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Leonard Blussé
A Colonial Tragedy

In October 1740, a tragedy unfolded in Batavia, the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java. Faced with a spontaneous Chinese peasant uprising, Batavia's vengeful inhabita…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

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Bruno Jim Braak
South Sudan's Azande During Colonialism, War, and Displacement

South Sudan's Azande during colonialism, war, and displacement revisits a people long frozen in time by E. E. Evans-Pritchard's classical anthropology. Its ethnographic research draws on archival sources …

lieferbar ab 8.4.2026.

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Jan Wim Buisman
Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin

Thunder and lightning have been seen from time immemorial as God's instruments of punishment. Until the invention of the lightning rod by Benjamin Franklin in 1752. In Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Fra…

lieferbar ab 10.6.2026.

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Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Global Knowledge Production About China

China-watching is not the realm of intelligence agencies alone; diplomats, journalists, and scholars, among others, also play an important part. Although global attention has been focused on conflicts in …

lieferbar ab 12.5.2026.

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Joseph Horan
Mass Mortality, Military Movement, and the Forces of Nature in the Napoleonic Wars

War, Conflict, and the Environment

This book examines the environmental history of the Napoleonic Wars through the lens of everyday military mobility, demonstrating that warfare created distinctive "militarized landscapes" along …

lieferbar ab 27.5.2026.

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Monique Ligtenberg
Medical Mercenaries and Transimperial Science

Global Connections: Routes and Roots

Medical Mercenaries, Masculinities, and Transimperial Science between the Dutch East Indies and German-speaking Europe traces the trajectories of some 300 physicians from German-speaking Switzerland, Habs…

lieferbar ab 3.6.2026.

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Andrew Mcwilliam, Lisa Palmer
Customary Governance in Post-Independence Timor-Leste

This book examines the dynamics of a 'return to custom' in post-independence Timor-Leste; a set of practices connecting ancestral house communities with the complex spirit ecologies upon which people's li…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

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Forough Sajadi
The Qajar Painting Collection at Leiden University Libraries

The Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries hosts a spectacular collection from Albertus Paulus Hermanus Hotz (1855-1930), a Dutch businessman who traded with Persia between 1874 and 1903 via h…

lieferbar ab 22.4.2026.

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Ka-Ming Wu
Everyday Urbanism in Contemporary China

This book examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering. It asks ho…

lieferbar ab 1.5.2026.

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Circus Bodies from the Global South

Critical, Connected Histories

This collection of essays on circus histories and theories focusing on the Global South and its transnational contexts is significant because circus studies has largely focused on the Global North. Many L…

lieferbar ab 20.5.2026.

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Civil War Samurai

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed "Tommy," made headlines across America for his real and imagined adventures as part of the 1860 Japanese Embassy, the first Japane…

lieferbar ab 18.3.2026.

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Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses

Iranian Studies Series

This book offers the first sustained scholarly exploration of intersex embodiment and identity in premodern Islam. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, it examines how classical Muslim thinker…

lieferbar ab 6.5.2026.

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National Armies and NATO, 1949-1991

For almost half a century, NATO's armies deterred a Soviet attack on Western Europe. Today, they once again provide a check on Russia's revanchist agenda. As in the Cold War, if Russia's aggression escala…

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Slavery and the Dutch State

It is the paradox at the heart of the Dutch Republic: how could a state emerge from resistance to political slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a colonial empire that promoted slave…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

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The Basel Mission Between Switzerland, Germany and South India

Global Connections: Routes and Roots

This book traces the intricate entanglements between the Swiss-German world and South India through the history of the Basel Mission Society. Founded in 1815, the Mission drew its support from present-day…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

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