OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)The book scrutinizes the diplomatic relations between British Foreign Secretary Viscount Palmerston and Austrian Chancellor Metternich from 1830 to 1841. Their conflicting views on how to solve the problems of the time ...
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(2025)The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology examines how digital devices spread and cut across all fields of crime and control. Providing a glossary of key theoretical, methodological and criminological concepts, the ...
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(2025)This study examines the question of when and how German-language texts written between 1750 and 1930 refer to the literature of the Middle Ages. In a scalable reading, it performs a distant reading of medieval references ...
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(2025)Rotraud Wielandt produced her studies on modern Arabic literature and contemporary Islamic exegesis and theology during forty years of research. Although the texts contain important insights and original observations, some ...
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(2025)This book is the first systematic analysis of the Bhagavad-Gita as a work of political theory. It fills a crucial gap by comprehensively exploring the classical text, and offers insights into the enduring impact of the ...
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(2025)Origins have shaped contemporary literature. This volume is the first to take this into account from a cross-genre and intermedial perspective. It examines narratives of pluralized origins, the intersectional dissolution ...
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(2025)What do the experiences of Germans living in Great Britain and France between 1914 and 1924 tell us about the fate of enemy minorities during times of conflict? Mathis Gronau comparatively analyzes numerous personal accounts ...
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(2025)The importance of journals in intellectual history has long been recognized. However, it is only by digitizing them en masse that it is becoming possible to study the communication processes, conflicts, and cultural ...
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(2025)In February 1972, the world’s first group of and for queer Jews convened in London for their first public symposium. Their aim was to tackle the exlusion of non-heteronormative Jews in Jewish and queer communities. A few ...
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(2025)This volume introduces key terms of public history and makes them accessible via the most important subject areas and central research perspectives. It is aimed at students, teachers and practitioners who deal with history ...
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(2025)The volume analyzes the implications of the “world exhaustion” concept that has emerged in a post-global cultural context and whose effects are particularly salient in Latin American literatures and cultures. This conceptual ...
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(2025)This volume investigates the doctrine of the seven divine attributes in the Ashʿarite theological school and assigns them to three new main categories: (1) omnipotence, will, and knowledge (2) life and seeing (3) hearing ...
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(2025)The “West” is a central concept in public discourse, but its meaning is often unclear and open to manifold interpretations and ascriptions of belonging and exclusion: Who is part of the “West”? When and where is it located? ...
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(2025)Twenty representations of the globe accompany the late medieval transmission of Benedictine monk Ranulph Higden’s world chronicle, the Polychronicon. This study is the first to analyze all these maps and their codicological ...
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(2025)The eighteenth century can be seen as a turning point in the description and interpretation of extreme events – and not just due to the Lisbon earthquake. This volume examines the discursive and cultural consequences of ...
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(2025)In the premodern period, many cities endeavoured to obtain a fair privilege and attract as many merchants as possible. Through the economic activities and infrastructures provided, a supra-regional spatial configuration ...
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(2025)Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic ...
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(2025)The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference ...
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(2025)In the decades following World War II, ambitious building programs were launched across Europe to secure social prosperity. Scandinavia, in particular, underwent an intensive phase of modernization aimed at distributing ...
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(2025)How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in ...
