LUP Catalogue Autumn 2013 by Leiden University Press

Autumn 2013

Leiden University Press is pleased to present our new and forthcoming titles in this Autumn 2013 catalogue.

HISTORY / EUROPE  1 Thank you M. Monnet

You will find titles in an exciting range of research areas such as archaeology, artistic research and Iranian Studies. Different aspects of history are covered by Richard T. Griffiths’ book on EU history; Physics as a Calling, Science for Society on the history of science; and the publications on music history and Dutch Brazil.

ARCHAEOLOGY  2 Digging Holes Abroad

The catalogue highlights three of our excellent and established book series: Law, Governance and Development; the timely Debates on Islam and Society; and the Iranian Studies Series. We would also like to draw your attention to the backlist of CNWS publications distributed by Leiden University Press as well as our own backlist selection.

IRANIAN STUDIES  4 The Reception of Hafiz  5 The Holy Drama

The majority of titles in this catalogue are available in digital format (for instance as e-books) and can be purchased online. We are continuing our dynamic and growing e-presence as the pace of publishing innovation accelerates. We hope you will agree that this will be another exciting season for our publishing programme, reflecting the strength of academic research at Leiden University. We look forward to expanding this publication list in the future.

ART THEORY  3 The Exposition of Artistic Research

HISTORY  6 Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING  7 The Accent Builder HISTORY OF SCIENCE  8 Physics as a Calling, Science for Society MUSIC   9 Klankwerelden LAW, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT 10 Series Law, Governance and Development

Anniek Meinders

ISLAM AND SOCIETY 11 Debates on Islam & Society

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Richard T. Griffiths

Thank you M. Monnet Essays on the History of European Integration This book collects contributions by Richard T. Griffiths on the history of European integration, some published for the first time in English. All the contributions contain updated references to recent literature.

Richard T. Griffiths

Thank you M. Monnet Essays on the History of European Integration leiden university press

The essays range in chronology from the early experiences with the Marshall Plan to the difficulties and opportunities for the EFTA countries afforded by association with the EEC in the 1970s and 80s. The volume also contains an essay which poses the question of what would have happened had there been no Schuman Plan back in 1950. This book should appeal to students of contemporary history, especially those interested in EU history, and to political scientists who will discover a rich palette of case studies upon which to test their theories. Its constructively critical slant on developments provides interesting perspectives to those general readers seeking a nuanced approach between the extremes of the current pro- or anti- in the debates on Europe. I have long wished that something like this would be available […] The collection is marked by an outstanding talent for disentangling complex historical processes and to illustrate key issues quite briefly. The author takes great pleasure in debunking myths, […] and he does so with great skill and remarkably little malice. – Prof. Helge Ø. Pharo, University of Oslo

History / Europe

Richard Griffiths is emeritus professor of Economic and Social History at Leiden University and former director of European Union Studies within the Humanities Faculty. He also lectures at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

Publishing date November 2013 Language English NUR 679 ISBN 978 90 8728 180 9 e-ISBN 978 90 8728 171 7 Price € 49,50 £ 40 $ 65 Format Paperback 156 x 234 mm Page extent 396 pages Cover design Studio Ron van Roon

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Archaeological Studies Leiden University (ASLU)

Sjoerd van der Linde

Digging Holes Abroad An Ethnography of Dutch Archaeological Research Projects Abroad Over the last few decades, Western Archaeology increasingly abandoned its ‘ivory tower’ in order to investigate, negotiate and develop its position and role in global society. Challenging issues when undertaking archaeological research projects abroad include: the way in which we deal with other people’s views in the interpretation of archaeological materials; the way in which we integrate our narratives and practices with other heritage demands; and the way in which we deal with power differences in both these processes. In Digging Holes Abroad Sjoerd van der Linde explores how archaeological research projects abroad work in their social context. Specific attention is given to the relationship between ‘collaborative’ policies and actual field practice. Sjoerd van der Linde is a researcher and lecturer of Archaeological Heritage Management at Leiden University.

Van der Linde’s innovative cross-disciplinary approach cuts very close to the bone but in a productive and collegial way that ensures that its unflinching scrutiny of our practice will result in real practical and conceptual advances in ‘digging holes abroad’. - Prof. Ian Lilley, University of Queensland, Australia ASLU Publishing date December 2012 Language English NUR 682

ISBN 978 90 8728 191 5 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 142 0 Price € 49,95 £ 42.65 $ 65

Format Paperback 210 x 270 mm Page extent 246 pages Cover design Joanne Porck

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Memory Contested, Locality Transformed

Hidden Complexities of the Frankish Castle

A Crusader, Ottoman, and Early Modern Aegean Archaeology

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ARCHAEOLOGY

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Michael Schwab and Henk Borgdorff (eds)

The Exposition of Artistic Research Publishing Art in Academia This book places artistic research in the heart of the academic debate. The Exposition of Artistic Research works around terms such as ‘exposition’, ‘artistic research’ and ‘archiving’ which are critical at a time when art is striving to find a place at the academic research table. It offers a new and fascinating view by bringing together reflective and methodological approaches to exposition writing from a variety of artistic disciplines, including design, music and fine art, linking it to questions of publication and the use of technology. Eighteen outstanding scholars focus on writing spaces, research practices, disciplinary negotiations and the archive and its publication. A thread running through their essays is that the role of the exposition, rather than simply reflecting upon or analyzing the art that it exposes, is performative and intensifies it. The Exposition of Artistic Research builds on Michael Schwab and Henk Borgdorff’s continued work in the field of artistic research publication, particularly their contribution to the Journal for Artistic Research and the Artistic Research Catalogue Project. Henk Borgdorff is professor of Research in the Arts at the University of the Arts, The Hague, and visiting professor of Aesthetics at the University of Göteborg (Sweden).

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Michael Schwab is an artist who interrogates postconceptual uses of technology in a variety of media, including photography, drawing, printmaking and installation art. He is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, research associate at the Berne University of the Arts, Switzerland, and research fellow at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent (Belgium).

ART Publishing date November 2013 Language English NUR 640 ISBN 978 90 8728 164 9 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 092 8 Price € 39,95 £ 35 $ 55

The Secret Lives of Art Works Format Paperback 156 x 234 mm Page extent 196 pages Cover design Mulder van Meurs

ISBN 978 90 8728 139 7 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 057 7 Price € 39,95 £ 35 $ 55

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Iranian Studies Series

Bahman Solati

The Reception of Hafiz The Sweet Poetic Language of Hafiz in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Persia The quantity of scholarship on Persian literature is enormous. Yet works of literary criticism and analytical studies are a minute and newly-added portion of its entirety. With few and noteworthy exceptions, the works are agglomerated around the names of such giants of Persian literature as Hafiz, Rumi, and Ferdowsi. In this book Solati demonstrates the influence of Hafiz on the thoughts, poetic language, and philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth century Persian poets, writers and critics. Bahman Solati is Assistant Professor in Persian Language at the University of Exeter (UK). He is the author of several publications, including Rubaiyyat-i-Hakim Umar Khayyam, and Persian Proverbs in three volumes.

Iranian Studies Series Publishing date September 2013 Language English NUR 630 ISBN 978 90 8728 197 7 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 155 0

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Mahnia A. Nematollahi Mahani

The Holy Drama

Persian Play in Modern Iran Persian passion play or ta’ziya depicts the role of the Prophet’s granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karbala in 680. This book depicts how Zeynab has become a role model in modern Iranian society, especially during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. Mahnia A. Nematollahi Mahani worked as an editor at the Center for International Cultural Studies in Tehran before she started her academic career in Persian Studies at Leiden University.

This is a timely addition to the growing body of scholarship on the subject of ta’ziya, based chiefly on previously unstudied textual sources along with a masterful analysis of a central aspect of twelver Shia Islam as practiced in Iran. - Sunil Sharma, Boston University.

The Story of Barzu

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rytelling tradition has survived until the present day s in the Gissar mountains of Uzbekistan. This book arzu and demonstrates that the historical ime of Alexander the Great, has always been a shared cultures. In the village of Pasurxi, near aryo region of contemporary Uzbekistan, a vivid the basis of stories from the Persian Book of Kings a), composed more than a thousand years ago by owsi). These stories deal with the hero Barzu who is s from Boysun as the offspring of Suhrob, one of the he Šohnoma, and his father, the legendary r of Sistan. The storytellers Jura Kamol and Mullo different versions of the story of Barzu in the Tajik ndaryo region. They used to tell their stories during he village. Two versions of the story have been nd analysed by Ravshan Rahmoni and translated by

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THE STORY OF BARZU AS TOLD BY TWO STORYTELLERS FROM BOYSUN, UZBEKISTAN R. RAHMONI AND G.R. VAN DEN BERG (EDS.)

ofessor of Tajik literature at the Tajik State and works on Tajik oral traditions, specifically arya region in Uzbekistan. is lecturer in Persian at the University of Leiden.

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R. Rahmoni and G.R. van den Berg (eds.)

s is comparable to the noble mission of the author sion of the Shahnama epic tradition written down a poet Firdawsi, who adapted many stories of arthian folklore and created an iconic collective ol.” ty of Cambridge

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Iranian Studies Series Publishing date August 2013 Language English NUR 630 ISBN 978 90 8728 115 1 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 034 8 Price € 39,50 £ 34 $ 52

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Dutch publication

Marianne L. Wiesebron (ed.)

Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven / O Brasil em arquivos neerlandeses (1624-1654) Volume 5 Mauritiana is een serie die tot doel heeft om documenten en kaarten over Nederlands Brazilië (1624-1654) toegankelijk te maken. De naam van de serie is een eerbetoon aan graaf Johan Maurits van Nassau (1604-1679), gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands Brazilië (1637-1644). Dit vijfde deel, Brazilië in de Nederlandse archieven (1624-1654), omvat verschillende inventarissen uit het Nationaal Archief. Uit het archief van de Oude West-Indische Compagnie (OWIC) de dagelijkse Notulen van de Hoge en Secrete Raad van Brazilië (1645-1649) en Brieven van de Heren XIX (1635-1653) die betrekking hebben op de regering in Afrika en Brazilië. Verder zijn er losse documenten uit de Staten-Generaal en de collectie Radermacher die betrekking hebben op Nederlands Brazilië. Deze inventarissen worden voorafgegaan door zeven artikelen. Het deel wordt afgesloten met een serie kaarten uit verschillende collecties en publicaties. Marianne L. Wiesebron is docent Talen en Culturen van Latijns-Amerika aan de Universiteit van Leiden.

Mauritiana deel 5 Publicatiedatum Juni 2013 Taal Nederlands/Portugees NUR 685 ISBN 978 90 8728 194 6 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 148 2 Prijs € 59,95 £ 50 $ 80

HISTORY

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LUP Textbooks

Dick Smakman

The Accent Builder A British English Pronunciation Course for Speakers of Dutch This course book introduces the vowels and consonants as well as the most important stress and intonation patterns of British English. Through small chunks of information and short analysis and repetition exercises, students are, in a step-by-step fashion, urged to build their English accent. The target is understandable, natural and educated English. The tips and exercises aim primarily at making learners aware of the nature of sounds, and this course gives them the opportunity to practice their knowledge by listening to and imitating native speakers of English. A website with recordings of words, sentences and texts is part of this course. Furthermore, learners gain access to an online tool which measures the acoustics of their pronunciation and compares it with those of a native speaker model. By the end of the course, students will not only have improved their own pronunciation; they will also be more confident when teaching others English pronunciation at an advanced level.

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Accent Builder A British English Pronunciation Course for Speakers of Dutch Dick Smakman

Dick Smakman is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics for Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He teaches and publishes in the fields of Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics.

Leiden University Press

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Publishing date December 2013 Language English NUR 616 ISBN 978 90 8728 200 4 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 160 4 Price â&#x201A;Ź 17,50

Format 156 x 234 mm Page extent 96 pages Cover design Maedium

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LEIDEN Publications

Ad Maas and Henriëtte Schatz (eds)

Physics as a Calling, Science for Society Studies in Honour of A.J. Kox

Physics as a Calling, Science for Society StudieS in Honour of A.J. Kox edited by Ad MAAS And Henriëtte ScHAtz

Physics as a Calling, Science for Society is a token of appreciation for A. J. Kox on his retirement as Pieter Zeeman Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. The papers, written by close colleagues from the Netherlands and abroad, reflect Kox’s own fields of interest: physics and Dutch science in the period 1850-1950. The book focuses especially on the two towering figures of theoretical physics to whom Kox has devoted a large part of his professional life: Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein. A central theme in many of the contributions is the tension that existed in this period between fundamental science and social concerns.

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History of Science

Ad Maas is historian of Science and Curator at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.

Publishing date September 2013 Language English NUR 680 ISBN 978 90 8728 198 4 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 156 7 Price € 27,50 £ 24.50 $ 37.50 Format 156 x 230 mm Page extent 160 pages Cover design Sander Pinkse

Henriëtte Schatz is Director of Schatz Advies / LaLance Partners in Management. She has worked for many years as a translator, interpreter, and editor of (scientific) publications in English. Newton and the Netherlands ISBN 978 90 8728 137 3 Price € 39,50

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HISTORY OF SCIENCE

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Dutch publication

Peter Peters (ed.)

Klankwerelden De twintigste eeuw van Reinbert de Leeuw Klankwerelden is belangrijk voor iedereen die als luisteraar geïnteresseerd is in muziek van de twintigste eeuw of zich bezighoudt met de studie naar en uitvoering van hedendaagse muziek. Centraal staat de vraag hoe muziek te interpreteren als de uitvoerder niet kan of wil terugvallen op persoonlijke smaak of geldende conventies. Hoeveel moet een uitvoerder weten van de context waarin een componist zijn of haar muziek schrijft? Hoe kies je het juiste tempo en hoe articuleer je muziek in de tijd? Hoe maak je je als uitvoerder een voorstelling van het klankideaal van een componist? Hoe verhoud je je als uitvoerder tot de muziekgeschiedenis? Deze vragen worden besproken aan de hand van het werk van Arnold Schönberg, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, Galina Oestvolskaja, Claude Vivier, Mauricio Kagel en Reinbert de Leeuw zelf. Van De Leeuw zelf bestaan twee boek publicaties die dateren uit de jaren zestig. Zijn opvattingen over de uitvoerings praktijk van met name twintigste-eeuwse muziek komen naar voren in vele perspublicaties, maar het is de eerste keer dat zijn ideeën en inzichten betreffende uitvoeringspraktijk en herinneringen aan samenwerkingen met toonaangevende componisten in boekvorm verschijnen. Dit maakt het boek tot een uniek document. Peter Peters is als docent verbonden aan de Universiteit van Maastricht. Als lector bij Zuyd Hogeschool hield hij zich in de afgelopen jaren bezig met artistiek onderzoek en de betekenis van het autonomie ideaal in de kunstpraktijk.

MUZIEKGESCHIEDENIS Publicatiedatum September 2013 Taal Nederlands NUR 661 ISBN 978 90 8728 193 9 e-ISBN 978 90 0060 146 8 Prijs € 14,50 Formaat 135 x 210 mm Omvang 88 pagina’s Omslagontwerp Geert de Koning

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Law, Governance and Development Series

Law, Governance and Development series The Leiden University Press series on Law, Governance, and Development brings together interdisciplinary work on the formation and functioning of legal systems in developing countries, and interventions to strengthen them. The series aims to engage academics, policy makers and other experts at the national and international level, thus attempting to stimulate legal reform for good governance and development.

Jan Michiel Otto (ed.)

Sharia Incorporated Language English NUR 741/820 ISBN 978 90 8728 057 4 Price € 49,90 £ 39.90 $ 49.90

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Jan Michiel Otto, André J. Hoekema (eds)

Roy L. Prosterman, Robert Mitchell, Tim Hanstad (eds)

Fair Land Governance

One Billion Rising

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LAW, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

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Debates on Islam & Society

Debates on Islam & Society The Leiden University Centre for the study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty centre that brings together researchers from different disciplines. The aim of the LUCIS series Debates on Islam & Society is to develop and strengthen research on Islam and Islamic societies as well as facilitating and contributing to public debate and policy making with regard to Islam.

Maurits S. Berger (ed.)

Applying Sharia in the West Language English NUR 759/828 ISBN 978 90 8728 170 0 Price € 49,50 £ 41 $ 60

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Petra Sijpesteijn

Jan Michiel Otto, Hannah Mason (eds)

Why Arabic?

Delicate Debates on Islam

Language English NUR 717/820 ISBN 978 90 8728 117 5 Price € 24,95 £ 20.50 $ 30

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ISLAM AND SOCIETY

Margriet Krijtenburg

Hans L. Haak

Schuman’s Europe

Rufus Ephesius M edic u s G r at io su s

His Frame of Reference

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Condensed Reality A study of material culture

Merchant in Asia The Trade of the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century

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The Conflict of the Faculties Perspe ives on Artistic Research and Academia

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Thank you M. Monnet Essays on the History of European Integration leiden university press

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Stemmen op berkenbast berichten uit middeleeuws rusland: dagelijks leven en communicatie

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Prof. dr. Maurits S. Berger, LLM is a lawyer and Arabist. He is professor of Islam in the Contemporary West at Leiden University where he holds the Sultan of Oman Chair of Oriental Studies, and is a senior research associate with the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in The Hague.

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This volume provides new insights in the concept of shari‘a in the West, and sets out a framework of how shari‘a in the West can be studied. The premise of this volume is that one needs to focus on the question ‘What do Muslims do in terms of shari‘a?’ rather than ‘What is shari‘a?’. This perspective shows that the practice of shari‘a is restricted to a limited set of rules that mainly relate to religious rituals, family law and social interaction. The framework of this volume then continues to explore two more interactions: the Western responses to these practices of shari’a and, in turn, the Muslim legal reaction to these responses.