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Consisting of different ethnolinguistic groups, Eritrea is an intriguing example of a multilingual country facing complex interdependencies of language, social mobility, ethnicity and nationalism. This work examines language and education in the country in the light of these issues.

In 1602, the VOC (Dutch East India Company) was granted sole rights to trade with Asia. Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the VOC, this work tells the story of how the company invented permanent share capital and laid the foundations for the Amsterdam stock exchange.

This text describes how Asante in present-day Ghana shape and give meaning to their funeral celebrations.

Demographic changes in Europe and the United States have created interest in how an ethnically diverse work force can best be managed. Employers are regularly encouraged to engage in diversity management activities, but little is known about the attitudes and experiences of ethnic minority and majority employees and managers.This book reports on a study in fifteen Dutch organizations with an ethnically diverse staff. It explores the following ...

Whose heritage do we collect and preserve, and how and why? Who has access to this information, and who does not? Archives and libraries are not free of biases and neither is writing history an objective process. The criteria used to collect heritage materials are changing continuously. In addition, the materials that are preserved for their historical value are increasingly available in digital form. In this volume, heritage preservation expe...

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