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Michelle Moseley-Christian
At Home in the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse

Dollhouses were a notable outlet for women in the Netherlands as collectors during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book explores the material culture of the dollhouses as displays, shedding light on new…

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Jantinus Mulder
S-Frigate Jan Van Brakel

The Standard or S-frigate (relating to the Standard NATO Frigate concept which they were designed), the Kortenaer class, displayed functional, relatively compact lines. In functional terms. the ships prim…

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Monroe E Price
Objects of Remembrance

This is a memoir about the power of American assimilation and opportunity in the face of persisting refugee realities. Like Isaac Bashevis Singer, Monroe Price recounts the continuing impact of European i…

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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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Lisa Richaud
Casual Assemblies: Afterlives of Maoist Performance Culture in Beijing's Public Parks

China: From Revolution to Reform

Over the past thirty years, China's public parks have been turned into stages for amateur performances of socialist anthems by self-organized retirees who lived through the Mao era (1949-1976).Challenging…

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Jennifer Stob
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film

Film Culture in Transition

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

Food Culture, Food History before 1900

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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Bart Wallet
The Early Modern Rabbis of Amsterdam: Urban Dynamics, Communal Tensions, and Diasporic Entanglement

In the early modern period Amsterdam developed into the largest Jewish urban centre in Europe. Its rabbis had to navigate the intersections of urban dynamics, communal tensions, and diasporic entanglement…

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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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Daniel Yingst
Visions of the Cosmos in Honorius Augustodunensis

Knowledge Communities

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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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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Locating Muslim Minorities in East and Southeast Asia

Religion and Society in Asia

This volume examines Muslim minority experiences across East and Southeast Asia through detailed case studies spanning China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand and …

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Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture

Horror and Gothic Media Cultures

This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital addition to the field of Gothic and Horror Studies. Althoug…

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Shifting Obsessions

This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why in…

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Spatial Imagination and Modernity in European Francophone Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century

Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective

This book explores the concept of critical interiority in literature, art, and architecture within European francophone culture, spanning the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.As a lived, imagi…

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Street Nihonga

This book is the most comprehensive publication to date of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (1920-2012), a Japanese American artist raised in Hiroshima, Japan. From Nihonga ("Japanese-style") paintings …

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Uprising in East Germany, 1953

This volume is the second in the series Cold War Documentary Readers, a project of the US National Security Archive and the Cold War International History Project.The volume is the first documented accoun…

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Urban Space on Screen

Eastern European Screen Cultures

This edited collection examines how the film cultures of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine have engaged with the built environment. Across political upheavals and shifting borders, filmmakers have documented, …

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