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Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka

Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society

2022 || Paperback || Nadeera Rupesinghe || Leiden University Press

Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the navigation of plural practices in the Landraad, a judicial forum set up by the Dutch East India Company in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. A choice of laws came into play in that forum, that choice ...

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Japan’s Practice of International Law

2022 || Paperback || Hidehisa “Harry” Horinouchi || Leiden University Press

Diplomacy is a series of crises, and the navigational beacon for a nation is international law. This book is a collection of articles on six selected international legal issues concerning Japan. It addresses various issues, including self-defence, post-war legal issues, chemical weapons, the law of the sea, consular immunities, and hijacking. It is a legal documentary through which the reader can look into the minds of Japanese officials challenged by one crisis after another.

As a coherent wh...

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The Necklace of the Pleiades / druk 1

24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion

2010 || Paperback || F. Lewis e.a. || Leiden University Press

‘The Necklace of the Pleiades’ is een boek over Perzische literatuur, cultuur en religie door onderzoekers uit de hele wereld. Dit boek weerspiegelt de stand zaken op het gebied van de Perzische literaire studies en is niet alleen van wezenlijk belang voor onderzoekers van de Iranese cultuur, geschiedenis en religies, maar zeker ook voor onderzoekers op het gebied van het Midden-Oosten en Zuid-Aziatische studies.

The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdow...

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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Troubled Waters

developing a New Approach to Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

2017 || Paperback || Jonathan Sharfman || Leiden University Press

This volume of the ASLU series examines perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in southern Africa and proposes new management approaches to advance protection and public engagement. By redefining the maritime historical narratives in countries that have predominantly interpreted their maritime past through colonial shipwrecks, it is possible to create an environment in which stakeholders become active participants in heritage management. The application of a broad ma...

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Cape Conflict

Protest and Political Alliances in a Dutch Settlement

2019 || Paperback || Teun Baartman || Leiden University Press

In the historiography of the period of Dutch rule in the Cape of Good Hope, from 1652 until 1795, Cape burghers are represented as the perpetual underdogs bristling against the rule of a restrictive Dutch East India Company (VOC). But was this relationship really so antagonistic?

The author places Cape colonial society in the wider context of the Dutch Republic and, in doing so, compares the political structures, institutions and dynamics of the Republic and its overseas settlement. He shows ...

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Gum Arabic

The Golden tears of the Acacia Tree

|| Paperback || Dorrit van Dalen || Leiden University Press

Gum Arabic is a natural product which grows exclusively in the Sahel and has played an ever increasing role in the global economy. In the time of the crusades, Europeans bought the ingredient in Arab countries. Soon, it was not only used in ink or medicine, but also as a symbol of its putative Arab origin, the noble Orient. Later, gum was bought directly in the countries where it was produced, but western dependence on it grew. As European countries were laying the foundations for their colon...

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The Company Fortress

Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795

2020 || Paperback || Erik Odegard || Leiden University Press

The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early-Modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for Early-Modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It unc...

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The potters’ perspectives

A vibrant chronological narrative of ceramic manufacturing practices in the valley of Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua (cal 300 CE-present)

2020 || Paperback || Natalia R. Donner || Leiden University Press

The work of Fernand Braudel (1949) should have revolutionized the way archaeology conceptualizes temporal scales and builds chronological narratives. Even though Braudel’s general views did impact archaeological theory deeply, his three different time-scales, together with insights into duration as the inner dialectic between different temporalities, remain neglected in archaeological practice.

Nowadays, ceramic chronology building in archaeology still relies on two main variables: time-spa...

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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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Autumntide of the Middle Ages

A study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries

2024 || Paperback || Johan Huizinga || Leiden University Press

This new and now unabridged English translation of Huizinga’s Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen) celebrates the centenary of a book that still ranks as one of the most perceptive and influential analyses of the late medieval period. Its wide-ranging discussion of fourteenth and fifteenth century France and the Low Countries makes it a classic study of life, culture, and thought in medieval society.

The translation of the original text captures the impact of Huizing...