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182 produkter
Convergence of Civilizations
Constructing a Mediterranean Region
Av Emanuel Adler, Federica Bicchi m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
514 kr
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Recent efforts by the United States and its allies to promote democracy, security, and stability in the Middle East owe much to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) – also known as the Barcelona Process – an important region-building plan in the Mediterranean region since 1995. The Convergence …
Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2007
978 kr
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The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) is without question one of the founders of modern social science. In his methodological writings, notably his essay "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Science and Policy" (1904), Weber sought reflexively to establish a trans-culturally valid basis for …
German Right, 1860-1920
Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination
Häftad, 2006
543 kr
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Before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Germany was undergoing convulsive socioeconomic and political change. With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics, based on the principle of one man, one vote. The dynamic, diverse political …
Writing Travel
The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey
Inbunden, 2008
775 kr
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Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts …
Red Missionaries
The French and German Socialist Press in Hostile Environments, 1919-1940
Inbunden, 2026
819 kr
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Red Missionaries explores the communication strategies of French and German Socialist parties during the inter-war period (1920-1939). With the help of eighteen newspapers – ten Bavarian and eight Breton – alongside a rich variety of both primary and secondary sources, this book examines how the …
To Forget It All and Begin Anew
Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954
Häftad, 2013
398 kr
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Germany’s transition from Nazism to peaceful, if at times reluctant, integration into the western and Soviet spheres during the decade immediately following the Second World War is one of the most remarkable events of the twentieth century. Shattered relations between Germans and their wartime …
Excavating Nations
Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands
E-bok, 2015
1007 kr
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Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of …
Excavating Nations
Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands
E-bok, 2015
920 kr
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Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of …
China in the German Enlightenment
Av Bettina Brandt, Daniel Purdy
E-bok, 2016
424 kr
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Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of …
China in the German Enlightenment
Av Bettina Brandt, Daniel Purdy
E-bok, 2016
424 kr
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Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of …
Sex and the Weimar Republic
German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
E-bok, 2015
504 kr
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Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher …
Sex and the Weimar Republic
German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
E-bok, 2015
521 kr
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Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher …
Convergence of Civilizations
Constructing a Mediterranean Region
Av Emanuel Adler, Federica Bicchi m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
587 kr
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Recent efforts by the United States and its allies to promote democracy, security, and stability in the Middle East owe much to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) – also known as the Barcelona Process – an important region-building plan in the Mediterranean region since 1995. The Convergence …
Pope's Dilemma
Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
E-bok, 2015
621 kr
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Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost …
Pope's Dilemma
Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
E-bok, 2015
621 kr
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Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost …
Herder
Aesthetics Against Imperialism
E-bok, 2015
929 kr
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Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged …
Herder
Aesthetics Against Imperialism
E-bok, 2015
1043 kr
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Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged …
Transforming Kafka
Translation Effects
E-bok, 2014
437 kr
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Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick O’Neill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce and Impossible …
Transforming Kafka
Translation Effects
E-bok, 2014
488 kr
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Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick O’Neill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce and Impossible …
Urban Transformations
From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871–1933
E-bok, 2019
1125 kr
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Urban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and municipal administrations had emphasized free markets, the rule of law, and trade in 1871, by the 1930s they favoured a quite different integrative, corporate, and …
Urban Transformations
From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871–1933
E-bok, 2019
1125 kr
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Urban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and municipal administrations had emphasized free markets, the rule of law, and trade in 1871, by the 1930s they favoured a quite different integrative, corporate, and …
Germany's Second Reich
Portraits and Pathways
E-bok, 2015
571 kr
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Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck …
Germany's Second Reich
Portraits and Pathways
E-bok, 2015
571 kr
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Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck …
Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place
German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930
Av David Blackbourn, James Retallack
E-bok, 2015
571 kr
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What makes a person call a particular place 'home'? Does it follow simply from being born there? Is it the result of a language shared with neighbours or attachment to a familiar landscape? Perhaps it is a piece of music, or a painting, or even a travelogue that captures the essence of home. And …
Justice Behind the Iron Curtain
Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
Av Gabriel Finder, Alexander Prusin
E-bok, 2018
521 kr
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In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland’s role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response …
Justice Behind the Iron Curtain
Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
Av Gabriel Finder, Alexander Prusin
E-bok, 2018
521 kr
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In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland’s role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response …
Sex and the Weimar Republic
German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
Häftad, 2015
427 kr
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Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher …
(Re)Visualizing National History
Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium
Av Robin Ostow
Häftad, 2014
354 kr
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Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the …
Pope's Dilemma
Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
Häftad, 2015
457 kr
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Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost …
Germany's Second Reich
Portraits and Pathways
Häftad, 2015
456 kr
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Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck …
