Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
When Cultural Policies Change
Comparing Mexico and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
How can change in cultural Policy be explained? Through a comparative and historical analysis, this research sheds new light on the emergence, institutionalization and transformation of the cultural policies of two major Latin American countries: Mexico and Argentina.
Elodie Bordat-Chauvin’s investigation...
Interpreting Quebecs Exile Within the Federation
Selected Political Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This book combines the approaches of political theory and of intellectual history to provide a lucid account of Québec’s contemporary situation within the Canadian federation.
Guy Laforest considers that the province of Québec, and its inhabitants, are exiled within Canada. They are not fully...
Voicing Voluntary Childlessness
Narratives of Non-Mothering in French
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women writing in French. The book explores how women narrate their decision not to mother, the issues that...
by Gerald Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This book examines how a long line of imaginative writers, starting from Rabelais and continuing over Cervantes and Sterne down to such modernists as Proust, Mann, Joyce, and Barth, has reaffirmed the picture of an enduring Western civilization despite repeated crises and transformations. The humanist...
Bilingual Advantages
Contributions of Different Bilingual Experiences to Cognitive Control Differences Among Young-adult Bilinguals
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The question whether bilingualism is linked to benefits in cognitive control (executive functions) is intensely debated among linguists. While some studies come to the conclusion that bilingual individuals consistently outperform their monolingual counterparts on tasks involving cognitive control,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the fin-de-siècle as its primary...
Of Migrants and Meanings
Italians and Their Food Businesses in Brussels, 18761914
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The circulation of goods, ideas, and people has shaped a common European food culture. But practical questions pertaining to this process remain unanswered. How and why do changes in food habits occur and what are their implications? What are the social and cultural processes involved between hosts...
Postcolonial Archipelagos
Essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Writers from different postcolonial regions are usually classified according to their different nationalities or linguistic areas, and have rarely been brought together in one volume. Moving in a new direction, Postcolonial Archipelagos crosses not only geographical but also linguistic boundaries,...
1866, une querelle d'Allemands?
Perceptions croisées et mémoire(s) dun moment clé de lhistoire européenne
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2017
De juin à août 1866, une guerre fratricide (Deutscher Krieg ou Deutscher Bruderkrieg) oppose l’Empire d’Autriche, suivi par la plus grande partie de la Confédération germanique, au royaume de Prusse, allié à une quinzaine de petits États allemands et au royaume d’Italie. Étape décisive...
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Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Ce volume réunit douze études de cas : des vies d’architectes européens, écrites par des historiens de l’art et de l’architecture allemands, espagnols, français, italiens, russes, suédois. Il s’agit d’architectes qui, nés et éduqués dans une culture, héritiers d’une ou plusieurs...
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Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Primo Levi e la chimica delle parole è un titolo che intendeva significare il binomio tra chimica e letteratura il quale ha certamente contribuito a rendere l’opera di Levi fondamentale nel suo genere. Gli atti di questa giornata restituiscono la multiformità della riflessione sviluppatasi nella...
Paroles de témoins, paroles délèves
La mémoire et lhistoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de lespace public au monde scolaire
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2014
À la fin des années 1990, le rôle de la Suisse durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale fait l’objet de vives polémiques au cours desquelles se confrontent la mémoire portée par les acteurs du passé et l’histoire en tant qu’interprétation de ce passé. Les tensions et les controverses, largement...
LAfrique belge aux XIXe et XXe siècles
Nouvelles recherches et perspectives en histoire coloniale
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Les études historiques sur la colonisation belge en Afrique centrale demeurent méconnues du grand public voire du monde scientifique.
Cet ouvrage collectif rassemble les travaux de chercheurs qui souhaitent dépasser les images et les messages stéréotypés ou peu nuancés mêlant l’histoire...
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Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Longtemps méprisée ou déclassée dans l’historiographie universitaire francophone, la biographie a progressivement retrouvé ses lettres de noblesse à partir des années 1970–1980. Ce retour de l’individu sur le devant de la scène s’est appuyé sur l’expérience acquise dans d’autres...