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Mail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted mail armour and used it successfully for centuries. Its history did not stop there and mail played a vital role in warfare during the Middle Ages up to the Early Modern Period. Given its long history, one would think mail is a well-documented material, but that is not the case. For the first time, this books lays a solid foundation for the understanding of mail armour and its context through time. It applies a long-term multi-dimensional approach to extract a wealth of as yet untapped information from archaeological, iconographic and written sources. This is complemented with technical insights on the mail maker?s chaîne opératoire.00Martijn A. Wijnhoven holds a PhD in archaeology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He specializes in ancient military studies and has published extensively on the analysis and reconstruction of ancient armour spanning from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages. His research combines methods from history, anthropology, and archaeology, rendering a holistic approach to material studies.0

Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the people of Southeast Asia in a manner that gave rise to Orientalist racial stereotypes that would be used again and again. This work revisits the era of colonial data-collecting to demonstrate the workings of the imperial echo chamber, and how in the discourse of 19th century colonial-capitalism data was effectively weaponized to serve the interests of Empire. Farish A. Noor is Associate Professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, where he teaches the history and politics of Southeast Asia.

Cultuur staat volop in de belangstelling. Sommigen menen dat cultuur een hobby is, anderen denken dat het niet bestaat. Voor velen is cultuur alleen datgene wat wij nu om ons heen zien, of een fenomeen zonder geschiedenis. Hoe kan men 'cultuur' bestuderen als het onderzoeksveld zo groot is dat begrippen uit de beeldende kunst, literatuur, geschiedenis, sociale wetenschappen, filosofie, religie en media er allemaal onderdeel vanuit maken? Deze inleiding laat zien hoe er, vanaf de negentiende eeuw, langzamerhand een methode is ontstaan en hoe wetenschappers zich internationaal met het begrip 'cultuur' bezighouden. Dit boek plaatst cultuur als onderzoeksgebied expliciet in een internationaal perspectief en legt het ontstaan van verschillende onderzoekstradities uit. Het is daarmee geschikt voor studenten cultuurgeschiedenis, literatuurwetenschappen, mediastudies, algemene cultuurstudies en communicatiewetenschappen. Zowel benaderingen van beeldcultuur als de functie van taal komen aan bod.00Sleutelbegrippen zijn o.a. mentaliteitsgeschiedenis, psychoanalyse, Marxisme, linguïstisch structuralisme, gender, agency, de Zeitgeist, discours, en actuele benaderingen van memorystudies

"This book examines the crucial role of visual culture (architecture, memorials, photography and film) in shaping Berlin's urban memory culture in both East and West in reponse to the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment over the past five decades

Following the decolonization movements that swept the globe after World War II, between four and six million people were 'returned' to Europe from the colonies. From an exporter of people, Europe turned to a site of immigration for the first time in the twentieth century. Until now, these migrations have been overlooked as scholars have highlighted instead the parallel migrations of former 'colonized' peoples. Europe's Invisible Migrants corrects this bias. This multidisciplinary volume presents essays by prominent sociologists, historians, and anthropologists on their research with these 'invisible' migrant communities. Their work highlights the experiences of colonists returning to France, Portugal and the Netherlands, the intersection of race, citizenship, and colonial ideologies, and the ways these migrations reflect the return of the 'colonial' to Europe. This volume offers fresh insights into immigration, racism and ethnic conflict in post-colonial Europe by presenting colonial repatriates as another 'immigrant' population.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong -- Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng -- Introduction -- Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong -- Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng -- Part A - Trajectory and Contingency -- 1 From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience -- Hong Kong's Road to Occupation -- Ngok Ma -- 2 Spontaneity and Civil Resistance -- A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement -- Edmund W. Cheng -- 3 Rude Awakening -- New Participants and the Umbrella Movement -- Ngok Ma -- Part B - Repertories and Strategies -- 4 Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants -- Francis Lee and Gary Tang -- 5 Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity -- Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement -- Cheuk-Hang Leung and Sampson Wong -- 6 Creating a Textual Public Space -- Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement -- Sebastian Veg -- Part C - Regime and Public Responses -- 7 From Repression to Attrition -- State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement -- Samson Yuen -- 8 Protesters and Tactical Escalation -- Yongshun Cai -- 9 Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement -- Ming Sing -- 10 Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement -- Stan Hok-Wui Wong -- Part D - Comparative Perspectives -- 11 The Power of Sunflower -- The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China -- Ming-sho Ho and Thung-hong Lin -- 12 The Mirror Image -- How does Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement? -- Eilo Yu Wing-yat -- 13 Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom -- Appendix -- The Umbrella Movement-Chronology of Major Events -- Index.

This study of East German fantasies of material abundance across the border, both before and after the fall of communism, shows the close and intricate relation between ideology and fantasy in upholding social life. In 1989, news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall to West Germany. The images, representing the fall of communism and the democratic will of the people, also showed East Germans' excitement at finally being able to enter the western consumer paradise. But what exactly had they expected to find on the other side of the Wall? Why did they shed tears of joy when for the first time in their lives, they stepped inside West German shops? And why were they prepared to pay more than 10 percent of their average monthly wage for a pineapple? Drawing on fifteen months of research in the fast-changing post-communist East Germany, Veenis unravels the perennial truths about the interrelationships of fantasies of material wealth, personal fulfillment and social cohesion. She argues persuasively that the far-fetched socialist and capitalist promises of consumption as the road to ultimate well-being, the partial realization and partial corruption thereof, the implicit social and psychological interests underlying the politicized promises in both countries form the breeding ground for the development of materialist, cargo-cult-like fantasies, in which material well-being came to be seen as the place of "fulfillment and ultimate arrival".