This book represents a significant contribution to the fields of Hellenistic archaeology, Hellenistic economy, naval architecture and shipping in the eastern Mediterranean. It asks (and answers) questions that are often simply assumed and not systematically investigated. — Dr. Conor Trainor, University of Warwick What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry…
I’m going to Disneyland!” Millions of Americans hear this every year, immedi-ately following the win of the country’s most important sporting event, the Super Bowl, excitedly exclaimed by one of the winning team’s vital players. Depending on where in the United States you live, the exclamation might be slightly altered and say “I’m going to Disney World!” After all, this is not sp…
esent narrative, see 'The Founder of New France' in this Series.] Perhaps the lack was not seriously felt, for most of the twoscore inmates of the settlement were Huguenot traders. But out in the great land, in every direction from the rude dwellings that housed the pioneers of Canada, roamed savage tribes, living, said Champlain, 'like brute beasts.' It was Champlain's ardent desire to …
The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Ac…
How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties and masculine mimesis in the formation of the Jesuit missions, as well as the significance of patriarchal dynamics. Focus…
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The ess…
Kemerdekaan yang diraih pada tahun 1945 memberikan harapan yang sangat besar bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Mimpi untuk menjadi penduduk sebuah negara yang berdaulat pun terwujud, terlepas dari cengkeraman penjajah. Namun hal itu tidak menyurutkan dinamika politik-keamanan yang terjadi di tanah air, baik itu rongrongan konflik internal, gerakan separatisme maupun kembalinya kekuatan asing. Buku…
Sejarah diplomasi Indonesia dalam sengketa Irian Barat mengungkap peristiwa-peristiwa penting atau fakta sejarah yang berharga untuk dipelajari, misalnya peristiwa sekitar penyerahan kedaulatan dari Belanda kepada Indonesia yang melibatkan sejumlah pelaku sejarah, di antaranya Ketua Delegasi Belanda Van Maarseven dan Ketua Delegasi Indonesia Moh. Hatta. Indonesia memanfaatkan situasi Perang Din…
"Buku ini seperti mengajak kita untuk “merenovasi” visi sejarah maupun visi kebudayaan manusia Indonesia masa kini dalam melihat masa lalu kita yang kemajemukannya kian jauh tergerus oleh lintasan berbagai sejarah (kolonialisme, modernisme, nasionalisme, globalisasi), dan rapuh untuk terkubur kian jauh dalam kegelapan wilayah masa lalu, cahayanya kian kita curi untuk menguasai “indonesia …
Timor kerap disebut sebagai "Pulau Buaya yang Sedang Tidur", setidaknya itulah salah satu kajian yang dipaparkan dalam buku "Citra Manusia Berbudaya: Sebuah Monografi tentang Timor dalam Perspektif Melanesia". Sang penulis, Gregor Neonbasu, menceritakan mengenai mitos yang dituturkan oleh tradisi adat istiadat masyarakat Timor, yang ternyata memiliki banyak versi terkait dengan kisah buaya tid…