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Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction analyses travellers' accounts of the Roman, Christian and Islamic monuments of Syria (including Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine/Israel). An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and their likely future.

The volume traces the relationships between Marianne Werefkin and the women artists in her circle. Specifically focusing on issues of cosmopolitan culture, transcultural dialogue, gender roles, and the building of new artistic networks, it re-evaluates the contributions of these artists to the development of modern art.

Direct Speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca is the first extensive study of speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD). It presents an in-depth analysis of the narrative functions of direct speech and their implications for the presentation of the epic story.The digital appendix to this book (Database of Direct Speech in Greek Epic Poetry) can be consulted online at www.dsgep.ugent.be.

Early Modern English Catholicism: Identity, Memory and Counter-Reformation is an interdisciplinary collection that brings together leading scholars in the field to demonstrate the significance of early modern English Catholicism as a contributor to national and European Counter-Reformation culture.

In The Asanids, Alexandru Madgearu provides a detailed history of the second Bulgarian empire in its interactions with Byzantium, Hungary, Latin Empire of Constantinople and the Golden Horde. This is the first English language monograph on this subject.

International Communism and Transnational Solidarity offers an analysis of the organization of radical international solidarity by so-called 'Non-Party Mass Organisations' and 'Sympathising Organisations for Special Purposes' that had been established by or were connected to the Communist International.

Connecting Art Markets proposes that vertically-integrated art dealers operating on a large scale acted as cultural mediators, and offers an aggregate view that connects artistic and market developments at both sides of the Atlantic.

A study on the technique of painting through cross-analysis of literary texts by Leonardo, Vasari, Armenini, Borghini, Lomazzo and works of art, examining some significant paintings in the Capodimonte Museum, Naples.

In Small States in a Big Power World, Hubert P. van Tuyll van Serooskerken explains how the Netherlands foiled Belgian annexationism at Versailles.

The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states - all related to developments in one calendar year.

Advances in Entomopathogenic Nematode Taxonomy and Phylogeny provides an account of the valid Steinernema and Heterorhabditis species proposed since 2007. A taxonomic overview, tabular key to species, and their phylogeny and phylogeography are provided.

In Tales of the Iron Bloomery Bernt Rundberget argues that the ironmaking of southern Hedmark was an important basis for political developments from chiefdom to Norwegian kingdom in the period AD 700-1300.

The work of Costas Lapavitsas on money and finance develops Marxist monetary theory offering fresh insight into contemporary capitalism. It is fully conversant with the history of political economy, mainstream economic theory and the empirical reality of financialisation.

The Dutch-German Communist Left separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement.

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

Rethinking Private Higher Education offers fresh insights into the actual meaning of 'private' in different higher education contexts, getting beneath the surface of easy labels to provide a deeper understanding of the actual effects of global policies in local contexts through ethnographies.

In Literary Forms of Argument in Early China, Gentz and Meyer explore a new analytical approach to the study of written thinking by focusing on the argumentative function of literary patterns in early Chinese texts.

In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the 14th centuries CE.

The twelve essays in this work explore various aspects of Clement's hermeneutical theory and his exegetical practice, including his use of allegory and his interpretation of specific texts such as Proverbs, the Sermon on the Mount, and Pauline letters.

Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History examines the mechanisms that regulated Tibetan societies from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Focusing on processes rarely examined in historical studies of Tibet, this volume contributes to the emerging field of Tibetan social history.

Chinese scholars offer perspectives on Chinese world order, China's relations with neighboring states, Chinese-American relations and the One-Belt-One-Road initiative.

In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions of morality.

In Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung offer an edition and detailed historical analysis of religious letters by early Ibāḍī leaders in Basra, Oman, and Hadramawt.

As with most European Jewries today, Belgian Jewry is attacked from many directions. How are these new hardships confronted? Research shows Belgian Jews as "like" many others but "a little more" and their plight highlights the question: is allosemitism surmountable?

Tramelli considers three main areas of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's studies: color, perspective and anatomy, investigating the types of theoretical and practical knowledge on these subjects conveyed in the Trattato dell'Arte della Pittura and how the context of Milan at the end of the sixteenth century shaped the material gathered in Lomazzo's books.

The authors explore the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience that contributed to the emergence of 'public sphere(s)' across early modern Europe -- and in Asia.

This collective essay examines the violence, both present and past, inherent in the act of interpreting texts produced in Early Modern Europe, during the trials of the Spanish Inquisition and in accusations of witchcraft or libertinage, and their resistance to it.Le livre analyse la violence qu'exerce, hier et aujourd'hui, l'interprétation sur des textes produits dans le cadre de procès en Inquisition, pour sorcellerie ou libertinage (Europe, XVIe et XVIIe siècle). Il interroge le sens de la résistance qu'ils opposent à cette violence.

John A. González, Director of the Rozhkov Historical Research Centre, examines the evolution of the thought of the most important and prolific historian after V.O. Kliuchevskii. Rozhkov's transformation from liberal thinker to social democrat is explored against the background of Russia's paradigmatic shift from tsarist regime to revolutionary government.