Books published by Amsterdam University Press

This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today.

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016.

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome

Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space.

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

This multi- and cross-lingual collection of articles charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various Northern European languages and texts written in them.

This book offers reflections on the themes discussed by Bert van der Zwaan in his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) where Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future.

Opera is food for the soul. Patrick Pype's conviction in relation to this potential has offered him decisive insights into how to act in business. This book explores how opera helps him to empower us to become more empathic, lucid, fair and inspirational leaders.

The book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective.

This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature.

This volume brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original, alternative view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

This work explores the ways in which a range of women, as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage, wielded power in order to advance individual, familial and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court.

This is the first book-length biography of Romeyn de Hooghe, the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The study narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism.

This book is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of holy and the primitive.

This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence, and shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take.

Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, this book investigates how the different contentious actors in China's green sphere link up and what this means for environmental contention.

For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership.

This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh's Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.

This book explores one artist's transformation of alchemy and its materials into a reputation for virtuosity-and what his work can teach us about the experimental early modern world.

A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art, architecture, and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.