Social groups, communities and identities

Aracy de Carvalho (1908-2011), 'Righteous Among the Nations', saved German Jews by facilitating their emigration to Brazil in the late 1930s, while working at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Barbie's role in shaping societal perceptions of identity, gender, race, and sexuality.

Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art.

This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury.

This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury.

Partnerschaften und Ehen sind heute mit hohen Anforderungen konfrontiert, das Beziehungsleben wird mit Erwartungen besetzt, die von realen Partnern kaum einzulösen sind.

Theodor Eicke, gescheiterter Unterzahlmeister des Ersten Weltkriegs, wurde erst zum Kommandanten des KZ Dachau, dann zu einem der fanatischsten SS-Generale, ehe er 1943 den Tod an der Ostfront fand.

Celebrate the Achievements .

Wie vereinbaren Muslime die Ansprüche einer zeitgemäßen, modernen Lebensführung in der deutschen Gesellschaft mit dem Islam?

This book focuses on the lived realities of disabled mothers to examine how they navigate their multiple competing responsibilities and identities.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly one million Russian-speaking Jews have settled in Israel, reshaping its cultural, social, and political fabric.

This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today.

This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today.

This book analyses the problems caused by relying on tort law mechanisms to protect tangible property interests in the common law and suggests a new way of thinking to rectify these issues.

This book examines the leadership of Gerardo Salvador Merino, the chief director of the Sindicatos, fascist-controlled unions under the Franco Regime, and his plan to send 100,000 volunteer Spanish workers to Nazi Germany.

Vegan Witchcraft is the first book to blend theories of animal rights, feminism, and modern witchcraft in pursuit of total liberation.

At a time of increasing right-wing populism, Women in Populist Rhetoric examines the relationship between populist rhetoric and the real social changes that affect women and how populists gain prominence through the support they receive.

This book uncovers the extent to which the Gehlen Organization, the intelligence organization created by the United States at the end of World War Two, recruited and used controversial individuals who had been heavily involved in the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

How can designers address the emergent self-organizing nature of complex urban environments?

One of the lesser-known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast.

This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917-1991).

This book redefines feminist discourse by exploring the intersections of decolonial feminisms across various geopolitical contexts, emphasising the integration of local and indigenous narratives that challenge colonial epistemologies.

Religiös beeinflusste, häufig gewaltsame Auseinandersetzungen prägen das Bild unserer Tage - Tendenz steigend!

'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial Times What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India?

Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar examines the long-term social, spatial, and material impacts of the Bodhgaya Land Movement (BGLM) of the 1970s and 1980s on its participants and beneficiaries.

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Over the past two decades, Romanian immigration to the Italian Peninsula has grown to nearly a quarter of the country’s foreign population, making it the largest Romanian diaspora in the world.

Nicht ob die katholische Kirche das Recht auf Religionsfreiheit anzuerkennen hat, ist seit der bahnbrechenden Erklärung Dignitatis humanae des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils die Frage, sondern was für sie aus der Anerkennung dieses Menschenrechts folgt.

Die Autorin vergleicht die Handlungsmöglichkeiten und Sprechweisen im ländlich geprägten Umfeld der drei Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen, Esterwegen und Moringen.

This book provides an analysis of urban development in Vietnam with a focus on activities carried out by ordinary people.

Over the past two decades, Romanian immigration to the Italian Peninsula has grown to nearly a quarter of the country’s foreign population, making it the largest Romanian diaspora in the world.

This book offers an ontological study of Islamism and its transformation with a specific focus on Turkiye, Bangladesh, and Senegal.

Die Geschichte der Argeaden, der Dynastie Alexanders des Großen, ist schillernd.

Extraordinarily little has been written about how women who survived the Holocaust dealt with life after the war, with the trauma of their immediate pasts, and with the debilitating sense of alienation they felt in a changed world.