Télécharger le livre :  Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective. Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical...
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Parution : 2019-06-25
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  The Faceless Terrorist

How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik state also be seen as a mujahid fighter in Islam and be a cousin all at the same time? Is this just a matter of perspective and conceptualization? To believe in the protection of concepts to safeguard groups and...
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Parution : 2019-05-31
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  EurAsian Matters

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies...
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Parution : 2018-05-03
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Disaster Experiences

Historical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences of natural disasters in different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and...
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Parution : 2017-03-20
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation

The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in...
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Parution : 2016-07-01
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission

This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial...
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Parution : 2015-03-04
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Spirits in Transcultural Skies

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. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area,...
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Parution : 2014-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dynamics of Transculturality

The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India,...
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Parution : 2014-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Networking the International System

The book critically investigates the local impact of international organizations beyond a Western rationale and aims to overcome Eurocentric patterns of analysis. Considering Asian and Western examples, the contributions originate from different disciplines and study...
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Parution : 2014-06-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Divided Languages?

The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference “Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia” held in July 2011 at Heidelberg University.The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-01-21
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Entangled Histories

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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-29
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)

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....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Asian Punches

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. It traces an alternative and largely unacknowledged side of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-06-24
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Yoga Traveling

This book focuses on yoga’s transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term “yoga” has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-06-22
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  'Archaeologizing' Heritage?

This book investigates what has constituted notions of "archaeological heritage" from colonial times to the present. It includes case studies of sites in South and Southeast Asia with a special focus on Angkor, Cambodia. The contributions, the subjects of which range...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-05-31
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization

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. Addressing this phenomenon, the book focuses on the exchange between, and responses, of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity's Classics

This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-02-11
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizenship as Cultural Flow

The book addresses the very topical subject of citizen making. 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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-01-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Nation State and Beyond

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. Accordingly, scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly argued against...
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Parution : 2012-12-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Structures on the Move

This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation. Once more, statehood and governance are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state building is often considered...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-06-21
Collection : Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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