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Le statut polygraphique et la structure hétérogène de l'Histoire des deux Indes invitent à réexaminer les méthodes et les stratégies employées par les rédacteurs, tout en favorisant une double lecture: celle dictée par la tradition historiographique et celle suggérée par les intrusions du discours philosophique. The polygraphic status and the heterogeneous structure of the Histoire des deux Indes invite us to re-examine the methods and strategies employed by the editors, while favouring a double reading: that dictated by historiography and that suggested by the intrusions of philosophical discourse.

Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing local normative production. Its ten chapters explore normative production by focusing on case studies from the Iberian empires in China, India, Japan, and the Philippines.

This book is an collaborative endeavour by senior scholars in European economic history to answer the question of what might be concluded about the nature and significance of economic connections between the long run growth of national economies and their participation in an interlude of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare?

This book fills a significant gap in our current understanding of early modern Scottish history. It is the first systematic consideration of the workings of seigneurial courts of feudal lords in 18th century Scotland.

This is a longitudinal study of music that weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into a coherent account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok's history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances.

Jesseka Batteau offers an in-depth study of the work and performances of the writers Gerard Reve, Jan Wolkers and Maarten 't Hart as iconic mediators of post-religious memory in the Netherlands.

In Responsibility to Ensure: Sponsoring States' Environmental Legislation for Deep Seabed Mining and China's Practice, Xiangxin Xu examines how and to what extent the sponsoring State implements its primary responsibility by enacting national legislation, taking China's legislation as an example.

This book explains the different ways that the Yijing (Book of Changes) was used in Chinese society. It demonstrates that the Yijing was a living text used by the educated elite and the populace to address their fear and anxiety.

How did early Jewish scribes understand their own textual traditions? Using the Serekh ha-Yaḥad from Qumran as a test case, this volume argues that even in Antiquity, texts were regarded as fluid, rather than as single unified compositions.

Dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et transnationale, ce volume étudie les représentations et symbolisations (pré)modernes des animaux dans les textes littéraires et les arts visuels européens. Using a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume studies the representations and symbolisations of animals in (pre)modern European literary texts and the visual arts.

This book brings together for the first time a complete dossier of Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic texts and analyses of the sayings of St Antony the Great, one of the most important of the early monastic figures of Christianity.

Covering trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance, this book demonstrates how the activities of the Dutch and English East India Companies took shape in direct response to European ideas about, understandings of, and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies.

This volume sets out the arguments and evidence needed to explain how the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith features in the constitution of New Confucian philosophy, as evidenced in the writings of Xiong Shili, Ma Yifu, Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan.

Leading authors in their fields present an interdisciplinary panorama of vital themes of the philosophy of language and track their historical origins. This book gives new life to historical ideas and additional depth to current debates.

A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

A New Global Economic Order: New Challenges to International Trade Law examines the dislocating effects of the policies implemented by the Trump Administration on the global economic order and brings together leading scholars and practitioners of international economic law come together to defend multilateralism against unilateralism and populism.

The volume offers an in-depth commentary with a new text and English translation of Apuleius' Metamorphoses III. The introduction and appendix cast new light on the literary, stylistic and textual features as well as the philosophical, socio-cultural and religious context of Apuleius' novel.

Proposant des perspectives innovantes et interdisciplinaires, treize études analysent ici les transformations artistiques et historiques dont ont bénéficié quelques figures mythiques, d'origine grecque, biblique ou africaine, dont le corps devient visible grâce à la subversion de l'imaginaire patriarcal. Innovative and interdisciplinary in their scope, thirteen essays deal with artistic and historical transformations that affected a number of mythical characters - Greek, Biblical and African, whose bodies are made visible thanks to the subversion of the patriarchal imaginary.

This is a collection of essays on China's new curriculum reforms in basic education, covering various aspects of the reforms ranging from education theory to classroom actitivity transofrmation, from teacher training to teaching quality evaluation.

Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new scenario of language change in the epic tradition.

The volume Landscapes of Affect and Emotion is the first book to present a dialogue on emotion, affect, landscape and embodiment between environmental humanities and landscape studies.

Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.

Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing considers ways in which institutional spaces in their materiality as well as in their cultural inscriptions impact on the wellbeing of the subjects inhabiting them and explores how heritage comes to bear on these interrelations.

In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century in Argentina.

From Exception to Promotion: Re-Thinking the Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Law tells a new, unconventional story of the relationship between international trade and environmental law, where the keyword is synergy rather than conflict, and where sustainable development and environmental protection are portrayed as part of the very nature and purpose of the trade regime.

This volume explores how reproduction and reproducibility impact artistic and literary creation while also examining the ways in which reproducibility impacts our practices and disciplines. Ce volume explore l'impact de la reproduction et de la reproductibilité sur la création artistique et littéraire, mais aussi l'impact de la reproductibilité sur nos pratiques et sur nos disciplines.

This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity.

Le volume réunit des contributions qui abordent sous différents points de vue des problématiques liées au temps verbaux et à l'aspect, des phénomènes ponctuels aux sujets plus théoriques, dans une perspective monolingue ou comparative. The volume collects contributions that address issues related to verbal tenses and aspect from different points of view, from specific phenomena to more theoretical topics, from a monolingual or a comparative perspective.

This book examines the Brazilian political process in the period of 2003-2020: the governments led by the Workers' Party and their reformist policies, the deep political crisis that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise of Bolsonaro neofascism.

This collective volume explores through eleven contributions the intricate TAME domain and shows how fine-grained analyses of precise phenomena can shed new light on whole complex notions and, more importantly, on the links between them.