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Michigan State University Press Ethiopia
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The New Press The Egyptians A Radical History of Egypts
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA The Afghans
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Arc Humanities Press A Companion to Medieval Translation
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University of Alaska Press Iñupiat of the Sii
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Liverpool University Press Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and
Book SynopsisDigitizing Enlightenment explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured projects are some of the best known, well-funded and longest established research initiatives in the emerging area of ‘digital humanities’, a field that has, particularly since 2010, been attracting a rising tide of interest from professional academics, the media, funding councils, and the general public worldwide. Advocates and practitioners of the digital humanities argue that computational methods can fundamentally transform our ability to answer some of the ‘big questions’ that drive humanities research, allowing us to see patterns and relationships that were hitherto hard to discern, and to pinpoint, visualise, and analyse relevant data in efficient and powerful new ways. In the book’s opening section, leading scholars outline their own projects’ institutional and intellectual histories, the techniques and methodologies they specifically developed, the sometimes-painful lessons learned in the process, future trajectories for their research, and how their findings are revising previous understandings. A second section features chapters from early career scholars working at the intersection of digital methods and Enlightenment studies, an intellectual space largely forged by the projects featured in part one. Highlighting current and future research methods and directions for digital eighteenth-century studies, the book offers a monument to the current state of digital work, an overview of current findings, and a vision statement for future research. Featuring contributions from Keith Michael Baker, Elizabeth Andrews Bond, Robert M. Bond, Simon Burrows, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Melanie Conroy, Charles Cooney, Nicholas Cronk, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Summers Edmondson, the late Richard Frautschi, Clovis Gladstone, Howard Hotson, Angus Martin, Katherine McDonough, Alicia C. Montoya, Robert Morrissey, Laure Philip, Jeffrey S. Ravel, Glenn Roe, and Sean Takats.Trade Review'Anyone embarking on a DH project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.'Hélène E. Bilis, Wellesley CollegeReviews'It is clear that anyone embarking on a DH [digital humanities] project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.'Hélène E. Bilis, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures and tablesKeith Michael BakerPrefaceSimon Burrows and Glenn RoeIntroduction: Digitizing Enlightenment I. Digital projects, past and present Robert Morrissey and Glenn RoeThe ARTFL Encyclopédie and the aesthetics of abundance Nicholas CronkElectronic Enlightenment: recreating the Republic of Letters Dan EdelsteinMapping the Republic of Letters: history of a digital humanities projectHoward HotsonCultures of Knowledge in transition: Early Modern Letters Online as an experiment in collaboration, 2009-2018 Jeffrey S. RavelThe Comédie-Française Registers Project: questions of audience Angus Martin and the late Richard FrautschiTowards a new bibliography of eighteenth-century French fiction Simon BurrowsThe FBTEE revolution: mapping the Ancien Régime book trade and the future of historical bibliometric research Alicia C. MontoyaShifting perspectives and moving targets: from conceptual vistas to bits of data in the first yearof the MEDIATE project II. Digital methods and innovationsCatherine Nicole ColemanSeeking the eye of history: the design of digital tools for Enlightenment studies Elizabeth Andrews Bond and Robert M. BondTopic modelling the French pre-Revolutionary press Katherine McDonoughPutting the eighteenth century on the map: French geospatial data for digital humanities researchLaure PhilipThe illegal book trade revisited: an insight into database protocols and pitfalls Melanie Conroy and Chloe Summers EdmondsonThe empire of letters: Enlightenment-era French salons Clovis Gladstone and Charles CooneyOpening new paths for scholarship: algorithms to track text reuse in Eighteenth Century Collections Online Sean TakatsConclusion: beyond digitizing Enlightenment Bibliography Index of persons Index of titles General index
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UCL Press AntiAtlas
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Berghahn Books The Origins of German Self-Cultivation: Bildung
Book Synopsis Recent devaluations of a liberal arts education call the formative concept of Bildung, a defining model of self-cultivation rooted in 18th and 19th century German philosophy and culture, into question and force us to reconsider what it once meant and now means to be an “educated” individual. This volume uses an arc of interdisciplinary scholarship to map both the epistemological origins and cultural expressions of the pivotal notion of Bildung at the heart of pursuit in the humanities. From its intriguing original historical manifestations to its continuing resonance in current ongoing debates surrounding the humanities, the editors urge us to ask and discover how the classical concept of Bildung, so central to humanistic inquiry, was historically imagined and applied in its original German context.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Jennifer Ham, Ulrich Kinzel, and David Tse-chien Pan Chapter 1. Self-cultivation and the Police State: The Political Context of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Concept of Bildung Ulrich Kinzel Chapter 2. Fichte’s Conception of Bildung and German National Identity David Tse-chien Pan Chapter 3. Becoming Solid: Bildung and Storage Media in Moritz’s and Goethe’s Italian Travels Sean Franzel Chapter 4. Schinkel’s Altes Museum as “Bildungsmuseum”: The Aesthetic Education of a National Community and the Makings of the Modern Museum Andrea Meyertholen Chapter 5. From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung: Nietzsche’s Project of “Heroic Minds” Jennifer Ham Chapter 6. The Self-Formation of Poetic Expression: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Geistesgeschichte Anna Guillemin Chapter 7. Bildung as Dialectical and Theological Hermeneutics in the Service of the Humanities John Smith Conclusion Index
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Berghahn Books The History of Thyssen: Family, Industry and
Book Synopsis As a result of a multi-volume research project, funded by the Thyssen Foundations (Stiftung zur Industriegeschichte Thyssen and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung), ten books were published that served to greatly advance the available knowledge on the Thyssen family and their companies. The results of this project are summarized in this volume which provides both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and their business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains the development of both whilst addressing issues such as patriarchal succession; gender roles in the family; wealthy lifestyles in international communities of aristocrats and diplomats; operating across national legislation, institutions, and policies; and discussions of labor and capital. In doing so it connects corporate and family history to provide an all-inclusive view of the development of a business.Table of Contents List of Figures Foreword to the English-Language Edition Volker Berghahn Foreword Introduction Point of Departure: The Thyssen Legacy Elements of an Entangled Family and Corporate History Part I: Family-History Projects: Selected Findings Chapter 1. The Thyssens – family and fortune (Simone Derix, 2016, 2nd ed. 2021) Family and conflict Lifestyle: Family spaces, local roots, mobility “Calculated risk”: The Thyssens, their foundations and advisors Chapter 2. Two civic lives in the public eye.The brothers Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (Felix de Taillez, 2017) Stepping out from the father’s shadow:Fritz Thyssen as national hero The exclusive circles of Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Out in the open:Fritz Thyssen, the media, and National Socialism Chapter 3. The Thyssens as art collectors. Investment and symbolic capital (1900 -1970) (Johannes Gramlich, 2015, 2nd ed. 2021)] “Normal capitalist bourgeoisie”:August Thyssen sr. and Fritz Thyssen Collecting as vocation: Heinrich and Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Part II: Corporate-History Projects: Selected Findings Why Thyssen? On the state of research and the research problem On the company’s development Company and family Trust—capital—assets Consultant Selected findings Chapter 4. Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG under National Socialism (Alexander Donges, 2014) Chapter 5. Forced labor at Thyssen.“Stahlverein” and “Baron-Konzern” in the Second World War (Thomas Urban, 2014, 2nd ed. 2021) Chapter 6. The expropriation of Fritz Thyssen. Dispossession and restitution (Jan Schleusener, 2018) Chapter 7. Thyssen in the Adenauer era. Corporate formation and family capitalism (Johannes Bähr, 2015) Chapter 8. From steel group to corporate group. The Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza companies from 1926 to 1932 (Harald Wixforth, 2019) Chapter 9. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Group(Boris Gehlen, 2021) Appendix: Thyssen family tree Sources and Bibliography Overview of Book Series
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Berghahn Books Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life
Book Synopsis How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century. Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's son, and the daughter of Celia and Edmund Leach, the man Rosemary loved all her life, this part love-story, part biography, part social history is the tale of a highly influential circle of social anthropologists in Britain from the 1930s, through the Second World War, to the end of the century. The book explores their early influences, their insecurities, their flaws, struggles and achievements. It is a story of passion and commitment, but also of deceit and betrayal, including the inexplicable disappearance, death and alleged murder of a very close friend. It also narrates Rosemary's struggles for emotional and intellectual independence in the face of societal expectations of women and her own guilt, loss and self-doubt. From the Prologue: Rosemary loved many people in many different ways, but she loved two men in particular throughout most of her life. One was her husband, Raymond Firth, regarded by some as among the founding fathers of social anthropology. Yet she also retained a passionate devotion to her first love, Edmund Leach, who would subsequently become the public intellectual face of social anthropology in the later 1960s. Both separately and together they were part of the process of defining the nature of this still growing discipline in the first part of the mid-twentieth century.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Important People Chronology Introduction Chapter 1. Edmund, 1928-1931 Chapter 2. I Know He Will Come Back, 1931-1932 Chapter 3. A Proposal, 1932-1934 Chapter 4. Raymond, 1934-1935 Chapter 5. By the Trickery of Cunning Fate, 1936-1938 Chapter 6. Have You Been Bombed? 1938-1940 Chapter 7. Under Attack, 1940 Chapter 8. Opened by Censor, 1941-1942 Chapter 9. One Suit and Two Blouses, 1942-1943 Chapter 10. Clogs, Cotton, Commerce and Cream, 1943 Chapter 11. Twenty Hens, Three Cats and a Fish, 1944-1949 Chapter 12. The Cost of Change, 1951-1952 Chapter 13. Goblins, 1952-1953 Chapter 14. Dancing Days and Orchid Nights, 1953-1961 Chapter 15. Bursting with Ideas, 1959-1964 Chapter 16. Scorched Earth, 1965-1966 Chapter 17. The Wheel Keeps Turning, 1967-1969 Chapter 18. Together Again, 1969 Chapter 19. Only by Change Can Things Not Die, 1970-1978 Chapter 20. The Dark Side of the Moon, 1978-1979 Chapter 21. Knowing Too Much and Too Little, 1979 Chapter 22. Pity Bolts Other Doors, 1979-1981 Chapter 23. Almost Like Brothers, 1984-1986 Chapter 24. Who was that Woman? 1986-1997 Selected Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of
Book Synopsis Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.Trade Review “This volume, its contributing authors, and the fieldworkers and ethnographies they restore constitute a creative, necessary resistance to iconoclastic, postcolonial assaults on anthropology. Highly recommended.” • Choice “This collection is an important event in the subfield of history of anthropology. Its editors, two well-known European scholars, have assembled an impressive collection of essays … It should be in the library of every major university.” • Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University, WaterlooTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Foreword: Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography Thomas Hylland Eriksen Introduction: . Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen Part I: In Search of the Native’s Point of View Chapter 1. “Adapt Fully to Their Customs”: Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and his Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888) Herbert S. Lewis Chapter 2. “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People”: Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) Barbara Chambers Dawson Chapter 3. Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and his Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926) David Shankland Part II: The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic Chapter 4. Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology: Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70) David Chidester Chapter 5. At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons: Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikaremoana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897) Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Chapter 6. Partnership with a Native American Family: Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911) Joanna Cohan Scherer Part III: Colonial Ethnography From Invasion to Empathy Chapter 7. Stepping into a Pit of Snakes: John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884) Ronald L. Grimes Chapter 8. Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes: Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang, or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912) André Mary Chapter 9. “The Stream Crosses the Path”: Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923) Montgomery McFate Part IV: Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork Chapter 10. From Savages to Friends: Henrique de Carvalho and his Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) Frederico Delgado Rosa Chapter 11. “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do”: Maria Czaplicka, her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916) Grażyna Kubica Chapter 12. Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928) Michael Kraus Conclusion: Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, c.1870–1922 Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Index
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Canelo The Beverage Report
Book Synopsis**A short history of post-war Britain through twelve alcoholic drinks from the G&T to the Aperol Spritz. **
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Edward Elgar Publishing Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Book SynopsisEmphasising the Q in qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), Roel Rutten presents QCA as a thoroughly qualitative method to help researchers learn from cases. He highlights that while Boolean expressions describing cross-case patterns are QCAâs most conspicuous element, they do not amount to causal explanations.
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Nothing Is Written In Stone: The Notebooks of
Book SynopsisJustin Keating, son of the artist Sean Keating, attended UCD and TCD. He was a Labour Party politician (Minister for Industry 1973-77), academic, journalist, veterinary surgeon, television pioneer (as Head of Agricultural Broadcasting at RTE) and award-winning documentary filmmaker. In later life he served as Member of the European Parliament and became president of the Humanist Association. President Michael D. Higgins called him ‘a man who saw socialism as both essential and adaptable to change’. Keating introduced the first substantial legislation for the development of Ireland's oil and gas, set up the National Film Studios of Ireland at Ardmore and gave impetus to Kilkenny Design. He wrote extensively – and with opinions well ahead of his time – on the natural world, including women’s health, animal welfare, sustainable energy and ecology. ‘A well made, fit thoroughbred really striding out seems to me one of the most beautiful things on earth, on a par with an orchid or porpoise.’ Edited posthumously by his wife, Barbara Hussey, Justin Keating’s notebooks offer an in-depth, often-impassioned account of the interests, musings and opinions of one of Ireland’s most wide-ranging intellectuals. His dealings with J.D Bernal, Noël Browne, Sean McBride, Charles Haughey, Gerry Fitt and Conor Cruise-O’Brien, form part of this absorbing chronicle, aside from myriad friendships with writers and artists. Nothing Is Written in Stone is a brilliant selfportrait of this multi-dimensional man, who did so much to shape twenty-first century Ireland.Trade ReviewThe work is a personal testimony. -- Barry Sheppard * The Irish Story *That [Justin Keating] remained willing to change is clear from this illuminating chronicle of a singular and fulfilling life. Barbara Hussey edited these extracts from her husband’s notebooks with the astute collaboration of Anna Kealy. Together they have succeeded, as John Boorman writes in his affectionate preface, in giving Justin a voice beyond the grave. -- Alex White * The Irish Times *Absorbing tale reliving a political odyssey. -- Deirdre Conroy * The Independent *Table of ContentsAcorns to Oaks- On Education; The Godless Institution- On Marxism; Snake and Ladders- Women Religion and Sexuality; Genesis Vs Gaia- Care of the Earth; Ireland's Future- Entering Irish Politics; Doubt is the Mother of Wisdom- Zionism; The Future of the Left- Globalization and Democracy; Loves, Loss and Leavetaking.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Middle East and North Africa 2019
Book SynopsisNow in its sixty-fifth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world area.Key Features:- covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen - includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on regional affairs- accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments - provides comprehensive data on all major organizations active in the countries of the region. General Survey- introductory essays cover a wide range of topics relating to the region as a whole.Country SurveysIndividual chapters on each country incorporating:- essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economy - an extensive statistical survey of economic and social indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, communications media and education - a full directory with names, addresses and contact details covering the constitution, government, legislature, political organizations, election commissions, diplomatic representation, judiciary, religious groups, the media, finance, trade and industry (including petroleum and natural gas), tourism, defence and education - a country-specific bibliography, providing suggestions for further research. Regional Information- includes all major international organizations active in the Middle East and North Africa; research institutes specializing in the region; and select bibliographies of books and periodicals.Table of ContentsPart 1: General Survey Part 2: Country Surveys Includes sections on geography, history and economy, as well as statistical surveys, directories and bibliographies for each country Part 3: Regional Information Regional Organizations. Calendars. Research Institutes. Select Bibliography (Books). Select Bibliography (Periodicals). Index of Regional Organizations.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Townscape of Darlington
Book SynopsisDarlington from Anglo-Saxon settlement to thriving town, via the middle ages and the coming of the railway.It is exactly a thousand years since Darlington first appeared in written records. During the following millennium, the small Anglo-Saxon settlement grew into today's thriving town, its history now generally linked in the public mind with entrepreneurial Quakers and the birth of railways. But as this book shows, Darlington's history encompasses many more diverse aspects in the change from medieval village to modern town. Through a survey of its physical development, the book describes how the town flourished in the middle ages; was largely destroyed by fire in 1585; and grew again in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before the coming of the railway in the mid-1800s reinforced its prosperity. Its story is taken up to the present day, showing how Darlington is characterised by residential suburbs, with a town centre where Victorian and eighteenth-century buildings populate the original medieval streets. Dr GILL COOKSON is the County Editor for the Victoria County History of Durham.
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University Press of Kentucky To Belong Here
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University Press of Kentucky Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia
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University Press of Kentucky Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia
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University Press of Kentucky Reading Writing and Queer Survival
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De Gruyter Thabit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in
Book SynopsisThabit ibn Qurra (826–901) was one of history’s most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics. Approximately a dozen of this shorter mathematical and philosophical writings are collected in this volume. Critically edited with accompanying commentary, these writings show how Thabit Ibn Qurra developed and reconceived the intellectual inheritance of ancient Greece in all areas of knowledge.
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De Gruyter Between Manuscript and Print: Transcultural
Book SynopsisA cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor.While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a whole allows for transcultural perspectives. It thereby not only focusses on change, but also on simultaneities of manuscript and printing practices as well as on shifts in the perception of media, writing surfaces, and materials: Which values did writers, printers, and readers attribute to the handwritten and printed materials? For which types of texts was handwriting preferred or perceived as suitable? How and under which circumstances could handwritten and printed texts coexist, even within the same document, and which epistemic dynamics emerged from such textual assemblages?
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De Gruyter Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts,
Book SynopsisThroughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions.The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume’s three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience.The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors’ respective fields.
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De Gruyter Manuscript Treasures from AfroEurasia
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de Gruyter Oldenbourg Vietnam
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Bohlau Verlag Generation im Aufbruch: Die
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Bohlau Verlag Zwischen Verein, Korporation und
Book SynopsisMit der Öffnung der deutschen Universitäten für Frauen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts begannen Studentinnen, sich nach dem Vorbild ihrer männlichen Kommilitonen in studentischen Verbindungen zu organisieren. Zunächst handelte es sich noch um lose Zusammenschlüsse, die mit den männlichen Korporationen nicht vergleichbar waren. Mit der Zeit begannen die Frauen jedoch, ihren Vereinen zunehmend eine Struktur zu geben und Elemente der Männerbünde zu übernehmen sie wurden zu Korporationen im klassischen Sinne. Simone Ruoffner-Unterrainer untersucht exemplarisch die Damenverbindungen der Universitäten Tübingen und Würzburg sowie deren Mitglieder. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie sich die Verbindungen auch in Zusammenhang mit ihrer konfessionellen Prägung in ihrem Alltag, der Übernahme männerbündischer Traditionen, aber auch der Zusammensetzung ihrer Mitglieder unterschieden, welche Intention den Zusammenschlüssen zugrunde lag und wie es zur Wandlung bloßer Gesinnungsgemeinschaften hin zu Korporationen kam.
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Dietrich Reimer Wissensdinge: Geschichten Aus Dem
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Dietrich Reimer The Nature of Things: Stories from a Natural
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Dietrich Reimer What's Missing?: Collecting and Exhibiting Europe
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Lit Verlag Narrating the Self and Nation in Kenyan
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Konigliche Hofbibliothek in Berlin 1774-1970:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Joachim Heinrich Campe: Dichtung, Sprache,
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V&R unipress Silesia Superior
Book SynopsisUpper Silesia â transdisciplinary studies of the historical, cultural and natural region
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Social Science Press Social and Economic Profile of India
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TusQuets Amexica Guerra en la frontera War Along the
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NIAS Press States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour
Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for his many contributions across continents and disciplines as well as his personal qualities as a long-time colleague, teacher and friend. Now Professor Emeritus of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Shiraishi-sensei has had an outstanding career as a teacher, scholar, administrator and policy advisor, his many roles including Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University and president both of GRIPS and the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. Often with Japan at their nexus, the essays speak to three enduring themes in the research interests that spanned Shiraishi's half-century career, namely, political movements in Southeast Asia; national and regional politics in China and Japan; and the links between ideology, networks and policies at critical junctures of state formation. An introduction by the editors reviews Shiraishi's contributions to many areas of scholarship (these are documented in the back matter, in a bibliography of his publications and writings in English and Japanese). Among authors of the fourteen essays that follow are Patricio Abinales, Chris Baker, Caroline Hau, Peter Katzenstein, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Thongchai Winichakul. In a concluding lengthy interview Shiraishi speaks for the first time, in a frank if light-hearted tone, of his diverse experiences in academia, as student, faculty and administrator, his thoughts on area studies and their connections with official policy-making, and his initiatives for building regional networks of research and intellectual exchange. A festschrift in English being a rarity for a Japanese scholar, this collection offers valuable if indirect insights into the links and influences that have animated a burgeoning community of international academic exchange and expert cooperation. This has been facilitated by Shiraishi's position, time and again (even if an accidental one, as he likes to say), as a transnational intersection point for colleagues, students and friends in their many various research pursuits. A rich and rewarding collection.
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NIAS Press States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour
Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for his many contributions across continents and disciplines as well as his personal qualities as a long-time colleague, teacher and friend. Now Professor Emeritus of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Shiraishi-sensei has had an outstanding career as a teacher, scholar, administrator and policy advisor, his many roles including Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University and president both of GRIPS and the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. Often with Japan at their nexus, the essays speak to three enduring themes in the research interests that spanned Shiraishi's half-century career, namely, political movements in Southeast Asia; national and regional politics in China and Japan; and the links between ideology, networks and policies at critical junctures of state formation. An introduction by the editors reviews Shiraishi's contributions to many areas of scholarship (these are documented in the back matter, in a bibliography of his publications and writings in English and Japanese). Among authors of the fourteen essays that follow are Patricio Abinales, Chris Baker, Caroline Hau, Peter Katzenstein, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Thongchai Winichakul. In a concluding lengthy interview Shiraishi speaks for the first time, in a frank if light-hearted tone, of his diverse experiences in academia, as student, faculty and administrator, his thoughts on area studies and their connections with official policy-making, and his initiatives for building regional networks of research and intellectual exchange. A festschrift in English being a rarity for a Japanese scholar, this collection offers valuable if indirect insights into the links and influences that have animated a burgeoning community of international academic exchange and expert cooperation. This has been facilitated by Shiraishi's position, time and again (even if an accidental one, as he likes to say), as a transnational intersection point for colleagues, students and friends in their many various research pursuits. A rich and rewarding collection.
£31.43
Nordic Africa Institute Encounter Images in the Meetings Between Africa and Europe
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