“…The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. …”

“…This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries. …”

Materias:

“…Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material / Introduction / The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami in Dutch News Sources: The Functioning of Early Modern News Dissemination / “Wee have Tidings out of Polonia”: English Corantos, News Networks, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Transylvania in German Newspapers: Systems of Reporting and the News Stories of György II Rákóczi, 1657– 1658 / News of the Sussex Dragon / “Loyal Hind”, “The Prince of Thieves”: Crime Pamphlets and Royalist Propaganda in the 1650's / Intensive Ephemera: The Catholick Gamesters and the Visual Culture of News in Restoration London / Rumour, Newsletters, and the Pope’s Death in Early Modern Rome / “A True Reporte”: News and the Neighbourhood in Early Modern Domestic Murder Texts / Life After Death: Gender, Idealized Virtues, and the Obituary in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers / “This Straunge Newes”: Plague Writing, Print Culture, and the Invention of News in Thomas Dekker’s The Wonderfull Yeare (1603) / English News Plays of the Early 1620's: Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess and Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News / “This is Attested Truth”: The Rhetoric of Truthfulness in Early Modern Broadside Ballads / Bibliography of Secondary Works / Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Countering piracy in the modern era : notes from a RAND workshop to discuss the best approaches for dealing with piracy in the 21st century -- The current legal framework for countering piracy -- The economic burden imposed by piracy -- Anti-piracy off the Horn of Africa and the opportunities for interstate collaboration -- The wisdom of using armed contractors to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden -- The extent to which industry talks as single voice in terms of maritime security -- How to confront piracy off the Horn of Africa…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : "the contemporary" -- Modernity without a project -- Remaking the Museum of Modern Art -- Complacencies of the new architecture -- Endgame : consequences of contemporaneity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material / Sonic Histories in a Southeast Asian Context / Music on Dutch East Indies Radio in 1938: Representations of Unity, Disunity, and the Modern / ‘Dirty Dancing’ and Malay Anxieties: The Changing Context of Malay Ronggeng in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Disquieting Degeneracy: Policing Malaysian and Singaporean Popular Music Culture From the Mid-1960's to Early-1970's / Pop Goes Melayu: Melayu Popular Music in Indonesia, 1968–1975 / Pop Melayu vs. …”