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My Mother's Mother's Mother
South African Women's Writing from 17th Century Dutch to Contemporary Afrikaans
2019 || Hardcover || Pieta van Beek e.a. || Leiden University Press
For the first time more than seventy South African women’s voices, from 1652 until today, are collected and published in one volume. Initially we hear their voices in Dutch, then in different varieties of Afrikaans, bearing witness to the fascinating development of a new language. We share the joys and sorrows of these women; their entertaining, sometimes gruesome stories.
The printing press arrived late at the Cape, and when it finally did, it took another century before the first publica...
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De zeventiende eeuw
2021 || Hardcover || Helmer J. Helmers e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Wie ‘zeventiende eeuw’ zegt, denkt al snel aan Rembrandt, Amalia van Solms, Huygens, Van Schurman, en Spinoza, aan de VOC en aan pompeuze grachtenpanden vol weelde en schatten. De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden was in de zeventiende eeuw dan ook een politieke grootmacht, met wereldwijde handelsbelangen en een toonaangevend cultureel leven. Deze Nederlandse 'gouden eeuw' is vaak geroemd vanwege zijn religieuze tolerantie, artistieke creativiteit en economische innovatie. Tegelijkertij...
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A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
2023 || Hardcover || Peter B.M.J. Pijpers e.a. || Leiden University Press
Towards a Data-Driven Military: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective assesses the use of data and information on modern conflict from different scientific and methodological disciplines, aiming to generate valuable contributions to the ongoing discourse on data, the military and modern warfare. Military Systems and Technology approaches the theme empirically by researching how data can enhance the utility of military materiel and subsequently accelerate the decision-making process. War Studies ta...
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Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire
2024 || Hardcover || Yonca Köksal Özyaşar e.a. || Leiden University Press
This book analyzes the expansion of the Anatolian livestock trade, focusing on sheep and cattle, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries— a period marked by significant changes in state policies, society and environment. It examines the impact of these changes on both human and non-human actors, maps trade routes and networks, and explores their transformations over time, thereby contributing to the literature on Ottoman environmental and socioeconomic history.
The book identif...
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Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China
Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics
2024 || Hardcover || Kai Shmushko || Leiden University Press
In the past decades, lay Buddhism has increasingly emerged in unexpected places—in the spaces in-between, beneath, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious or spiritual life in China. This book explores manifestations of the revival of Buddhism among non-monastic people and communities, building on mixed methods qualitative research. The book wishes to answer the central question: How do Chinese groups and individuals practice Buddhism under the socio-political and cultural c...
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China Under Xi Jinping
A New Assessment
2024 || Hardcover || Qiang Fang e.a. || Leiden University Press
‘China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment’ is one of the first scholarly books on Xi’s China during the Pandemic, which contains several features that are unmatched by existing scholarship. First, all the authors have studied and taught Chinese and American history or politics in both China and the United States for decades. They accordingly are quite familiar with and possess deep understandings of the history, politics, ideology, and society in both countries and therefore their resea...
The Political Mobilization of the Christian Community in Malaysia
2024 || Hardcover || Pui Yee Choong || Leiden University Press
Spanning Malaysia’s post-independence period, and using the repression-mobilization nexus as a key theoretical framework, this study outlines how its Christian community delicately and simultaneously defends its religious rights without being construed as anti-Islam in the face of state-led “Islamization”. By primarily focusing on the 1980s to the contemporary period, while considering subnational differences between East and West Malaysia, this study charts the changes in the community...
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Woordenboek Nederlands-Turks / druk 1
|| Hardcover || Gerjan van Schaaik e.a. || Leiden University Press
* professioneel gereedschap voor vertalers, tolken en studenten;
* 30.000 woorden met 37.000 betekenissen;
* zeer grote rijkdom aan voorbeelden uit literatuur en spreektaal;
* Turkse woorden zijn voorzien van indicaties voor uitspraak en klemtoon;
* Turkse woorden zijn voorzien van grammaticale informatie;
* bevat separaat compendium Turkse grammatica;
Dit woordenboek is gemaakt door medewerkers van de School of Middle Eastern Studies van het LIAS, Leiden Institute for Area Studies van de Universit...
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The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies
2015 || Hardcover || Willem Remmelink || Leiden University Press
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume "Senshi Sosho" (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. Volume 3 of the series, "The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies", describes in depth the campaign to gain control over ...
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India after World History
Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization
2022 || Hardcover || Neilesh Bose || Leiden University Press
In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner’s The Written World, Maya Jasanoff’s The Dawn Watch,...