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Cape of Asia: essays on European history
A Cape of Asia collects eighteen of Wesseling’s finest essays on European History, clustered around three concerns: The Wider View, or the historical European perspective on globalization, migration and decolonization; Europe’s Identity, reflecting the shift from Eurocentrism to Americanization and Europe’s acceptance of Japan, China and India as new key players in the global economy; and…
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- 9789087281281
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- 176 p. ; 24 cm.
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- 955 WES c
An Archaeology of art and writing: early egypth labels in context
An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels—one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley—the research is anchored in the image as the site of material action. A key aim of this book is to outline a contextual and reflexive approach…
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- 9783946198390
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- xx, 342p.: ill.
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- 930 PIQ a
Writing history in the digital age
A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish
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- 9780472072064
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- xiii, 283p. : ill.
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- 902.85 WRI w
Sugar, steam and steel: the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885
Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the ‘Oriental Cuba’ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java — the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies — drew decisively away in matters of techno…
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- 9781922064998
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- xii, 243p.: ill.
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- 959.8022
Prehistory of Indo-Malaysian archipelago
Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood’s Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the field. Now that work has been fully revised and includes a complete up-to-date summary of the archaeology of the region (and relevant neighboring areas of China and Oceania), as well as a comprehensive discussio…
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- 9781921313127
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- xx, 385p.: ill.
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- 959.01 BEL p
Pastplay : teaching and learning history with technology
A collection of scholars and teachers of history unpack how computing technologies are transforming the ways that we learn, communicate, and teach.
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- 9780472119370
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- viii, 338p. : ill.
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- 907 PAS p
Teaching history in the digital age
A practical guide on how one professor employs the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history
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- 9780472118786
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- xiii, 167p. : ill.
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- 907.85 KEL t
Heirs to world culture : being Indonesian 1950-1965
This volume brings together new scholarship by Indonesian and non-Indonesian scholars on Indonesia’s cultural history from 1950-1965. During the new nation’s first decade and a half, Indonesia’s links with the world and its sense of nationhood were vigorously negotiated on the cultural front. Indonesia used cultural networks of the time, including those of the Cold War, to announce itself…
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- 9789004253513
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- xv, 529 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 959.803 LIE h
Islamic area studies with geographical information systems
In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looki…
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- 9780203401422
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- xxvi, 283p. : ill.
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- 910.91767 ISL i
Persian documents : social history of Iran and Turan in the fifteenth to nine…
After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Mo…
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- 9780203508862
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- xvii, 189p. : ill.
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- 955.03 PER p
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