The mapping of the Netherlands East Indies was, first and foremost, meant to serve as an instrument for the government to keep its inhabitants under control and tap its resources. Only after 1900, in studies to alleviate poverty, did the colonial su...Loe edasi...
Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward....Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion of love has been introduced, adapted, and engineered as a political discourse for the building and rebuilding of a secular modern nation, appropriating Confucianism, C...Loe edasi...
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemolo...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbess political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiantin sum, magnanimousstatecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
This book introduces and collects for the first time Charles S. Peirce’s writings for Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology. As one of America’s most significant thinkers, this volume showcases Peirce’s vital role in shaping the le...Loe edasi...
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of preserving public historic sites....Loe edasi...
The handwritten and printed missionary books of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages. This volume considers these missionary books....Loe edasi...
This volume uses ceramic studies across multiple spatial and diachronic scales to provide new insights into the connectivity of ancient Mediterranean communities....Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room....Loe edasi...
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied.This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandin...Loe edasi...
This book applies the term cultural security not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an eth...Loe edasi...
This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations....Loe edasi...
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany....Loe edasi...
