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The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands
Literary and Historical Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out.
This...
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914
The Outbreak of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Winner of the 2015 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address in-depth the crucial events of 1914 as they played out on the Balkan Front. James Lyon demonstrates how blame for the war's outbreak can be placed squarely...
Danilo Bucchi. Opere
Signs. The Black Line
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Danilo Bucchi nasce a Roma nel 1978. Il talento di Danilo Bucchi è probabilmente il tratto dominante del suo profilo artistico, costituito da una severa determinazione nel radicarsi in un universo di segni che rimanda alla tradizione dell'astrazione europea delle prime avanguardie, con l'ausilio...
Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War
Case Studies from Germany, Italy and Other Western European States
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2019
This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history...
The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide
Hitler's 'Indian Wars' in the 'Wild East'
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust's decidedly imperial-colonial origins, context, and content in a book of interest to students, teachers, and lay readers, as well as specialist and non-specialist scholars.
by Paul F. State
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Brussels has become the “capital” of Europe, serving as the headquarters for key regional and international agencies, including the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, UN organizations, multinational businesses, lobbying firms, governmental groups, and nongovernmental organizations....
EurAsian Matters
China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility...
Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda
Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book compares two successful, elite women, Empress Adelheid (931-999) and Countess Matilda (1046-1115), for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century. The careers of the Ottonian queen and empress Adelheid and Countess...
by Helen Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church...
Jenseits
Eine mittelalterliche und mediaevistische Imagination. Interdisziplinaere Ansaetze zur Analyse des Unerklaerlichen
Language: German
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Der Konferenz-Band ist den Jenseits-Imaginationen des Mittelalters gewidmet. Die Konferenz ging in der Hauptsache der Frage nach, wie einzelne Epochen und Kulturen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tod manifestieren. Der zeitliche Bogen spannte sich dabei von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart des 21. Jahrhunderts....
France-Allemagne au XX e siècle La production de savoir sur l'Autre (Vol. 4)- Deutschland und Frankreich im 20. Jahrhundert Akademische Wissensproduktion ueber das andere Land (Bd. 4)
Volume 4. Les médias- Band 4. Die Medien
Language: French
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Issu de la quatrième et ultime phase du programme «France-Allemagne au XXe siècle. – La production de savoir sur l'Autre» de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Lorraine, le présent volume est centré sur le rôle joué par les médias dans la production et la diffusion du savoir sur l'autre...
by Florian Jetzlsperger
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Neueste Geschichte, Europäische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Amerikanische Kulturgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Spreading the American Dream, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache:...
«Warum schweigt die Welt?» Die Entfuehrung von Berthold Jacob
Eine Dokumentation
Language: German
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Berthold Jacob war einer der bekanntesten deutschen Journalisten und Pazifisten der Weimarer Republik, der als Anti-Nazi und Jude schon 1932 Zuflucht in Straßburg fand. Im März 1935 wurde er durch die Gestapo über die schweizerisch-deutsche Grenze entführt und in Berlin verhaftet, was internationales...
Ford, General Motors, and the Nazis
Marxist Myths About Production, Patriotism, and Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The threat of concentration camps, untimely strikes, and propaganda influenced Ford and GM's war efforts in the U.S. and Europe. Dealing with both the brutal Nazi regime and Communist attempts to influence American opinion, leaders at Ford and GM attempt to balance loyalty to their corporations and homeland.