In The Invention of Order, Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, gender as well as understandings of global modernity.
This book provides a thorough and panoramic exploration of dialectics, presenting it as both a mode of thought and a method of inquiry deeply embedded in the history of human thought.
Health Care in the European Community (1975) analyses the finance and provision of health care in the nine member countries of the European Economic Community.
The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women.
This innovative take on construction toys explores the development and use of building-inspired playthings between 1830 and 1940 as they became the educational toys par excellence for industrialised and industrialising societies in Europe and elsewhere.
ENGLiberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seemed relatively secure.
Antje Doberer-Bey, 1946 in Chile geboren und dort aufgewachsen, reflektiert ausgehend vom elterlichen Verschweigen der Verstrickungen in den Nationalsozialismus ihre eigene Familiengeschichte.
Continuity and Change in European Society (1974) surveys the political and social development of France, Germany and Italy against the background of a wider Europe, showing the complex relationship between political change and social continuity.
In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle, Sylvia Hoffert calls on a particularly rich collection of primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, census data, court documents, church records, and psychiatric hospital logs, all relating to Hillsborough, North Carolina, to argue that gossip and rumor were central to the formation of interpersonal relationships and an integral part of small-town life in the antebellum South.
OSTFRONT 1943Teil 2: Der Suden im Jahr 1943: Nochmalige Stabilisierung nach Stalingrad & der Ruckzug aus dem KaukasusDer Winter 1942/43 markierte einen tiefen Einschnitt im Verlauf des deutsch-sowjetischen Krieges.
This monograph brings into focus the presence and voices of Romanian-Americans in the United States by examining the role of voluntary associations in shaping identity and community life during the first four decades of the 20th century.
This monograph brings into focus the presence and voices of Romanian-Americans in the United States by examining the role of voluntary associations in shaping identity and community life during the first four decades of the 20th century.
This book is an examination of the globalization of the Yijing from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, with a special focus on the Yijing encounters with world religions and thoughts over the past centuries.
ENGThe Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon.
In Sternstunden der Menschheit zeichnet Stefan Zweig in zwolf meisterhaften Miniaturen jene Augenblicke nach, in denen sich das Schicksal der Welt fur immer veranderte.
With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicit ways of framing the crisis.
Der Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie war auch fur die Weinkultur in Mitteleuropa eine Zasur: Nach 1918 zerschnitten staatliche Grenzen zusammenhangende Anbaugebiete, politische Umwalzungen zogen die Weinwirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft, die Umstellung auf neuzeitliche Weinbaumethoden kam nur langsam voran.
ENGThis incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of development or rationalization have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence.
In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle, Sylvia Hoffert calls on a particularly rich collection of primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, census data, court documents, church records, and psychiatric hospital logs, all relating to Hillsborough, North Carolina, to argue that gossip and rumor were central to the formation of interpersonal relationships and an integral part of small-town life in the antebellum South.
De 1900 a 1914, Charles Peguy, fondateur et animateur des Cahiers de la Quinzaine, entretient regulierement les abonnes de sa revue de ses lectures des classiques.
Constantinople, IVe siecle : face aux recompositions politiques et aux cultes concurrents, comment asseoir son autorite religieuse et affirmer la valeur de l'initiation chretienne ?
