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The book investigates China's relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China's relations with the outside world.

This volume arose from a desire to advance academic discourse and reflection on the broader subject of prolonged occupation, in light of the permanent character, and resulting implications of, the 55 year Israeli administration of the Palestinian Territories. The roots of the volume lie in a 2018 academic conference on "The Threshold from Occupation to Annexation". The present volume moves that discussion forward, updating and widening the range of topics addressed. The result is a collection of thought-provoking contributions by a wide range of scholars on the challenging and critical issue of prolonged occupation and international law, ranging from colonialism, apartheid, the illegality of occupation and potential international criminal liability.

The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues.

This volume provides a fresh edition of the Songs of the Sage (4Q510, 4Q511) arranged according to the sequence of the fragments determined by the material reconstruction of the best-preserved manuscript, 4Q511. It is an unparalleled, comprehensive resource for anyone interested in studying this ancient Jewish anti-demonic prayer text.

In Rescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxism's relation to Kant's ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibility, but critique: the value of autonomy can be grounded by appeal to an antinomy in capitalism's basic structure.

The first book in English on Chinese-language media in Australia, Digital Transnationalism explores the challenges, opportunities and development of this sector against the backdrop of China's rise, its soft power agenda, and renewed hostility between China and the global West. Situated in the Australian context, this study nevertheless is essential to understand the complex and evolving nature of Chinese-language digital media, and the role they play in fostering digital transnationalism among first-generation Chinese migrants across the globe.

This work proposes a toolkit for international legislators, judges and scholars to consider the adjudication of the causes, means and consequences of attacks targeting culture. Filling international law's gap regarding culture, this work views the latter as a legacy oriented local-national-international triptych. Therein, culture can be anthropical or natural (fauna and flora), movable or immovable, secular or religious, tangible or intangible. Based on the practice of both modes of responsibility's jurisdictions, this works proposes a novel typology of the victims of cultural damage. These are natural persons as members of the collective, the collective as the sum of natural persons, and legal persons as a result of damage inflicted on them or their property. Based on the practice of both modes of responsibility's jurisdictions, this work considers attacks targeting culture as anthropo/heritage-centred and/or tangible-centred.

Tianyi Zhang offers an innovative philosophical reconstruction of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī's (d. 1191) Illuminationism, and convincingly reveals its Nominalist and Existential nature by examining its epistemology and metaphysics.

Freeska Landriucht or Frisian Land Law is the oldest preserved compilation of Old Frisian customary law and Latin glosses with Roman and Canon law. This book is the first critical edition with an English translation.

The volume consists of ten studies that involve the use of corpus data relevant to research within a Cognitive Linguistics framework.

The book adopts a new approach to self-determination's international legal history, tracing the ways in which various actors have sought to reinvent self-determination in different juridical, political, and economic iterations to create the conditions for global transformation.

This book is a collection of ten case studies on lexical borrowing in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea, a region where we find all types and levels of borrowing, from superficial influence, limited to few semantic fields, to high rates of lexical replacement.

A sweeping collection of essays that explores medieval science, art, and technology in the thirteenth century and points toward new scholarly directions for the study of medieval craft.

This volume is the first study of the entire history of the Northern Sea Route, from its earliest exploration to the twenty-first century. It includes the West-European search for a new waterway to the Orient (sixteenth to seventeenth century), the Russian Kamchatka expeditions (eighteenth century), and the navigation from Europe to the major rivers in north-west Siberia (late nineteenth to early twentieth century), as well as the Russian utilisation of the sea route in the Soviet epoch and later.

This book addresses the role of gender in the parallel processes of nation building and construction of Europe's internal hierarchies in the long nineteenth century, for the first time comparing the connected, yet different cases of Italy and Spain.

This volume provides the reader with the history of urban warfare and the critical insights into the ethical problems arising from various dimensions of modern urban warfare through ten chapters written by acclaimed experts in the field.

White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculinity, white male disability is a reckoning with old orders, provoking new perspectives on life and love in the modern era.

Presents the latest findings in the vibrant and interdisciplinary field of medieval settlement and landscape studies as influenced by the groundbreaking career of Terry Barry.

Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.

The first women Latinists lived in renaissance Italy. The new learning spread from there to the rest of Europe. The original purpose of teaching women Latin was diplomacy, but later women used the language in many ways.

Visualizing Sufism gathers the largest collection of graphic materials found in Sufi literature and body of studies on the subject ever brought together, undertaken by an international team of experts on the basis of a vast selection of manuscript sources.

The life stories of Roma Pentecostals in Croatia and Serbia reveal both significant hardship and resilience, which notably impacts how they incorporate a Pentecostal identity and the ways in which they transform their daily lives in accordance with Pentecostal theology.

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics reveals to the public the original version, previously considered lost, of a landmark work in Arabic philosophy authored by Averroes (1126-1198) and relevant quotations of it by the mystical philosopher Ibn Sabʿīn (13th c.).

This book deals with an intriguing aspect of EU external relations, namely the special legal and political relationship between Switzerland and the EU, seen against the background of the country's refusal to join the European Economic Area.