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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...
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A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China
An Annotated Translation
2023 || Hardcover || Duncan Poupard || Leiden University Press
Starting in the late nineteenth century, unusual pictographic books began to flow from a remote corner of southwest China into the libraries of the western world. What made these books so attractive? For one, they possessed the air of mystery that came with being “magical” books almost indecipherable to all but a select few ritual specialists, but perhaps more importantly, they were written in what looked like an ancient form of picture writing.
In these books, written in the Naxi dongba ...
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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 Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
2023 || Hardcover || Peter B.M.J. Pijpers e.a. || Leiden University Press
Towards a Data-Driven Military: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective assesses the use of data and information on modern conflict from different scientific and methodological disciplines, aiming to generate valuable contributions to the ongoing discourse on data, the military and modern warfare. Military Systems and Technology approaches the theme empirically by researching how data can enhance the utility of military materiel and subsequently accelerate the decision-making process. War Studies ta...
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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.
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Parvin Etesami in the Literary and Religious Context of Twentieth-Century Iran
A Female Poet’s Challenge to Patriarchy
2023 || Hardcover || Zhinia Noorian || Leiden University Press
Parvin Etesami (1907-1941) is among the few Persian female poets, who has gained nationwide popularity, while her authorship was disbelieved. She is celebrated in a plethora of publications every year in Iran and beyond. Etesami is the only female poet who has remained part of the daily lives of people in her society for about a century. Her poetry appears in school curricula both before and after the Revolution of 1979. People use her poetry on social media, particularly in critical times. I...