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A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre. This volume theref…
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- 9789004523067
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- vii, 556 p
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- 809 PER a
Beyond the silk roads : trade, mobility and geopolitics across Eurasia
Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus M…
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- 9781108974387
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- xiii, 289.; ill.
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- 382.095 MAR b
Bonded labour: global and comparative perpective (18th-21st century)
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migrati…
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- 9783839437339
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- 233p.: ill.
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- 331.1173 BON b
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