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Józef Lobodowski,
The Thickets

This novel is the first part of the Ukrainian Trilogy of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski. Written between 1955 and 1960, the action of the trilogy plays out, for the most part, in the Kuban area…

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Remco Raben, Peter Romijn,
Tales of Violence

Although it has long been known that the Indonesian War of Independence was far more violent than generally assumed by the Dutch public, for a long time the tendency to downplay, ignore, or justify the sc…

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Henk Rinsum
Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge

In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation in 1636. He describes the development of (scientific) know…

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Ranabir Samaddar
Biopolitics from Below

The current social turmoil enveloping the world has produced knee jerk reactions and a plethora of policy declarations. At the same time, the scenario is marked with response of those with low socioeconom…

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Jennifer Stob
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Cinema

This book explores the Situationist International's paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that condemned representation's erosion of social life. Yet its…

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Donovan E. Tann
Beer, Brewing, and the Boundaries of the Human in Early Modern English Culture

Exploring a wide range of written discourse on early modern brewing and the material features and practices contributing to those conversations, this book demonstrates the considerable role that discussio…

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Maarten Verkerk, Gerrit Glas, Suzan Sierksma-Agteres
The Intellectual Legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977)

Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a renowned philosopher and legal scholar, has been regarded as one of the most original philosophers the Netherlands has ever produced. In 1935, he published his seminal wor…

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Kelli Wood
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy

Cultures of Play

This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one fou…

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Alan Wright
Film and the Natural History of Destruction

Film and the Natural History of Destruction explores the interface between film, memory and ecological thought. It addresses several areas of crucial importance for contemporary film and media studies: bi…

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Daniel Yingst
Visions of the Cosmos in Honorius Augustodunensis

An intellectual biography of Honorius Augustodunensis, one of the most influential authors during Early Medieval times, this book offers the portrait of an educator and author, whose works set the stage f…

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Elena Yushkova
A Revolutionary Dancer in Revolutionary Russia

In 1921, the legendary American dancer Isadora Duncan arrived in post-revolutionary Russia with an audacious goal: to build a new kind of dance school for a new world. Already celebrated for her groundbre…

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Esther Zwinkels
The Harsh Sword of Lady Justice

During the Indonesian War of Independence, Lady Justice played an important role on the Dutch side. Soldiers were, and are, required to comply with the law and a range of rules and regulations, both in an…

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Imagining Regions

What if regions were not just governed spaces but imagined ones? Imagining Regions: Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asiaoffers a fresh perspective on regionalism by shifting the focus from institu…

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Mongolian Healing

Mongolian Healing: Knowledge, Transmission and Practice Across Inner Asia explores the rich and diverse medicinal healing practices by Mongolian communities across Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and Kalmykia.Th…

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Towns Between Empires

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governanc…

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Transformational Participatory Urbanism

Transformational Participatory Urbanism explores making do as a critical spatial practice at the intersection of spatial justice and creative geography. Through cases from Hong Kong's Lennon Walls and San…

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Women and Ports

The role of women in the maritime sector has long been overlooked. Diverting from the image of women passively waiting for men to return, this edition of the Yearbook of Women's History argues that women …

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Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic

The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the…

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