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Tugba Bayar
The Rise and Relapse of European Human Rights in Turkey

This book examines the trajectory of human rights in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2002 to 2024 within the broader context of EU-Turkey relations. It traces Turkey's shift from…

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Rick Benjamins
Formerly God

God is and remains a meaningful term, even after "the death of God," but its meaning is by no means clear or unambiguous. Clearly and with a broad perspective, this book challenges classical the…

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Cécile Bosman
Dutch Marine Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Marine painting is a four hundred year old specialism of the traditional Dutch school of painting. Painting ships and the sea requires both nautical knowledge and great artistic talent. Cécile Bosman exam…

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Hein Brookhuis
ASML and Dutch Physics

In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Nethe…

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Esther Captain, Onno Sinke
Resonance of Violence

The battle cry 'Bersiap!' resounded in numerous cities and towns across Indonesia during the first months following the declaration of independence on August 17, 1945. Heard from all sides, this call to '…

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Fabio Carminati, Andrea Mariani
Mariani, A: Weapon Manufacture and Authority on the Frontier

This monograph presents a microstudy of a crucially important and profoundly revealing location: the territory around the modern city of Lecco, which lies on the eastern branch of Lake Como, in Lombardy (…

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Hong Chen
Chen, H: Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Conte

What does it mean to a family when parents go abroad for economic gains while leaving their children behind? How do they maintain a family when living in different areas, separated for years? How do emerg…

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Alexis Culotta
The Frescoed Facade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political,…

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Prue Holstein
The German Experience of Japan's Treaty Port System

German merchants were attracted to the British Empire's spheres of influence in northeast Asia from the 1700s. Their numbers increased when Britain established a network of treaty ports in China from 1842…

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Michal Huss
Remaking Urban Heritage

This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition. Challenging the crisis-driven, state-centric frameworks that domin…

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Jerome Jamin
L'Imaginaire du Complot

This book explores the importance of conspiracy rhetoric within populist and far right speeches in Europe and the United States. It shows how a "New World Order" plot give to populist and far ri…

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Frans Kingma, Machiel Kleemans
Oppenheimer in Focus

J. Robert Oppenheimer, often referred to as 'the father of the atomic bomb, ' left us with a grim legacy. The nuclear advancements he helped create became a pivotal factor in shaping the 20th century, dom…

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Guido Kirsten
On the History of a Film Aesthetic Concept: Decoupage

Unlike editing, découpage does not take place after the film has been shot, but before. The French term refers to the breakdown of a scene into a sequence of shots. In order to translate the written scree…

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Rob van der Laarse, Charles Jeurgens, Sabina Tanovic
The Former "Yugoslavia Tribunal" as Monument of Justice

After Nuremberg, there is probably no other place where the future of Europe has been so definitively tested and safeguarded as in The Hague. The iconic building of the former International Criminal Tribu…

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Bert Lamers
MS Rotterdam

Five weeks after the withdrawal of the legendary 'Rotterdam' (V), Holland America Line introduced the 'Rotterdam' (VI) in November 1997. With her gross tonnage of 59.652 she was and still is a remarkable …

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Weixuan Li
Painters' Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam

The art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam is renowned as a competitive, multi-layered arena where diverse artists catered to a broad and varied clientele. How did this intricate market function? How…

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Remy Limpach,
Stumbling in the Dark

A thorough analysis of the Dutch-Indonesian battle for intelligence.

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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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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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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…

lieferbar ab 2.3.2026.

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