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An examnination of how the Porfirians reinscribed the political meaning of indigenous icons, particularly Aztec, while social scientists, both domestic and international, struggled to establish standards for Mexican archaeology that would undermine such endeavors.

Through archaeological, philological, historical and geographical contributions, this volume offers an overview of the present research in the socio-economic, historical and political developments of the Suso-Elamite region from prehistoric times until the great Persian Empire.

A much-needed historical perspective in the highly relevant contemporary debates around these two notions by contextualising their discussion from ancient Greece to Soviet Russia.

This volume shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861.

This volume presents thirty-five chapters on archaeology, archaeometry, art history, and epigraphy of the Ancient Near East in honor of Professor K. Aslıhan Yener.

This book significantly deepens the contemporary discussion of the theology and practice of adopting children. Both interdisciplinary and international, the volume offers a unique and uniquely insightful vision of Christian adoption that unites practical and theoretical perspectives.

In this volume historians, anthropologists, musicologists, political scientists and literary scholars address different dimensions of cosmopolitanism in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and other parts of the world. Migrants, traders, writers, freemasons, architects, conservative and postcolonial politicians are among the figures analysed here.

Silence in Philosophy, Literature, and Art demonstrates how silence as a form of indirect discourse provides us with access to hitherto inaccessible aspects of human experience.

In Ens Primum Cognitum, Brian Kemple examines the meaning of Thomas Aquinas' claim that "being" is the first object of the intellect and proposes an interpretation with dramatic consequences for Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics.

The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories. Focusing on questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museums, artists, politicians and general audiences

Ecowomanism features the voices of women of African descent and their contributions to the environmental justice movement. The edited volume features religious perspectives from Ghana, West Africa, Tibet, Brazil, and the southern United States.

The Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides a detailed analysis of the judicial interpretation and application of the New York Convention by reference to case law from 45 Contracting States. The Guide, and the newyorkconvention1958.org website which supplements it, will become an essential tool that benefits all those involved in the interpretation and application of the New York Convention.

In International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Douglas R. Burnett and Lionel Carter closely examine the relationship between trans-oceanic submarine cables and biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond offers an excellent introduction to the state-of-art in the respective fields and currently ongoing debates in them.

Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products and prepared medicines; thereby throwing light on the relationship between medicine and empire, and the development of early modern science.

Development as a Battlefield is an innovative exploration of conflict and development, phenomena that are often regarded as ostensibly antagonistic. It invites readers to reconsider socio-political and economic developments in the MENA region and beyond.

An exploration how consumer goods in eighteenth-century Qing and Ottoman empires furthered the expansion of social networks, the creation of alliances between rulers and regional elites, and particularly, the expression of elite, urban, and gender identities

Chapters in this book contribute to our understanding of the theory, structure and practice of entrepreneurship in diverse African countries. Case studies examined include: African multinational banks and businesses, female entrepreneurs, culture and entrepreneurship, finance and entrepreneurship and SMEs.

This exciting book is a product of over ten years of work of the author's native village. From beginning to end it enters dialogue with a variety of domestic and overseas scholarship, providing new empirical data and many surprising discoveries.

This previously unpublished 1931 dissertation by Gaines Post covers the interaction of the papacy with multiple universities from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and makes his research and observations available on a range of topics, such as papal intervention and influence in the areas of licensing to teach, scholarly privileges, financial support, and dispensations for study.

This volume brings together nine chapters that address the topic of the scale and size of companies, in both legal and economic history, in the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, and in the nineteenth century.

The volume provides a collection of studies on citizenship in the Graeco-Roman world and the political and philosophical reflection on it. It encourages the reader to complement the traditional institutional approach to citizenship with a broader perspective.

A comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians by revealing their contribution to the court culture of the Medici and the mechanisms behind their brokerage activities.

An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.

Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.