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ItemNo Preview AvailableConservation in Australian museums(National Museum of Australia, 2011)
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ItemFrom national sacrifice to compensation claims: changing Indonesian representations of the Westerling massacres in South Sulawesi, 1946-47(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2014)
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ItemInto Speyne to selle for Slavys: English, Spanish, and Genoese Merchant Networks and their Involvement with the 'Cost of Gwynea' Trade before 1550(Oxford University Press, 2012)
In 1541, Roger Barlow, an English merchant who had traded with Spain's Atlantic settlements from Seville in the 1520s, presented Henry VIII with a cosmography containing his personal account of the Rio de la Plata, inserted into an English translation of the 1519 edition of the Suma de Geographia by Martin Fernandez de Enciso. Despite the fact that both men had been involved in the buying and selling of West African slaves, Barlow translated Enciso's short description of the slave markets in Guinea without comment. This chapter explores how the trading network of English, Spanish and Genoese merchants Barlow belonged to had traded in slaves and associated products, such as pearls and sugar, since the 1480s. In doing so, they were instrumental in linking the ‘Guinea of Cape Verde’ to the wider Atlantic world.
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ItemKorean Responses to Historic Narratives of Sino-Korean Relations and China's New International Relations Thinking(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)This chapter will provide a short overview of the long history of Sino—Korean relations and discuss how this historical legacy affects current Korean attitudes towards China’s rise and changing role in the East Asian region. For much of its history Korea had been subordinated (sometimes willingly, in other cases unwillingly, and usually nominally) to the Sinocentric world order. All this changed with the occupation of Korea by the Japanese between 1910 and 1945 and the subsequent Korean War (1950–1953) that ended Korea’s (at least its southern half’s) historical subordination to Chinese political and cultural hegemony. More recently the response of Korea towards China’s revival and changing international role has been complex and varied. When China talks about the re-establishment of a ‘Confucian’ world order in East Asia and the wangdao of the daguo,1 it immediately triggers suspicion amongst Koreans of China’s long-term ambitions and ‘hidden motives’ (usually exacerbated by disputes over historical territorial claims and Korean memory of past Chinese interventions in the Korean peninsula). And yet this suspicion goes hand in hand with the practical acknowledgement (at least amongst upper levels of Korea’s governing elite) that China is the largest economic partner of both Koreas and that the growth of Chinese influence on Korea in the future is highly probable.
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ItemPatriarchal Ideals, Patronage Practices and the Authority of Cosimo "il vecchio"(Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Press, 2015-12-21)Most of these papers were presented at a conference, held at Villa I Tatti, Florence, 12-14 October 2011.
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ItemDisenchantment of Secularism: The West and India(Springer, 2014)This Chapter is an exercise in comparative secularism. In this chapter I will be concerned basically with a critique of Western conceptions of secularism, beginning with Hegel’s invention of a particular reading of secularism that, through imperialist literature, gave a preeminent direction to the ideology of the less-religiously orientated Indian nationalists during their drawn-out independence struggle. My main concern will be to contrast the Western debates on ‘the secular’, particularly in its recent permutations or attempted revisions as a response to the crisis of modernity, with the current Indian debates —where ‘ the secular; has all but been hijacked by the Hindu Right —and to show—reversing Hegel’s trajectory—what impact the latter could have on the former. There is some evidence of this already occurring, particularly in Charles Taylor’s work and travels wherein he does make some gestures towards looking at non-Western experiences of secularism (which is taken more or less to be synonymous with secularization). There are severe limitations to this overture however, and the chapter hopes to sound a word of caution on the kind of excitement over which Taylor seems to have become something of a celebrity in the academe. Even more disappointingly, one does not find a similar emphatic approach or opening to non-Western experiences and rethinking of the secular in the works of other modernists; and I point to Habermas and Žižek as my examples, who I touch on, albeit very briefly. This lack or lacuna makes both the discourse of modernity and the supplementary critique of secularism much the poorer for it.
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ItemCrashes along the super highway: the information continuum(AIATSIS Research Publications, 2013)When the term ‘information superhighway’ was coined in the mid-1990s, it was a metaphor for both the speed with which information could be transmitted and accessed in electronic form, and the speed with which the technology for this transmission and access was changing. Optimism about increased access to and democratisation of information often belies the complications associated with internet protocol negotiations, commercialised product, rapid and often incompatible developments in hardware and software, and ultimately the transient and ephemeral nature of digitised and born-digital information. Add to this the complex technical issues relating to the digitised world, and it is clear that the speed of information technology (IT) developments along the superhighway can often lead to information fatalities. Part of the reason for such fatalities is the technical complications related to archiving and storing electronic data. However, while those on the ground wait for the IT technocrats to develop integrated guides and standards for the preservation of electronic records, important digital and born-digital records are being jeopardised or lost. While traditional, physical forms of record-keeping — paper, art and objects — may be lost due to poor preservation practices, there are nonetheless guidelines around their care and preservation that are clearly understood. Such guidelines include national and international record-keeping and archival standards, as well as agreed professional practices. More importantly, these guidelines are well documented and readily available, and they provide a good model for effective programs for the preservation of digitised and born-digital material that can be implemented in small organisations and communities. For example, simple conservation practices relating to choice of materials, environmental parameters for handling and storage, filing and record retrieval, and physical care are all relevant for preserving digital content.
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ItemFilm formation of artists' acrylic paints in tropical climates using dynamic speckle interferometry(Archetype Publications, 2013)
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ItemClaude Lorrain and La Crescenza: The Roman Campagna in the seventeenth century’(L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2014)Key players were the canons of S. Angelo (in the retail market), the fishmongers' guild (in the wholesale market) and the fishmongers (pescivendoli) whose involvement was spread across all facets of the market operations Chapter 2 Joan ...