OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2022)Buchenwald concentration camp was an international event. During the seven years that it existed, people from 30 nations were deported there, and after 1945, texts about the camp were written in the majority of the languages ...
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(2022)The twentieth century saw intensive intellectual exchange between Eastern and Central Europe and the West. Yet political and linguistic obstacles meant that many important trends in East and Central European thought and ...
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(2022)Just as human attention is subject to considerable fluctuations, vigilance is also temporally unstable. Cultural instructions to be vigilant therefore generally work with temporal structures and natural temporal sequences ...
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(2022)The CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century.
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(2022)The present volume focuses on the colophons found in several pothi manuscripts from Central, South and South East Asia. Its contributions discuss the colophons’ defining features, thus exposing their ‘syntax’, focusing ...
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(2022)This book offers an Asia-centred story of bondage and coerced labour. Spanning the western Indian Ocean to Japan, and the 16th to the 19th century, it follows coercion from the regulation of sales to post-abolition labour ...
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(2022)The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which rose during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and embracing the New Israel symbolism ...
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(2022)This volume examines the making of new edition prints in the early modern north Alpine region and argues that it was a complex aesthetic strategy of creative appropriation.
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(2022)This study examines Speyer, a significant medieval printing location, where four printers operated between 1471 and 1500. Alongside the most important workshop belonging to the Drach family, the brothers Johann and Conrad ...
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(2022)This book explores the political, social and cultural consequences of COVID-19 through a corpus of over 15.000 articles published in Spain and Latin America in the first pandemic year. Organized around four epistemic fields ...
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(2022)The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying ...
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(2022)What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in ...
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(2022)This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
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(2022)The Bibliographica Judaica Archive in Frankfurt am Main has spent decades gathering the biobibliographical data of about 20,000 German Jewish personalities. This unique data stock is now available on De Gruyter’s ABJ – ...
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(2022)The Book of Esther tells the story of a plot to exterminate the Persian Jews and their great struggle against their enemies. This study locates these portrayals of violence in the Hellenistic epoch, in the Hasmonean period ...
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(2022)The contributions in this edited volume approach poetry, narrative, and drama from the perspective of Computational Stylistics. They exemplify methods of computational textual analysis and explore the possibility of ...
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(2022)Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is ...
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(2022)This book writes theory. It looks at the example of the texts written by Wilhelm Raabe between 1856 and 1902 to develop the outlines of an ontological narratology that claims a systematic validity going beyond its historical ...
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(2022)The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, ...
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(2022)In 1587, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak – a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnāmah – completed his Preface to the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata. This book is the first detailed study of Abū al-Faz̤l's ...
