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Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh
Beyond Orientalism

This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment.

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Sara Burdorff
Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare

This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the "belly-monstrous" as…

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Greg De Cuir
Yugoslav Black Wave

The Yugoslav Black Wave was a controversial and highly contested movement of filmmakers in the 1960s in socialist Yugoslavia-a country situated at the time in a political, cultural, and social middle grou…

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Dominique Darmon
Have I Got Dirt For You

Even though office gossip is generally frowned upon, many studies show that gossip in organizations is not only inevitable, but can even be a positive communication tool. However, by gossiping in the wron…

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Frank Ijpma, Thomas van Gulik
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected

In the 'Anatomy lessons' that were painted for the Surgeons' Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

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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 right partie…

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Menno A. Mennes
Motivation - Mechanisms of the Mind and their Quest for Expression

This Volume presents a first introduction to a thought-provoking Model of Motivation developed by Menno Mennes over a period of almost thirty years. The Model of Motivation in its approach presents a radi…

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Henk van 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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Florian Schneider
Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia

Communication is at the heart of politics, and certainly in East Asia, where vibrant media systems and cultural industries connect with political processes that range from the democratic to autocratic. If…

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Rodante van der Waal
Birth Justice

Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more researc…

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Genji Yasuhira
Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic

Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, Utrecht's magistrates, under constant pressure from th…

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Ines G. Zupanov
Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries

Max Weber's 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 …

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Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean

The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered…

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Colonial Vocabularies

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans' colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, "Oriental language teachers" - as they were termed prior to …

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Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art

Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics. In these times of heightened anxieties, images of sa…

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Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages

This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness…

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Frans Hals

Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His portraits are admired for their virtuoso brushwork and their seemingly spontaneous char…

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Gender and Animals in History

The category of species has remained largely understudied in mainstream gender scholarship. This edition of the Yearbook of Women's History attempts to show how gender history can be enriched through the …

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Handbook of Japan's Foreign and Domestic Policies During the Decade of Abe

No Japanese leader has dominated Japan's recent political landscape more than the late Abe Shinzo. With the this as the basic premise, the main objective of this compiled volume is to examine and assess J…

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Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse

In China, every phase of modernization had its particular poetic forms and lyrical articulations. The 1919 May Fourth movement was the breeding ground for poetical experiments by authors inspired by new w…

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