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East Asia beyond the Archives
Missing Sources & Marginal Voices
2023 || Hardcover || Catherine Chan e.a. || Leiden University Press
For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han local governors, Confucian scholars, Chinese coolies, Shanghainese tailors, Macau joss-stick makers, Hong Kong locals, a...
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Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art
2023 || Hardcover || Jan Wim Buisman || Leiden University Press
From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity’s instruments of punishment. But then, in 1752, came Benjamin Franklin’s paradigm-shifting invention of the lightning rod, and the way we view God and nature was changed forever.
In Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art Jan Wim Buisman shows how, in the second half of the eighteenth century, our scientific, religious, and artistic conceptions of one of nature’s...
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Economic Diversity In Contemporary Timor-Leste
2023 || Hardcover || Kelly Silva e.a. || Leiden University Press
Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have respon...
Tourism And The Emergence Of Nation-States In The Arab Eastern Mediterranean / Druk 5
1920s-1930s
2023 || Paperback || Jasmin Daam || Leiden University Press
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South Asia Unbound
New International Histories of the Subcontinent
2023 || Hardcover || Bérénice Guyot-Réchard e.a. || Leiden University Press
Whose international matters, and why? How are geographic regions constructed? What are the channels of engagement between a place, its people, its institutions, and the world? How do we understand the non-West’s influence in contemporary global interactions? From humanitarianism and activism to diplomacy and institutional networks, South Asia has been a crucial place for the elaboration of international politics, even before the twentieth century. South Asia Unbound gathers an interdiscipli...
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Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID
Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian languages
2023 || Hardcover || Michael Ewing e.a. || Leiden University Press
'Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19' makes a unique contribution to research on meaning making in times of crisis. Using diverse analytical approaches to the study of languages in societies from the Asia-Pacific region, this volume explores the struggles over national identity and manifestations of socio-political issues in the context of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter interrogates how social actors in diverse c...
Animals In Dutch Travel Writing
1800-Present
2023 || Hardcover || Rick Honings e.a. || Leiden University Press
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A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey
2023 || Paperback || Erik Jan Zürcher e.a. || Leiden University Press
The Republic of Turkey was founded a hundred years ago on 29 October 1923. Turkey holds a unique position between Europe and the Middle East. It continues to captivate international attention, evoking hopes and fears in the hearts and minds of contemporary observers. As a critical commemoration of its centenary, this book presents a mosaic of one hundred carefully curated fragments by expert authors, shedding light on politics, economy, society, culture, gender, and arts in a hundred years of...
Monsoon Asia
A reader on South and Southeast Asia
2023 || Paperback || Nira Wickramasinghe e.a. || Leiden University Press
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Ending Famine in India
A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, c. 1890-1950
2023 || Hardcover || Joanna Simonow || Leiden University Press
The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in India had been believed to be a necessary evil. Now it was the reason for the increasing activities of doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine.