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    Aphrodisiacs, fertility, and medicine in early modern England (2014)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781782043683
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 215 pages)
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    DDC: 615.7/669
    RVK:
    LB 44190
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    MS 2870
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    XB 3695
    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Geschichte ; Aphrodisiacs / England / History ; Fertility, Human / England / History ; Reproduction / Effect of drugs on / England / History ; Medizin ; Fertilität ; Aphrodisiakum ; England ; England ; Aphrodisiakum ; Fertilität ; Medizin ; Geschichte 1500-1800
    Abstract: It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book argues that these aphrodisiacs were used not simply for sexual pleasure, but, more importantly, to enhance fertility and reproductive success; and that at that time sexual desire and pleasure were felt to be far more intimately connected to conception and fertility than is the case today. It draws on a range of sources to show how, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, aphrodisiacs were recommended for the treatment of infertility, and how men and women utilised them to regulate their fertility. Via themes such as gender, witchcraft and domestic medical practice, it shows that aphrodisiacs were more than just sexual curiosities - they were medicines which operated in a number of different ways unfamiliar now, and their use illuminates popular understandings of sex and reproduction in this period
    Description / Table of Contents: Texts, readers and markets -- The reproductive and the infertile body -- Provoking lust and promoting conception -- Enchanted privities and provokers of lust -- Aphrodisiacs, miscarriage and menstruation
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  • 2
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    Museums in China : the politics of representation after Mao (2014)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781782042105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 190 pages)
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    DDC: 069.0951
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    AK 87862
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    LB 34440
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politik ; Museums / China ; Museums / China / History ; Museums / Political aspects / China ; Museum techniques / China / History ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Museum ; China ; China ; Museum
    Abstract: Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number of Chinese museums has increased at an unprecedented rate, with China set to become the country with the highest number of museums in the world. But why have museums become so important?This book, based on extensive research in a number of the museums themselves, examines recent changes in their display methods, narratives, actors and architectural style. It also considers their representations of Chinese national identity, millenarian history and extraordinary cultural diversity. Through an analysis of the changes affecting not only what we observe through museums, but also the very medium of observation (i.e. museums themselves), this book provides a unique, original and timely exploration of the ongoing changes affecting Chinese society, and an evaluation of their consequences. Dr Marzia Varutti is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Museum Studies, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural heritage in China -- Museums in China: origins and development -- New actors in the Chinese museum world -- Museum objects and the Chinese nation -- The nation in the museum -- The politics of the past -- The representation of the past in China's museums -- The politics of identity -- The museum representation of ethnic minorities -- Conclusion: the new museums of China
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    Dealing with government in South Sudan : histories of chiefship, community & state (2013)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781782040873
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages)
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    DDC: 962.9
    RVK:
    LB 49518
    RVK:
    MI 13082
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    MI 18082
    Keywords: Geschichte 1840-2010 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Chiefdoms / South Sudan / History ; Häuptling ; Traditionale Gesellschaft ; Kommunalpolitik ; South Sudan / History ; South Sudan / Politics and government ; Staat Südsudan ; Staat Südsudan ; Kommunalpolitik ; Häuptling ; Traditionale Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1840-2010
    Abstract: South Sudan became Africa's newest nation in 2011, following decades of armed conflict. Chiefs - or 'traditional authorities' - became a particular focus of attention during the international relief effort and post-war reconstruction and state-building. But 'traditional' authority in South Sudan has been much misunderstood. Institutions of chiefship were created during the colonial period but originated out of a much longer process of dealing with predatory external forces. This book addresses a significant paradox in African studies more widely: if chiefs were the product of colonial states, why have they survived or revived in recent decades? By examining the long-term history of chiefship in the vicinity of three towns, the book also argues for a new approach to the history of towns in South Sudan. Towns have previously been analysed as the loci of alien state power, yet the book demonstrates that these government centres formed an expanding urban frontier, on which people actively sought knowledge and resources of the state. Chiefs mediated relations on and across this frontier, and in the process chiefship became central to constituting both the state and local communities. Cherry Leonardi is a Lecturer in African History at the University of Durham, a former course director of the Rift Valley Institute's Sudan course, and a member of the council of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. From zariba to merkaz : the creation of the nodal state frontier, c. 1840-1920. Frontier societies and the political economy of knowledge in the nineteenth century -- Colonial frontiers and the emergence of government chiefs, c. 1900-1920 -- Part 2. From makama to mejlis : the making of chiefship and the local state, 1920s-1950s. Constituting the urban frontier : chiefship and the colonial labour economy, 1920s-1940s -- Claiming rights and guarantees : chiefs' courts and state justice, c. 1900-1956 -- Containing the frontier : the tensions of territorial chiefdoms, 1930s-1950s -- Uncertainty on the urban frontier : chiefs and the politics of Sudanese independence, 1946-1958 -- Part 3. From malakiya to medina : the fluctuating expansion of the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010. Trading knowledge : chiefship, local elites and the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010 -- Regulating depredation : chiefs and the military, 1963-2005 -- Reprising 'tradition' : the mutual production of community and state in the twenty-first century -- Knowing the system : judicial pluralism and discursive legalism in the interim period, 2005-2010
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  • 4
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    The killing trap : genocide in the twentieth century (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511491023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 461 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 304.6630904
    RVK:
    MK 3400
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    NK 1300
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    NQ 2360
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    PR 2210
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Genocide ; Genocide / History / 20th century ; Völkermord ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Völkermord ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: The Killing Trap, first published in 2005, offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary considerations -- Purposes of the book -- The role of theory -- Research strategy -- Plan of the book -- 2. Case selection -- Excluded cases -- Three cases of genocide -- pt. II. Explaining perpetrators : theoretical foundations -- 3. Continuity and validation -- Continuity of the killing in three cases -- Validation -- 4. Prologue to theory -- Rational choice -- Utopianism -- Two historical cases -- 5. A theoretical framework -- The domain of losses and state insecurity -- Three types of realpolitik -- Realpolitik, property, and loss compensation -- The domain of losses, risk, and loss compensation -- Altruistic punishment -- pt. III. The theory applied -- 6. Threat of numbers, realpolitik, and ethnic cleansing -- The Irish famine -- Germans and Jews in Poland -- Muslims in Bosnia -- 7. Realpolitik and loss -- The Holocaust -- The Armenians -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 8. The need for unity and altruistic punishment -- Germany -- The Ottoman empire -- Rwanda -- Himmler and the necessity for cooperation -- Conclusion -- 9. Perpetrating states -- Italy : a genocidal trajectory -- Vichy France -- Romania
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. IV. Victim vulnerability : explaining magnitude and manner of dying -- 10. Raison d'état, raison d'église -- The Armenians -- The Holocaust -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 11. Cynical realpolitik and the unwanted -- The United States -- Great Britain and commonwealth countries -- Impact on the Holocaust -- 12. High victimization : the role of realpolitik -- Hungary -- The Netherlands -- 13. Inequality and absence of identification -- Inequality and absence of identification between perpetrators and victims -- Inequality and absence of identification among the victims -- On the possibilities of survival -- Equality and identification between Jews and non-Jews -- 14. On the possibility of revolt and altruistic punishment -- Łódź -- Warsaw -- Vilna -- Comparisons among the three ghettos -- Conclusion : the role of altruistic punishment
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. V. Exceptions -- 15. A dog of a different nature : the Cambodian politicide -- Variation in victimization -- Genocide of the Vietnamese -- The communist models -- Purges -- Summary comparisons -- 16. Dogs that didn't bark I : realpolitik and the absence of loss -- Bulgaria -- Finland -- Comparisons -- 17. Dogs that didn't bark II : affinity and vulnerability reduction -- Affinity and genocide -- Greeks in the Ottoman empire -- Jews in Eastern Europe -- Poland at the time of the Partitions -- Britain and Ireland -- Israel and intifada II -- The impact of war -- pt. VI. Conclusion -- 18. Findings, consequences, and prevention -- Similarities and differences -- Consequences of genocide -- Genocide prevention and the role of democracy -- Validation -- Coda
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511491023
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    Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139170994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 84 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 11
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    DDC: 304.8/094/09034
    RVK:
    LB 56005
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    NP 1300
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    NW 2200
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    NW 2250
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    QU 400
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    QV 224
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    RC 10594
    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Geschichte 1815 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Soziale Probleme ; Auswanderung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Europa ; Europe / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; Europa ; Europa ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Soziale Probleme ; Geschichte 1815 ; USA ; Wirtschaftliche Lage
    Abstract: Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139170994
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    The retreat of scientific racism : changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8
    RVK:
    MC 7400
    RVK:
    MS 3530
    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945
    Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Anthropology , Constructing a British identity , Colors into races , A transition to modern British anthropology , The founding fathers , Mummies, bones and stones , The shift in British archaeology , A British glimpse at race relations , American diversity , Haunted sentinels , European skulls and the primitive mind , The Boasians , American physical anthropology , The politics of coexistence , Dionysia in the Pacific , Biology , In search of a biology of race , NewGenics , The statistician's fable , Race crossing in Jamaica , A Canadian in London: rigid Reginald Ruggles Gates , The limit of traditional reform , A racist liberal: Julian Huxley's early years , Herbert Spencer Jennings and progressive eugenics , A conservative critique: Raymond Pearl , Bridging race formalism and population genetics , Mitigating racial differences , Lancelot Hogben , "Africa view"--Huxley's changing perspectives , J.B.S. Haldane: a defiant aristocrat , Medicine and eugenics: expanding the environment , Eugenics reformed , Politics , Confronting racism: scientists as politicians , 1933--Early hesitations , Britain--Race and Culture Committee , We Europeans , The American scene , An international interlude , The Paris Congress , The population committee , Out of the closet
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511558351
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    Family forms in historic Europe (1983)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511897535
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 606 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 306.8/5/094
    RVK:
    LB 41005
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    MS 1900
    RVK:
    NW 8150
    Keywords: Geschichte 800-1970 ; Geschichte ; Families / Europe / History ; Households / Europe / History ; Sozialgeschichte ; Familiensoziologie ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Familie ; Sozialgeschichte ; Europa ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Familie ; Geschichte 800-1970 ; Familiensoziologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The family forms of historic Europe have been fascinating in their variety. Their importance for the historical development of our continent would be difficult to exaggerate; for our relationship with the peoples of the other continents of the world as well. This book is an attempt to recover the different familial systems and compare them with one another. The studies range from Russia, Poland, Hungary and Austria to Scandinavia, Flanders and Britain. All the influences which have affected the character and composition of European households are taken into account. The analysis covers their function as productive work groups, in the procreation and bringing up of children, and in the support of the elderly, and their relationship with the wider society and its norms along with its political organization, central and local. Claims that inheritance customs and inheritance practice and the occupation of the household head exerted a powerful influence on the size and composition of households are subjected to rigorous and systematic investigation
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