Verlag Peter Lang - Böcker

Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetor...

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The call by German Early Romantic writers for a new mythology is one of the boldest and most unusual demands by any literary theorist. This study asks how an age which variously saw mythology as a historical phenomenon or a collection of artistica...

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Christine Herman untersucht die Transformationen des taurischen Iphigeniemythos im 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei hat sie den deutschsprachigen Literaturraum im Blick.Als zentraler Prätext steht Goethes Drama Iphigenie auf Tauris, das die Autorin als...

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This collection of essays, inspired by Andre Breton's concept of the limites non-frontieres of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than its divides and exclusion zones. Some of the essa...

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Analysing loneliness and solitude in schools and exploring how to deal with them is a vital task. In recent research for the authors Spirit of the School project, a number of pupils, teachers and headteachers described times when they felt lonely ...

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The collected letters of Jonathan Swift D.D., Irish dean and celebrated author of Gulliver's Travels , have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. I...

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Die Kathedralkapitel sind durch verschiedene Bischofswahlen im deutschsprachigen Raum Ende der achtziger Jahre Gegenstand öffentlichen Interesses geworden. Das wirft wieder einmal die Frage nach der Rolle dieser altehrwürdigen Institutio...

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Tout au sommet de l'Europe vivent 40000 Lapons ou Sames, branche extrême-orientale du rameau finno-ougrien que les contingences de la nature et de l'histoire ont fixée en Finno-Scandinavie. Ces 40000 héritiers d'une vieille culture arctique de cha...

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Les premiers pas du nouveau president de la Republique, Georges Pompidou, sont marques par l'ouverture dans le domaine de la politique europeenne avec au premier chef le deblocage de la question de l'adhesion du Royaume-Uni a la CEE. La propositio...

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This book examines the innovative and supportive role that the Council of European Municipalities and Regions has played in the process of European integration, focusing on the idea of a federal state centred on municipalities, the basis of Wester...

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Le second semestre de 1923 est domine par les repercussions de l'occupation de la Ruhr. Face a la Grande-Bretagne qui propose une evaluation de la capacite de paiement de l'Allemagne par un organisme international impartial et l'evacuation de la R...

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Typical food is an in-vogue topic, embodying issues such as current trends in food globalization and European Union policies on agriculture and trade. It is, however, striking how little is known about its history. This book, inspired by the confe...

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the way that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) define their roles within multilateral institutions, both at the global level and, more specifically, within the European Union framework. The author argues...

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Robert Schuman a ete un serviteur attentif et efficace de la Moselle, notamment en tant que conseiller general de Cattenom. Cet ouvrage livre une approche originale du mandat le moins connu du Pere de l'Europe que celui-ci occupe a une periode cha...

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Federalism is spreading around the world as a system of government, yet its origins as a political theory remain obscure. Modern federalism was first developed at the end of the eighteenth century. While Kant identified in federalism the value asp...

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This book offers an extensive and detailed look at the geographies of Canada, one of the largest countries in the world. The contributors consider subjects such as energy, resources, the rise of communications and the knowledge infrastructure, and...

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Technologie qui a cree les armes les plus terrifiantes mais contribue a satisfaire les besoins energetiques, le nucleaire engendre passions et craintes. Ce livre raconte un siecle de creations enthousiasmantes pour les uns, insupportables pour d'a...

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Le deuxieme semestre de l'annee 1948 fut marque par deux grandes crises, celle de Berlin dans laquelle la France etait directement impliquee, et la crise yougoslave, qui, sans bien sur toucher Paris au meme degre, joua un role incontestable dans l...

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Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was one of the most formative influences of the romantic movement, inspiring such major figures as Novalis and Hoffmann. Not only did his tales and novels shape the course of German romantic fiction; as a translator...

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The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2012 confirms and consolidates the structure and aims already set forth in the 2011 edition. Year by year, this series examines the steps that Italy has made to adapt its legislation and policies to internation...

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The European Commission has alternatively been portrayed as an all-powerful institution controlling far too many resources versus a bureaucracy that operates at the behest of Member States. In recent years the EU has been beset by major challenges...

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Challenging the widespread view of the continental model of social protection as a corporatist-conservative system, this book stresses the creative thrust of the two major institutions of the Bismarckian tradition: the social contribution that fin...

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The aim of this book is to explore and compare the welfare strategies of businesses, including the various forms of paternalism, over two centuries and across a number of countries. Specifically, the book examines differentiation and variation amo...

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Partiendo de la practica intermedial como una de las grandes senas de identidad de la estetica contemporanea, este volumen colectivo se centra en las diversas estrategias del dialogo escritura-imagen. Escribir, mirar, leer, escuchar, son operacion...

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Euroscepticism has become a generic catch-all term that is not always useful to capture the nuances of the different types of political opposition to the current process of European integration. This research analyses the electoral manifestos and ...

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The volume is a collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture. Through the study of a variety of spaces, this book provides an explo...

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In the preface to La Mort de Cesar (1736), Voltaire claimed to have written a tragedy inspired by Julius Caesar that, while not resembling Shakespeare's play, was "entirely in the English taste". Such a claim has so far gone virtually un...

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This book considers first-person writing and the related questions of the formation of the self, the rise of the individual and the private/public debate, and places these considerations within a multicultural perspective. It compares the characte...

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L'intensite des echanges culturels entre la France et l'Italie fasciste a longtemps ete occultee par les oppositions ideologiques qui ont mene a la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cet ouvrage collectif, qui retrace les efforts deployes des deux cotes des...

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