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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe
Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
Av Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
784 kr
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Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual …
History of the Vespa
An Italian Miracle
Inbunden, 2019
2577 kr
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Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical …
Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 1500–2000
Av Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2577 kr
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This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families’ strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and show how …
History of Euphoria
The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being
Inbunden, 2018
2577 kr
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Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. …
Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions
Av Sandra Ataíde Lobo, Jessica Falconi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2577 kr
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This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical …
History of Shaolin
Buddhism, Kung Fu and Identity
Av Lu Zhouxiang
Inbunden, 2019
2125 kr
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Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in …
Children and Globalization
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Av Hoda Mahmoudi, Steven Mintz
Inbunden, 2019
2577 kr
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Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, …
Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture
Av Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2577 kr
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Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge …
Old World Empires
Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia
Av Ilhan Niaz
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible …
Invention of Race
Scientific and Popular Representations
Av Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep …
Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain
Av Andy Pearce
Häftad, 2019
784 kr
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The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain …
Indigenous Networks
Mobility, Connections and Exchange
Av Jane Carey, Jane Lydon
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of …
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914
Av Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of …
Expedition into Empire
Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World
Häftad, 2019
784 kr
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Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a …
Afterlife of Used Things
Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
784 kr
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Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity …
Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
Av Justyna Jajszczok, Aleksandra Musiał
Inbunden, 2019
2577 kr
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The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as …
Charles Kingsley
Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Av Jonathan Conlin, Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
Inbunden, 2020
2877 kr
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Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, …
Creating and Opposing Empire
The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press
Av Adelaide Vieira Machado, Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2577 kr
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Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial press issued in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies, disclosing dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires.Creating and Opposing Empire is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical …
Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge
Av Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
732 kr
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The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the …
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers
Conflict, Performance, and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim
Av Kate Darian-Smith, Penelope Edmonds
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the …
Visualizing Jews Through the Ages
Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism
Av Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in …
Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
Av Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions …
Jesuits at the Margins
Missions and Missionaries in the Marianas (1668-1769)
Av Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Häftad, 2019
732 kr
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In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe …
Language as a Scientific Tool
Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions
Av Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the …
Transnational South America
Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s-1900s
Av Ori Preuss
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely …
Madness in Cold War America
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship …
Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
Av Andrew Spicer, Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw
Häftad, 2019
784 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society. It explores how marginal identity was formed, perceived and represented in Britain and Europe during the medieval and early modern periods. It …
Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century
Contesting/Contested Memories
Av David M. Seymour, Mercedes Camino
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, …
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Av Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, David Olafsson
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on …
Electroconvulsive Therapy in America
The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of psychiatry." This book traces the American history of one of the most controversial procedures in …
