This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from quarryman to army commander. Diese erste detaillierte Studie der Sklaverei im mittelalterlichen Jemen analysiert das Leben von Frauen und Männern, die als Kinder versklavt wur…
Colonialism was not just a historical policy concerning the domination of other territories and their peoples. It included racial and racist ideologies to ‘legitimize’ such domination, the suppression of aspects of identity such as language and traditions, and the propaganda of a Western system of knowledge. Nations, organizations, companies, and individual actors were all involved in diffe…
This volume is a result of the New Insights into the Archaic of the Circum-Caribbeansession that we chaired at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Orlando, Florida, in April 2016. The session was organized in the context of the Island Networks project supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO-gr. nr. …
he Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector proceeding is a collection of papers focusing on the macroeconomic aspects of green growth, the business opportunities in the raw materials sector, and the challenges in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship training. These papers were presented during the closing conference of LIMBRA (‘Decreasing the negative outcomes of brain drain in the raw mat…