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Between Prague Spring and French May
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions...
Death of the Public University?
Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities...
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Essays in Historical Realism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people’s...
Our Common Denominator
Human Universals Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities...
After The History of Sexuality
German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditionally...
Race, Color, Identity
Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links...
Theatres Of Violence
Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were...
Europe in Crisis
Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,'...
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development
Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once hailed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking...
Banned in Berlin
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of...
Weimar Radicals
Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between two defining ideologies of the twentieth century. The struggle between Fascism and Communism...
Protest in Hitler's “National Community”
Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement,...