Publications
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The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
(2010)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater ...
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
(2015)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Dur
De slimme en de domme
(1976)
The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text ...
In search of a path; An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991
(2011)
In search of a path An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991
Roger Janssen
The foreign policy of small states is an often neglected topic, which is particularly the case when it comes to Suriname. ...
Healers on the colonial market; Native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indies
(2011)
Healers on the colonial market is one of the few studies on the Dutch East Indies from a postcolonial perspective. It provides an
enthralling addition to research on both the history of the Dutch
East Indies and the ...
At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands
(2012)
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote ...
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
(2010)
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks ...
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284
(2011)
This book deals with changing power and status relations between AD 193 and 284, when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, and presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration and ...
In Leijdeckers voetspoor
(1978)
Indonesia
The Stone Age of Indonesia
(1972)
The first edition of The Stone Age of Indonesia was published as Volume 21 (1957) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
(2012-01-01)
Sexual violence is a particular brand of evil that women have endured—more than men—during armed conflicts, through the ages. It is a menace that has continued to challenge the conscience of humanity—especially in our ...
Islamic Reformism and Christianity
(2009-01-01)
Drawing on newly-discovered archival materials, the study offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the polemics of Sheikh Rashīd Riḍā and his associates on Christianity in al-Manār, and their fascinating encounters ...
Jan Company in Coromandel 1605-1690
(1962)
Indonesia
Jan Verschueren's Description of Yéi-Nan Culture
(1982)
Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Y
Uma politics
(2008)
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does ...
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Indonesia
Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands. Minor Collections.
(2012)
From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish ...
Renegotiating boundaries
(2007)
For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the ...
Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
(2011)
"In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the ...
Drie Asmat-dialecten
(1963)
Indonesia
Islam in a Post-Secular Society
(2016-12-31)
Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of ...
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalimantan
(2012)
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, ...
Heirs to world culture; Being Indonesian 1950-1965
(2011)
This volume brings together new scholarship by Indonesian and non-Indonesian scholars on Indonesia’s cultural history from 1950-1965. During the new nation’s first decade and a half, Indonesia’s links with the world and ...
The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
(2009)
In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to ...
Plotinus on Beauty
(2022)
Although Plotinus’ two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination shows that he consistently argues for a conception of beauty as the illuminated unity in multiplicity ...
Printing Spinoza
(2022)
In this descriptive bibliography Jeroen van de Ven examines all editions of Spinoza’s writings published between 1663 and 1694: his exposition of Descartes’s ‘Principles’ with the ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theologica ...
The Land of the English Kin
(2020)
Twenty-nine studies, covering a wide range of themes, present the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Anglo-Saxon England, with particular attention to Wessex, in honour of Professor Barbara ...
A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation
(2002)
This monograph compares the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation with the 2nd-century A.D. Greek work of Artemidoros and five medieval Arabic dreambooks and demonstrates that it was based on Islamic Arabic ...
Broadsheets
(2017)
A landmark study of single-sheet publishing during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge as both a crucial communication medium and an ...
Governing New Guinea; An oral history of Papuan administrators, 1950-1990
(2012)
This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences governing their country. These administrators were the brokers of development. After graduating from the ...
Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660–1830 : Management − Professionalisation − Shortcomings
(2025)
This volume demonstrates novel ways to study military health care in Europe from the 1660s to the 1830s. The book uses a sociocultural mode to scrutinize the impact of values, habits and behaviour on the quality and ...
Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
(2014-11-28)
Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is ...
Dionysos in Classical Athens
(2014-11-14)
"Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this ...
Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour
(2015-12-04)
This volume includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (''Pan paniscus'').
Overall it demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or ...
History of the Opium Problem
(2012-01-04)
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian ...
The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering
(2010-01-01)
Using recent insights into the nature of early Christian communities as religious associations, this book offers a new reconstruction of the origins and development of the weekly Christian gathering and its constitutive ...
Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition
(2022)
The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal ...
Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region
(2022)
Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region includes contributions from the most influential figures in the law of the sea to provide context and direction for developing maritime governance in East ...
Treasured Oases
(2022)
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry ...