This book provides a critical assessment of the broadly held view that states 'own' war. The cent...

'For around 150 years, the richly illustrated Wigalois manuscript from Amelungsborn Abbey in Germ...

This book looks at the production of postcards in the colonial era and argues that, in many ways,...

This volume intervenes in the growing field of transimperial history, which explores interactions...

'For almost half a century, NATO's armies deterred a Soviet attack on Western Europe. Today, they...

Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) t...

Rufus Ephesius

Rudolph Agricola

Verhelderend archeologisch onderzoek naar werktuigen van schelp uit de pre-Colombiaanse tijd, maa...

Terrorism has arguably been one of the defining factors of our age. In many parts of the world, i...

'This new and now unabridged English translation of Huizinga's

The Making of Buddhism in Indonesia

This volume presents six essays devoted to the practices, habits, and preferences of scribes maki...

This book is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritag...

is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with sla...

This volume describes various forms of cultural heritage produced on the Dutch Caribbean islands ...

adopts a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, thus offering uniquely comprehensive and timel...

outlines how the Malaysian Christian community defends its religious rights without being constru...

The poet Parvin E'tesami (1907-1941) transgressed Iranian-Muslim gender norms and acquired a spec...

Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19 makes a...

outlines the dramatic history of the failed liberalization of Japanese private law during the Mei...

focuses on the integration of animal power as an energy source in the area ranging from Morocco t...

Examining the European far right, as represented by Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom in th...

Currently, the Leiden University Library is the custodian of the largest Middle Eastern and Islam...

Bodies beyond Binaries' advances the historiographical debate around the body in colonial and pos...

The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This volume explores the role of images in contemporary Islam by turning to the act of provocation.

is the first comprehensive overview of Dutch military action in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

This book tells the story of humanitarians working to safeguard refugee camps, agricultural colon...

This book explores manifestations of the revival of Buddhism among non-monastic people and commun...

This book examines how Singaporean leaders embrace change to stay in power, by meticulously balan...

This book examines a combination of environmental, economic, social, and political constraints th...

'China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment' is one of the first scholarly books on Xi's China duri...

reviews the climate Security Nexus from the military angle and proposes the design of climate sec...

From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity's instruments of punish...

assesses the use of data and information on modern conflict from different scientific and methodo...

Blending Eastern and Western viewpoints, the two travelogues that make up this book create a capt...

Oikography aims to show how photography envisages, embodies and apperceives home as a spatial ide...

This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the ...

'International Studies aims to understand the global complexities of the world in which we live t...