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Iranian Studies Series A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne
2017 || Paperback || Russell Harris e.a. || Leiden University Press
In 1884 an obscure British soldier, having finished his tour of duty in India, decided to make a detour on his trip home in order to spend three months crossing Persia unaccompanied except for the local muleteers. Among his accoutrements he packed a small leather-bound sketchbook in which he not only wrote a journal but in which he also added accomplished and charming water-colour illustrations. The authors' introduction contextualises this trip made in 1884 against the background of Persiana...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
patrimonio y Derechos de Los Pueblos Indígenas
2017 || Paperback || Manuel May Castillo e.a. || Leiden University Press
The heritage of Indigenous Peoples has long been researched and commented upon from the outside. This book adopts an innovative approach by engaging with the heritage of Indigenous Peoples from the 'inside'.
On 13th September 2007, member states of the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a momentous occasion marking wide political recognition of Indigenous Peoples' rights. Ten years on, this book explores the areas -both substantive and geogr...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the Cyclades
the Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
2017 || Paperback || Konstantinos Roussos || Leiden University Press
The Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to "read" the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Medit...
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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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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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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Akragas
Current issues in the archaeology of a Sicilian polis
2017 || Paperback || Natascha Sojc || Leiden University Press
Over the past few years, the archaeological and architectural investigation of ancient Akragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily has gathered new momentum. This book brings together various researchers who investigate the Greek period remains of Akragas, an ostentatiously wealthy city state that was politically powerful and culturally formative.
The issues discussed range from methodological approaches and the interpretation of fresh field-data, to concerns of site maintenance and the reconstructio...