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    ISBN: 9781009217897 , 9781009217880
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 412 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies in legal history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kuskowski, Ada, 1978 - Vernacular law
    DDC: 340.5/0944
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    Keywords: Customary law History To 1500 ; Frankreich ; Gewohnheitsrecht ; Rechtsanthropologie ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: "Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions this transformation - in the form of custom from unwritten to written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common vernacular - had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known as customary law"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : vernacular writing and the transformation of customary law in Medieval France -- What is custom? Concept and literary practice -- Composing customary law as a vernacular law -- Writing a 'iusiusiusius non scriptum' : writtenness, memory and change' -- Uneasy jurisdictions : lay and ecclesiastical law -- Roman law, authority and creative citation -- Custom in lawbooks and records of legal practice -- Dynamic text : dialectic, manuscript culture and customary law -- Implications of circulating text : crafting a French Common Law -- Conclusion : lasting model and professional community.
    Note: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Cornell University, 2013) issued under title: Writing custom : juristic imagination and the composition of customary law in thirteenth-century France , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108985093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 262 pages)
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Collective memory ; Memory Social aspects ; Ethnopsychology ; Political culture
    Abstract: Collective memory can make and break political culture around the world. Representations and reinterpretations of the past intersect with actions that shape the future. A nation's political culture emerges from complex layers of institutional and individual responses to historical events. Society changes and is changed by these layers of memory over time. Understanding them gives us insight into where we are today. Encompassing examples from colonization and decolonization, revolving around the critical junctures of the world wars, this book illustrates how collective memory is produced and organized, through commemoration, through monuments, and through individuals sharing stories. Using concrete examples from around the world, James H. Liu shows how different disciplines can come together through shared concepts like narratives and generational memories to provide mutually enriching perspectives on how political culture is made, and how it changes.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009047449
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 312 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in European history
    DDC: 304.809498
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Deutsche ; Rumäniendeutsche ; Germans History 20th century ; Romanians History 20th century ; Germans History 20th century ; Rumänien
    Abstract: Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely unknown. This east-central European minority negotiated their standing in a difficult new European order after 1918, changing from uneasy supporters of Romania, to zealous Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans. Migrating Memories is the first comprehensive study in English of Romanian Germans and follows their stories as they move across borders and between regimes, revealing a very European experience of migration, minorities, and memories in modern Europe. After 1945, Romanian Germans struggled to make sense of their lives during the Cold War at a time when the community began to fracture and fragment. The Revolutions of 1989 seemed to mark the end of the German community in Romania, but instead Romanian Germans repositioned themselves as transnational European bridge-builders, staking out new claims in a fast-changing world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009039130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 292 pages)
    DDC: 980
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Mochė ; Inka ; Military art and science History To 500 ; Südamerika ; Andenstaaten ; Chimú ; Andes Region Antiquities ; Andes Region Politics and government ; Andes Region Civilization
    Abstract: Warfare in the pre-Columbian Andes took on many forms, from inter-village raids to campaigns of conquest. Andean societies also created spectacular performances and artwork alluding to war - acts of symbolism that worked as political rhetoric while drawing on ancient beliefs about supernatural beings, warriors, and the dead. In this book, Elizabeth Arkush disentangles Andean warfare from Andean war-related spectacle and offers insights into how both evolved over time. Synthesizing the rich archaeological record of fortifications, skeletal injury, and material evidence, she presents fresh visions of war and politics among the Moche, Chimú, Inca, and pre-Inca societies of the conflict-ridden Andean highlands. The changing configurations of Andean power and violence serve as case studies to illustrate a sophisticated general model of the different forms of warfare in pre-modern societies. Arkush's book makes the complex pre-history of Andean warfare accessible by providing a birds-eye view of its major patterns and contrasts.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316556177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 342 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history
    DDC: 020.94
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    Keywords: Information science History ; Printing History ; Written communication History ; Information resources management History ; Information organization History ; Papermaking History ; Europe Intellectual life
    Abstract: This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108765961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Nachkriegszeit ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Probleme ; USA
    Abstract: The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108863230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 215 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 59
    DDC: 303.60835
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-1958 ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Jugend ; Politischer Protest ; Libanon
    Abstract: By the mid-twentieth century, youth movements around the globe ruled the streets. In Lebanon, young people in these groups attended lectures, sang songs, and participated in sporting events; their music tastes, clothing choices and routine activities shaped their identities. Yet scholars of modern Lebanon often focus exclusively on the sectarian makeup and violent behaviors of these socio-political groupings, obscuring the youth cultures that they forged. Using unique sources to highlight the daily lives of the young men and women of Lebanon's youth politics, Dylan Baun traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations from the 1920s to 1950s to reveal how these youth movements played significant roles in the making of the modern Middle East. Outlining how youth movements established a distinct type of politics and populism, Winning Lebanon reveals that these groups both encouraged the political socialization of different types of youth, and, through their attempts to 'win' Lebanon - physically and metaphorically - around the 1958 War, helped produce sectarian violence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108623711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 936 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 956.6/7
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kurden ; Kurds History ; Kurds Politics and government ; Kurdistan History ; Middle East Ethnic relations ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316275412
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 285 pages)
    DDC: 305.235097809/04
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    Keywords: Kindersoziologie
    Abstract: Children are the future. Or so we like to tell ourselves. In the wake of the Second World War, Americans took this notion to heart. Confronted by both unprecedented risks and unprecedented opportunities, they elevated and perhaps exaggerated the significance of children for the survival of the human race. Razing Kids analyzes the relationship between the postwar demographic explosion and the birth of postwar ecology. In the American West, especially, workers, policymakers, and reformers interwove hopes for youth, environment, and the future. They linked their anxieties over children to their fears of environmental risk as they debated the architecture of wartime playgrounds, planned housing developments and the impact of radioactive particles released from distant hinterlands. They obsessed over how riot-riddled cities, War on Poverty era rural work camps and pesticide-laden agricultural valleys would affect children. Nervous about the world they were making, their hopes and fears reshaped postwar debates about what constituted the social and environmental good.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781108835985
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sarkar, Suvobrata Let there be light
    DDC: 338.0954/1409041
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    Keywords: 1880-1945 ; Elektrizitätspolitik ; Unternehmer ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; West Bengal ; Electrification Economic aspects ; History ; Electrical engineering History ; Industrialization History ; Technology and state History ; Bengal (India) History ; Bengalen ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Elektrizität ; Entrepreneurship ; Geschichte 1880-1945
    Abstract: "Social and economic history of science and technology has emerged as a major theme of interdisciplinary research in South Asian history since the late 1990s. This book contributes to the field by exploring the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance with a focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945. The arrival of electricity necessitated the introduction of new institutional facilities and with the growth of technological systems, the culture of entrepreneurship grew - there was demand for trained manpower to handle machines and need for better educational facilities. Taking a broad view of the subject, the narrative is built around the historical experiences of the local Bengali-speaking population in colonial Bengal. While recent research on science and technology under the colonial rule tends to focus on elite actors-both European and Indian - it is important to identify people, mostly Indians, who excelled in the field of technology, without prior academic training in engineering or science. This monograph brings back focus on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West. Adopting the social constructionist model, it presents an amalgamation of archival and Indian language source materials to delineate the diverse nature of the appropriation of technological ideas into Indian culture."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Woodbridge : The Boydell Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787449411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 820.9/351
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    Abstract: Detailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the real "Robin Hood."
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048541942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (236 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Premodern health, disease and disability
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    DDC: 641.3/094
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    Abstract: What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected to be nurturers, healers, and the primary locus of food provisioning for families, especially when considering the lower social classes which are typically overlooked in the written record. What can we know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages and how does the written medical tradition interact with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
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    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108765404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 261 pages)
    Series Statement: Ideas in context
    DDC: 305.3094
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    Keywords: Frau ; Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Renaissance ; Europa
    Abstract: This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316841211
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 266 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to Asian history
    DDC: 909/.04951
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    Abstract: Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. Steven B. Miles places Chinese migrants and their families at the center of his narrative through a series of engaging case studies taking readers from the heart of Ming China to the global property markets of the twenty-first century. The focus on individual migrants and their descendants reveals the ways in which the 'Chinese diaspora' has consisted of distinct paths of migration from specific emigrant communities to targeted destinations both within China and abroad. This is essential reading for those interested in the history of the Chinese diaspora and the overseas Chinese, and for those interested in the role of migration in the making of the modern world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316536087
    Language: English , Latin
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 345 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    DDC: 305.40937
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 100 v. Chr.-300 ; Frau ; Römisches Reich ; Quelle
    Note: Kommentare zu Inschriften veröffentlicht im CIL , Literaturverzeichnis Seite 331-341
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    Woodbridge : The Boydell Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787449237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Royal Armouries research series volume I
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 940.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1100-1600 ; Turnier ; Kultur ; Europa
    Abstract: Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108860161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.22440956
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650 v. Chr.-1200 v. Chr. ; Hethiter ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
    Abstract: Why did the Anatolians remain illiterate for so long, although surrounded by people using script? Why and how did they eventually adopt the cuneiform writing system and why did they still invent a second, hieroglyphic script of their own? What did and didn't they write down and what role did Hittite literature, the oldest known literature in any Indo-European language, play? These and many other questions on scribal culture are addressed in this first, comprehensive book on writing, reading, script usage, and literacy in the Hittite kingdom (c.1650-1200 BC). It describes the rise and fall of literacy and literature in Hittite Anatolia in the wider context of its political, economic, and intellectual history.
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    Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787444300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Western Africa series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African women in the Atlantic world
    DDC: 305.42096
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1660-1880 ; Schwarze Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Atlantischer Raum ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787444911
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 316 pages)
    DDC: 355.10941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1560-1639 ; Militär ; Identität ; Selbstbild ; Fremdbild ; Literatur ; England ; Irland ; Konferenzschrift 2015
    Abstract: An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108656757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 353 pages)
    DDC: 933
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Römisches Reich ; Palästina
    Abstract: Anthony Keddie investigates the changing dynamics of class and power at a critical place and time in the history of Judaism and Christianity - Palestine during its earliest phases of incorporation into the Roman Empire (63 BCE-70 CE). He identifies institutions pertaining to civic administration, taxation, agricultural tenancy, and the Jerusalem Temple as sources of an unequal distribution of economic, political, and ideological power. Through careful analysis of a wide range of literary, documentary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, including the most recent discoveries, Keddie complicates conventional understandings of class relations as either antagonistic or harmonious. He demonstrates how elites facilitated institutional changes that repositioned non-elites within new, and sometimes more precarious, relations with privileged classes, but did not typically worsen their economic conditions. These socioeconomic shifts did, however, instigate changing class dispositions. Judaean elites and non-elites increasingly distinguished themselves from the other, through material culture such as tableware, clothing, and tombs.
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    ISBN: 9781316941072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/244049509021
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    Keywords: Geschichte 400-750 ; Außenpolitik ; Kulturaustausch ; Fränkisches Reich ; Mittelmeerraum ; Konferenzschrift 17.12.2014-20.12.2014
    Abstract: From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member communities. By bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume examines the Merovingian world's Mediterranean connections. The Franks' cultural horizons spanned not only the Latin-speaking world, but also the Byzantine Empire, northern Europe, Sassanid Persia, and, after the seventh century, a quickly ascendant Islamic culture. Traces of a constant movement of people and cultural artefacts through this world are ubiquitous. As simultaneous consumers, adapters, and disseminators of culture, the degree to which the Merovingian kingdoms were thought to engage with their neighbours is re-evaluated as this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new perspectives on Merovingian wide-ranging relations.
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    Rochester, New York : Camden House | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787445628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and gender in German studies
    DDC: 305.420943
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1700-2019 ; Frau ; Macht ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Aktivismus ; Politikerin ; Politische Führung ; Deutsch ; Literatur ; Weibliche Führungskraft ; Widerstand ; Deutschland ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316941256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (395 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 81
    DDC: 306.3/64
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Archäobiologie ; Paläanthropologie ; Wildbeuter ; Anpassung ; Resilienz
    Abstract: Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production, which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters in this volume explore the different way that hunter-gatherer societies around the world adapted to changing social and ecological circumstances while still maintaining a predominantly hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Couched specifically with the framework of resilience theory, the authors use contextualized bioarchaeological analyses of health, diet, mobility, and funerary practices to explore how hunter-gatherers responded to challenges and actively resisted change that diminished the core of their social identity and worldview.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108227483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 852 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/62097
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    Abstract: This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and ...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316421826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to Asian history
    DDC: 306.0951
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1949-1976 ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Situation ; China
    Abstract: When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. The Chinese people made great efforts towards modernization and social change in this period of transition, but they also experienced traumatic setbacks. Covering the period 1949 to 1976 and then tracing the legacy of the Mao era through the 1980s, Felix Wemheuer focuses on questions of class, gender, ethnicity, and the urban-rural divide in this new social history of Maoist China. He analyzes the experiences of a range of social groups under Communist rule - workers, peasants, local cadres, intellectuals, 'ethnic minorities', the old elites, men and women. To understand this tumultuous period, he argues, we must recognize the many complex challenges facing the People's Republic. But we must not lose sight of the human suffering and political terror that, for many now ageing quietly across China, remain the period's abiding memory.
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    ISBN: 9781108556279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 425 pages)
    DDC: 306.815/094
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alleinstehender ; Römisches Reich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of single men and women in the Roman world, from the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity and covering virtually all periods of the ancient Mediterranean. It asks how singleness was defined and for what reasons people might find themselves unmarried. While marriage was generally favoured by philosophers and legislators, with the arguments against largely confined to genres like satire and comedy, the advent of Christianity brought about a more complex range of thinking regarding its desirability. Demographic, archaeological and socio-economic perspectives are considered, and in particular the relationship of singleness to the Roman household and family structures. The volume concludes by introducing a number of comparative perspectives, drawn from the early Islamic world and from other parts of Europe down to and including the nineteenth century, in order to highlight possibilities for the Roman world.
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    ISBN: 9781108616324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 345 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/6209730904
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklavenaufstand ; USA ; Atlantikküste
    Abstract: In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus the Captain, one passenger, and most of the captives. Nineteen rebels had seized the US slave ship en route and steered it to the British Bahamas where the slaves gained their liberty. Drawing upon a sweeping array of previously unexamined state, federal, and British colonial sources, Rebellious Passage examines the neglected maritime dimensions of the extensive US slave trade and slave revolt. The focus on south-to-south self-emancipators at sea differs from the familiar narrative of south-to-north fugitive slaves over land. Moreover, a broader hemispheric framework of clashing slavery and antislavery empires replaces an emphasis on US antebellum sectional rivalry. Written with verve and commitment, Rebellious Passage chronicles the first comprehensive history of the ship revolt, its consequences, and its relevance to global modern slavery.
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    ISBN: 9781108539654
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 246 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in stratification economics : economics and social identity
    DDC: 306.85/0899607307620904
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Familie ; Mittelstand ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Religiöse Erziehung ; Staat Mississippi
    Abstract: Kings of Mississippi examines how a twentieth-century black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi. The book introduces seven generations of a farming family and provides an organic examination of how the family experienced life and economic challenges as one of few middle-class black families living and working alongside the many struggling black and white sharecroppers and farmers in Gallman, Mississippi. Family narratives and census data across time and a socio-ecological lens help assess how race, religion, education, and key employment options influenced economic and non-economic outcomes. Family voices explain how intangible beliefs fueled socioeconomic outcomes despite racial, gender, and economic stratification. The book also examines the effects of stratification changes across time, including: post-migration; inter- and intra-racial conflicts and compromises; and, strategic decisions and outcomes. The book provides an unexpected glimpse at how a family's ethos can foster upward mobility into the middle-class.
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    ISBN: 9781139225250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 272 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge classical studies
    DDC: 304.60938/5
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    Keywords: Demographie ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Athen ; Griechenland
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their conclusions have not been seriously challenged. Ben Akrigg reviews and assesses those methodologies and conclusions for the first time and thereby sets the historical demography of Athens on a firm footing. The main focus is on the economic impact of that demography, but new conclusions are presented which have profound implications for our understanding of Athenian society and culture. The book establishes that the Athenian population grew very large in the fifth century BC, before falling dramatically in the final three decades of that century. These changes had important immediate consequences but the city of the fourth century was shaped in fundamental ways by the demographic upheavals of its past.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048544677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 Seite)
    Series Statement: Heritage and memory studies
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    Keywords: Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden ; Geschichte 1990-2019 ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Nostalgie ; Deutschland
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108634311
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 561 pages)
    Series Statement: Trans-Saharan archaeology volume 2
    DDC: 393/.930961
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This ground-breaking volume explores a series of inter-related key themes in Saharan archaeology and history. Migration and identity formation can both be approached from the perspective of funerary archaeology, using the combined evidence of burial structures, specific rites and funerary material culture, and integrated methods of skeletal analysis including morphometrics, palaeopathology and isotopes. Burial traditions from various parts of the Sahara are compared and contrasted with those of the Nile Valley, the Maghreb and West Africa. Several chapters deal with the related evidence of human migration derived from linguistic study. The volume presents the state of the field of funerary archaeology in the Sahara and its neighbouring regions and sets the agenda for future research on mobility, migration and identity. It will be a seminal reference point for Mediterranean and African archaeologists, historians and anthropologists as well as archaeologists interested in burial and migration more broadly.
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    ISBN: 9781108672214
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
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    ISBN: 9781108556880
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 318 pages)
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    Abstract: The transition from Qajar rule in Iran (c.1789-1925) to that of rule by the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) set in motion a number of shifts in the political, social, and cultural realms. Focusing on masculinity in Iran, this book interweaves ideas and perceptions, laws, political movements, and men's practices to spotlight the role men as gendered subjects played in Iranian history. It shows how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from their late Qajar period counterparts. Furthermore, it highlights how the notion of being a "proper Iranian man" changed over these decades. Demonstrating how an emerging elite of western-educated men constructed and promoted a new model of masculinity as part of their struggle for political, social, and cultural hegemony, Balslev shows how this new model reflects wider developments in Iranian society at the time including the rise of Iranian nationalism and the country's modernisation process.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048540099
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (327 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Identität ; Römisches Reich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World is to cast light on the constructing and the maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and material sources, pointing out how widespread the close relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World as a whole is to point out the significance of the interaction between these three concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and how it remained an important question through the period from Augustus right into Late Antiquity.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020) , aPreface -- Tabula gratulatoria -- Introduction / Jussi Rantala -- Public agency of women in the later Roman world / Ville Vuolanto -- Religious agency and civic identity of women in ancient Ostia / Marja-Leena Hänninen -- The invisible women of Roman agrarian work and economy / Lena Larsson Lovén -- 'Show them that you are Marcus's daughter': the public role of imperial daughters in Second- and Third-century CE Rome / Sanna Joska -- Defining manliness, constructing identities: Alexander the Great mirroring an exemplary man in late Antiquity / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen -- 'At the age of nineteen' (RG1): life, longevity, and the formation of an Augustan past (43-38 BCE) / Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence -- Conflict and community: Anna of Carthage and Roman identity in Augustan poetry / Jussi Rantala -- Dress, identity, cultural memory: Copa and Ancilla Cauponae in context / Ria Berg -- The goddess and the town: memory, feast, and identity between Demeter and Saint Lucia / Marxiano Melotti -- Varius, multiplex, multiformis -- Greek, Roman, Panhellenic: multiple identities of the Hadrianic era and beyond / Arja Karivieri -- Mental hospitals in pre-modern society: antiquity, Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam / Christian Laes.
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    ISBN: 9781108683524
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    Edition: 4th ed.
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 41
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Europa
    Abstract: This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded throughout the book, while still preserving the clear thematic structure of previous editions. Thus readers will find expanded discussions of gendered racial hierarchies, migration, missionaries, and consumer goods. In addition, there is enhanced coverage of recent theoretical directions; the ideas, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people; early industrialization; women's learning, letter writing, and artistic activities; emotions and sentiments; single women and same-sex relations; masculinities; mixed-race and enslaved women; and the life course from birth to death. With geographically broad coverage, including Russia, Scandinavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula, this remains the leading text on women and gender in Europe in this period. Accompanying this essential reading is a completely revised website featuring extensive updated bibliographies, web links, and primary source material.
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    ISBN: 9781108592208
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hinchy, Jessica Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India
    DDC: 306.76/80954
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-1900 ; Hijras ; Britisch-Indien
    Abstract: In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras' feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras' 'extermination'. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.
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    ISBN: 1108427308 , 9781108427302 , 1108446051 , 9781108446051
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 24 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 305.8943504309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1961-1990 ; Türkischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration ; Zugehörigkeit ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung: "As the largest national group of guest workers in Germany, the Turks became a visible presence in local neighbourhoods and schools and had diverse social, cultural, and religious needs. Focussing on West Berlin, Sarah Thomsen Vierra explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children from the early days of their participation in the post-war guest worker program to the formation of multi-generational communities"--(Provided by publisher.)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Settling in at work -- At home in Almanya -- Around the neighborhood -- Learning to belong -- Making space for religion -- Belonging in reunified Germany -- Conclusion : integration as history, reciprocity, and space.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048542109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
    Edition: Third updated printing.
    DDC: 305.800944
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalismus ; Europa
    Abstract: A topical history of nationalism provides also a surprising perspective on Europe's contemporary identity politics...
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787441798
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 212 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1270-1400 ; Geschichte 1300-1600 ; Kulturaustausch ; Fernhandel ; England ; Italien
    Abstract: Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture on medieval Britain.
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    ISBN: 9781108551410
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    Series Statement: New approaches to economic and social history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zwart, Pim The origins of globalization
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Globalisierung ; Welthandel ; Weltwirtschaft
    Abstract: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization. The global flows of ships, people, money and commodities between 1500 and 1800 were substantial, and the re-alignment of production and distribution resulting from these connections had important consequences for demography, well-being, state formation and the long-term economic growth prospects of the societies involved in the newly created global economy. Whether early globalization had benign or malignant effects differed by region, but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early modern period.
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    ISBN: 9781107094345
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxvii, 504 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 26 cm
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Empires and exchanges in Eurasian late antiquity
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    Keywords: Intercultural communication ; Intercultural communication ; Intercultural communication ; China ; Middle East ; Rome ; Middle East History To 622 ; Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; China History 221 B.C.-960 A.D ; Middle East History ; To 622 ; Rome History ; Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; China History ; 221 B.C.-960 A.D ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Eurasien ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschichte 250-1000
    Abstract: "The second phase of Roman-steppe relations began during the latter part of the fourth century, when Hunnic groups entered the western steppes, and lasted through the early sixth century. This "Age of Attila" saw major shifts throughout Western Eurasia. Several decades after the battle of Adrianople, Huns moved into Europe and became unified early in the fifth century with a center of power in the Hungarian plain"--
    Abstract: Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas -- How the Steppes Became Byzantine: Rome and the Eurasian Nomads in Historical Perspective / Michael Maas -- The Relations between China and the Steppe from the Xiongnu to the Turk Empire / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia: Competing Cosmologies and Topographies of Power / Matthew P. Canepa -- Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia / Richard Lim -- Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road / Rong Xinjiang -- "Charismatic" Goods: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Cultural Contacts along the Silk Road in Late Antiquity / Peter Brown -- The Synthesis of the Tang Dynasty: The Culmination of China's Contacts and Communication with Eurasia, 310-755 CE -- Giusto traina central asia in the late roman mental map, second to sixth centuries / Valerie Hansen -- Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia, 500-1000 / Patrick J. Geary -- Northern Invaders: Migration and Conquest as Scholarly Topos in Eurasian History / Michael KulikowsKi -- Chinese and Inner Asian Perspectives on the History of the Northern Dynasties (386-589 CE) in Chinese Historiography / Luo Xin -- Xiongnu and Huns: Archaeological Perspectives on a Centuries-Old Debate about Identity and Migration / Ursula Brosseder -- Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes / Walter Pohl -- The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- The Spread of Buddhist Culture to China between the Third and Seventh Century / Max Deeg -- The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, and the Turks / Frantz Grenet -- Luminous Markers: Pearls and Royal Authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia / Joel Walker -- Byzantium's Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Turk Empire / Mark Whittow -- Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier: Offense, Defense, and Diplomatic Entente / Daniel T. Potts -- Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia: The Early Turk Empires / Michael R. Drompp -- The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia / Peter B. Golden -- Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- to Seventh-Century Turks / Soren Stark -- Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples / Ekaterina Nechaeva -- Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid: The Case of the Northern Wei / Andrew Eisenberg -- Ideological Interweaving in Eastern Eurasia: Simultaneous Kingship and Dynastic Competition, 580-755 / Jonathan Karam Skaff -- Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries / Naomi Standen -- Epilogue / Averil Cameron
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    ISBN: 9781787441767
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 275 pages)
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in East and Central Europe volume 19
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1906-1916 ; Stadtbevölkerung ; Soziale Situation ; Armut ; Social classes History 20th century ; Sociology, Urban History 20th century ; Social conflict History 20th century ; Russland ; Russia Social conditions 1801-1917 ; Russia History 1613-1917
    Abstract: Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society.
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    ISBN: 9781108381659
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages)
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    Keywords: King, Martin Luther ; Geschichte 1963-1972 ; Stadt ; Rassenunruhen ; Cambridge, Md. ; Baltimore, Md. ; York, Pa. ; USA
    Abstract: Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today.
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    ISBN: 9781108284172
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 268 pages)
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    Abstract: In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in the ancient world and power could be and often was, exercised through texts. Eckardt explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and her careful analysis of burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children interred with writing equipment, notably inkwells, in an effort to display status as well as age and gender. The volume offers a comprehensive review of recent approaches to literacy during Roman antiquity and adds a distinctive material turn to our understanding of this crucial skill and the embodied practices of its use. At the heart of this study lies the nature of the relationship between the material culture of writing and socio-cultural identities in the Roman period.
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    ISBN: 9781108381710
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heng, Geraldine The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1100-1500 ; Ethnische Identität ; Rasse ; Rassismus ; Antisemitismus ; Diskriminierung ; Rassentheorie ; Nationale Minderheit ; Europa
    Abstract: In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizable vocabulary of race emerged in the West. Analysing sources in a variety of media, including stories, maps, statuary, illustrations, architectural features, history, saints' lives, religious commentary, laws, political and social institutions, and literature, she argues that religion - so much in play again today - enabled the positing of fundamental differences among humans that created strategic essentialisms to mark off human groups and populations for racialized treatment. Her ground-breaking study also shows how race figured in the emergence of homo europaeus and the identity of Western Europe in this time.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108551199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 175 pages)
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Partei ; Äthiopien ; Uganda
    Abstract: Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges about what the role of media should be in political transitions, particularly when attempting to build a new state and balance a difficult legacy. Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa discusses how ideas, institutions and interests have shaped media systems in some of Africa's most complex state and nation-building projects. This timely book comes at a turbulent moment in global politics as waves of populist protests gain traction, and concerns continue to grow about fake news, social media echo chambers, and the increasing role of both traditional and new media in waging wars or influencing elections. Focusing on comparative cases from a historical perspective and the choices and ideas that informed the approaches of some of Africa's leaders, including guerrilla commanders Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, Nicole Stremlau offers a unique political insight into the development of contemporary media systems in Africa.
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    Cambridge : D. S. Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787440142
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: Nature and environment in the Middle Ages
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    Abstract: Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book riddle collection. It is frequently shown using, shaping and binding the physical world in which it lives. The riddles depict master and craftsman and use the familiar human world as a point of orientation within a vast, overwhelming cosmos. But the riddles also offer an eco-centric perspective, one that considers the natural origins of man-made products and the personal plight of useful human resources. This study offers fresh insights into the collection, investigating humanity's interaction with, and attitudes towards, the rest of the created world. Drawing on the principles of eco-criticism and eco-theology, the study considers the cultural and biblical influences on the depiction of nature in the collection, arguing that the texts engage with post-lapsarian issues of exploitation, suffering and mastery. Depictions of marginalised perspectives of sentient and non-sentient beings, such as trees, ore and oxen, are not just characteristic of the riddle genre, but are actively used to explore the point of view of the natural world and the impact humanity has on its non-human inhabitants. The author not only explores the riddles' resistance to anthropocentrism, but challenges our own tendency to read these enigmas from a human-centred perspective. Corinne Dale gained her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108140393
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 197 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1859 ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Schwarze ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Georgia ; USA
    Abstract: In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316946367
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 286 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1400-1870 ; Frau ; Frankreich
    Abstract: This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107300835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 421 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1500-1750 ; England
    Abstract: The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This volume serves two main purposes. Firstly, it summarises, in an accessible way, the principal findings of forty years of research on English society in this period, providing a comprehensive overview of social and cultural change in an era vital to the development of English social identities. Second, the chapters, by leading experts, also stimulate fresh thinking by not only taking stock of current knowledge but also extending it, identifying problems, proposing fresh interpretations and pointing to unexplored possibilities. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and general readers.
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316597590
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 400 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; Lebensmittel ; Gesellschaft ; Identität ; Archäologie ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Drawing on a range of social theorists, Hastorf provides a theoretical toolkit essential for any archaeologist interested in foodways. Studying the social life of food, this book engages with taste, practice, the meal and the body to discuss power, identity, gender and meaning that creates our world as it created past societies.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782049944
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 327 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1920 ; Witwe ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Europa
    Abstract: Widows are often viewed as being marginalised in society, struggling to make a living and in need of financial and other support. However, as this extensively researched and wide-ranging book reveals, widows did, in fact, engage very effectively in economic activity, often being in charge of families, households and commercial enterprises. The book outlines how extensive widowhood was; examines the provisions made for the support of widows, including in the form of marriage contracts, dowries and charitable assistance; and provides numerous examples of widows being economically active, paying their way and involving themselves energetically in society - one notable example being Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, who established a very successful company producing La Veuve Clicquot champagne. Using statistical analysis and individual case studies, the book contrasts the situation in different parts of Europe, and between rural and urban areas, and shows how provision for widows both in law and in practice evolved over time. Overall, it contributes a great deal to women's history, helping to correct the image that women were victims of male society, and to family history, showing that exceptions to the "ideal" nuclear family were very common. BEATRICE MORING is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. RICHARD WALL was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Essex.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894893
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 257 pages)
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    Keywords: Juden ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Gruppenidentität ; Europa
    Abstract: Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to Jewish life and the Jewish image in the world; Jews not only made money but spent money. This book is the first to investigate the intersection between consumption, identity, and Jewish history in Europe. It aims to examine the role and place of consumption within Jewish society and the ways consumerism generated and reinforced Jewish notions of belonging from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the new millennium. It shows how the advances of modernization and secularization in the modern period increased the importance of consumption in Jewish life, making it a significant factor in the process of redefining Jewish identity.
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    Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781898823544
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 160 pages)
    Edition: First English edition.
    Series Statement: Renaissance books Korean literature series volume 1
    Uniform Title: "Panch'ado" ro ttara kanŭn Chŏngjo ŭi Hwasŏng haengch'a.
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    Keywords: Processions Pictorial works History ; Pageants Pictorial works History ; History in art ; Processions in art ; Drawing, Korean Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910 ; Korea Pictorial works History 1637-1864 ; Korea Sources History 1637-1864 ; Hwasŏng-gun (Korea) History 18th century
    Abstract: Fully illustrated in colour, here is the first introduction in English to one of Korea's outstanding cultural assets - the banchado ('painting of the order of guests at a royal event') - relating to all those taking part (1800 people) in the eight-day royal procession to Hwaseong (Gyeonggi Province) organized by King Jeongjo in 1795 for the dual purpose of visiting his father's tomb and celebrating his mother's sixtieth birthday. The banchado is a fine example of the meticulous record-keeping of the period (known as uigwe - the subject-matter of this book being known as the Wonhaeng eulmyo jeongni uigwe) and the skills of the court artists at that time. In addition to the banchado illustrations, the Wonhaeng eulmyo jeongni uigwe contains extensive lists of all the participants in the procession, details of the workers and technicians involved, including their duties and wages. It even includes the different foods offered at meal-times, the quantity of ingredients and the costs. The author provides a full analysis of the context, planning, execution and significance of the event.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048527441
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Late antique and early Medieval Iberia 4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 500-700 ; Ethnische Identität ; Goten ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Romans ; Gauls ; Franks ; Spanien ; Franken ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048536504
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1815-2015 ; Technologie ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Engineering Social aspects ; History
    Abstract: Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316711040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 416 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Mittelmeerraum
    Abstract: In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself.
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316591284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 253 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4040902
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    Keywords: Geschichte 600-1500 ; Christentum ; Antijudaismus ; Antisemitismus ; Europa
    Abstract: From its earliest days, Christianity has viewed Judaism and Jews ambiguously. Given its roots within the Jewish community of first-century Palestine, there was much in Judaism that demanded Church admiration and praise; however, as Jews continued to resist Christian truth, there was also much that had to be condemned. Major Christian thinkers of antiquity - while disparaging their Jewish contemporaries for rejecting Christian truth - depicted the Jewish past and future in balanced terms, identifying both positives and negatives. Beginning at the end of the first millennium, an increasingly large Jewish community started to coalesce across rapidly developing northern Europe, becoming the object of intense popular animosity and radically negative popular imagery. The portrayals of the broad trajectory of Jewish history offered by major medieval European intellectual leaders became increasingly negative as well. The popular animosity and the negative intellectual formulations were bequeathed to the modern West, which had tragic consequences in the twentieth century. In this book, Robert Chazan traces the path that began as anti-Judaism, evolved into heightened medieval hatred and fear of Jews, and culminated in modern anti-Semitism.
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    New York, NY : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316442616
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 345 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Zirzensische Spiele ; Prozession ; Römisches Reich
    Abstract: The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an image of Rome as the senate and the people with their gods - a deeply traditional symbol of the city which was transformed during the empire when an imperial image was built on top of the republican one. In late antiquity, the procession fashioned a multiplicity of Romes: imperial, traditional, and Christian. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the webs of symbolic meanings in the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511979972
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 233 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 10
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Afrika
    Abstract: During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces students to many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as strong, resourceful, and willing to challenge governments and local traditions to protect themselves and their families. Understanding the tension between women's power and their oppression, between their strength and their vulnerability, offers a new lens for understanding the relationship between the state and society in the twentieth century.
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    Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782047032
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 262 pages)
    Series Statement: People, markets, goods : economies and societies in history v.7
    DDC: 306.3/62094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1680-1850 ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Slave trade History ; Slavery History ; Europa ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: 〈I〉Slavery Hinterland〈/I〉 explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US,Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects. FELIX BRAHM is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London.〈BR〉〈BR〉 EVE ROSENHAFT is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool.CONTRIBUTORS: Felix Brahm, Peter Haenger, Catherine Hall, Daniel P. Hopkins, Craig Koslofsky, Sarah Lentz, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Alexandra Robinson, Eve Rosenhaft, Anka Steffen, Klaus Weber, Roberto Zaugg...
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    ISBN: 9781139924641
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 324 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-2012 ; Andamanen und Nikobaren
    Abstract: This innovative, multidisciplinary exploration of the unique history of the Andaman Islands as a hunter-gatherer society, colonial penal colony, and state-engineered space of settlement and development ranges across the theoretical, conceptual and thematic concerns of history, anthropology and historical geography. Covering the entire period of post-settlement Andamans history, from the first (failed) British occupation of the Islands in the 1790s up to the year 2012, the authors examine imperial histories of expansion and colonization, decolonization, anti-colonialism and nationalism, Japanese occupation, independence and partition, migration, commemoration and contemporary issues of Indigenous welfare. New Histories of the Andaman Islands offers a new way of thinking about the history of South Asia, and will be thought-provoking reading for scholars of settler colonial societies in other contexts, as well as those engaged in studies of nationalism and postcolonial state formation, ecology, visual cultures and the politics of representation.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107709386
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Indianer ; Intellektueller ; Ethnische Identität ; Weiße ; Kultur ; USA
    Abstract: In the United States of America today, debates among, between, and within Indian nations continue to focus on how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. From the 1880s and into the 1930s, many Native people participated in similar debates as they confronted white cultural expectations regarding what it meant to be an Indian in modern American society. Using close readings of texts, images, and public performances, this book examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged long-held conceptions of Indian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Kiara M. Vigil traces how the narrative discourses created by these figures spurred wider discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States. Vigil demonstrates how these figures deployed aspects of Native American cultural practice to authenticate their status both as indigenous peoples and as citizens of the United States.
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    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580468879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 219 pages)
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in african history and the diaspora
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    Keywords: Geschichtsschreibung ; Historiography ; Äthiopien ; Eritrea ; Ethiopia Historiography ; Eritrea Historiography ; Ethiopia Intellectual life ; Eritrea Intellectual life
    Abstract: Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782044284
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1550-1885 ; Sklavenhandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Benin ; Ghana ; Togo ; Sklavenküste ; Europa
    Abstract: From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercial relations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic slave trade as well as the trade in ivory and agricultural produce: Hula, known to European traders as Great or Grand Popo (now in Benin) and Ge, known as Little Popo (now in Togo). Situated between the Gold Coast to the west and the eastern Slave Coast to the east, this region was an important supplier of provisions for Europeans and the enslaved Africans they purchased. Also, due to its position in the lagoon system, it facilitated communication along the coast between the trading companies' headquarters on the western Gold Coast and their factories on the eastern Slave Coast, particularly at Ouidah, the Slave Coast's major slave port. In the 19th century, when the trade at more established ports was disrupted by the men-of-war of the British anti-slave trade squadron, the western Slave Coast became a hot-spot of illegal slave trading. Providing a detailed reconstruction of political and commercial developments in the western Slave coast, including the transition from the slave trade to legitimate commerce, this book also reveals the region's position in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network and how cross-cultural partnerships were negotiated; the trade's impact on African coastal 'middlemen' communities; and the relative importance of local and global factors for the history of a region or community. Silke Strickrodt is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Historical Institute London. She is co-editor (with Robin Law and Suzanne Schwarz) of Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (James Currey, 2013).
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139644440
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 188 pages)
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    Keywords: Elite ; Mädchenbildung ; Sozialisation ; Eheschließung ; Römisches Reich
    Abstract: Elite women in the Roman world were often educated, socially prominent, and even relatively independent. Yet the social regime that ushered these same women into marriage and childbearing at an early age was remarkably restrictive. In the first book-length study of girlhood in the early Roman Empire, Lauren Caldwell investigates the reasons for this paradox. Through an examination of literary, legal, medical, and epigraphic sources, she identifies the social pressures that tended to overwhelm concerns about girls' individual health and well-being. In demonstrating how early marriage was driven by a variety of concerns, including the value placed on premarital virginity and paternal authority, this book enhances an understanding of the position of girls as they made the transition from childhood to womanhood.
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    ISBN: 9781139031189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 259 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
    DDC: 305.4098
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.
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    ISBN: 9781139942133
    Language: English , English
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    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
    Uniform Title: Domingos Sodré, um sacerdote africano.
    DDC: 306.3/62092
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    Keywords: Biografie ; Biografie
    Abstract: Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Brazil in the nineteenth century. After obtaining his freedom, Sodré became a slave owner himself, and in 1862 was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods from slaves in exchange for supposed 'witchcraft'. Using this incident as a catalyst, the book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, analyzing its double role as a refuge for blacks as well as a bridge between classes and ethnic groups (such as whites who attended African rituals and sought help from African diviners and medicine men). Ultimately, Divining Slavery explores the fluidity and relativity of conditions such as slavery and freedom, African and local religions, personal and collective experience and identities in the lives of Africans in the Brazilian diaspora.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316026991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 279 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/231059709014
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    Abstract: In this innovative study, Erica Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics concerning the peoples of the ancient southern frontier of China, the closest relations on the mainland to certain later Southeast Asian and Polynesian peoples. Through analysis of warring states and early Han textual sources, she shows how representations of Chinese and Yue identity invariably fed upon, and often grew out of, a two-way process of centering the self while de-centering the other. Examining rebellions, pivotal ruling figures from various Yue states, and key moments of Yue agency, Brindley demonstrates the complexities involved in identity formation and cultural hybridization in the ancient world and highlights the ancestry of cultures now associated with southern China and Vietnam.
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    ISBN: 9781139047944
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 204 pages)
    Series Statement: Key themes in ancient history
    DDC: 306.4/4/0937
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    Abstract: Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316144572
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 339 pages)
    Series Statement: Asian connections
    DDC: 303.48/25105
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    Abstract: In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with Japan, Korea, the Jurchen/Manchu and Mongol States, and must therefore be viewed both within the context of a regional framework, and as part of a global maritime network of trade. Drawing on a rich variety of Japanese, Korean, Manchu and Chinese archival sources, Rawski analyses the conflicts and regime changes that accompanied the region's integration into the world economy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern China and Northeast Asia places Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese relations within the context of northeast Asian geopolitics, surveying complex relations which continue to this day.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107707597
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 287 pages)
    DDC: 305.9/06970949709041
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1903-1945 ; Weltkrieg ; Veteran ; Jugoslawien ; Österreich
    Abstract: The Yugoslav state of the interwar period was a child of the Great European War. Its borders were superimposed onto a topography of conflict and killing, for it housed many war veterans who had served or fought in opposing armies (those of the Central Powers and the Entente) during the war. These veterans had been adversaries but after 1918 became fellow subjects of a single state, yet in many cases they carried into peace the divisions of the war years. John Paul Newman tells their story, showing how the South Slav state was unable to escape out of the shadow cast by the First World War. Newman reveals how the deep fracture left by war cut across the fragile states of 'New Europe' in the interwar period, worsening their many political and social problems and bringing the region into a new conflict at the end of the interwar period.
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    ISBN: 9781107706095
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 336 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
    DDC: 304.20951
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    Abstract: In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.
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    ISBN: 9781139629034
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 249 pages)
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    Abstract: This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to Egyptian gods. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy. Swetnam-Burland focuses on what these works meant to their owners and their viewers in their new settings, by exploring evidence for the artists who produced them and by examining their relationship to the contemporary literature that informed Roman perceptions of Egyptian history, customs, and myths.
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    ISBN: 9781139047586
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 351 pages)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Erdölpolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Saudi-Arabien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139034999
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    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stilwell, Sean Slavery and slaving in African history
    DDC: 306.3/62096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Afrika
    Abstract: This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, the invention of kinship, 'big men' and centralized states, the role of African economic production and exchange, the interaction of local structures of dependence with the external slave trades (transatlantic, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean), and the impact of colonialism on slavery in the twentieth century. He also provides an introduction to the central debates that have shaped current understanding of slavery in Africa. The book examines different forms of slavery that developed over time in Africa and introduces readers to the lives, work, and struggles of slaves themselves.
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    Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9788323389811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Edition: First edition.
    Series Statement: Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia 8
    DDC: 940.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 400-1700 ; Kulturaustausch ; Byzantinisches Reich ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume offers a collection of thirteen studies on the subject of intercultural contact and exchange in the medieval and early modern periods. The aim of the authors was to approach this phenomenon as broadly as possible, and the resulting volume is, therefore, a fusion of different approaches to a variety of historical sources and texts. Geographical areas that are often studied separately - including the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Latin West and Central Europe (especially Poland, Germany and Hungary) - are here presented together in order to allow for cross-period and cross-regional comparisons. The chronological scope is also unusually broad, beginning with Late Antiquity and encompassing both the Renaissance and its immediate aftermath.
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    ISBN: 9781139629270
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Sexualverhalten ; Sexualethik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politik ; Deutschland
    Abstract: This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural groupings, professional associations, and social movements; the emergence of new social groups, social milieus, and professions; the rapid development of the media and commercial entertainments; and so on. All parties involved understood it to be a debate over the most fundamental question of modern political life: how to secure both national power and individual freedom in the context of rapid social and cultural change.
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    ISBN: 9781139941617
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 262 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism 108
    DDC: 820.9/358
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    Abstract: Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles - as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse geographical and social locations inflect their representations of slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics, natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies, including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously unnoticed traces of the enslaved.
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    ISBN: 9781107270121
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 256 pages)
    Uniform Title: Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk.
    DDC: 937/.06083
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Jugend ; Römisches Reich
    Abstract: Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15–25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139061148
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1865 ; Sklaverei ; Befreiung ; Schwarze ; Emanzipation ; USA
    Abstract: For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies.
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    ISBN: 9781139024044
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 265 pages)
    Series Statement: Case studies in early societies
    DDC: 306.3/49
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    Abstract: The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. James A. Delle considers spatial phenomena ranging from the diachronic settlement pattern of the island as a whole to the organization of individual house and yard areas located within the villages of enslaved workers. Delle argues that a Marxist approach to landscape archaeology provides a powerful theoretical framework to understand how the built environment played a direct role in the negotiation of social relations in the colonial Caribbean.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107449343
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919 ; Schwarze ; Rassenunruhen ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: 1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.
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    ISBN: 9781107110236
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
    DDC: 306.3/620975
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    Abstract: This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters. The slaves' internal economy focused intense paternalist negotiation on a ground where categories of exchange - provision, gift, contraband, and commodity - were in constant flux. At once binding and alienating, these ties endured constant moral stresses and material manipulation by masters and slaves alike, galvanizing conflict and engendering complex new social relations on and off the plantation.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107110335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 295 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1848 - 1871 ; Geschichte 1848-1871 ; Ungarische Revolution ; Revolution ; Deutscher Flüchtling ; Ungarischer Flüchtling ; Exil
    Abstract: Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions. While exile is often presented as an individual challenge, Tóth studies its collective aspects in the realms of the family and of professional and social networks. Exploring the interconnectedness of these areas, she argues that although we often like to sharply distinguish between labor migration and exile, these categories were anything but stable after the revolutions of 1848–9; migration belonged to the personal narrative of the revolution for a broad section of the population. Moreover, discussions about exile and amnesty played a central role in formulating the legacy of the revolutions not only for the émigrés but for their social environment and, ultimately, the governments of the restoration.
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    ISBN: 9781139333672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 377 pages)
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Haitianische Revolution ; Kuba
    Abstract: During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent 'another Haiti' from happening in their own territory. Freedom's Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery. By creatively linking two stories - the story of the Haitian Revolution and that of the rise of Cuban slave society - that are usually told separately, Ada Ferrer sheds fresh light on both of these crucial moments in Caribbean and Atlantic history.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782042280
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 373 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1300-1500 ; Leibeigenschaft ; England ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Quelle
    Abstract: Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in England is centralto this "Transition Debate", because it transformed the lives of ordinary people and opened up the markets in land and labour. Yet, despite its historical importance, there has been no major survey or reassessment of decline of serfdom for decades. Consequently, the debate over its causes, and its legacy to early modern England, remains unresolved. This dazzling study provides an accessible and up-to-date survey of the decline of serfdom in England, applying a new methodology for establishing both its chronology and causes to thousands of court rolls from 38 manors located across the south Midlands and East Anglia. It presents a ground-breaking reassessment, challenging many of the traditional interpretations of the economy and society of late-medieval England, and, indeed, of the very nature of serfdom itself. Mark Bailey is High Master of St Paul's School, and Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He has published extensively on the economic and social history of England between c.1200 and c.1500, including Medieval Suffolk (2007).
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107706453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 250 pages)
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    Abstract: The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it culminated in disunion and war. Emotions from indignation to jealousy were inextricably embedded in antebellum understandings of morality, citizenship, and political affiliation. Their arousal in the context of political debates encouraged Northerners and Southerners alike to identify with antagonistic sectional communities and to view the conflicts between them as worth fighting over. Michael E. Woods synthesizes two schools of thought on Civil War causation: the fundamentalist, which foregrounds deep-rooted economic, cultural, and political conflict, and the revisionist, which stresses contingency, individual agency, and collective passion.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139198837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 265 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 306.3/6209676
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-1920 ; Sklaverei ; Freigelassener ; Emanzipation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Bewältigung ; Tansania ; Pemba
    Abstract: Examining the process of abolition on the island of Pemba off the East African coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island. By examining the social vulnerability of ex-slaves and the former slave-owning elite caused by the abolition order of 1897, this study argues that moments of resistance on Pemba reflected an effort to mitigate vulnerability rather than resist the hegemonic power of elites or the colonial state. As the meaning of the Swahili word heshima shifted from honour to respectability, individuals' reputations came under scrutiny and the Islamic kadhi and colonial courts became an integral location for interrogating reputations in the community. This study illustrates the ways in which former slaves used piety, reputation, gossip, education, kinship and witchcraft to negotiate the gap between emancipation and local notions of belonging.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139208444
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 pages)
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    Keywords: Symposion
    Abstract: The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances that offered persuasive understandings of the event and its participants. Sympotic representations thus communicated ideas which, set within broader cultural conversations, could possess a discursive edge. Hence, at the symposion, sympotic styles and identities might be promoted, critiqued and challenged. In the public imagination, the ethics of Greeks and foreigners might be interrogated and political attitudes intimated. Symposia might be suborned into historical narratives about struggles for power. And for philosophers, writing a Symposium was itself a rhetorical act. Investigating the symposion's discursive potential enhances understanding of how the Greeks experienced and conceptualized the symposion and demonstrates its contribution to the Greek thought world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139567190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 249 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 303.601/4
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    Abstract: This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion and endurance of contentious language. Beginning with the language of revolution developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it examines contentious language at work, in gender and race relations and in nationalist and ethnic movements. It closes with an examination of emotions in contentious politics, reflecting on the changes in political language since 9/11 and assessing the impact of religion and recent innovations in electronic communication on the language of politics.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139034739
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 396 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Gewohnheitsrecht ; Volksrechte ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; England
    Abstract: Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782041788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 272 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1930 ; Sklavenhandel ; Agrarhandel ; Afrika ; Atlantischer Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book presents a new perspective on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Western Africa itself, through its examination of the role of commercial agriculture. The idea of promoting the export of agricultural produce from Africa first became central to European thought in the context of the campaign to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the late eighteenth century. The eleven essays in this book explore this issue, re-appraising the links between slavery and colonialism and the rise of 'legitimate commerce' which marked the beginnings of economic 'modernity' in West Africa. The development of commercial agriculture in West Africa began with Danish attempts to establish plantations on the Gold Coast (Ghana) from 1788, followed by the British colony of Sierra Leone, after it was taken over by the Sierra Leone Company in 1791. The slave trade itself is also seen to have stimulated commercial agriculture in West Africa, to supply provisions for slave ships in the Middle Passage, and the experience of this trade in provisions may have facilitated the development of other export crops from the nineteenth century onwards. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists expected or hoped production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often tended to promote more extensive and intensive use of slave labour, so that the institution of slavery in Africa persisted into the early colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Institute of Historical Research, London.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139565806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 318 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2012 ; Die Linke ; Linksradikalismus ; Antisemitismus ; USA
    Abstract: Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Islam, from condemnation of its fierce antisemitism in the 1930s to recent apologies for jihad. Norwood discusses the far left's use of long-standing theological and economic antisemitic stereotypes that the far right also embraced. The study analyzes the far left's antipathy to Jewish culture, as well as its occasional efforts to promote it. He considers how early Marxist and Bolshevik paradigms continued to shape American far left views of Jewish identity, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139344333
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 223 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 127
    DDC: 306.874/3096761
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    Keywords: Geschichte 700-1900 ; Mutterschaft ; Uganda
    Abstract: This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511920653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Key themes in ancient history
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    Keywords: Raum ; Gesellschaft ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich
    Abstract: We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts, physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139507691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 349 pages)
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    Keywords: USA ; Geschichte 1861-1936 ; Progressismus ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the 'second Reconstruction' and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the American founders - and then Lincoln and the Republicans - returned to a long tradition of Anglo-American constitutional principles. During the Industrial Revolution, American political thinkers and actors gradually abandoned those principles for a set of modern ideas, initially called progressivism. The social crisis, culminating in the Great Depression, did not produce a Lincoln to return to the founders' principles, but rather a series of leaders who repudiated them. Since the New Deal, Americans have lived in a constitutional twilight, not having completely abandoned the natural-rights constitutionalism of the founders, nor embraced the entitlement-based welfare state of modern liberalism.
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    ISBN: 9781571138828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 259 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/24305
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Orientalismus ; Kultur ; Deutschland ; Mitteleuropa ; Osteuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition ofthe phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the "West," the manifold presence of the "East" in the Western world, indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of "Occident" and "Orient" as such.This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses -- of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to thepresent day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars, who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia, with representative chapters by senior German, Austrian, and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies. Contributors: Anil Bhatti, Michael Dusche, Johannes Feichtinger, Johann Heiss, James Hodkinson, Kerstin Jobst, Jon Keune, Todd Kontje, Margit Köves, Sarah Lemmen, Shaswati Mazumdar, Jyoti Sabarwal, Ulrike Stamm, John Walker. James Hodkinson is Associate Professor in German Studies at Warwick University. John Walker is Senior Lecturer in European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck College, University of London. Shaswati Mazumdar is Professor in German at the University of Delhi. Johannes Feichtinger is a Researcher at the österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107055155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 298 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1837 ; Arbeiterklasse ; Alltag ; Großbritannien ; Tagebuch ; Tagebuch
    Abstract: This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139198868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 352 pages)
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    Abstract: This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement.
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