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Materiality of writing in early Mesopotamia
This volume presents recent research on the relationship between the material format of text-bearing artefacts, the texts they carry, and their genre. The essays cover a vast period, from the counting stones of the late 4th millennium BCE to the time of the Great Hittite Kingdom in the 2nd millennium BCE. The breadth of substantive focus allows new insights of relevance to scholars in both Anci…
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- 9783110459630
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- VI, 301 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen
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- 411.7 BAL m
A Certain Age Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals
A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and …
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- 9780822346852
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- 959.822022 MRA a
History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …
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- 978023022858
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- ix, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 823.809358 MIT h
Melammu : the ancient world in an age of globalization
Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this …
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- 9783945561003
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- XI, 385 p.
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- Proceedings 7: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
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- 900.42 MEL m
Contested Terrain: reconceptualising security in the Pacific contested terrain
Contested Terrain provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive and innovative approach to critically analysing the multidimensional and contested nature of security narratives, justified by different ideological, political, cultural and economic rationales. This is important in a complex and ever-changing situation involving a dynamic interplay between local, regional and global factors. Security nar…
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- 9781760463199
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- viii, 295p.
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- 355.03305 RAT c
Healthy minds in the twentieth century : in and beyond the asylum
This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional wal…
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- 9783030272753
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- xiii, 274p. : ill.
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- 362.1 HEA h
World history, a genealogy : private conversations with world historians, 199…
This volume charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario, cover these historians’ lives, work, and views of the academy in general and the field of world history in …
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- 9789400602854
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- 429p. : ill.
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- 907.2 WOR w
Modernism as Institution
Anyone who studies the history of modern art—in art museums, in the classroom, in art historical handbooks or specialist surveys—will soon be aware of a certain recurrent pattern governing the selection of objects and forming a certain type of narrative where the history of modern art is presented as a variety of different -isms that dissolve into each other in the coherent sequence that co…
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- 9789176350713
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Culture & money in the nineteenth century: abstracting economics
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining 19th-century culture, particularly literary output, through the lens of economics. Bivona and Tromp have collected contributions that push New Economic Criticism in new directions.Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts a global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the …
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- 9780821421963
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- viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Series in Victorian studies
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- 306.009034 BIV c
Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on filth and the combat of dirt, focus on Europe. In Cleanliness and culture attention shifts to the tropics, to Indonesia, in colonial times as well as in the present. Subjects ran…
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- 9789067183758
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- xii, 204 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 958.9 CLE c
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