intensive agricultural and social settlement. It seeks to derive evidence for the universal foundations of human reasoning through analysis of the culture of commoditisation in marrying a thoroughgoing Kantian analysis with the historical evidence, an approach aspiring to ground the very concept and possibility of a universal human cultural nature underlying all human differentiation.Table of ContentsForeword by Ravi Ahuja Acknowledgements Notice to the Reader List of Illustrations More than a Preface or Introduction!: The Transcendental Constitution of the Cultural, Historical and Empirical Object: The Problem and Task of the Two Anthropologies  1Initial Notice—an Order of Reading  2The Subject Matter and the Project  3To Constitute History and Society … the Two Taxonomies  4The Three Criticisms  5A Critical and Transcendental Anthropology of Intercultural Translatability—the Question of Method  6Final Resolution of a Dilemma: The A-Priori, at Once Universal and Empirical  7The Composition of the Book Part 1: Artifice & Nature: A Kantian and Historical Anthropology of Commoditisation before Industrialisation 1 From the Closed World to the Open Continuum  1Complexity, Language & Uncertainty  2Order, Unit & Convenience in Economic History. Language-Use as Problem  3Production and Marketing as an Issue of Complexity  4Alternative Principles of Order & Method  iThe Propositions  iiSampling as Method  iiiResources for Sampling, and a Hypothesis  ATextile Market-Censuses  BRaw Cottons  CPre-Spun Wools & Woollen Yarns  DThe Knowledge Problem  ELists of Coinages Brought to Particular Markets 2 Unpacking, Disengaging and Linking  1The Production and Marketing of Type: Phases, Extensions, Disengagements and Articulations  iThe « Raw Materials » of Production  AEmpirical Linkage  BInitial Implications  iiCloth Typologies  iiiSpeciation in Field & Market (Autonomy for Connection)  2Quality and Number  3A Second Object World  1The Continuum  iA Problem of Method  iiCommodity Nature  AAn Artificial Object World, & Its Taxonomy  BMarketisation as Communication  aMarkets & Complexity  bThe Issue of Translatability—Markets & Frontiers  cMarkets & Information  2Kant’s Tower of Babel & the Cultural Universal  iMetaphor & Construction  iiA Kantian Approach to Commoditisation & Translatability  iiiThe Universal and Cultural Difference  AThe Problem of the Very Idea of a Universal Culture and Mind  BFirst Invalid—the Biological A-Priori  CSecond Invalid—Plurality of Societies as a Priori  DAn Answer—Historical Generation of the Universal as a History of Differentiation  3Cultural and Natural Space/Times  iIntroduction. for an Explanation of Difference  iiNewtonian Space/Time & Practical Knowledge  iiiSpecies Construction and Its Transcendental Space/Time  ivExtension in Space/Time  ARephrasing the Coordinates of Choice & Limit with Respect to Reason  BNeither Closed nor Infinite, but Finite & Illimitable  aA Unity of Formative and Constructional Principle of the Exotic  bBut What Kind of Unity?  cA Poesis of the Incomparable  dNot an Infinity but Finitude  eA Finitude Closed and Bounded? or Open and Illimitable? Our Return to Kant!  fThinking the Object into Being and the Reality-Status of That Thought  gAn Edifice Built Only with Matter Accessible to Human Kind  CFurther Thoughts about the Meaning of a « Universal » Culture of Practice and Mind  vIntersubjectivity and Non-Essentialist Construction  4Postface Part 2: Taxonomy & Commodity: In Global Transfers of Plant Forms and Plant Products into Early-modern Europe (the cultural production of nature, or the foundations of early botany)  Introduction to Part 2: Plant Artifice/Plant Nature  4A General Framework  1Introduction: Artifice & Nature  2Contexts, Empirical & Intellectual  3Foundational Difficulties  iProblem Domains  iiSubstantive Discussion  AThe Continuum of Culture, Language and Systematics, and Thus Translatability  BThe Cultural Specificity of Any Grown Plant. Selection in Artificial Botanies  CMarket Determination of « Artificial » Plant Variation  DA Partial Explanation in Terms of Transmission of Cultural Universals, in the Kantian Sense  5Foundations of Botany in Western Europe  1Europe and the World: The Phases and Aspects of Botanical Taxonomy and Abstraction  iMedical Botany, Horta Botanica, Taxonomies & Pharmacopoeia  iiThe Concept of Type, Agricultural Part-Products & Market Continua  6A Postface: Narrative Style, Evolutionary Form, and the Shaping of an Early Science: Botany  Appendix 1Order in Artificial and Spontaneous Natures  Appendix 2« The Phenomenology Lesson ». A Commentary on the Illustrations  Bibliography  1Introduction: Selection and Translation  2Kant, Hegel and Husserl 54  3General Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-Maqrizī’s prosopographical production; the rise of early Ottoman historiography. Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.Trade Review“Aposiopesis, Anagnorisis as the transference of recognition from character to reader and spectator, the whole array of articles provide a scholastic reader with plenty of information for further research on Language, Poetry and Prose.” Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sami G. Massoud Part 1: Classical Historiography 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman  Michael Wood 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate  Heather J. Empey 3 Al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā li-Miṣr. Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work  Frédéric Bauden 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi’s Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts  Murat Cem Mengüç Part 2: Sacred History 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Ta‌ʾwīl): the Birth of Jesus  Shafique N. Virani 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān  Derryl N. MacLean 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu’s Shengzan  Hyondo Park Part 3: Perspectives 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo  Reem Meshal 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean  Patricia Risso Index

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Book SynopsisWarriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups into the territories of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the eleventh century, through intersecting stories transmitted in Turkish Muslim warrior epics and dervish vitas, and late Byzantine martyria. It examines the Byzantines’ encounters with the newcomers in a shared story-world, here called “land of Rome,” as well as its perception, changing geopolitical and cultural frontiers, and in relation to these changes, the shifts in identity of the people inhabiting this space. The study highlights the complex relationship between the character of specific places and the cultural identities of the people who inhabited them. See inside the bookTrade Review"There is much to commend in this meticulous study. Kitapçı Bayrı is in full control over her source base in Greek and Turkish as well as the substantial bodies of scholarship in multiple languages that surround them. Her reach into the vast realm of Byzantine and Islamic studies is on display in her exceptionally rich contextualization of her primary sources and in the notes that accompany this contextualization, many of which are little disquisitions in their own right on particular topics. [...] For scholars of Turkish history in particular, who are not normally conversant with Byzantinist scholarship, the author’s ability to flesh out the Byzantine settings reflected in these epics is invaluable. Byzantinists, too, will benefit from such a contextualized presentation since in a real sense, Kitapçı Bayrı turns these medieval Turkish epics into sources for Byzantine history. [...] In brief, Kitapçı Bayrı is to be commended for erecting a bridge over the divide between bodies of scholarship based on expertise in Greek-language versus Turkish-language sources and for successfully uncovering as complete a historical setting as possible, both Byzantine and Turkish, for the three medieval epics and the martyrdom stories that lie at the core of this study. Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes will now be the go-to book for anyone interested in these sources in particular and, more generally, for all who would like to think holistically about the shifting identities of Greek and Turkish inhabitants of “Rome/Rum” between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries." Ahmet T. Karamustafa, University of Maryland, in Mediterranean Historical Review, 2020, 225-7 "And the new book by Kitapçı Bayrı now offers an excellent example of how to look at the Byzantine empire from a new angle. [...] Accordingly, the new book by Kitapçı Bayrı could hardly be more timely, offering an alternative model for how to understand both space and identity in a non-binary way that can only benefit our field of study." Ingela Nilsson, in Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, No 6, 2020, 211-6 "Especially interesting are her detailed observations on food and feasting as markers of the clashing identities of both ethnic groups. Also notable, her running critical commentary of recent multilingual scholarship covers a broad swath listed in an extensive bibliography, accompanied by 10 maps. In sum, this is a welcome update on a little-known period of extreme importance in late medieval Anatolian history, and a well-written contribution to Byzantine and Turkish history. Summing Up: Recommended." S. Bowman, in Choice, 57 (10), June 2020, 1130 "Overall, this is a very stimulating book which sheds considerable light on the vibrant, fluid and often brutal landscapes of 13th-15th century Anatolia (as well as other lands formerly ruled by the Byzantine Empire). It offers texture and detail to the identities, boundaries and ambitions which moulded this world. To date, scholars have been at pains to stress the many zones of accord and positive interaction between the peoples of these regions, especially the Turks and local Christians, highlighting examples of cross-cultural influence and intermarriage.This book does not neglect such themes and yet the lasting impression it imparts is of a deeply conflictual environment where inter-cultural exchange could take place but within a social context of deeply-rooted suspicion and antagonism''. Nicholas Morton, in AL-MASĀQ, 32 (2), 2020. "The problem of Byzantine-Turkish transformation in Asia Minor and the Balkan Peninsula has found growing scholarly attention in recent years. Numerous innovative studies reexamine and develop new approaches to matters of conflict and conquest, diplomatic, cultural, and religious interaction, social change, or artistic cross-fertilizations. The present monograph fits well into this trend by focusing on literary representations of interactions between Orthodox Christian and Muslim Turkish communities in frontier zones, cities, and imaginary spaces of the ‘land of Rome’ (bilād al-Rūm/Rum İli), i.e., Asia Minor and the Balkans, between the 13th and the 15th centuries. Kitapçı Bayrı attempts a comparative analysis of Turkish warrior epics and late Byzantine martyria, two literary genres which share the common intention to present both peaceful and violence-driven contact situations as a means of projecting identity, religious and moral superiority, and cultural and ideological attitudes [...] Kitapçı Bayrı’s monograph is an impressive piece of innovative scholarship which in many ways breaks new ground through a parallel investigation of Byzantine and Turkish sources." Alexander Beihammer, in The Medieval Review 21.12.06. See the full review here. "C’est donc un ouvrage très riche, qui donne à repenser en un sens très original la notion de romanité à la fin du Moyen- ge et incite à réfléchir sur la disjonction entre identité romaine et identité chrétienne. La géographie mentale d’une part et les enjeux territoriaux de l’autre se révèlent être les deux bouts d’une chaîne que l’auteur parvient à tenir dans un équilibre remarquable. Cet ouvrage est aussi une preuve supplémentaire, s’il en fallait, de l’intérêt qu’il y a à décentrer le regard en mettant à profit des sources turques pour étudier la période byzantine tardive." Marie-Hélène Blanchet, in Revue des études byzantines 80, 2022. 'KB’s remarkable accomplishment is to provide, not merely a juxtaposition or comparison Byzantine and Turkish voices, but an account of their reciprocity and interaction. This is just what the fascinating historical context, the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean, deserved. This work will serve as landmark study for future generations, not only for its manifold contributions to Byzantine and Turkish studies, or even for its introduction of a successful, novel, transdisciplinary and holistic perspective. It will remain so for its fulfilment of a real desideratum for scholarship and indeed society: the creation of bridges. This work creates bridges over a series of scientific divides: between bodies of scholarship, between academic cultures, between perceptions of ethnicity, between traditions and future exigencies. Research of this kind constitutes a persuasive counter-discourse to contemporary narratives of ethnic and social division. A fresh, masterly, and pioneering contribution to historical, literary and spatial studies, which all Byzantinists should read.' Myrto Veikou, in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 47 (1), 2023.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Maps  Note on Transliteration  Introduction  1 Sources  2 Scholarship   2.1 Nomadization   2.2 Islamization   2.3 “Romanization”  3 Organization of the Book 1 Warriors  1 Introduction  2 Part 1: The Battalname   2.1 Land of Rome and Frontiers   2.2 Us   2.3 Them   2.4 Byzantines: Fact and Fiction  3 Part 2: The Danişmendname   3.1 Land of Rome and Frontiers   3.2 Them   3.3 Byzantines: Fact and Fiction   3.4 Us   3.5 Social and Cultural Frontiers: Love Affairs and Food as Identity Markers    3.5.1 Love Affairs    3.5.2 Food, Feasting, and Fasting: The Creation of Boundaries    3.5.3 Meat    3.5.4 Sugar and Sweet    3.5.5 Fish, Seafood, and Wine   3.6 Who Are You? 2 Martyrs  1 Introduction  2 Part 1: The Story of the Stories: Late Byzantine Martyrs and Martyria   2.1 Nicene Empire (1204–1261)    2.1.1 Thirteen Monks of Cyprus (m. 1231) (BHG 1198)   2.2 Reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282–1328)    2.2.1 Niketas the Younger (m. December 1282) (BHG 2302, 2303)    2.2.2 Michael of Alexandria (m. ca. 1311–1325) (BHG 2273)   2.3 Liberation of Philadelphia (March 7, 1348) (BHG 801q): A Dissident Text   2.4 Hesychast Patriarchs (1347–1397)    2.4.1 Theodore the Younger (m. 1347–ca. 1369) (BHG 2431)    2.4.2 Three Martyrs of Vilnius (m. 1347) (BHG 2035)    2.4.3 Anthimos, Metropolitan of Athens (m. 1371) (BHG 2029)   2.5 Eve of the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1437–1439)    2.5.1 George of Adrianople (m. 1437) (BHG 2160)  3 Part 2: Land of Rome, Frontiers, Cities, and Us and Them   3.1 Land of Rome   3.2 Frontiers: Borders of the Christian Roman Oikoumene   3.3 Cities   3.4 Us   3.5 Them 3 Dervishes  1 Sarı Saltuk, the Nomad Dervish  2 Land of Rome  3 Frontiers  4 Us and Them   4.1 Gazi   4.2 Turk   4.3 Rumi  Conclusion  Maps  Abbreviations  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Höfische Musikkultur im klassischen Islam wirft Yasemin Gökpinar einen frischen Blick auf die Sängersklavinnen und ihr Liedrepertoire inmitten der Ambiguitäten des Hoflebens von den Abbasiden bis zu den Mamluken. In the present volume Yasemin Gökpinar offers new perspectives on singing slave girls and their song repertoires, in the midst of the ambiguities of court life, from the Abbasids to the Mamluks.Table of ContentsVorwort Melodien der arabischen Kalligraphie Abkürzungen 1 Einleitung 2 Autor und Werk  2.1 Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī und sein Umfeld  2.2 Werke  2.3 Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār 3 Form und Genre  3.1 Das Liederbuch als Sammlung von Musikerbiographien  3.2 Betrachtungen zum Liederbuch als historische Quelle 4 Musikerbiographien im 10. Band der Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār  4.1 Exemplarische Portraits der Musiker und Musikerinnen  4.2 Textanalyse Fazit Anhang: Übersicht: Dichter, Lieder, Metren Literaturverzeichnis Personenindex Sachindex

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond the Legacy of the Missionaries and East Indians, Jerome Teelucksingh offers a revisionist perspective of the role of the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad. He is particularly interested in social mobility as regards the Indo-Caribbean diaspora in the era following the First World War. He argues that the Presbyterian Church in the Caribbean was particularly interested in women’s rights. As such, he examines the dynamic between local expertise and Canadian missionary work in such social uplift processes.Trade Review"Teelucksingh must be commended for bringing attention to the investments, challenges, and achievements of the Presbyterian mission among Trinidad Indians. The book deserves a place in the historiography of Caribbean Indians and will be useful to researchers, instructors, and students who are interested in how a Canadian Christian religious mission has been successful in transforming the lives of an immigrant group in Trinidad." - Lomarsh Roopnarine, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 95: Issue 1-2, Pages: 166–167Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Conversion and Education of the Indians 1 Rural Schools 2 Conversion   3 Ordinances and Progress   4 Ethnicity and Integration   5 Secondary Schools   2 Caribbean Missions: The Spread of Presbyterianism in British West Indian colonies 1 Presbyterianism in Grenada  2 Presbyterianism in Jamaica   3 Presbyterianism in St. Lucia   4 Presbyterianism in Guyana (British Guiana)  5 Global and Regional Linkages   3 Rebuilding a Society: Preparing Foundations 1 Co-curricular Activities   2 Myths and Realities   3 Beacon in South Trinidad   4 Naparima Training College   5 Importance of Hindi  6 Turbulent Thirties  7 Church and School Linkages   8 More Beacons   4 Uneasy Transitions: Presbyterian Schools and Excellence 1 Brewing Trouble: Denominational versus Government Schools   2 Growth of the Presbyterian Schools   3 Primary Schools   4 Emergence of Hindu and Muslim Schools   5 Naparima Training College 1956–1975   6 Shortcomings of the Church   5 Culture, Ethnicity and Administration 1 Return to Cultural Roots   2 Primary School Administration   3 Allegations   4 Involvement in Pre-schools   5 Work Ethic in Secondary Schools   6 Church Administration and Women’s Liberation 1 Early Church Administration   2 Sense of Belonging   3 Catechists   4 Women’s Work, Teenagers and Children   5 Boards of Education   Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s.Trade Review"Görkem Akgöz has written an important and original book. Not only is the subject new, so is the methodology used. She explores new paths and she does so convincingly. In the Shadow of War and Empire is undoubtedly a landmark in the social historiography of the Global South." – Professor Marcel van der Linden, Institute of Social History, Amsterdam "Görkem Akgöz has produced a study that will be of interest far beyond the ranks of historians of Turkey – those interested in labour, gender, state formation, citizenship, and ideology will find much of value here. Deeply researched, beautifully written, and insightful at virtually every turn, this is a book destined to become a classic." – Professor Rick Halpern, University of Toronto "Görkem Akgöz takes Turkish and global labour history an important step further by successfully connecting a macro perspective of the long-term history of state building and industrialization to an inclusive microhistory of all the workers involved. Truly a tour de force." – Aad Blok, Executive Editor of the International Review of Social History

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Book SynopsisIn The Theatre of the Street: Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antoon Vrints offers a historical analysis of the meanings and functions of street violence in a modern European city. Commonly perceived as the senseless outcome of social disintegration in urban contexts, public violence appears here as a meaningful strategy to settle conflicts informally. Making use of Antwerp police records, Vrints shows that the prevailing discourse on public violence does not pass the test of empirical facts. The presumed correlation between the occurrence of public violence and the decline of neighbourhood life must even be reversed to some extent. The nature of public violence paradoxically points to the crucial importance of neighbourhood networks.Table of ContentsList of Figure and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction  1 A Controversial Issue  2 Violence as a Significant Social Phenomenon  3 The Empirical Basis  4 Structure of This Book 1 Life on a Stage  1.1 Introduction  1.2 A Public Existence  1.3 Openness, Reputation and Reciprocity  1.4 Honour Fights  1.5 Between Self-Regulation and Disciplination by an Outside Agency  1.6 Revenge, Social Standing and Violence  1.7 Violence as a Means of Social Control?  1.8 Domestic Squabbles and Respectability  1.9 Sexual Violence, Shame and Discretion  1.10 Conclusion 2 The Rules of the Game  2.1 Ritual Interaction  2.2 The Power of Language  2.3 Expressive Body Language  2.4 Violation and Defilement  2.5 Territorial Strategies  2.6 The Rules of the Duel  2.7 Conclusion 3 Men’s and Women’s Roles  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Men and Women in Battle  3.3 Men’s and Women’s Language  3.4 Men’s and Women’s Places?  3.5 Conclusion 4 Repertoires of Respectability  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Group-Specific Behavioural Patterns  4.3 Shifts over Time?  4.4 Possible Explanations for Behavioural Shifts  4.5 Conclusion 5 Values behind Words  5.1 Insults, Values and Identification  5.2 The Sexual Reputation of Men and Women  5.3 Purity and Respectability  5.4 The Established and the Outsiders  5.5 About “coward”, “thief” and Other Insults  5.6 Conclusion: Substantive Stability? General Conclusion  1 Public Violence and Social Ties: a Theatre with a Message and an Audience  2 Public Violence and Social Stratification: Theatre of the Common People  3 Public Violence and Social Meaning: Honour and Shame at Stake  4 Epilogue: Public Violence, from Theatre to Misunderstood Spectacle Sources and Bibliography Subjects Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThe driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernisation – transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernisation, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With selected examples of different legal institutions, countries and periods, the authors of the essays in the two volumes Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. I: Private Law and Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. II: Public Law seek to explain the nature of this problem. Contributors are Judit Beke-Martos, Jiří Brňovják, Marjorie Carvalho de Souza, Michał Gałędek, Imre Képessy, Ivan Kosnica, Simon Lavis, Maja Maciejewska-Szałas, Tadeusz Maciejewski, Thomas Mohr, Balázs Pálvölgyi, and Marek Starý.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Residential Right in the Course of Time: Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown Lands  Jiří BrňovjákandMarek Starý 2 Legal Transfers and National Traditions: Patterns of Modernization of the Administration in Polish Territories at the Turn of the 19th Century  Michał Gałędek 3 National Modernization through the Constitutional Revolution of 1848 in Hungary: Pretext and Context  Imre Képessy 4 Restoring the Hungarian Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867  Judit Beke-Martos 5 The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833–1939  Thomas Mohr 6 Direct Impact on Hungarian Migration Policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between the United States and Austria-Hungary (1880s–1914)  Balázs Pálvölgyi 7 Political Systems in Transition and Cultural (In)dependence: The Limits of a Legal Transplant in the Example of the Brazilian’s Court of Auditors Birth  Marjorie Carvalho de Souza 8 Constitutional Systems of Free European States (1918–1939)  Tadeusz Maciejewski and Maja Maciejewska-Szałas 9 Local Citizenship in the Croatian-Slavonian Legal Area in the First Yugoslavia (1918–1941): Breakdown of a Concept?  Ivan Kosnica 10 Nazi Law as Pure Instrument: Natural Law, (Extra-)Legal Terror, and the Neglect of Ideology  Simon Lavis Index

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Book SynopsisThis study addresses encounters between Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin. Living on the margins of German society, the two groups sometimes used that position to fuse visions and their personal lives. German politics set the switches for their meeting, while the urban setting of Western Berlin offered a unique contact zone. Although the meeting was largely accidental, Muslim Indian missions served as a crystallization point. Five case studies approach the protagonists and their network from a variety of perspectives. Stories surfaced testifying the multiple aid Muslims gave to Jews during Nazi persecution. Using archival materials that have not been accessed before, the study opens up a novel view on Muslims and Jews in the 20th century. This title is available in its entirety in Open Access.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of Muslim and Jewish Places in West Berlin Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction PART 1: THE SETTING 1. Crossroads 2. The Spaces in Between PART 2: CASE STUDIES 3. The Hiking Club: S. M. Abdullah and the Oettinger Women 4. An Artist’s View: Lisa Oettinger Between ‘Civilizations’ 5. The Sting of Desire: Hugo Marcus’s Theology of Male Friendship 6. The Rebels: Luba Derczanska and her Friends 7. An Indian Muslim in Jewish Berlin: Khwaja Abdul Hamied Summary and Conclusion Archival Materials, Websites, Copyrights of Images References Index of Names General Index

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Book SynopsisWhat was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? This book explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly, European (especially Dutch) sources and archival documents, the volume covers a range of cultural expressions from the applied arts to philosophy. Special attention goes to the ideals and realities of trade and diplomacy of the Dutch East India Company in China. Foreign Devils and Philosophers approaches global history from a cultural perspective and illuminates the reciprocal dynamic of aversion and admiration: Chinese and Westerners could appear as sages or savages in each other’s eyes.

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Book SynopsisCultures of Care: Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600–1689 explores voluntary networks of charity and their interaction with the Reformed Church of Scotland. Whereas most previous histories have assessed the growth of institutional charity, this book contends that the Reformed Church of Scotland was heavily reliant on informal, domestic modes of self-help throughout the seventeenth century. The existence and widespread acceptance of informal care dramatically changes our understanding of the impact of the Calvinist Reformation. Local ecclesiastical and secular leaders did not have a concerted policy to affect or ameliorate informal networks of care. Reformed authorities were members of these networks, as well as agents to police them, collapsing distinctions between informal and formal modes of Calvinist authority.Trade Review“The strengths of Langley’s work lie in its readability. The prose is engaging and the various specific examples allow for connection with the individuals living in the distant past. He takes a broad concept—‘care’—and makes it more digestible.” Charlotte Holmes, in: Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 2 (August, 2021), pp. 287–288. “This book provides a significant step forward in early modern Scottish social history. However it also has important implications for the history of the Reformed Kirk in demonstrating that kirk sessions did not seek to marginalise, downgrade, or control informal care.” John McCallum, Nottingham Trent University. In: Scottish Church History, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2021), pp. 171–173.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Poor Relief 2 Non-Institutional Charity, Domesticity and Reformed Intervention 3 Method and Sources 4 Charity and the Kirk Session 1 Kindness and the Parish  1 Carers and Care Acts  2 Petitioning 2 Childcare  1 Fosterage and Wet Nursing  2 Childcare and Sermons 3 Illegitimacy  1 Parish Networks  2 Fostering Bastards  3 Negligence and Infanticide 4 Illness  1 Neighbourly and Kin Assistance  2 Disciplinary Consequences  3 Charming 5 Disability  1 Attitudes towards Disability  2 Parish Stability 6 Death  1 Providing Deathbed Care  2 Clerics and Carers  3 Post-Mortem Practices Conclusion 1 Informality 2 Social Capital Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRoger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there was discovered a genealogical manuscript which includes a Li Yan (1606-1644). He now appears to be the principal historical reality behind the Li Yan story, which became a powerful metaphor for the rise and fall of Li Zicheng’s rebellion. Offering a fresh theory of Chinese and world history, the author elucidates Li Yan’s historical significance by comparing and contrasting him with similar figures in other times and places around the globe.

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Book SynopsisHerakles Inside and Outside the Church: from the first Apologists to the Quattrocento explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe. Each chapter takes a particular literary or visual incarnation, grappling with the question of the hero’s significance within the early Church, in less formal contexts, and beyond Christendom in his unexpected role as Buddha’s companion in Gandharan art. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent role of Herakles-Hercules in western culture up to the present day, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero’s perennial appeal.Trade Review"The work starts with a great foreword and introduction by Emma Stafford and Arlene Allan, respectively, who set the stage in summarizing Herakles regarding his twelve labors, the earliest sources on him, and the current state of the field regarding his reception. This volume is one of four to be published by the Metaforms series and Brill on the reception of Herakles-Hercules, and the contributors do a good job demonstrating the need for such scholarship. (...) it is a great contribution for graduate students and scholars working on the change and transformation of Classical Antiquity in Late Antiquity. It provides several case studies on how the legacy of Herakles was reworked in different contexts." - Paul A. Brazinski, Saint Elizabeth University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.01.21Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Arlene Allan Part 1: Making Connections: the Early Years 1 Herakles, ‘Christ-Curious’ Greeks and Revelation 5  Arlene Allan 2 The Tides of Virtue and Vice: Augustine’s Response to Stoic Herakles  Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides Part 2: Appropriation: Verbal 3 Exemplum virtutis for Christian Emperors: the Role of Herakles/ Hercules in Late Antique Imperial Representation  Alexandra Eppinger 4 Herculean Centos: Myth, Polemics, and the Crucified Hero in Late Antiquity  Brian Sowers 5 Herakleios or Herakles? Panegyric and Pathopoeia in George of Pisidia’s Heraklias  Andrew Mellas 6 Herakles in Byzantium: a (Neo)Platonic Perspective  Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides 7 Dante’s Hercules  Giampiero Scafoglio Part 3: Appropriation: Visual 8 Hercules in the hypogeum at the Via Dino Compagni, Rome  Gail Tatham 9 The Constellation of Hercules and His Struggle with the Nemean Lion on Two Romanesque Reliefs from Split Cathedral  Ivana Čapeta Rakić 10 From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Façade of San Marco  Lenia Kouneni 11 Transformations of Herculean Fortitude in Florence  Thomas J. Sienkewicz 12 Ovid’s Hercules in 1497: a Greek Hero in the Translation of the Metamorphoses by Giovanni dei Bonsignori and in His Woodcuts  Giuseppe Capriotti part 4: Beyond the Church 13 Wearing the Hero on Your Sleeve: Piecing Together the Materials of the Heraklean Myth in Late-Roman Egypt  Cary MacMahon 14 Herakles Vajrapani, the Companion of Buddha  Karl Galinsky Conclusion  Arlene Allan Index

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Book SynopsisNarrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion presents the aesthetics of narrativity in religious contexts by approaching narrative acts as situated modes of engaging with reality, equally shaped by the immersive character of the stories told and the sensory qualities of their performances. Introducing narrative cultures as an integrative framework of analysis, the volume builds a bridge between classical content-based approaches to narrative sources and the aesthetic study of religions as constituted by sensory and mediated practices. Studying stories in conjunction with the role that performative acts of storytelling play in the cultivation of the senses, the contributors explore the efficacy of storytelling formats in narrative cultures from ancient times until today, in regions and cultures across the globe.Trade Review“Readers interested in any aspect of religious narrative, embodiment, and performance are sure to find this volume important and thought provoking. By foregrounding sensory and aesthetic experience, the contributors to this volume productively expand the possibilities of thinking about the work of narrative in religious studies. The book should also be praised for the impressive diversity of material covered.” Gregory M. Clines. Trinity University, Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion 52, 2020Table of ContentsContents Preface Dirk Johannsen, Anja Kirsch and Jens Kreinath List of Figures Notes on Contributors Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion: An Introduction Dirk Johannsen and Anja Kirsch Encounters: Vernacular Religious Storytelling 1 One Ritual—Many Stories: On Making Sense of a Hindu Ritual Brigitte Luchesi 2 Narrating Spirit Possession Katharina Wilkens 3 How to Sense a Ghost: On the Aesthetics of Legend Traditions Dirk Johannsen 4 Studying Religions as Narrative Cultures: Angel Experience Narratives in the Netherlands and Some Ideas for a Narrative Research Program for the Study of Religion Markus Altena Davidsen and Bastiaan von Rijn Identities: Narrating and Counter-Narrating Gods and People 5 Feeling Narrative Cultures: Analyzing Emotions in Religious Narratives with Examples from Old-Babylonian Ninurta Myths Laura Feldt 6 Aztec Pictorial Narratives: Visual Strategies to Activate Embodied Meaning and the Transformation of Identity in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 Isabel Laack 7 Transmedial Narrative Cultures: Upanishadic Spirituality in the Indian Tele-Serial ``Upanishad Ganga'' Annette Wilke 8 Storytelling and Mediation: The Aesthetics of a Counter-Narrative of Atheism in South India Stefan Binder Arts: Narrative Craft Beyond Words 9 Braiding Ropes, Weaving Baskets: The Narrative Culture of Ancient Monasticism Ingvild Sælid Gilhus 10 Immersing in the World of Radha and Krishna: Visual Storytelling in the Context of Religious Practice Caroline Widmer 11 Foundational Narratives in Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Observation of the Ineffable: Two ``Public Cases'' (gong'an/kōan) of the Gateless Barrier of Chan Lineage Martin Lehnert 12 Poetic Imagination in Scientific Practice: Grand Unification as Narrative Worldmaking Arianna Borrelli 13 What Happens When the Story Is Told? Reflections on the Aesthetics of Narrative Worldmaking and Aesthetic Sensation—Afterthoughts Jens Kreinath Index

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Book SynopsisWeyerman’s collection of artists’ biographies (1729) is exceptional for three reasons. Firstly, he includes a great number of painters not mentioned elsewhere. Secondly, he does not limit his selection to good artists only; he also discusses failed painters and their abortive careers. Thirdly, he writes as an art critic who does not hesitate to pass judgments, sometimes severe, on his chosen subjects. In the process, Weyerman provides much information on the social and economic circumstances of art production. He found that a bohemian lifestyle was pernicious to a painter’s career, and argued that artists should live and think as merchants. In addition to analyzing Weyerman’s art critical terminology and his ideas on art theory, De Vries includes translations of two full chapters along with the original Dutch.Trade Review“Jacob Campo Weyerman and his Collection of Artists' Biographies is a great book. Not cheap, but the first 141 pages, Part One, will serve as a new benchmark in Weyerman Studies.” Peter Altena, in JCW 43.2 (Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman) "The fact remains that, whatever [Weyerman's] motivations, he demonstrated (and de Vries amply acknowledges it) that he had an art critic training, that he mastered a technical vocabulary that deserves to be studied precisely because it is specific to a reality and an era and, in short, that he was a man fully immersed in his time. Probably these findings (and the many references to the situation of the art market in the Netherlands [...] would today satisfy more those who deal with social history of art, rather than history of art in the strict sense; however, they allow us to reconsider the importance of a work that, in Schlosser's time, seemed inevitably destined for oblivion and ignominy." Giovanni Mazzaferro, in: Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources, August 2020Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Contents of the Levens-Beschryvingen  2 Weyerman’s Opinions 1 Painted and Written Genre Scenes  1 Urban Genre  2 Low Life Genre  3 Italianate Scenes  4 Large-Scale Genre Paintings  5 Fine Painting 2 Failed Artists  1 Pretentions of Nobility  2 Social Skills  3 Marriage  4 Painterly Studios  5 Intemperance  6 Mental Problems  7 Art Dealers and Their Victims  8 Copying  9 Antwerp’s Vrijdagsmarkt  10 Street Vendors and Itinerant Painters 3 Portraiture  1 London  2 The ‘Byway’ of Art  3 The Sitter’s Identity  4 Good Manners, Flattery and Beauty  5 The Netherlands  6 Other Group Portraits 4 Art in the Public Space  1 Altarpieces  2 Stained Glass Windows  3 Wall Tapestries  4 Princely Commissions  5 Government Commissions  6 Municipal Commissions  7 Festive Entries  8 Private Commissions 5 Art Criticism  1 Choice of Subject Matter  2 Composition  3 Human Figures  4 Pictorial Space  5 Reddering  6 Colouring  7 Handling of the Brush  8 Welstand 6 Pliny, Durand and Weyerman  1 Weyerman’s Ideas in Perspective  2 Beauty  3 Grace  4 Art and Nature  5 The Purpose of Art  6 Classification  7 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix 1: Biography of Willem de Fouchier Appendix 2: Disquisition on the Art of the Ancients Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party’s political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People’s Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu deploys case studies from popular film genres, movie star culture and rural film exhibition practices to argue that Chinese cinema in 1949–1966, at once an important political instrument, an enjoyable yet instructive form of entertainment, and a specific manifestation of the socialist society of the spectacle, was an everyday site where the moulding of the new socialist person unfolded. While painting a broad picture of Chinese socialist cinema, Lu credits the human agency of film professionals, whose self-reflexivity and individual adaptability played an intrinsic role in the Party’s political project.Trade Review"Moulding the Socialist Subject by Xiaoning Lu is a concise yet insightful book. It addresses the instrumental role of cinema in textual form and as a state apparatus in ‘remoulding’ (改造, pp. 5 and 165) socialist subjectivity, as well as the intersection and interaction of cinema with other key discourses such as sport, ethnicity, theatre, melodrama, spectatorship/reception, and the urban/rural dichotomy. [...] Moulding the Socialist Subject is a welcome addition for students who love diverse movies, the general public eager to understand the ‘structure of feeling’ prevalent in a socialist regime, and scholars of China studies." -Lunpeng Ma, Communication University of Zhejiang, in China information, Vol 35 (2021), pp. 113-114 "The book provides clearly written and engagingly illustrated pathways to understand the underlying histo-ries of contemporary conundrums" -Stephanie Donald, Monash University Malaysia, in The China Journal , No. 86, July 2021, pp. 208-210Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures Introduction  1 The Socialist Subject for a New China (1949–1966)  2 Cinema within a Socialist Society of Spectacle 1 Terror and Mass Surveillance: the Counterespionage Film  1 The Counterespionage Film and Political Campaigns against Counterrevolutionaries  2 Cinematic Articulation of Mass Surveillance: The Might of the People 2 The New Physical Culture and Volatile Attractions: the Sports Film  1 The New Physical Culture  2 Promoting Workers’ Sport and Heterogeneous Laughter: Trouble on the Basketball Court and Big Li, Young Li and Old Li  3 Sports, Ethics, and Melodramatic Imagination: Woman Basketball Player No. 5 and Ice-Skating Sisters 3 Ethnicity and Socialist Fraternity: the National Minority Film  1 Reconfiguring the Ethnic Landscape: From Ethnicity to Nationality  2 The National Minority Film  3 Flames of War in a Border Village: Cross-Ethnic Performance and the Politics of Recognition  4 Daji and Her Fathers from Page to Screen: Typifying Ethnic Fraternity in Socialist China 4 Modeling the Model: Red Stardom  1 Problematizing “the Star”  2 Star Image  3 The Stanislavski System and Modeling the Red Star 5 The Cultural Politics of Affect: Villain Stardom  1 Negative Characters, Performance Context, and Production of Affect  2 Villain Performance as Negative Pedagogy 6 Mobile Attraction: Itinerant Film Projectionists and Rural Cinema Exhibition  1 Itinerant Film Projection: a New Attraction in Rural China  2 Rural Film Exhibition: Problems and Challenges  3 Film Projectionists and Their Machines  4 Film Projectionists and Their Exhibition Practices Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to spread this view of the nation were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska (Pest, 1826), a particular kind of society was established in several parts of the Habsburg Empire – inspiring each other, but with often major differences in activities, membership and financing. Outside of the Slavic world analogues institutions played a similar key role in the early stages of national revival in Europe. The Matica and Beyond is the first concerted attempt to comparatively investigate both the specificity and commonality of these cultural associations, bringing together cases from differing regional, political and social circumstances. Contributors are: Daniel Baric, Benjamin Bossaert, Marijan Dović, Liljana Gushevska, Jörg Hackmann, Roisín Higgins, Alfonso Iglesias Amorín, Dagmar Kročanová, Joep Leerssen, Marion Löffler, Philippe Martel, Alexei Miller, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Iryna Orlevych, Magdaléna Pokorná, Miloš Řezník, Jan Rock, Diliara M. Usmanova, and Zsuzsanna Varga.Trade Review"The Matica and Beyond offers a detailed look at the concrete and modest beginnings of the Central European national movements that only took political form as nation-states after 1918 (or in some cases only after 1989). Its comparisons with the experience of marginalized national groups in Britain, France, and Spain are particularly constructive, especially at a time when the future of a unified Europe no longer seems self-evident". Charles Sebaston, in Sciendo 68 (4), 2020. "This volume is important on several different levels. It contributes to the discussion on the history of nationalism in East-Central Europe. It also provides the cases of the other non-dominant national movements across Europe, thus giving the readers a chance to draw comparisons and conclusions themselves. The potential for comparison is, in fact, one of the strongest characteristics of this volume". Dušan J. Ljuboja, in Slavonica, 26:1, pp. 80-83. "The Matica and Beyond offers us the opportunity to get better acquainted with the functioning of these institutions in the 19th century when they did play a crucial role in society and thus enables us to reassess their place in contemporary society more objectively and responsibly". Eva Palkovičová, January 2021.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors  Introduction   Joep Leerssen  1 The Buda University Press and National Awakenings in Habsburg Austria   Zsuzsanna Varga  2 The Matice Česká   Magdaléna Pokorná  3 The Slovak Matica, Its Precursors and Its Legacy   Benjamin Bossaert and Dagmar Kročanová  4 The Matica in an Ethnic-Regional Context: Sorbian Lusatia and Czech Silesia in Comparison   Miloš Řezník  5 The Slovenian Matica: The ‘Foundation-Stone’   Marijan Dović  6 Framing a Regional Matica, from Dalmatian to Croatian   Daniel Baric  7 Macedonian Societies in the Balkan Context   Liljana Gushevska  8 Language, Cultural Associations, and the Origins of Galician Nationalism, 1840–1918   Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Alfonso Iglesias Amorín  9 Félibrige, or the Impossible Occitan Nation   Philippe Martel  10 Educational, Scholarly, and Literary Societies in Dutch-speaking Regions, 1766–1886   Jan Rock  11 A Century of Change: The Eisteddfod and Welsh Cultural Nationalism   Marion Löffler  12 “Racy of the Soil”: Young Ireland and the Cultural Production of Nationhood   Roisín Higgins  13 Competing National Movements: School Associations and Cultural Nationalism in the Baltic Region   Jörg Hackmann  14 The Galician-Ruthenian Matica (1848–1939)   Iryna Orlevych  15 Tatar Cultural and Educational Organizations and Charities: Muslim Self-Organization in the Russian Empire   Diliara M. Usmanova  Afterword: The Maticas in a World of Empires   Alexei Miller  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address wider questions about the meanings of cross-cultural luxury goods in royal-ecclesiastical settings during the central Middle Ages. Now fully open access and with an updated introduction to ongoing research, an additional chapter, composite bibliographies, and indices, this multidisciplinary volume opens fresh ways into the investigation of medieval objects and textiles through historical, art historical, and technical analyses. Carbon-14 dating, iconography, and social history are among the methods applied to material and textual evidence, together shining new light on the display of rulership in medieval Iberia. Contributors are Ana Cabrera Lafuente, María Judith Feliciano, Julie A. Harris, Jitske Jasperse, Therese Martin, Pamela A. Patton, Ana Rodríguez, and Nancy L. Wicker.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Beyond the Treasury of San Isidoro: a Tale of Two Projects  Therese Martin 2 Caskets of Silver and Ivory from Diverse Parts of the World: Strategic Collecting for an Iberian Treasury  Therese Martin 3 Narrating the Treasury: What Medieval Iberian Chronicles Choose to Recount about Luxury Objects  Ana Rodríguez 4 Textiles from the Museum of San Isidoro (León): New Evidence for Re-Evaluating Their Chronology and Provenance  Ana Cabrera Lafuente 5 Sovereign, Saint, and City: Honor and Reuse of Textiles in the Treasury of San Isidoro (Leon)  María Judith Feliciano 6 Between León and the Levant: the Infanta Sancha’s Altar as Material Evidence for Medieval History  Jitske Jasperse 7 Demons and Diversity in León  Pamela A. Patton 8 Jews, Real And Imagined, at San Isidoro De León and Beyond  Julie A. Harris 9 The Scandinavian Container at San Isidoro, León, in the Context of Viking Art and Society  Nancy L. Wicker Index

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Book SynopsisIn Pauline Economy in the Middle Ages ''The Spiritual Cannot Be Maintained Without The Temporal ...'' Beatrix F. Romhányi examines the estate management of the Pauline order – the only religious community native to medieval Hungary. Sources on the history, and especially on the economy, of the order have survived in exceptionally high numbers compared to other religious communities in Hungary. In the late Middle Ages, the order developed a unique estate management system. Based on the income of their landed estates and their privileges, the Paulines increasingly moved towards the capitalistic estate management around 1500, while donations, alms and annuities still composed a significant part of the incomes connecting the Paulines to the mendicant orders.Trade Review"Having flourished in the 1980s in both western and eastern Europe, research into the economic management of the mendicant convents has recently picked up speed again, at least as far as the two largest mendicant orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, are concerned. Beatrix F. Romhányi has taken on a challenge in two respects, which sets her study apart from traditional research methods and deserves praise for this reason alone: on the one hand, she has chosen the comparatively small, regionally limited, and only little researched Pauline Order as the subject of her analysis; on the other hand, she breaks away from the prevailing approach of the study of individual monasteries by taking a look at the economy of the entire order in its home country […] the author has provided a well-prepared and immensely practical investigation, which definitely will serve as a reference for individual monasteries as well as a general overview for any future research on the overall topic.” Frederick Felskau, in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 10 (2021).Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Tables, Maps, and Diagrams Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Beginnings of the Order in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 2 Estates 3 Forest Management 4 Townhouses 5 Vineyards 6 Mills 7 Fishponds 8 Animal Husbandry 9 Other Income 10 Salt as Income 11 Mortgage, Hypothec, Trade Conclusion Appendix 1: Tables 1-6 Appendix 2: Tables 7‒10, Including Diagrams 1‒3, Maps 1‒6, and Ground Plans (Figures 1‒40) Bibliography Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisIn the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts? In Prosecuting Women Ariadne Schmidt analyses the relation between female crime and the urban context by comparing prosecution patterns in various Dutch cities. Prosecuting Women looks beyond the bare figures, examines the personal circumstances of criminal women and shows how women's illegal activities were linked to the socio-economic context of the locality and varied over time. The local interplay between crime and the responses of the authorities gave every city a specific dynamic in its pattern of prosecuted crime.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on visual sources and the cultural landscape, Kersti Markus offers a fresh perspective on the Baltic crusades in Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250. The book examines how visual propaganda was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy in the Baltic Sea region. In recent decades, Danish historians have highlighted the central role of the Valdemar dynasty and the bishops supporting them in the Baltic crusades, but visual sources show how the entire society was mentally prepared for a journey with redemption waiting at the end. A New Jerusalem was being built in Scandinavia, and the crusade to Livonia was conducted under the banner of Christ. See inside the book.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations 1 Visual Sources and the Danish Crusades  1.1 The Development of Church Studies in Estonia, Latvia and Scandinavia  1.2 Danish Historiography on the Crusades  1.3 Prospects of Visual Sources in the Study of Baltic Crusades 2 Visual Rhetoric in Denmark in the Period of the Baltic Crusades  2.1 The Chapel at the Christian Ruler’s Residence  2.2 Imitation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre  2.3 Round Churches of Eskil’s Era  2.4 Jerusalem of the North  2.5 The Theocratic Reign of the Valdemar Dynasty  2.6 Warriors of Christ  2.7 Foothold of the Crusaders in the Baltic Sea: the Island of Bornholm  2.8 Conclusion 3 Visual Performances of Power in Sweden  3.1 The Holy City in Västergötland  3.2 Self-Assertion of the Sverker Dynasty in Östergötland  3.3 Warriors of Christ in the Valley of Lake Mälaren  3.4 Gate to Livonia: the Kalmar Sound  3.5 Conclusion 4 From Trade to Crusade: Visby  4.1 Merchant Churches  4.2 Rus’ Trade of the Varangians: St. Olaf’s Churches  4.3 German Merchants and Crusaders in Visby: the St. Mary’s Church  4.4 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Visby  4.5 Conclusion 5 Manifesting a Presence in Livonia and Estonia  5.1 Fortified Outposts  5.2 Founding a Town from the German Perspective: Riga  5.3 Founding a Town from the Danish Perspective: Tallinn  5.4 The Danish Mission and the Cistercians  5.5 The German Mission and the Cistercians  5.6 Conclusion Afterword: Art and Politics on the Borderland Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the Rus annals (letopisi) and with a variety of related texts concerning the historical past. A new typology of those texts is introduced, together with a comprehensive discussion of how the writing of history came into being in Rus between c.1000 and c.1050. The author focuses on the work of the annalists of Novgorod from c. 1045 to c. 1400, and discusses the functions of annalistic writing in the Rus society. Both the character and the role of the writing of history in Rus is highlighted by means of comparison with other political and cultural areas of medieval Europe, particularly with Anglo-Saxon England.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Diagrams Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Surviving Texts and the Typology of Genres  1.1 Writing in Early Rus: A Concise Overview  1.2 Letopisi (the annals)  1.3 The History of the World: Translations of foreign Chronicles and Chronographs  1.4 Attempts at Writing Non-Annalistic History of Rus  1.5 Minor Forms of Historical Writing  1.6 A Comparative Perspective: Historical Writing in Anglo-Saxon England and Old Rus 2 The Beginnings of Historical Writing in Kiev  2.1 The Manuscript Witnesses and Redactions of Povest’ vremennykh let  2.2 Texts-Predecessors of Povest’ vremennykh let: An Introduction into Discussion  2.3 The Problem of the Oldest Tale (the Non-Annalistic ‘Nucleus’)  2.4 The Traces of Early Annals and the ‘Two Beginnings’ of letopisi Writing  2.5 Historical Notes in Iakov the Monk’s Memorial and Encomium: A ‘Royal Inscription’ of Vladimir?  2.6 The Emergence of Rus Historical Writing in a Comparative Perspective  2.7 Reporting the Pagan Past and the Conversion: Povest’ vremennykh let and Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica 3 Historical Writing in Novgorod  3.1 The Text-Relationships of Extant Novgorodian letopisi  3.2 Lists of Officials  3.3 The Beginnings of Historical Writing in Novgorod: the 11th Century  3.4 The Archiepiscopal Annals of Novgorod and Their Authors  3.5 How did the Archiepiscopal Annalists Work?  3.6 The Circle of Events Reported by the Archiepiscopal Annals  3.7 The Archiepiscopal Annals and the ‘Living Chronicles’ of Western Europe  3.8 The Synodal Manuscript: A Copy of the Archiepiscopal Annals Kept and Continued in St. George’s Monastery  3.9 Excerpts from the Archiepiscopal Annals made for the Annunciation Monastery  3.10 Historical Writing in Novgorod: A General Overview  3.11 Oral Historical Tradition in Novgorod 4 The Functions of the Annals in Early Rus  4.1 Existing Theories and Their Discussion  4.2 Who Were Patrons, Supervisors, and Authors of the Annals?  4.3 What Kinds of Events Did the Annalists Report?  4.4 Who Could Be Mentioned in the Annals, and Why: Non-Rurikids in letopisi  4.5 How Were the Annals Maintained and Revised? Did They Circulate in Copies?  4.6 The Annals and Legal Texts  4.7 Princely ‘Messages’ in the Annals  4.8 The 1130s–40s as a Crucial Period in the Documental and Annalistic Writing  4.9 Political Evaluations in the Annals: Kiev Up to the 1130s and the Northeast  4.10 Ecclesiastical, Family, and Natural Events in the Annals  4.11 Summary of the Data Obtained and Comparative Reflections Conclusion Appendix 1: A Note on the Reckoning of Time in Early Rus Appendix 2: A List of Rus Pre-1400 Manuscripts Containing Historical Writing Appendix 3: The Author’s Russian-Language Published Works Corresponding to Parts of this Book Bibliography Index of Texts Index of Manuscript Shelfmarks Index of Geographical and Ethnic Names Index of Persons

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and modes of rule as well as on colonial daily realities and connectivities.Table of Contents  Preface   List of Figures   Benjamin Arbel: A Biographical Sketch    Georg Christ, Renard Gluzman   Bibliography Benjamin Arbel   Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction    Georg Christ, Franz-Julius Morche Part 1: Building Empire  2 Venetian Empire in Oratory and Print in the Later Fifteenth Century    Monique O’Connell  3 The Old, the Antique, and the Venerable in Venetian Renaissance Architecture    Deborah Howard  4 The Letters of Others: The Correspondence of Marino Morosini and his Curious Newssheet on the Battle of Maclodio (1427)    Franz-Julius Morche Part 2: Managing Empire  5 Venetian Citizenship and Venetian Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Twelfth to Fifteenth Century    David Jacoby (z’’l)  6 “Nobili scaduti”? The Return of Cretan Patricians to Venice in the Seventeenth Century    Dorit Raines Part 3: Living Empire  7 Cittadin e mercadante de lì: The Early Sixteenth-Century Sopracomito in Armata, Jacomo Siguro    Marianna Kolyvà  8 The Greeks in the Maritime Trade of Venice during the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Verghis Family    Gerassimos D. Pagratis  9 Music as Aristocratic Pastime in the Stato da Mar: The Cypriot Madrigals of Giandomenico Martoretta    Tassos Papacostas  10 Latins and Greeks in the Venetian Colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean    Nicholas S. Davidson Part 4: Connecting Empire  11 A Device for Signalling the Height of the Tide at the Port of Venice around 1500    Reinhold C. Mueller  12 What Made a Ship Venetian? (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)    Renard Gluzman  13 Jewish Medicine in Venetian Crete (Late Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries): Physicians, Surgeons, and Manuscripts    Giacomo Corazzol Part 5: Donating Empire  14 From the Far North to the Near East: Venice as an Intermediary in the Supply of Gyrfalcons to the Mamluks    Housni Alkhateeb Shehada  15 The Interpreter Michele Membrè’s Life in Venice    Maria Pia Pedani (†)  16 Accounting for Gifts: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Material Circulations in Venetian-Ottoman Diplomacy    E. Natalie Rothman   Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions; - the long-term impact of revolutions on the evolution of labour relations. The volume examines a wide range of revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering examples from South-America, Africa, Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe. The volume goes beyond merely examining the place of industrial workers, paying attention to the position of slaves, women working on the front line of civil war, colonial forced labourers, and white collar workers. Contributors are: Knud Andresen, Zsombor Bódy, Pepijn Brandon, Dimitrii Churakov, Gabriel Di Meglio, Kimmo Elo, Adrian Grama, Renate Hürtgen, Peyman Jafari, Marcel van der Linden, Tiina Lintunen, João Carlos Louçã, Stefan Müller, Raquel Varela, and Felix Wemheuer.

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Book SynopsisInternationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume Different Lives offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and opinion-making. Indeed, the volume aims to answer the question: how can biography contribute to a better understanding of differences between societies and cultures? Special attention is given to the US, China and the Netherlands. Other contributions are on Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa. "This book represents a much needed breakdown of the history and current status of Biography Studies throughout the world. Any educator teaching a course in higher education that includes Biography Studies should definitely consider this as a major text for inclusion." Billy Tooma, film maker and Assistant Professor, Wessex County College "The rise of biography is the literary event of our time; Hamilton and Renders are its pioneer scholars, and their compelling primer is a must read." Joanny Moulin, Institut Universitaire de France, on Nigel Hamilton and Hans Renders, in: The ABC of Modern Biography (2018) See inside the bookTrade Review"This collection should be on the shelf of everyone interested in Biographies Studies. [....]. These essays are not, to be sure, dry and stuffy. There is real passion within each and every one of them, which is indicative of the drive their authors have in wanting to create something that is both an educational tool and a compelling read. Different Lives is a welcomed, and much needed, addition to Biography Studies". Billy Tooma. "The essays in Different Lives are salient and compelling exactly because of constraints and the variety of forms in which they are expressed socially, culturally, and eventually in the story of a life." - Marlene Kadar in Netherlandic Studies, 41.1 (2021): 91-96.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Richard Holmes Different Lives in a Global World Hans Renders Truth, Lies and Fake Truth: the Future of Biography Nigel Hamilton Historical Biography in Canada: Historians, Publishers, and the Public Daniel R. Meister Biography as Discourse: South African Biography in the Post-Apartheid Era Lindie Koorts ‘La pauvre Belgique’: How a Debate over the Repression after the Second World War Informed a Biographical Tradition in Belgium David Veltman Biography in Spain: a Historical and Historiographic Perspective María Jesús González The Chinese Sense of Self and Biographical Narrative: an Overview Kerry Brown Double Dutch: the Art of Presidential Biography Carl Rollyson Biography in Australia: Different Yet the Same? All Connected Flatland? Melanie Nolan Writing Lives in Contemporary Italy Yannick Gouchan Hidden and Forbidden Issues in Works of Iranian Biography Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian From Reticence to Revelation: Biography in New Zealand Doug Munro The Icelandic Biography and Egodocuments in Historical Writing Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon Between ‘Creators and Bearers of the Czech National Myth’ and an ‘Academic Suicide’: Czech Biography in the Twenty-First Century Jana Wohlmuth Markupová Biographies and Their Agendas: the Danish Biographical Tradition in a Historical Perspective Joanna Cymbrykiewicz The Biography’s Pretension to Truth Is Relative. Biography in the Netherlands Elsbeth Etty Inception, Inheritance and Innovation: Sima Qian, Liang Qichao and the Modernization of Chinese Biography Liu Jialin Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke compares the divergent development of coffee production in eastern Congo and western Rwanda during the colonial period. The Lake Kivu region offers a remarkable case-study to investigate diversity in economic development. In Rwanda, on the eastern side of the lake, coffee was mainly cultivated by smallholder families, while in the Congo, on the western side of the lake, European plantations were the dominant mode of production. Making use of a wide array of largely untapped archival sources, Sven Van Melkebeke convincingly succeeds in moving the manuscript beyond a case-study of colonizers to a more nuanced history of interaction and in presenting an innovative new social history of labor and land processes.Trade Review' [...] His comparative approach in two territories government is innovative in how he notes how the economic regime of each region affected each other. [...] Van Melkebeke convincingly does describe how material conditions (access to land, the role of private businesses and colonial state policies, the role of African elites) can explain the divergence between African producers dominating in Rwanda compared to European-controlled plantations in the Belgian Congo. [...] This study is a valuable addition to the neglected economic history of the Great Lakes region in Central Africa that is well situated in the larger literature on colonial cash crop agriculture in colonial Africa'. Jeremy Rich, Marywood University, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 54, No. 1 (2021), pp. 117-118Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables  Acknowledgments  Abbreviations  Introduction 1 Relevance of This Research   1.1 A Historiographical Sketch of Belgian Africa   1.2 Theoretical Framework  2 Geographical and Temporal Scope  3 Coffee Cultivation in Belgian Africa  4 Methodology and Sources  5 Administrative Note  6 Outline  Prelude: The Lake Kivu Region in the Nineteenth Century  1 Lake Kivu’s Communities  2 Peculiarities of the Region  Part 1 Structural Basis 1 Coffee Production: From the Global to the Local  1 The Roots   1.1 “Out of Africa”   1.2 African “Comeback” and the “Birth” of the Kivu Coffee  2 Producing for the Global Market   2.1 Global Coffee Production after World War I   2.2 Belgian Africa’s Capacity   2.3 The Kivu Region  3 Conclusion 2 Explaining the Divergence  1 Historiography: Divergence in Rural Production Systems  2 The Lake Kivu Region: Why Diversity?   2.1 Environmental Factors?   2.2 Successful Examples?   2.3 German Legacy?   2.4 Cost-Effectiveness?   2.5 Famine of 1928–1929?   2.6 Racially Defined Diversity?   2.7 Population Density – Land Availability?   2.8 Customary Land Tenure?   2.9 Mandate versus Colony?   2.10 Land, Locality and Legality as Prevailing Explanations  3 Diversity in Reverse  3.1 Smallholding in Eastern Congo  3.2 Plantations in Western Rwanda  4 Conclusion Part 2 On the Ground 3 Mobilizing Land for the Coffee Sector  1 The Congolese Kivu: Customary Land Systems and the Early Colonial Period   1.1 Changing Access to Land   1.2 Disputes Over Land   1.3 The Role of the Local Administration  2 The Rwandan Kivu   2.1 Customary Land Tenure and the German Period   2.2 Belgium Enters the Scene   2.3 Land-related Tensions   2.4 Administrative Interventions  3 Conclusion 4 Mobilizing Coffee-Cultivating Labor  1 Colonial Coffee Labor   1.1 Entering the Plantations   1.2 It’s All about the Numbers   1.3 Plantations versus Mines  2 Coffee Labor in the Mandate   2.1 Customary Labor Mobilization and “Chiefly” Cultivation   2.2 Vulgarization and Mobilization of the Rural Masses   2.3 Other Kinds of Coffee Labor  3 Conclusion 5 Coffee Labor on the Spot  1 Workforce West of Lake Kivu   1.1 Dual Employment Categories?   1.2 Remunerating Laborers   1.3 Labor Conditions  2 Workforce East of Lake Kivu   2.1 Coffee Production at Household Level   2.2 Working Conditions in the Smallholder Sector   2.3 Rwandan Plantation Workers  3 Conclusion 6 African Feedback  1 “Weapons of the Weak”   1.1 The Cosyns Case   1.2 Migrations   1.3 Desertions and Absenteeism   1.4 Coffee Pilferage and “illegal” Trade   1.5 Various Kinds of Sabotage  2 Lake Kivu Peasants   2.1 How to Understand “Peasants”?   2.2 Household (Plantation) Land   2.3 Markets and Trade   2.4 Income Diversification and the Role of Women  3 Conclusion  Conclusion: A Merger Based on Diversity and Compromise  1 On Differentiation  2 On Compromise  Annex 1: Decree on Coffee Limitations (1938)  Archives  1 African Archives Brussels (AAB)  1.1 Belgian Congo  1.2 Ruanda-Urundi  2 Other Collections  References  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Baltic Crusades in the thirteenth century led to the creation of the medieval Livonia. But what happened after the conquest? The contributors to this volume analyse the cultural, societal, economic and technological changes in the Baltic Sea region c. 1200–1350. The chapters focus on innovations and long-term developments which were important in integrating the area into medieval European society more broadly, while also questioning the traditional divide of the Livonian post-crusade society into native victims and foreign victors. The process of multilateral negotiations and adaptions created a synthesis which was not necessarily an outcome of the wars but also a manifestation of universal innovation processes in northern Europe. Contributors are Arvi Haak, Tõnno Jonuks, Kristjan Kaljusaar, Ivar Leimus, Christian Lübke, Madis Maasing, Mihkel Mäesalu, Anti Selart, Vija Stikāne, and Andres Tvauri.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Life in Livonia: After the Crusades Introduction   Anti Selart 2 Domesticating Europe – Novel Cultural Influences in the Late Iron Age Eastern Baltic   Tõnno Jonuks 3 Exploiting the Conquerors Socio-political Strategies of Estonian Elites During the Crusades and Christianisation, 1200–1300   Kristjan Kaljusaar 4 Livonian Economic Resources, 1200–1350 Redistribution and Expansion   Anti Selart 5 Missed Patronage? Princely Support for Church Institutions and Military Religious Orders in Livonia   Mihkel Mäesalu 6 From Prehistory to History Money in Livonia in the Thirteenth Century   Ivar Leimus 7 The Legal Status of Women in Livonia, 1200–1400   Vija Stikāne 8 ‘Local’ Characteristics of the Medieval Livonian Town   Arvi Haak 9 Advancement of Craftsmanship and Manufacturing in Medieval Livonia   Andres Tvauri 10 The Formation, Establishment, and Personal Networks of Livonian Cathedral Chapters, 1190–1350   Madis Maasing 11 Changing Aliens, Changing Natives: Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia Conclusion   Christian Lübke Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of seventeen essays newly identifies contributions to musical culture made by women before 1500 across Europe. You will learn about repertoire from such diverse locations as Iceland, Spain, and Italy, and encounter examples of musicianship from the gender-fluid professional musicians at the Islamicate courts of Syria to the nuns of Barking Abbey in England. The book shows that women drove musical patronage, dissemination, composition, and performance, including within secular and ecclesiastical contexts, and also reflects on the reception of medieval women’s musical agency by both medieval poets and by modern recording artists. Contributors are David Catalunya, Lisa Colton, Helen Dell, Annemari Ferreira, Rachel Golden, Gillian L. Gower, Anna Kathryn Grau, Carissa M. Harris, Louise McInnes, Lisa Nielson, Lauren Purcell-Joiner, Megan Quinlan, Leah Stuttard, Claire Taylor Jones, Melissa Tu, Angelica Vomera, and Anne Bagnall Yardley.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Music Examples Notes on Contributors Introduction: Female Authorship, Female Voice, and Female-Voice Song  Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton PART 1: Ritual Discourse 1 The Feminine Voice in the Early Islamicate Courts (661–1000)  Lisa Nielson 2 Music, Liturgy, and the Discursive Construction of Gender in a Thirteenth-Century Double Monastery  Lauren Purcell-Joiner 3 A Female-Voice Ceremonial from Medieval Castile  David Catalunya 4 Religious Reform and Liturgical Change in the Fifteenth Century: Chant as Women’s Protest Music  Claire Taylor Jones PART 2: Materiality 5 Beyond this Mist: Uncovering Material Multiplicities in Amis, amis  Rachel May Golden 6 Transmission of Female-Voice Motets in Late Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts  Anna Kathryn Grau 7 Chants for the Holy Trinity of Barking Abbey: Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild  Anne Bagnall Yardley PART 3: Subjectivity and Emotion 8 Handmade Women: The Manufacture of Femininity in the Chansons de femme  Helen Dell 9 The Voice of Emotion: Constructing an Identity for the Comtessa de Dia in Performance  Leah Stuttard 10 “Going all the Way with Marot”: Empowerment in the Pastourelle Motet L’autrier m’esbatoie/Demenant grant joie/MANERE  Lisa Colton 11 Sexuality, Pedagogy, and Women’s Emotions in Middle English Songs  Carissa M. Harris 12 “Who cannot wepe come lerne at me”: Voicing Refrains in Late Medieval Passion Lyric  Melissa Tu PART 4: Representation 13 A Song from the Mound: The Female Voice as a Repository for Genealogical Knowledge in Hyndluljóð  Annemari Ferreira 14 Eye, Mouth, and Heart: The Female-Voiced Contrafacta of Can vei la lauzeta mover  Meghan Quinlan 15 A Musical Letter from Eleanor of Provence to Margaret of Scotland: Patronage as Authorship in the Sequence Ex te lux oritur  Gillian L. Gower 16 Female Voice in the Trecento Song  Angelica Vomera 17 Saints and Sinners: The Representation of Women in Late-Medieval English Carols  Louise McInnes Index

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Book SynopsisPeasants, Lords and State: Comparing Peasant Conditions in Scandinavia and the Eastern Alpine Region, 1000-1750 challenges the once widespread view, rooted in the historical thinking of the nineteenth century, that Scandinavian and especially Norwegian peasants enjoyed a particular “peasant freedom” compared to their Continental counterparts. Markers of this supposed freedom were believed to be peasants’ widespread ownership of land, extensive control over land and resources, and comprehensive judicial influence through the institution of the thing. The existence of slaves and unfree people was furthermore considered a marginal phenomenon. The contributors compare Scandinavia with the eastern Alpine region, two regions comprising fertile plains as well as rugged mountainous areas. This offers an opportunity to analyse the effect of topographical factors without neglecting the influence of manorial and territorial power structures over the long time-span of c.1000 to 1750. With contributions by Markus Cerman, Tore Iversen, Michael Mitterauer, John Ragnar Myking, Josef Riedmann, Werner Rösener, Helge Salvesen, and Stefan Sonderegger.Table of Contents  Preface   Acknowledgements   List of Figures   Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Historiographical and Methodological Reflections    Tore Iversen and John Ragnar Myking Part 2: Comparing Scandinavia and the Eastern Alpine Region 2 Slavery and Unfreedom from the Middle Ages to the Beginning of the Early Modern Period    Tore Iversen 3 Leasehold and Freehold c. 1200–1750    John Ragnar Myking 4 Peasant Participation in Thing and Local Assemblies c. 1000–1750    Tore Iversen and John Ragnar Myking 5 Summary and Conclusion    Tore Iversen and John Ragnar Myking Part 3: The Portrayal of Peasants in National Historiography 6 The Historian as Architect of Nations: A Historiographical Analysis of the Norwegian Peasantry as Carrier of National Ideology and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern Period    Helge Salvesen 7 The Participation of the Tyrolean Peasantry in the Government of the Country: Theory – Reality – Ideology    Josef Riedmann 8 Peasant Ideology in German Historiography    Werner Rösener 9 Switzerland – A ‘Peasant State’?    Stefan Sonderegger Part 4: Appendix The Sub-peasant Strata in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Alpine Region    Markus Cerman and Michael Mitterauer Active Manorial Lords and Peasant Farmers in the Economic Life of the Late Middle Ages: Results from New Swiss and German Research    Stefan Sonderegger   Glossary   Bibliography   Index

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