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Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources The Travels of Pieter Albert Bik
writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century
2017 || Paperback || Mikko Toivanen || Leiden University Press
The unpublished writings of a Dutch colonial official, Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) are studied and contextualized in this book. The remarkable autobiographical manuscript of Bik, which is here presented in English translation with annotations, provides a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism, tracing his many journeys in Europe, the Dutch East Indies and Japan as well as across the oceans in the first half of the nineteenth century.
In this work, Mikko Toivan...
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Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination
Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
2020 || Paperback || Nadine Willems || Leiden University Press
In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan’s capitalist development and industrialisation. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshirō exemplifies this imagination, connecting European and Japanese thought during the first decades of the twentieth century. This book investigates the emergence of a strand of non-violent anarchism, reassessing in particular the role of geographical thought in modern Japan as both a vehicle of political dissent and a basis fo...
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The Rise of the Ni‘matullāhī Order
Shi'ite Sufi Masters against Islamic Fundamentalism in 19th-Century Persia
2021 || Paperback || Reza Tabandeh || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
How were the Ni‘matullāhī masters successful in reviving Ni‘matullāhī Sufism in Shi‘ite Persia? This book investigates the revival of Ni‘matullāhī Sufi order after the death of the last Indian Ni‘matullāhī master, Riḍā ‘Alī Shāh (d. 1214/1799) in the Deccan.
After the fall of Safavids, the revival movement of the Ni‘matullāhī order began with the arrival in Persia of the enthusiastic Indian Sufi master, Ma‘ṣūm ‘Alī Shāh, during the last quarter of the eigh...
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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Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies
Colonial Military Labour Markets, 1848-1914
2024 || Paperback || Philipp Krauer || Leiden University Press
Between 1848 and 1914, around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) to fight in the Dutch East Indies, now modern-day Indonesia. This book traces the paths of these mercenaries beyond the boundaries of the Dutch Empire, shedding light on the intricacies of nineteenth-century military labour markets. It delves deep into their social backgrounds, motivations, intimate relationships, and their role in the violent expansion of the colonial empire. In doing so, it unve...
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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 exposition of artistic research / druk 1
publishing art in academia
2013 || Paperback || M. Schwab e.a. || Leiden University Press
The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia introduces the pioneering concept of 'expositions' in the context of art and design research, where practice needs to be exposed as research to enter academic discourse. It brings together reflective and methodological approaches to exposition writing from a variety of artistic disciplines including fine art, music and design, which it links to questions of publication and the use of technology. The book proposes a novel relati...
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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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Principles for Progress
Essays on Religion and Modernity by Abdu’l-Bahā
2018 || Paperback || Sen McGlinn || Leiden University Press
This book presents three of the works of Abduʾl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʾi Faith, dealing with social and political issues.
In ‘The Secret of Divine Civilization’ (1875) Abduʾl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abduʾl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among th...
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Tussen honger en zwaard
Nederlands Atlantische rijk in de zeventiende eeuw
2018 || Paperback || Wim Klooster || Leiden University Press
Dat de Nederlanders in de zeventiende eeuw in Azië aan een koloniaal rijk bouwden weet iedereen. Het is veel minder bekend dat hetzelfde ook in het Atlantische gebied gebeurde. In Tussen honger en zwaard laat Wim Klooster zien dat het Atlantische imperium van de Republiek een grote verscheidenheid aan regio’s omvatte: de Afrikaanse Goudkust, eilanden in het Caribisch gebied, een lange strook langs de Noordamerikaanse oostkust en Brazilië. Dit imperium was niet alleen het werk van Nederlan...