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Aarhus University Press

Aarhus University Press is a commercial Foundation which was inaugurated in 1985 for the purpose of disseminating the results of scientific research, as well as other scientific activity within the University of Aarhus. The Foundation is managed by a board of at least 5 and maximum of 13 members appointed by the Academic Council of the University on the recommendation of the Rector on the basis of proposals from the main areas.

Means of Exchange Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 378
ISBN: 9788779343085
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series
Illustrations: colour photos & maps
Description:
This second volume on the excavations of the Norwegian Viking town Kaupang 2000-2003 presents find types used in economic transactions - coins, hacksilver, ingots, weights and balances. Changes in type and volume of economic transactions at Kaupang and in Scandinavia are discussed, and the economic mentality of Viking crafts- and tradesmen is explored. In the early ninth century, silver and goods seem to have come to Kaupang mainly from the Carolinigian world.

Urban Life & Local Politics in Roman Bithynia

The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos
Format: Hardback
Pages: 211
ISBN: 9788779343504
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Black Sea Studies
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
Most studies of Roman local administration focus on the formal structures of power: provincial laws, imperial edicts, urban institutions and magistracies. This book explores the interplay of formal politics with informal factors such as social prejudice, parochialism and personal rivalries in the cities of northwestern Asia Minor from the first to the fifth centuries AD. Through a detailed analysis of the municipal speeches and career of the philosopher-politician Dion Chrysostomos, we gain new insights into the petty conflicts and lofty ambitions of an ancient provincial small-town politician and those around him.

Crisis, Mircales & Beyond

Negotiated Adaptation of the Danish Welfare State
Format: Paperback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9788772888248
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: tables
Description:
How did Denmark avoid a macro-economic catastrophe in the 1980s and 1990s and still manage not only to maintain but also expand its welfare state? Denmark's macro-economic troubles apparently derived from a number of vices identified by critics of the welfare state: it had an enormous, thoroughly unionised, and unresponsive public sector; large numbers of people relied on the state for their livelihood, making programmatic cuts politically difficult; many programs had the characteristic of property rights and were hard to modify. Taxes to sustain this welfare state compressed investment, eroding both fiscal and current account balances.

When Culture Becomes Politics

European Identity in Perspective
Format: Paperback
Pages: 311
ISBN: 9788779342828
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
What do Europeans have in common apart from the rights and duties deriving from the treaties? Is there such a thing as 'Europeanness' in the sense of a common identity? Can rights serve as a unifying factor in the new EU of 27 member states?
Technology in Archaeology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 205
ISBN: 9788776020934
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Studies in Archaeology & History
Illustrations: b/w photos & illus
Description:
The aim of this publication is to stress that cultural, social and cognitive aspects today are important goals and perspectives of technological studies, and that technological studies can contribute vitally to the interpretation of our prehistory. There is today a strong new trend among a young generation of archaeologists towards using the study of technology. This trend focuses on the understanding of the material process -- and sees these processes as logical responses and changes reflecting human behaviour and cognition.

Invoking the Spirits

Fieldwork on the Material & Spiritual Life of the Hunter-Gatherers Mlabri in Northern Thailand
Format: Hardback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9788788415476
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
Illustrations: colour photos & b/w illus
Description:
Invoking the Spirits - Fieldwork on the Material & Spiritual Life of the Hunter-Gatherers Mlabri in Northern Thailand

Students of the Bible in 4th & 5th Century Syria

Seats of Learning, Sidelights & Syriacisms
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9788779343900
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: tables
Description:
A number of prolific writers were active in the Syrian Church of the 4th and 5th centuries. However, in some cases these writers are only accessible by virtue of sidelights thrown e.g.

Werkzeuge aus Kaiserzeitlichen Heeresausruestungsopfern
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788788415483
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press

New Religions & Globalization
Format: Hardback
Pages: 277
ISBN: 9788779342941
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: RENNER Studies on New Religions
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Globalisation is a predominant theme in contemporary educational and political circles. Research on globalisation has become a political priority because the world has become a 'single place' where local events may have world-wide political, economic and military consequences. Oftentimes, however, cultural and religious consequences are ignored -- although recent waves of violence seem to be religiously fuelled.

Danish Towns During Absolutism

Urbanisation & Urban Life, 1660-1848
Format: Hardback
Pages: 509
ISBN: 9788779341524
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Urban Studies Series
Illustrations: tables & maps
Description:
All too often, Denmark has been conspicuous by its absence from international urban historical literature. The most important reason for this was the lack of literature on Danish urban development published in an international language. The principal aim of this book, therefore, is to rectify this situation by presenting - in English - recent significant research on Denmark's urban development.

Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens

Volume 5
Format: Paperback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9788772887258
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens - Volume 5
Burial Mounds of Bahrain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9788788415452
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
Illustrations: b/w photos & maps
Description:
Burial Mounds of Bahrain - Social Complexity in Early Dilmun
Black Sea in Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 396
ISBN: 9788779342668
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Black Sea Studies
Illustrations: b/w illus & maps
Description:
This volume addresses a wide range of issues concerning the economic exchanges that took place within the Black Sea region, and between the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas from about 700 BC to AD 200. The contributing scholars of ancient history and archaeology consider old and new evidence in order to shed new light on central aspects of the economic relationship that existed between these two eminently important regions in antiquity. The authors offer novel approaches and propound a number of fresh interpretations to key questions concerning the relationship between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

Sigojnere

1000 år på kanten af Europa
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9788779344457
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
Text in Danish. Roma betyder menneske og er sigøjnernes betegnelse for sig selv. Gennem tusind år på kanten af de europæiske samfund har romaerne formået at bevare deres eget sprog og en særegen kultur.

Archaeology of Medieval Europe

Volume 1: Eighth to Twelfth Centuries AD
Format: Paperback
Pages: 479
ISBN: 9788779342903
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2007
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: colour & b/w illus
Description:
The two volumes of 'The Archaeology of Medieval Europe' will together comprise the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. Archaeologists from academic institutions in fifteen countries are collaborating to produce these two books of sixteen thematic chapters each. In addition, every chapter will feature a number of 'box-texts', by specialist contributors, highlighting sites or themes of particular importance.
Grauballe Man Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 351
ISBN: 9788788415292
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2007
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: many col and b/w illus
Description:
Grauballe Man is one of Denmark's best-preserved bog bodies, originally discovered in 1952. He had been killed by having his throat slit before being laid in the bog. Although scientific tests were carried out in 1952, it was felt that technological advancements warranted further testing in 2001-2.
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