Identitätsentwicklung in einer krisenhaften Spätmoderne: Aus der Sicht der Sozialpsychologie stellt sich die Frage, ob und wie in Gesellschaften 'ohne Projekt', ohne übergreifende, sinnstiftende 'Metaerzählungen', die Individuen noch kohärente Selbste bilden und bewahren könne.
War and economic power have been interwoven in the thought of scholars since the beginnings of economic science, and views on the role of war in the economy have shifted dramatically as the world order has changed.
Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art.
The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets, on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of fascism.
The area claimed by the British Empire as Western Australia was primarily colonized through two major thrusts: the development of the Swan River Colony to the southwest in 1829, and the 1863 movement of Australian born settlers to colonize the northwest region.
This book is an exploration of the concept of in-betweenness, as it occurs within the process of moving between the author's root culture and adopted culture, from her perspective as an immigrant creative arts therapist.
Despite the fact that the human life of the past cannot be understood without taking into account its ecological relationships, environmental studies are often marginalised in archaeology.
In der jungen Bundesrepublik leistete im Bundesjustizministerium eine große Zahl von Beamten Dienst, die tief in das Unrechtssystem des NS-Staates verstrickt gewesen waren und in ihrer Sacharbeit Spuren hinterlassen haben.
This book explores the border-transcending dimensions of public remembering by focussing on the triangular relationship between memory, monuments and migration.
Questions about the relationship between historical research and contemporary social and practical problems have posed a challenge to generations of historians, as well as to philosophers and theorists of history.
En este volumen Jacques Lafaye estudia el desarrollo de la historiografía desde la Antigüedad clásica hasta el siglo XIX, subrayando las condiciones de posibilidad que han dado lugar a las formas de entender la historicidad en las distintas épocas por las que ha atravesado Occidente.
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.
This book has re-visited two distinctive patterns, namely pottery and millet, the movement of both of which conflict with conventional narratives concerning prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchange.
Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social movements from 1848 to the present.
Die politische Geschichte des Mittelalters muss im Spannungsfeld zwischen fragmentierter Überlieferung, geschichtswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und modernen gesellschaftlichen Diskursen immer wieder neu geschrieben werden.
This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory.
Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H.
The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing.
This book presents six major texts and selected shorter writings by the social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English for the first time: Socialism Past and Present; The Social Doctrine of Anarchism; Social Liberalism or Collectivism?
