A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea.
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city.
The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union.
This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan.
This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a 'nomadic' pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics.
This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and maintain one of the world's most generous and inclusive welfare systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or conservative, rather than socialist dominated governments, for most of the post-war period.
Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities.
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures.
Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender.
Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them.
Die qualitative Studie untersucht Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen von Religionslehrkraften mit un-/sichtbaren Behinderungen, hinterfragt gesellschaftliche Behinderungsbilder und analysiert die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Denk- und Handlungsstrukturen.
This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to proximity and mutuality between themselves and the Dutch under colonialism that continues today.
Die qualitative Studie untersucht Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen von Religionslehrkraften mit un-/sichtbaren Behinderungen, hinterfragt gesellschaftliche Behinderungsbilder und analysiert die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Denk- und Handlungsstrukturen.
Die uralte Kraft der Gottinnen ist in Indien lebendig wie kaum anderswo - in prachtigen Festen, geheimnisvollen Ritualen und einer Spiritualitat, die Korper, Geist und Seele beruhrt.
It Began in Den Helder by Gurubesar Lancar Ida-Bagus is an uncompromising and deeply personal indictment of the often-hidden forms of discrimination, social inequality, and mental enslavement in Den Helder and its surroundings.
Noch immer werden Frauen, die sich in extremistischen Bewegungen engagieren, von der Forschung und Offentlichkeit kaum beachtet oder medial einseitig als "e;Terror-Braute"e; oder "e;Flinten-Weiber"e; dargestellt.
Noch immer werden Frauen, die sich in extremistischen Bewegungen engagieren, von der Forschung und Offentlichkeit kaum beachtet oder medial einseitig als "e;Terror-Braute"e; oder "e;Flinten-Weiber"e; dargestellt.
Seit Jahrtausenden faszinieren sie die Menschheit: die Nagas - geheimnisvolle Schlangenwesen, die in Mythen und Legenden als Huter des Wassers, Beschutzer der Schatze und gottliche Ahnen von Konigen erscheinen.
Krieg, Vertreibung, Klimakrise, Pandemie, Kunstliche Intelligenz und internationale Aufrustung - die groen geopolitischen Verwerfungen unserer Zeit machen Angst, verunsichern und lassen uns vereinsamen.
This book weaves together philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical, and political paradigms, providing both a historicization and a theorization of the Israeli experience and encompassing social-political events in recent history and life in Israel.
Seit Jahrhunderten ranken sich Mythen und Legenden um eine geheimnisvolle Bruderschaft, die im Verborgenen das Wissen der Menschheit hutet: die Neun Unbekannten.
Von der Lust des Herrschens und BeherrschtwerdensApell an unsere innersten BegehrenElsbeth Wallnofer erzahlt von machtigen Gestalten und ihren Gesten: vom betenden Altkanzler Kurz in der Wiener Stadthalle, der rasenden Alice Weidel im deutschen Bundestag, der brullenden Meloni in Italien, einem Bier-auf-ex-trinkenden amtierenden Kanzler, vom bekanntesten Clown Gro britanniens, Boris Johnson, und vielen anderen Populist*innen und Demagog*innen aus den Reihen der Politik.
A deeply researched history of Floridas strategic and military roles in World War IIThe first book to share the entire history of Floridas involvement in World War II, State of War explores how the war transformed the state into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces.