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Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.

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Die Zeitschrift 'Der Jude' wurde 1916 als Organ der Zionistischen Weltorganisation gegründet. Ihre Aufgabe war es zunächst, die nationalen Ziele der Juden in Ost- und Mitteleuropa einem gebildeten Publikum nahezubringen. Dennoch, oder gerade deshalb, konzipierte der Herausgeber Martin Buber den 'Juden' als Zeitschrift der Jüdischen Moderne, in der auch Nichtzionisten zu Wort kamen.Neben theoretischen Abhandlungen zur Ideologie des Zionismus und des jüdischen Nationalismus befaßte sich die Zeitschrift mit den konkreten politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen der Juden in Europa und Palästina. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt war die jüdische Kultur, wobei neben deutscher, jiddischer und hebräischer Literatur, Philosophie, Religionswissenschaft und Geschichte auch die Philologie und die jüdische Erziehung als Themen berücksichtigt wurden. Die Beiträge waren von den allgemeinen geistigen Strömungen der Zeit beeinflußt und versuchten, diese für die Belebung der jüdischen Kultur fruchtbar zu machen. Die Auffassung der jüdischen Lehre als universalistisch und sozial progressiv, wie sie 'Der Jude' propagierte, prägte die Darstellung der jüdischen Renaissance ebenso wie die Vorstellungen von Wesen und Sinn des jüdischen Gemeinwesens in Palästina. Auf dem Gebiet der zionistischen Politik in Palästina war 'Der Jude' das Sprachrohr jener deutschsprachigen Zionisten, die sich engagiert für jüdisch-arabische Koexistenz, aber auch für die Förderung der jüdischen Arbeit und der Kollektivsiedlungen in Palästina einsetzten. Die Berichte über jüdische Kultur gingen weit über die Interessen des Zionismus hinaus und dokumentieren die Vielfalt des geistigen Lebens der Juden im deutschsprachigen Raum der Zwischenkriegszeit.

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This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered understanding of migration in the past 30 years. It explores different and emerging approaches in major areas, such as: gendered labour markets across diverse sectors beyond domestic and care work to include skilled sectors of social reproduction; the significance of families in migration and transnational families; displacement, asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality in asylum determination; academic critiques and gendered discourses concerning integration often with the focus on Muslim women. The reader concludes with considerations of the potential impact of three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities: Black Lives Matter, Brexit and COVID-19. As such, it is a valuable resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.

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This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued for, while at the same time revealing to contemporary philosophers the strong connections which there are between Aquinas's interests and views and their own. Its five sections cover the life and works of Aquinas; his metaphysics, including his understanding of the ultimate foundations of reality; his metaethics and ethics, including his virtue ethics; his account of human nature; his theory of the afterlife; his epistemology and his theory of the intellectual virtues; his view of the nature of free will and the relation of grace to free will; and finally some key components of his philosophical theology, including the incarnation and atonement, Christology, and the nature of original sin.

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A deep dive into the pioneering collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, equipment, and ephemera, which is a cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum In the early twentieth century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873–1934) amassed a collection that traced photography’s prehistory, invention, and development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer’s ambition was never realized, his collection was central to establishing the world’s first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum. The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book’s six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection’s complex passage across markets, borders, and functions. For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource. Published in association with the George Eastman Museum

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The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following the publication in English of The Production of Space. This new collection brings together, for the first time in English, Lefebvre's reflections on the city and urban life written over a span of some twenty years. The selection of writings is contextualized by an introduction - itself a significant contribution to the interpretation of Henri Lefebvre's work - which places the material within the context of Lefebvre's intellectual and political life and times and raises pertinent issues as to their relevance for contemporary debates over such questions as the nature of urban reality, the production of space and modernity. Writings on Cities is of particular relevance to architects, planners, geographers, and those interested in the philosophical and political understanding of contemporary life.

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