Handbuch der Orientalistik, Japan, Staat, Staatsdenken, Rechtswesen, Teil 1, A history of law in Japan until 1868
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In: Staat, Staatsdenken
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In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: Japan
In: Staat, Staatsdenken
In: Rechtswesen Teil 1
In: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 54
In: Kongo-overzee bibliotheek 5
In: [Black experience] [126]
In: Testi del vicino oriente antico
In: 6, Letteratura ebraica e aramaica 3
In: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series
"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--
In: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 327
In: Oriental documents 10