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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...

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A Fire of Lilies

Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran

|| Paperback || Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak || Leiden University Press

This book examines the role of Persian literature in politics in the tumultuous period of Iranian history from 1950 to 2000, illustrating how intellectuals used poetry, plays, novels and short stories to comment on socio-political developments. The unique aspect of the book is its strong empirical perspective, as Karimi-Hakkak has participated in the events he is writing about. It analyses how Persian intellectuals dealt with censorship, suppression, imprisonment, exile and even execution for...

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Being a Slave

Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

2020 || Paperback || Alicia Schrikker e.a. || Leiden University Press

"Being a slave" brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. This volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective that embraces the origin and afterlife of enslavement as well ...

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Designating Place

Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii

2020 || Paperback || Hans Kamermans e.a. || Leiden University Press

Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the mayor topics in archaeological research. Designating place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways: geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analysis. This book is based on the work of Hanna Stöger, the Leiden scholar who died in 2018. Hanna’s work in Ostia was not finished and this book contains contributions from people who inspired her, people sh...

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Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography

2021 || Paperback || Ali Shobeiri || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

By examining photography through geography and philosophy, this book makes evident that place is not the content of a definite representation. To do this, it breaks down the participatory elements of photography into six tropes: the photographer, the camera, the photograph, the image, the spectator, and the genre. Afterwards, through a rigorous theoretical analysis of each of these themes vis-à-vis the notion of place, it shows how they manifest inactive, contingent, unlocalizable, liminal, ...

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Inescapable Entrapments?

The Civil-Military Decision Paths to Uruzgan and Helmand

2021 || Paperback || Mirjam Grandia Mantas || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

Military involvement in foreign policy decision-making, and its role as a driving force in that process, has long been anathema to both academic and practitioner circles. Without wanting to pursue the quest for principles or ultimate predictions this study looks specifically into the role of the military in foreign policy decision-making. It does so by carefully reconstructing and comparing the sequential series of decisions of a group of British and Dutch senior civil and military decision-m...