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The guns of August 2008 Russia's war in Georgia /
Published 2009“…Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus.…”
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Trade and investment in China the European experience /
Published 1998“…Growth economies of Asia series.…”
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The Islamic world and the West an introduction to political cultures and international relations /
Published 2000“…Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ;…”
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New Europe, new world? the European Union, Europe, and the challenges of the 21st century /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The EU between soft and hard power -- pt. 3. The EU in the Asia Pacific region.…”
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The boundaries of Europe : from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonisation /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Premessa (Foreword) / Pietro Rossi -- Mediterraneo da "mare nostrum" a frontiera tra civilta (The Mediterranean from "mare nostrum" to frontier between civilisations) / Arnaldo Marcone -- L'Europa e l'Islam : incontri e scontri (Europe and Islam : encounters and confrontations) / Franco Cardini -- The conquest of the north / Bo Strath -- Die Ausdehnung nach Osten (The expansion towards the East) / Manfred Hildermeier -- Europa und das osmanische Reich (Europe and the Ottoman Empire) / Markus Koller -- La russia tra europa e asia (Russia between Europe and Asia) / Alberto Masoero -- Europe and the Atlantic / John H. …”
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European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Satisfying the demand for laboring people, 1500-1850 -- The British East India Company and the trade in stout coffree men, 1621-1804 -- Satisfying the constant demand of the French, 1670-1810 -- Carrying away the unfortunate from India and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800 -- The Mascarenes and the disgraceful traffic in chattel labor, 1811-1835 -- The dictates of humanity, Indian convicts, and the new system of slavery, 1774-1850.…”
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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry…”
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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry…”
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The Americas that might have been Native American social systems through time /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the whys and wherefores -- Men out of Asia -- America 1492 -- Native philosophies of life -- Unitary norms : the Asian perspective -- The dualistic view : the European norm -- The trinary compromise : the Near Eastern norm -- The empire of Tawantinsuyu -- The empire of the Méxica -- The Maya kingdoms -- The Mississippian cities and towns -- The Pueblo towns -- The Taíno chiefdoms -- Hemispheric-internal relationships in the twenty-first century : the inner design -- Commerce and discovery of the old world -- International alliances and interaction in the twenty-first century : the outer scheme -- Epilogue: the first Baktun.…”
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A history of archival practice /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Preface to the English edition -- Introduction to the French edition -- The ancient world -- The classical world : from Greek city states to the Roman Empire -- Archives and archival practices in Asia and Africa : from antiquity to the eighteenth century -- Archives and archival practices in the Americas up to the eighteenth century -- In the chanceries and muniment rooms of medieval Europe, fifth to fifteenth centuries -- Buildings and equipment in Western Europe : late antiquity to the seventeenth century -- The defining era : Simancas, the Habsburgs and the sixteenth century -- Bureaucracy and archival centralisation in early modern Europe -- Being an archivist in early modern Europe -- Methods and techniques for classification and arrangement : fifteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Legislation, literature and practice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Buildings and readers, nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Archives destroyed, protected and reconstructed : nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The rise of a profession, nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- From mutual assistance to international networks, nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Conclusion: The value of the historical perspective -- Afterword to the English edition.…”
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Theory and practice of transboundary environmental impact assessment
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Transboundary environmental impact assessment: an introduction / Kees Bastmeijer and Timo Koivurova -- The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a transboundary context / Wiecher Schrage -- Environmental impact assessment and the framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea / Rie Tsutsumi & Kristy Robinson -- Transboundary environmental impact assessment: the Nordic Environmental Protection Convention / Timo Koivurova -- Transboundary environmental impact assessment in North America: obstacles and opportunities / Neil Craik -- Assessment of transboundary environmental impacts in developing countries: the case of Central America / Marianela Cedeño -- Environmental impact assessment in the Bay of Bengal sub region in South Asia / Daud Hassan -- Implementing guidelines for environmental impact assessment in the Arctic / Timo Koivurova -- Environmental impact assessment in Antarctica / Kees Bastmeijer and Ricardo Roura -- Environmental impact assessment and the international seabed authority / Gwénaëlle Le Gurun -- Environmental impact assessment in the space sector / Lotta Viikari -- The World Bank and environmental impact assessment / Jean-Roger Mercier -- Implementing the ESPOO convention: an international financial institution perspective / Elizabeth Smith -- The equator principles: a voluntary approach / by Bankers Leonie Schreve -- Conclusions: globalisation of transboundary environmental impact assessment / Kees Bastmeijer and Timo Koivurova.…”
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Synergies in minority protection European and International law perspectives /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Doek -- Unesco's Convention against Discrimination in Education / Fons Coomans -- A patchwork of 'successful' and 'missed' synergies in the jurisprudence of the ECHR / Kristin Henrard -- The many faces of minority protection in the European Union / Bruno De Witte and Eniko Horváth -- Developments under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights relevant to minorities / Tim Murithi -- Regional cooperation and minority issues in the Asia-Pacific region / Erik Friberg.…”
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British Protestant missions and the conversion of Europe, 1600-1900 /
Published 2020Taylor & Francis
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