European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Abacus and Mah Jong

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  • Author: M. Carter
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  • This case study of Chinese settlement in Mauritius investigates the complexities of colonial diasporas and sets the construction of a mythology of migration against the realities of the processes of negotiation and communication with the larger society.

• Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 (4 vols.)

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  • Author: R.J. Barendse
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  • Drawing on a vast range of sources Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 is as much a sweeping overview as a detailed examination of the maritime world of the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century. It deals with the various states, economies and societies there and with the impact of the early phase of European colonialism on them.

• Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe

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  • Editors Th. Marius Leeuwen; Keith D. Stanglin; Marijke Tolsma
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  • The name of Arminius (1559/60 - 1609) is connected with a specific variant of the Reformed tradition: more rational and humanistic than mainstream Calvinism. This book gives an impression of the current research into his work. The focus is on the influence of Arminianism all over Europe, mainly in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. An extensive survey of the portraits of Arminius and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings complete this book.

• The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini

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  • This book describes and analyses, for the first time, the astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini of Ferrara (d. after 1469), explains their context, inserts them into an astronomical tradition that began in Toledo, and addresses their diffusion.

• Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology

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  • Editors Christoph Grellard; Aurélien Robert
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  • Drawing a new portrait of late medieval conflicts between atomists and anti-atomists, this book offers a new outlook on the fourteenth century's development of sciences.

• Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality

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  • Author: V. Guillin
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  • Drawing on a detailed analysis of their correspondence, this books offers a new intepretation of the relation between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, which focuses on their controvery over sexual equality.