Michael Kraus – författare

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Examining the key challenges confronting Russia and Eastern Europe, this multidisciplinary volume considers the constitutional, political, economic, security, and national identity issues facing these post-communist societies. Drawing upon both theory and case studies informed by newly available primary sources, leading U.S. and Russian specialists

Events which become historical, says Michael Kraus, do not live on because of their mere occurrence. They survive when writers re-create them and thus preserve for posterity their otherwise fleeting existence. Paul Revere's ride, for example, might well have vanished from the records had not Longfellow snatched it from approaching oblivion and given it a dramatic spot in American history. Now Revere rides on in spirited passages in our history books. In this way the recorder of events becomes almost as important as the events themselves. In other words, historiography - the study of historians and their particular contributions to the body of historical records-must not be ignored by those who seriously wish to understand the past.When the first edition of Michael Kraus's Writing of American History was published, a reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune wrote: ""No serious study of our national origins and development can afford not to have such an aid as this at his elbow."" The book quickly came to be regarded as one of the few truly standard general surveys of American historiography, invaluable as a reference book, as a textbook, and as a highly readable source of information for the interested general reader. This new edition with coauthor Davis D. Joyce confirms its position as the definitive work in the field.Concise yet comprehensive, here is an analysis of the writers and writings of American history from the Norse voyages to modern times. The book has its roots in Kraus's pioneering History of American History, published in 1937, a unique and successful attempt to cover in one volume the entire sweep of American historical activity. Kraus revised and updated the book in 1953, when it was published under the present title. Now, once again, the demand for its revision has been met.Davis D. Joyce, with the full cooperation and approval of Kraus, has thoroughly revised and brought up to date the text of the 1953 edition. The clarity and evenhandedness of Kraus's text has been carefully preserved. The last three chapters add entirely new material, surveying the massive and complex body of American historical writing since World War II: ""Consensus: American Historical Writing in the 1950s,"" ""Conflict: American Historical Writing in the 1960s,"" and ""Complexity: American Historical Writing in the 1970s-and Beyond.""

This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational societies and ethnic separatism and its origins. The blend of analysis and insider experiences will make this book invaluable for all concerned with nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, and transitions in Eastern Europe.

Structured Biological Modelling presents a straightforward introduction for computer-aided analysis, mathematical modelling, and simulation of cell biological systems. This unique guide brings together the physiological, structural, molecular biological, and theoretical aspects of the signal transduction network that regulates growth and proliferation in normal and tumor cells. It provides comprehensive survey of functional and theoretical features of intracellular signal processing and introduces the concept of cellular self-organization. Exemplified by oscillatory calcium waves, strategies for the design of computer experiments are presented that can assist or even substitute for time-consuming biological experiments. The presented minimal model for proliferation-associated signal transduction clearly shows the alterations of the cellular signal network involved in neoplastic growth. This book will be useful to cell and molecular biologists, oncologists, physiologists, theoretical biologists, computer scientists, and all other researchers and students studying functional aspects of cellular signaling.

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Structured Biological Modelling presents a straightforward introduction for computer-aided analysis, mathematical modelling, and simulation of cell biological systems. This unique guide brings together the physiological, structural, molecular biological, and theoretical aspects of the signal transduction network that regulates growth and proliferation in normal and tumor cells. It provides comprehensive survey of functional and theoretical features of intracellular signal processing and introduces the concept of cellular self-organization. Exemplified by oscillatory calcium waves, strategies for the design of computer experiments are presented that can assist or even substitute for time-consuming biological experiments. The presented minimal model for proliferation-associated signal transduction clearly shows the alterations of the cellular signal network involved in neoplastic growth. This book will be useful to cell and molecular biologists, oncologists, physiologists, theoretical biologists, computer scientists, and all other researchers and students studying functional aspects of cellular signaling.

Structured Biological Modelling presents a straightforward introduction for computer-aided analysis, mathematical modelling, and simulation of cell biological systems. This unique guide brings together the physiological, structural, molecular biological, and theoretical aspects of the signal transduction network that regulates growth and proliferation in normal and tumor cells. It provides comprehensive survey of functional and theoretical features of intracellular signal processing and introduces the concept of cellular self-organization. Exemplified by oscillatory calcium waves, strategies for the design of computer experiments are presented that can assist or even substitute for time-consuming biological experiments. The presented minimal model for proliferation-associated signal transduction clearly shows the alterations of the cellular signal network involved in neoplastic growth. This book will be useful to cell and molecular biologists, oncologists, physiologists, theoretical biologists, computer scientists, and all other researchers and students studying functional aspects of cellular signaling.

Zum Bestand des Ethnologischen Museums in Berlin zählen mehr als 6.500 historische Schwarzweiß-Fotografien aus Lateinamerika. Die zwischen 1868 und 1936 aufgenommenen Bilder zeigen vor allem ethnologische und archäologische Motive, aber auch Stadt- und Naturansichten. Die hier versammelten Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit ausgewählten Konvoluten dieses umfassenden Archivs. Sie verdeutlichen das enorme Forschungspotenzial eines solchen „epository of memory“ und stellen eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Herangehensweisen und Lesarten historischer Fotografien vor. Die Erwerbung von Sammlungsteilen sowie die Konservierung und Verbreitung der Bilder werden ebenso analysiert wie die Entstehungskontexte einzelner Aufnahmen und die Interessen der damaligen Fotografen. Neben der Untersuchung der ethnologischen und archäologischen Bedeutung von Bildinhalten werden die Nutzungsformen und Wirkungen bestimmter Bildformate thematisiert. Der reich illustrierte Band erscheint in englischer Sprache. Er wird durch die Digitalisate im Online-Portal www.smb-digital.de ergänzt.

Theodor Koch-Grünberg (1872-1924) zählt zu den großen Pionieren der ethnografischen Forschung. Anlässlich seines 150. Geburtstags erscheint das Tagebuch seiner dritten Expedition durch Südamerika. Die umfassend bebilderte und mit erläuternden Begleittexten ausgestattete Edition gibt einen unmittelbaren und authentischen Einblick in Forschungsmethoden, soziale Beziehungen wie auch in die Gedankenwelt des Ethnologen. Seine Publikationen, Fotografien und Sammlungen zählen bis heute zu den Standardmaterialien bei der Auseinandersetzung mit den indigenen Gruppen des nördlichen Brasilien und des südlichen Venezuela.Die hier versammelten Texte veranschaulichen die Erfolge ebenso wie die Schwierigkeiten dieser bereits zu Lebzeiten des Forschers weithin beachteten Expedition anhand der Unmittelbarkeit bislang unveröffentlichter Originalaufzeichnungen und setzen diese zu den politischen Kontexten, dem Theoriestand der damaligen Zeit als auch zu späteren ethnologischen Forschungen in der Region in Beziehung.

Wie Politik und Kultur in der DDR und Österreich während des Kalten Kriegs in Oper und Ballett interagierten, ist durch dieses Buch, basierend auf der Aufarbeitung bisher unbekannten Archivmaterials, erstmals detailliert nachvollziehbar. Die Staatsopern von Berlin und Wien waren nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nicht nur „Kulturtempel“, sondern auch Repräsentanten zweier sich neu bildender Staaten. Besonders anschaulich zeigt sich dies bei ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit moderner Musik. Während man sich an der Deutschen Staatsoper Unter den Linden mit viel Aufwand um die Schaffung „sozialistischer“ Opern bemühte, suchte man an der Wiener Staatsoper bei neuen Werken vor allem die Anbindung an die bürgerlichen Werte der Vergangenheit zu betonen; ein spannendes Stück Zeitgeschichte für Historiker wie für Operninteressierte.

Um kaum einen Geheimbund ranken sich mehr Verschwörungstheorien als um die Freimaurer. Aus den Dombauhütten des Mittelalters entstanden, wurden sie zur Wiege von Humanismus und Toleranz. Freimaurer spielten eine wichtige Rolle in der Französischen Revolution, wurden Wegbereiter der amerikanischen Verfassung und im Dritten Reich brutal verfolgt. Viele berühmte wie einflussreiche Männer der Welt zieren die Ahnentafeln.

Der «Kampf gegen den Terrorismus» wirft für das Recht zahlreiche Grundsatzfragen an den Schnittstellen zwischen Verfassungsrecht, Strafrecht und Polizeirecht auf. Diese Arbeit gibt einen komprimierten und anschaulichen Überblick über die hieraus resultierenden neuartigen und viel diskutierten Rechtsprobleme. Der Verfasser spannt den Bogen von der allgemeinen Betrachtung des Verhältnisses von Sicherheit und Freiheit, über dessen konkrete Umsetzung im Strafrecht, bis hin zur Auseinandersetzung mit der Theorie des Feindstrafrechts. Dabei betrachtet der Verfasser auch die Situation im Gefangenenlager in Guantánamo und die hierüber geführte rechtliche Auseinandersetzung vor den US-Gerichten.