The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain

The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world and the origins of European colonialism. Spanish mapmakers and writers, as Padrón shows, clung to a much older idea of space that was based on the itineraries of travel narratives and medieval nav…

American Flag: an Encyclopedia of the Stars and Stripes in U.S. History, Cult…

At a time when the U.S. flag is both a source of both pride and controversy, this volume provides the first encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag in American history, culture, and law. Offers the only encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag. Features essays on important flag-related topics by leading historians. Includes a timeline, a bibliography, and an index for ease of refer…

Augmented Humanity : Being and Remaining Agentic in a Digitalized World

This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and their social behavioral effects. Across the book, the author highlights the expansion of intelligent processing capabi…

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law: Essays in Comparative Legal History …

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays d…

Sketches of Asia's Society

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978-602-6268-96-9

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Hakekat Perang Salib Modern : Serangan WTC dalam Tinjauan Syari

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Becoming America : a History for the 21 st Century

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978-07-727560-0

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xxiv, 443 p.: ill.; 27,5 cm.

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Realizing Islam : The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Mu…

The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. Introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1737 - 1815), Wright focuses on the wider network in w…

Historical Monuments of Uzbekistan : Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Sha…

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978-9943-17-074-2

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136 hlm.: ilus.; 25,8 cm.

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State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara : Regional Inte…

This open access book takes a deeper and broader perspective of the Hassaniya-speaking groups of the western region of the Sahara. There has been a surge of interest in this region, often centred around sensationalist news reports and policy briefs. But in-depth understanding and analysis remains neglected and little work has been undertaken on the diverse experiences of these groups and the co…