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  • - The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe
     
    1.096,95 kr.

    In an age of globalization there is frequent migration across national borders, resulting in a reconsideration of the notion, practice and social institution of national citizenship.

  • - A Study of Critical Events in Tajikistan
    af Sophie Roche
    1.013,95 kr.

    The primary readership for the book will come from academia and policy makers. The book presents novel material on a fascinating and highly important topic, the nature of ostensibly Islamist political violence against the state in Tajikistan. John Heathershaw

  • - China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800
     
    1.388,95 kr.

    These studies of transcultural objects can suggest pathways for museum experts by uncovering the multi-layered identities and temporalities of objects that can no longer be labelled as located in single regions.

  • - Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China
    af Andrea Breard
    1.005,95 kr.

    Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical knowledge in terms of a process of westernization, the book analyzes the complex interactions between different scientific communities and the ways in which the past, modernity, language, and mathematics were negotiated in a global context.

  • - Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe
     
    1.610,95 kr.

    It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and transcultural dynamics in the cultural handling of natural disasters.

  • - Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia
     
    1.108,95 kr.

    The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned.

  • - The Transcultural Past of Northeast China
     
    1.097,95 kr.

    The authors of this book focus on transcultural entanglements in Manchuria during the first half of the twentieth century. Manchuria, as Western historiography commonly designates the three northeastern provinces of China, was a politically, culturally and economically contested region.

  • - Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West
     
    483,95 kr.

    The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters in art and architecture.

  • - Global Histories of International Organizations
     
    1.094,95 kr.

    The book critically investigates the local impact of international organizations beyond a Western rationale and aims to overcome Eurocentric patterns of analysis. Chapter 3 sheds light on international organizations as platforms, expanding the field of research from the diversity of organizations to the patterns of global governance.

  • - Diglossia, Translation and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World
     
    943,95 kr.

    The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East Asian and in European languages, especially in Japanese, Chinese and in Slavic languages in the framework of the asymmetries in the emergence of modern written languages.

  • - Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective
     
    920,95 kr.

    The final part of the book focuses on yoga advertising and consumption across national, social, and discursive boundaries, taking a closer look at transnational and deterritorialized yoga markets, as well as at various classes of mobile yoga practitioners.

  • - Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows
     
    1.665,95 kr.

    This volume ventures into new domains of research on the transculturality of images and addresses the need to develop new or modify established often ethno- and Eurocentric interpretations of what happens when images travel.

  • - Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter
     
    2.161,95 kr.

    This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation.

  • - A Transcultural Affair
     
    1.115,95 kr.

    This book deals with Punches and Punch-like magazines in 19th and 20th century Asia, covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East.

  • - Concepts and Institutions in Motion
     
    767,95 kr.

    Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People's Republic of China, the book provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics over time.

  • - Transcultural Entanglements between Local Social Practices and Global Virtual Realities
     
    1.583,95 kr.

    The contributions, the subjects of which range from architectural and intellectual history to historic preservation and restoration, evaluate historical processes spanning two centuries which saw the imagination and production of "dead archaeological ruins" by often overlooking living local, social, and ritual forms of usage on site.

  • - Structure, Agency and Power
     
    1.339,95 kr.

    By delving into a range of sources - among them survey questions, historical documents, political theory, architectural design, and public policy - the book provides a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India.

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    1.390,95 kr.

    Its emphasis is on the complexity of the modernization process and of reactions to it: ideas and technologies travelled from India to Iran and from Japan to China, while reactions show tensions between museumization and the recreation of 'presence'.

  • - Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
     
    1.209,95 kr.

    The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration.

  • - From Decay to Recovery
     
    1.398,95 kr.

    This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present.

  • - Changing Ways of Thought
     
    1.494,95 kr.

    This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation.

  • - A Transdisciplinary Approach
     
    1.258,95 kr.

    Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. By juxtaposing different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies, as they appear in the various disciplines, this volume's design is transdisciplinary.

  • - Theories, Methods, Sources
    af Madeleine Herren, Martin Ruesch & Christiane Sibille
    1.670,95 kr.

    For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation 'past is prologue' reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking who formed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative.

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