Sidestone Press

Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars. As a publisher they have one clear ambition, that is to make scientific information available to all. They believe scientific information should be available at all times, at all places and to each and every one. This means that the printing and selling of books is but one part of what they believe a good publisher should do.

Apart from printed books that can be found in libraries and bookstores around the world, Sidestone books can also be freely accessed online through different channels such as Google Books, Google Scholar and through their own digital ebook library. By offering access to their books for free, more people than ever have access to our publications. First of all this is beneficial for our authors as it greatly increases the exposure of their work, and in effect, the impact of their research. Second, of course, it enables their readers – scholars and students around the world – to access their publications at any time and at any place, including those parts of the world where access to good quality academic libraries is not guaranteed.

From 2012 onwards Sidestone books have been published under one of three different imprints: Sidestone Press Academics, Sidestone Press Dissertations and Sidestone Press.

Fighting Fibres Cover Fighting Fibres Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088905667
Pub Date: 26 Apr 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Illustrations: 260fc / 25bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088905650
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Illustrations: 260fc / 25bw
Description:
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the historical context that led to these unique artefacts leaving the Pacific and entering the orbit of British collectors and institutions, as well the legacies of those practices in the present. As well as exploring the historical milieux surrounding its collection, the book includes essays from expert conservators that discuss the challenges of caring for coconut fibre armour.
Massendinghaltung in der Archäologie Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 388
ISBN: 9789088903465
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The primary way of generating knowledge in archaeology is through its collections and archives of objects of past cultures and societies - as was and still is stated quite often. But archaeology has been struggling with the sheer masses of objects since, which steadily grow because of excavations.The following seventeen articles were contributions to a conference in Berlin in 2013, which was organized by the German Association for Theories in Archaeology.
The Indigenous Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago from the first settlers until today Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789088903533
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This study relates the vicissitudes of the Amerindian peoples who lived or still inhabit the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, from the earliest occupants, ca. 8000 BC, until at present. Using archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic data, it discusses the social, political, economic, and religious development of indigenous society through the ages.
Indian Detours Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088903366
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
Illustrations: ca. 33bw / 28 fc
Description:
With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. Nowhere is the history of the tourist encounter between Native peoples and Euro-Americans as long and as intensive as in North America. From the 1870s transcontinental railroads and shipping routes along the Pacific coast opened up the North American West for travelers, wishing to get to know the spectacular country and its Native peoples.
Saba's First Inhabitants Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9789088903595
Pub Date: 08 Feb 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 100 fc.
Description:
This book tells the story of the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean island of Saba prior to European colonization, based on 30 years of archaeological research conducted by Leiden University in collaboration with the government and people of Saba.The pre-colonial history of Saba begins around 3800 years ago with the first fishers-foragers and plant managers occupying the interior of the island at Plum Piece, Fort Bay, The Level and Great Point. The exceptional character of Saba with its volcano, diverse vegetation, and fauna, attracted Amerindian communities from the prime episode of human occupation of the insular Caribbean, first on a temporary basis and later, from AD 400 on, permanently.
Fernweh Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9789088903502
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
‘Fernweh’ is a collection of essays on archaeological heritage management issues dedicated to Professor dr. Willem J.H.
Practices of Wealth Depositing in the 1st–9th Century AD Eastern Baltic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789088903076
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This PhD thesis discusses the practices of wealth depositing in the 1st–9th century AD eastern Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Wealth deposits are one or more valued object/s that is/are hidden deliberately as an intended separate deposition in a selected place in a specific, distinguishable manner. Wealth depositing is regarded as an important cultural practice which relates to and derives from various past social phenomena and changes respectively in spatial and temporal terms.
Fresh Fields and Pastures New Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789088903489
Pub Date: 06 Jan 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This volume honors the career and contributions of Andrew M.T. Moore.
De stad, het vuil en de beerput Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9789088903144
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
There has been a lot of new data discovered on Medieval Dutch cities in recent decades. This has provided new insights on the develeopment, topography, material culture and the functioning of cities. This study combines and synthesizes data from several Dutch Medieval cities.
Verwerkt verleden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789088903298
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book, aimed at a general audience, presents the results of all archeological research performed in the Dutch city of Helmond during several decades. Starting in the early prehistory the authors present the earliest evidence of people living in the current region of Helmond, the rise of the city up until recent times.
Metaaltijden (vol. 2) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789088903335
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden
Description:
This book is part of an annual series containing papers on Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology in the Netherlands. The series mostly contains Dutch-language articles but on occasion also English language articles are included.
Archaeological Investigations between Cayenne Island and the Maroni River Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 752
ISBN: 9789088903304
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Stratigraphic archaeological research in French Guiana is barely 50 years old and has been conducted primarily in the coastal zone, stretching approximately between 5 and 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast to the Precambrian Shield. This bias, mainly caused by means of modern infrastructure, has sketched an archaeological record concerning pre-Columbian French Guiana focussing on the Late Ceramic Age (AD 900-1500) of Cayenne Island as well as the western Holocene coastal plains. The present study contains the results of six archaeological investigations, conducted from a compliance archaeological perspective, in order to enhance our knowledge of the afore-mentioned coastal area.
Middle English Romances in Translation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088903397
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle English romance has only recently begun to attain critical respectability, dismissed as "vayn carpynge" in its own age and generally treated by twentieth-century critics as a junk-food form of medieval literature.
Door de lens van de landschapsbiografie Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9789088903137
Pub Date: 25 Jun 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This Dutch-language book contains a collection of the best essays written in the context of a Masters course entitled "The Biography of the Landscape", taught at the VU University (Amsterdam). The essays deal with the long and complex histories of landscapes from a personal, social, cultural and geographical perspective.The essays focus on the different manners in which monuments and landscapes transformed over time, involving processes of forgetting and remembering both on a conscious and unconscious level.
Corded Ware Coastal Communities Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9789088903182
Pub Date: 17 Jun 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50bw/15fc
Description:
The Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900–2300 BC) is found in a large area, from Russia to the Netherlands and from Scandinavia to Switzerland. Supra-regional elements include beakers decorated with cord and/or spatula imprints, battle-axes, and a funerary customs involving crouched inhumations under barrows with gender-specific placement of the body gender-specific funerary gifts.
Managing our past into the future Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9789088903250
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region’s archaeological heritage. The geopolitical and cultural diversity of the Caribbean, the general lack of awareness of island histories and multiple stakeholders involved in the preservation process, have in many cases slowed down the effective enforcement of regulations and heritage legislation.
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