Social and cultural history Books
Transcript Verlag Doing Cultural History – Insights, Innovations,
Book Synopsis"Doing Cultural History" collects papers on a variety of topics. The issues addressed span from the 12th to the 21st century and include the communication of peace in written and pictorial sources, narrative structures in legal texts, masculinity and violence, and new research into Scottish medieval history as well as a comparison of religious theme parks and the perception of sorcery and false saintliness in early modern Spain.
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Transcript Verlag Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across
Book SynopsisWhen talking about monuments, size undeniably matters - or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.
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Transcript Verlag Foreign Countries of Old Age – East and Southeast
Book SynopsisThe exploration of what May Sarton calls the "foreign country of old age" usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, the contributions widen our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity and demonstrate that a shift in perspectives might in fact challenge a number of taken-for-granted positions and presumptions of aging studies.
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Transcript Verlag Realms of Royalty – New Directions in Researching
Book SynopsisMonarchies are facing public demands for modernization and adapting to changing societal, political, and media environments. This book proposes new directions in the research of contemporary European monarchies and offers innovative perspectives on trans/national royal public interactions and (semi-)fictional representations of monarchs. Its case studies address historic and recent developments, including newly invented royal traditions, media depictions, Meghan Markle's impact on the image of the British monarchy, and the royal family's role in Brexit negotiations. With its interdisciplinary analyses, the book reflects current academic, societal, and popular cultural interest in royalty.
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Transcript Verlag Belonging and Narrative – A Theory of the
Book SynopsisWhy did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continuously produced by narrative. Against the current emphasis on metaphors of movement and destabilization, she explores the salience and significance of home. Challenging views of narrative as a mechanism of ideology, she approaches narrative as a practical component of dwelling in the world - and the novel a primary place-making agent.
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Transcript Verlag Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas –
Book SynopsisAs a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanisaw Brzozowski (1878-1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for the needs of what he saw as his primary mission: the modernization of Polish culture. The essays of the volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski's writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point. They shed light on often surprising and hitherto underrated affinities between Brzozowski and intellectual figures and movements in Eastern and Western Europe. Furthermore, they explore the presence of his ideas in twentieth-century century literary criticism and theory.
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Transcript Verlag Truth and Fiction – Conspiracy Theories in
Book SynopsisSeveral of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narratives can be observed in recent developments in Poland or with regard to the wars waged in Eastern Ukraine and in former Yugoslavia. This volume analyses the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well the role it has played in Eastern European cultures and literature both past and present.
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Transcript Verlag Arctic Archives – Ice, Memory, and Entropy
Book SynopsisThis pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory - of Arctic exploring, "conquering" and colonizing -, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike.Examining the debate on the notion of ("natural") archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like "warm", "cold", "freezing" and "melting" as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.Trade Review"Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject." Matthew S. Wiseman, H-Net-Reviews, 1 (2021)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Arctic as an Archive; On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives; Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory; The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others; Landscapes as Archives of the Future?; Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers; A Fragment of Future History; The Absence of the Arctic; The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art; Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive; Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive; An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene; From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libue Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice); Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka); Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s; Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene; Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory; Contributors.
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Transcript Verlag Fictions of Legibility – The Human Face and Body
Book SynopsisGabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. As well as engaging the tools and methods of literary analysis, the study uses a cultural studies approach to offer a constellation of ideas and polemics surrounding the readability of the human body. By including discussions from the medical sciences, epistemology, and aesthetics, the book draws out the multi-faceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue.
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Transcript Verlag Border Wall Aesthetics – Artworks in Border
Book Synopsis30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period - put together, they would cover the total circumference of the Earth. While governments offer manifold justifications for building these separation barriers, they invariably attract the attention of artists. Is it merely the lure of transgression, however, that attracts them - or is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? And which artistic strategies do these artists employ to approach them?In order to address these questions, Élisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by 100 artists, including Joseph Beuys (Berlin), Banksy (Israel-Palestine), and Frida Kahlo (Mexico-US). Through art and thus beyond art, we understand the flaws and shortcomings of supposedly well-oiled systems.With a preface by Élisabeth Vallet.Table of ContentsPreface; Foreword; The history of border wall aesthetics; The Berlin Wall; The separation barrier between Israel and Palestine; The secure border between Mexico and the United States; Conclusion; Bibliography; List of illustrations.
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Transcript Verlag Material Cultures of Psychiatry
Book SynopsisIn the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.Trade Review"The transdisciplinary project has succeeded: The result is an outstanding volume with original contributions that advances the history of psychiatry and is also recommended for all those who are interested in the multifaceted work of objects." Heniette Voelker, H-Soz-u-Kult, 30.04.2021, translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient
Book SynopsisDespite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations. This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category "popular science" is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.Trade Review"A novel and original take on the history of popular science show cases that making science accessible to the public has been part of scientific activity since ancient times. Thanks to a careful curation of the collection of texts, this volume as a whole offers more than the sum of its parts(chapters)." Eric Stengler, Journal of Science Communication, 20/5 (2021)
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Transcript Verlag Are We Comparing Yet? – On Standards, Justice,
Book SynopsisDebates about the possibility of an open culture - or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture - often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons. Through a series of case studies in everyday and academic comparison (literature, history, politics, philosophy), Haun Saussy calls out the typical vices of comparison and proposes ways to unseat them. For however much it is abused, distorted, and manipulated, comparison retains an essential link to the idea of justice.Table of ContentsThe Problem; The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive; Reckoning with the Other; The Family of Comparisons; The Elasticity of Substitution; Negative Privilege; Birds of a Feather; Noli me tangere; Near and Far; A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum; Making Room; Envoi; Acknowledgments.
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Transcript Verlag Maritime Poetics – From Coast to Hinterland
Book SynopsisIn the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increasing intensification of global networks and logistics, and the resulting pressure on human societies and earthly environments have been characteristic of the rise of a "planetary age". This volume engages with contemporary artistic practices and critical poetics that trace an alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present societies at the crossroads of sea and land - taking into account complex pasts and interconnected histories, transnational flux, as well as material and immaterial borders.
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Transcript Verlag Germany′s Conscience – Friedrich Meinecke:
Book SynopsisQuestions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not only crucial to our time, they were also central to the German historian Friedrich Meinecke (1862-1954). Probably no generation of historians before Meinecke had lived through more unsettling transformations, during which these questions were most pressing. Reinbert Krol's analysis of Meinecke's intellectual development does not only give us insight into his philosophy of history - which turns out to be more conciliatory than previously assumed - it can also be a source of inspiration for scholars of history today.
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Transcript Verlag Music – Media – History – Re–Thinking Musicology
Book SynopsisMusic and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses AV-Documents (analysis in context), methodological questions (implications for research, education, and popularization of knowledge), archives of cultural memory (from the perspective of Cultural Studies) as well as digitalization and its consequences (organization of knowledge).
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Transcript Verlag Weimar Controversies – Explorations in Popular
Book SynopsisIn the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflict? Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Occultism: Empowerment or Menace?; Colportage: Harmless Pleasure or Dangerous Diversion?; The Schund Law: Defending Morality or Undermining Freedom?; Detective Pulps: Modeling Justice or Glamorizing Crime?; Nudism: Weimar Renaissance or National Degeneration?; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Transcript Verlag Practices of Comparing – Towards a New
Book SynopsisPractices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration. Its contributions combine case studies with overarching systematic considerations. They show what insights can be gained and which further questions arise when one makes a seemingly trivial practice - comparing - the subject of in-depth research.
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Transcript Verlag From Post–Yugoslavia to Female Continent –
Book SynopsisThis study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its dissolution in the Yugoslav wars. The analysis also focuses on the particularities of different feminist writings, together with their picturing of possible futures. The title of the book suggests an attempt to interpret post-Yugoslav literature as feminist writing, but also a process of conceptualizing a post-Yugoslav literary field, in this study represented by contemporary fiction from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.Trade Review"A book full of detailed descriptions and analyses that are highly relevant to how post-Yugoslavia deals with the future. An insightful read for people who are not interested in easy and ready-made answers." Jasen Philipps, www.kritisch-lesen.de, 13.04.2021, translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Narratives and Comparisons – Adversaries or
Book SynopsisAs a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing. It takes into account related activities, such as measuring and classifying, modeling, establishing norms and categories, as well as organizing and popularizing knowledge, to analyze the ambivalent relationship between narratives, scientific explanation, and understanding. The contributions bring out the epistemic role of narratives, and elucidate how narratives are connected to comparisons and scientific explanations.
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Transcript Verlag Representations of Global Civility – English
Book SynopsisPerhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and even-handed exchanges across cultural divides. In so doing, this book shows that both travel and travel-writing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries were much more complex and multi-layered than reductive Eurocentric histories often suggest.
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Transcript Verlag Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and
Book SynopsisCampus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question of what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called "Turks Deliverance Celebration" (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
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Transcript Verlag Tangier/Gibraltar–A Tale of One City – An
Book SynopsisContemporary life is caught in prisons of identity. Public, academic, and political discourses do not seem to be possible without circling around the topos of identity, thereby creating an illusion of uniqueness, separation, difference, and conflict. By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses. Across the Straits of Gibraltar, local and regional relationships in different fields such as kinship, economy, and culture provide resources for post-Brexit common action and a future beyond the prison of identity.Table of ContentsTanGib -- Two Places, One City?; Myths, rhythms, senses; Theoretical accesses; Access methods; Common history until 1956; The loosening of Transboughazian bonds; An ethnology of multiple connections; Reordering borders, dynamization and a new rapprochement; Brexit: An ethnography of agony with hopeful glances to the other side of the Strait; Conclusion; References.
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Transcript Verlag Emotional Imprints of War: A Computer-Assisted
Book SynopsisHistorical research can be enhanced by methods and resources from various disciplines, ranging from psychology to computer linguistics. With a creative and innovative perspective on ?things we think we know?, Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted historical investigation into the role of emotions in dealing with consequences of World War II in the Netherlands. By ?emotion mining? digitised sources, van Lange shows where emotions were present and how they were expressed and discussed in the political engagement with people who experienced long-term effects of the war, such as former collaborators and war criminals, the resistance, and war victims.
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Transcript Verlag Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture
Book SynopsisRussia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture.With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk.Trade Review"The thought-provoking contributions in this volumewill clarify some of the unfamiliar pages of Ukrainian history and identity.They shed light on the origins of the complex identity of Ukraine, its imperialpast, the contradictions of the interwar Soviet period, and the present,showing that modern war is not accidental or caused by the sick imagination ofone person. The reader has the opportunity to see in the actions of the Russianaggressor a kind of attempt to reconstruct the Soviet period of nation-buildingin Ukraine during the interwar period, to understand the reaction of theUkrainian people as another attempt to protect its independence and freedom."-- Olga Ryabchenko, Professor, Head of the Department of World History at theH. Skovoroda Kharkiv National University and Visiting Scholar, University ofCambridge"There is no other comparable publication on Ukrainewith this specific methodological approach. Ukraine, its history and present,has to be (re)introduced to anglophone Non-Ukrainians ? and this not only inthe light of the ongoing Russian war of aggression against this largest countryof Europe but with regard to Ukraine as a sui generis case of European-typestatehood and national identity. Each of the three sections is divided into>primary sources<, >conversation pieces< and >analytical articles<. Aparticular strength are the >conversation pieces< in the three section is thedidactic value of the book. This makes it also an excellent textbook forhighschool and university teaching." -- Stefan Troebst, Professor of EastEuropean Cultural History, Leipzig University, former Deputy Director of theLeipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe, GWZO
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Transcript Verlag Breathing in Manhattan: Carola Speads - The
Book SynopsisIn 1938 gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany. In New York she turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness. She breathed with clients in her Central Park West studio until she was 97 years old. Now Christoph Ribbat combines her gripping biography with the histories of modern bodywork and breathing experiments. He illuminates the tension between self-help fads and 20th century catastrophes. Accessible and quirky, Breathing in Manhattan speaks to experts and non-experts alike: to readers of Jewish history, students of New York City, and to anyone attracted by or skeptical of the promises of mindfulness.
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Transcript Publishing Mixing Methods
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Stalins Kommandotruppen 1941-1944
Book SynopsisThere are certain parallels between the operations Vladimir Putin initiated in the wake of the Ukraine crisis of 2014 and the approach Stalin took in the region during the Second World War. Stalin's ruthless use of scorched earth tactics, the deliberate provocation of reprisals of the occupiers against the civilian population, the destruction of their own villages, the chaotic collection of taxes in kind from the population, accompanied by everyday looting, benders, fornication and violence, fratricidal internal conflicts, the use of doping, the operational use of bacteriological weapons, and even cannibalismall this was not a random price for the massive bloodshed and no spontaneous response of the population to the brutality of the German occupation in the 1940s. These were, as Alexander Gogun shows in his historiographical investigation, planned or consciously accepted phenomena and peculiarities of Stalin's warfare tactics. A book that makes an important contribution to the historical context of the current crisis in Ukraine. Alexander Gogun has published numerous scientific works on partisan warfare, on Ukrainian nationalism, the communist secret services, as well as the foreign policy of the USSR during the Second World War. He is currently working at the Free University of Berlin. Gogun also lectured at the University of Potsdam on the history of Stalinism, the Soviet Union in World War II, and the post-Stalinist USSR. This volume was previously published by two leading publishing houses in Russia (2008, 2012) as well as in Polish (2011) and Ukrainian (2014).
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media: Between
Book SynopsisNatalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merely stem from the cultural heritage of their communist (and pre-communist) past. Focusing on Ukraine, she argues that, in the period after the fall of communism, peculiar new obstacles to media independence have arisen. They include the telltale structure of media ownership, with news reporting being concentrated in the hands of politically engaged business tycoons, the fuzzy and contradictory legislation of the media realm, and the informal institutions of political interference in mass media. The book analyzes interrelationships between politics, the economy, and media in Ukraine, especially their shadowy sides guided by private interests and informal institutions. Being embedded in comparative politics and post-communist media studies, it helps to understand the nature and workings of the Ukrainian media system situated in-between democracy and authoritarianism. It offers insights into the inner logic of Ukraines political system and institutional arrangement in the post-Soviet period. Based on empirical data of 19942013, this study also highlights many of the barriers to democratic reforms that have been persisting in Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity of 20132014.Trade ReviewThis book serves as a guide for understanding both the current predicament of the Ukrainian media as well as its historical precedents and development over time. Mark Teramae, University of Helsinki, Europe-Asia Studies (70:10) 2018Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Media & Politics in the Gray Zone Between Democracy & Authoritarianism: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Media Capture in Post-Communist Ukraine; The Media Market & Ownership, & Economic Dimension of Media Capture in Ukraine; Conclusion: New Obstacles to Media Reform in Postcommunist Ukraine; Bibliography.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Writ in Water – A Journey of Discovery
Book SynopsisThis book, based on wide-ranging research on water, views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It looks at the emergence of civilizations and their decay, delves into creation myths, ponders the place of water in the human psyche as expressed in art and poetry and folklore, considers its role as a factor of production, a source of energy, a conduit of transportation, and a consumer good, examines changing concepts of physical and spiritual cleanliness, and notes the magical powers of springs and wishing wells and rainmakers. It reveals how this colorless, tasteless, and odorless substance has made such an impact on our bodies and our souls. Like water itself, it meanders far and wide, and it may, just possibly, restore our sense of wonder at this elixir of life. Nina Selbst's pellucid and friendly style of writing and her overflowing enthusiasm for her subject assure the reader not only an enlightening experience but also a pleasurable one.
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V&R unipress GmbH Between Mumbai and Manila: Judaism in Asia since
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V&R unipress GmbH History and Society during the Mamluk Period
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on the Mamluk Era
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V&R unipress GmbH The Road to Socialism: Transport Infrastructure
Book SynopsisâœWe build the road, the road builds us!â Highways and identities building in socialist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
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V&R unipress GmbH Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s until Today
Book SynopsisA renewed view on the history of migration to or through Austria
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V&R unipress GmbH Caring for Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisHonoring Monika Seidl, a Key Figure of Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna
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V&R unipress GmbH People in the Face of Modern Warfare:
Book SynopsisHow do resources influence the way people involved in the war deal with it?
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Accommodating the Individual: Identity and
Book SynopsisHow did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's world-changing conquest of the Persian Empire? How were old values upheld and reshaped? And how did the societies of Greek cities and royal courts accommodate the overwhelming newfound power of Greek individuals? By developing a custom methodology, this book tries to shed new light on the complex textuality of the period of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander. In four case studies, new readings are presented of Theophrastus Characters and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, but also of the substantial early Hellenistic anecdotal material, as well as the Colossus of Rhodes. The studies are united by an interest in how these texts cast the relationships between individuals and how they constructed various media of interrelation, such as money, friendship, women and the divine. Reading these texts on these terms reveals how values were renegotiated through paradoxes and inverted stories that subtly reshaped the utopias of the 4th century BCE. Overall, the study's hypothesis is that this particular brand of social storytelling contributed to the stabilisation of the nascent Hellenistic world by providing new visions of society capable of accommodating individual power and offering a new sense of control and place.
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Afterhours Raw
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Kopernik Kitap The History Of The Salcuq Turks
Book SynopsisThe Saljūqnāma, very probably penned between 1177 and 1186 by Zahīr al-Dīn Nīshāpūri, is one of the main sources of the political, social an cultural events in the history of the The Great Saljūq and the Saljūq o Iraq. Dedicated to Abū Ṭālīb Ṭughril b. Arslan the last Iraqi Saljuq ruler (1177-1194), the work is the first known Saljūqnāma and a main referece for the historians studying the Saljūq history, which makes the work extremely outstanding and notable. Depending on the work of A.H. Moton, who first found and published The Saljūqnāma in 2004, after comparing the manuscript with the other related historical records, this work is the first complete English translation of Nīshāpūrī’s work with a meti lous study on the Persian version and the Turkish translation of the manuscript.
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Bengal Under Akbar and Jahangir: An Introductory
Book SynopsisRare antique book from 1953 by Munshiram Manoharlal, 278 pgs, 5.25*8.25, English. Readable condition, hardcover with loose binding, pin holes. Image provided. Can rebind in leather for $25 extra.
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D.K. Print World Ltd Material Culture of the Orissan Tribals
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Economic and Social History of Modern India
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Central Asia in the Sixteenth Century
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Sandeep Prakashan Orissa: Social, Cultural and Religious Aspects
Book SynopsisThe treatise analyses the evolution of the social life of ancient Orissa by a fresh interpretation of known facts in the light of modern research on an all India basis.
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Punthi Pustak Economic Life in the Great Epic: Some Aspects
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Low Price Publications The Jats: Vol. 2: Their Role and Contribution to
Book SynopsisVol. II explores the role and contribution of Jats in North & North-West India through historical analysis and interdisciplinary research papers. Covers Jat settlements, social, economic, political aspects from 2nd to 20th century. Includes Jat peasant movements in modern times.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Re-Imagining Sleswig: Language and Identity in
Book SynopsisThis book examines the interplay between regional, national and transnational dimensions of identity and language in the Danish and, to a lesser extent, the German minority communities of the Danish-German borderlands. The study shows that the minorities function as two closely-linked and supplementary groups to the national majorities. German language dominates most spheres in both minorities, yet bilingualism and code-switching are essential to minority life and defining group identity. Furthermore, whilst national identities are of a lesser importance to the minorities today than regional or transnational identities, minority identity is still nonetheless hybridised from its roots in the national cultures and languages of Denmark and Germany. The minorities are thus able to cherry-pick social, economic, political and linguistic capital from both nations. This book provides a fresh critical understanding of borderlands as living spaces and proposes a theoretical framework for the study of hybrid and dual minority identities, rooted in theories from nationalism studies, sociology, anthropology and sociolinguistics.
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Copenhagen Business School Press Return to Normalcy or a New Beginning: Concepts
Book SynopsisAt the end of the Second World War in 1945, the countries of Western Europe found themselves at a crossroads. How should they react to the challenges posed by the peace, Germany''s defeat and the newly won freedom?
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