Mainland Southeast Asia's great river systems sustain the world's largest inland fishery and prov...

This book tells the story of Indian, Burmese, and Indonesian socialists who fleshed out radical i...

The nature of modern-day threats – including those in the virtual dimension – challenges traditio...

Medical Mercenaries, Masculinities, and Transimperial Science between the Dutch East Indies and G...

This book examines the environmental history of the Napoleonic Wars through the lens of everyday ...

This volume analyses water management in pre-1500 Middle Eastern cities. Managing access to fresh...

This book traces the intricate entanglements between the Swiss-German world and South India throu...

Being a citizen is not just about holding a passport or being allowed to vote. It is also about h...

Whether one is in front of the camera or behind it, inside their home or outside their house, pho...

Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) was a Dutch colonial official whose work took him all over the worl...

There are many publications dealing with the political career of Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989), w...

Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) t...

This book analyzes the expansion of the Anatolian livestock trade, focusing on sheep and cattle, ...

South Sudan's Azande during colonialism, war, and displacement revisits a people long frozen in t...

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated wit...

The concept of 'real legal certainty' provides a much needed corrective to the general attention ...

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojir , nicknamed 'Tommy,' made headlines across Am...

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defence College of Japan (now the C...

Gum Arabic has been seen as a symbol of the 'noble Orient' and later as a symbol of trouble. It i...

'The Asian Studies Parade' reflects a lifetime of commitment to the field by Paul van der Velde, ...

In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond convent...

This study opens a dialogue between first and twenty-first century successes and failures in our ...

This volume offers fresh insights into themes of love, gender, sexuality, and the interaction bet...

This book presents three of the works of Abdu.l-Bah., son of the founder of the Bah..i Faith, dea...

'In Praise of Ambiguity' presents a discourse about the seriousness of play. Erasmus and Huizinga...

This book explores the making of Buddhism in modern Indonesia. Buddhism started a second life dur...

Rethinking Environmental Governance brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and mu...

Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) t...

At the heart of Singapore's political economy is the PAP government, which controls the levers of...

Ancient civilizations often developed near major rivers, like in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Centra...

The Large Faramarzname (Faramarzname-ye bozorg), a poem from the Persian epic cycle dated to the ...

Centuries of intense and involuntary migrations deeply impacted the development of the creolised ...

Whose international matters, and why? How are geographic regions constructed? What are the channe...

From 1652 until 1795, the Cape of Good Hope was a Dutch settlement marked by tensions, often port...

This volume intervenes in the growing field of transimperial history, which explores interactions...

The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century...

In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of ...

Parvin E'tesami (1907-1941) is among the few Persian female poets, who has gained nationwide popu...

The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the networ...

How and why do religion and spirituality motivate individuals and collectivities in contemporary ...

China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment is one of the first scholarly books on Xi's China during...

The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding sta...

Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Pe...

Terrorism has arguably been one of the defining factors of our age. In many parts of the world, i...

This book deals with nonconformist aspects of Sufism, and other antinomian movements in the Persi...

This book collects contributions by Richard T. Griffiths on the history of European integration, ...

'Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste' analyses various economic dynamics in past and p...

On October 29, 2023, the Republic of Turkey will celebrate its centennial. The foundation of the ...