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Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective
Past Meets Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart...
by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former...
Networks of Nazi Persecution
Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution...
Deterritorialized Youth
Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development....
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of...
Civil Society Revisited
Lessons from Poland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for...
Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder
Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political,...
The Participants
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting less than two hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust,...
A Fatal Balancing Act
The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association. The Jewish functionaries of this organization were faced with circumstances and events that forced them to walk a fine line between responsible action and collaboration. They had hoped to support mass emigration, mitigate...
The Monumental Nation
Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval...
An Improbable War?
The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe...
Comparative and Transnational History
Central European Approaches and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however,...
Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
How is it that walls, borders, boundaries—and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion—engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining...