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Entgrenzungen des Wahnsinns. Psychopathie und Psychopathologisierungen um 1900
(2016)
The rise of psychiatry in the second half of the 19th century was accompanied by a number of dislocations. Modern artistic tendencies, deviant sexual behavior, and other maladaptive social behavior patterns were ...
Europa und die Welt
(2012)
Die Diskussion über den Euro-Rettungsplan, die Finanzhilfen für Griechenland, Portugal und Irland, die Einführung schärferer Grenzkontrollen durch Dänemark haben einen neuen Streit über die Europäische Union entfacht. ...
The Eurasian Triangle. Russia, The Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945
(2016)
Even the best books on international history are ignorant of the secret war against the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union waged jointly by the Caucasian peoples and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. This ...
Ethnische Säuberungen in der Moderne. Globale Wechselwirkungen nationalistischer und rassistischer Gewaltpolitik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
(2013)
Ethnic "cleansing" is the dark side of modern democratization and the formation of nation states. Beginning in the 19th century, the Balkans and colonies outside Europe became the laboratories for this form of national ...
Exodus. Rezeptionen in deuterokanonischer und frühjüdischer Literatur
(2016)
The story of Exodus from Egypt is a key founding myth that informs Israel`s collective identity and pervades all of Old Testament literature. In the Hellenistic period, the Exodus story enjoyed a renaissance, and it continues ...
Existentialismus in
(2021)
Die Studie Existentialismus in
Filmische Seitenblicke. Cinepoetische Exkursionen ins Kino von 1968
(2019)
Ist 1968 gescheitert? Die Frage ist falsch gestellt. Die Ereignisse, die Bedeutung und die Auswirkungen von '68 lassen sich nicht in einem schlüssigen Narrativ fassen. Das Jahr beschreibt einen Kulminationspunkt, an dem ...
Filmische Poetiken der Schuld. Die audiovisuelle Anklage der Sinne als Modalität des Gemeinschaftsempfindens
(2017)
How do cinematic images generate and transform a community’s affectively grounded sense of values? Using the feeling of guilt as an example, this study shows how modulation of moral sentiments can be described as the ...
The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing and Library Work
(2010)
In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown ...
Die Erfindung des modernen Militarismus. Krieg, Militär und bürgerliche Gesellschaft im politischen Denken der Französischen Revolution 1789-1799
(2003)
Die Kriegs- und Militärgeschichte der Französischen Revolution ist bislang überwiegend als ein spezieller, in sich geschlossener Bereich der Revolutionsgeschichte betrachtet worden. Kruses Diskursanalyse zeigt sie hingegen ...
Erinnerung an Diktatur und Krieg. Brennpunkte des kulturellen Gedächtnisses zwischen Russland und Deutschland seit 1945
(2015)
Dictatorship and war unite but also divide historical commemoration in Russia and Germany. Twenty-nine German and Russian authors examine key issues in Russian and German cultures of remembrance and their traumatic dimensions. ...
ESSE 2017. Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy
(2017)
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical-, biological-, and information sciences to study and solve environmental problems. ESSE - The International Conference on Environmental ...
European Monarchies from 1814 to 1906. A Century of Restorations
(2017)
The year 2014 saw the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's downfall - and the restauration of the French monarchy under the house of Bourbon. With this as a starting point, Volker Sellin shows how the European monarchies restored ...
Figurationen des Staates in Deutschland und Frankreich 1870-1945. Les figures de l'État en Allemagne et en France
(2006)
Der Staat ist ein zentraler geschichts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Topos in Deutschland wie in Frankreich. In der vergleichenden Forschung zu beiden Ländern taucht er hingegen so gut wie nicht auf. Der vorliegende Band ...
Frieden schaffen und sich verteidigen im Spätmittelalter. Faire la paix et se défendre à la fin du Moyen Âge
(2012)
In Frankreich, Burgund, dem spätmittelalterlichen Reich, Kastilien, Katalonien und Städten wie Florenz gab es enge Verbindungen zwischen Friedenssicherung und effektiver Verteidigungsorganisation. Seit einigen Jahren stehen ...
Frieden durch Kommunikation. Das System Genscher und die Entspannungspolitik im Zweiten Kalten Krieg 1979–1982/83
(2015)
At the end of the 1970s West Germany`s foreign minister Genscher faced the challenge of defending the Social-Liberal coalition`s policy of dètente against the approaching Second Cold War.‎ The unique features of his ...
Family Life in Adolescence
(2014)
Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive behaviour. Unfortunately, this view of adolescents is the focus of the media, ...
Erscheinungsformen und Handhabungen Heiliger Schriften
(2014)
This study focuses on Holy Scriptures as material objects. What are the contexts for the appearances and the usages of these objects? Is there a difference between Holy Scriptures and other objects, and is it inevitably ...
Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism
(2005)
We are supposed to wage war against Terrorism - but exactly what we are fighting against in this war, there is nearly no consensus about. And, much worse, nearly nobody cares about this conceptual disaster - the main thing ...
Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English
(2016)
This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb ‘now’ and its interaction with ...
Die feinen Unterschiede. Kultur, Kunst und Konsum im antiken Rom
(2020)
In studies of the Roman elite, scholars have focused on their intensive and restricted commitment to political and military achievement. This book critically considers the lasting exclusivity of this way of life, widening ...
Figuren des Messianischen in Schriften deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller 1900-1933
(2011)
This study investigates the function of the recourse to the messianic tradition of Judaism among German-Jewish intellectuals in the first third of the 20th century. Messianic figures of thought play an important role in ...
Gaddafis Libyen und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1969 bis 1982
(2013)
Seit 1969 intensivierte die Bundesrepublik ihre wirtschaftlichen, aber auch ihre politischen Beziehungen zu Libyen unter der Herrschaft von Muammar al-Gaddafi. Tim Szatkowski analysiert das deutsch-libysche Verhältnis ...
Fear and Loathing in the North. Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region
(2015)
Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia ...
Erosion von Verfassungsvoraussetzungen. Berichte und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Erlangen vom 1. bis 4. Oktober 2008
(2009)
This volume presents the reports and discussions held at the conference of the "Association of German Constitutional Teachers" in Erlangen from October, 1st to October, 4th, 2008.
Europe in Green. European Environmental Democracy
(2013)
The book is a cornerstone in the studies aimed at introducing a new form of democracy not just at a global level, through international environmental law, but also at local one, by regional and national regulation, to ...
Fifth Size Strain Conference. Diffraction Analysis of the Microstructure of Materials
(2008)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 27 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the V Size Strain Conference in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2007: Lattice Defects,Residual Stresses,Texture in ...
The Fish Lands. German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century
(2020)
The late medieval German trade with the North Atlantic islands, in the margins of the Hanseatic trade network, has received only limited scholarly attention. Merchants from predominantly Hamburg and Bremen established ...
From Logic to Art. Themes from Nelson Goodman
(2009)
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II ...
A Galileo Forgery. Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius
(2014)
In this work, historians in various fields revise the results presented in the first two volumes of the series, which analyzed the New York copy of Sidereus Nuncius. While many of their findings remain valid, the subject ...
Gallipoli 1915/16. Britanniens bitterste Niederlage
(2020)
The Battle of Gallipoli was the Britain’s most bitter defeat of the First World War. This volume seeks to place the Dardanelles campaign in proper perspective. It situates Gallipoli in the larger context of the First World ...
Europe and the Gospel. Past Influences, Current Developments, Mission Challenges
(2013)
Combining human interest stories with thought provoking analyses, Dr Evert Van de Poll paints the socio-cultural and religious picture of this exceptional continent: its population and cultural variety; past and present ...
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra. Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India
(2020)
This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were ...
Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Writings
(2014)
Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys’ ...
Futures of the Study of Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges
(2020)
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant ...
Das Gastarbeiter-System. Arbeitsmigration und ihre Folgen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Westeuropa
(2012)
Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und andere westeuropäische Industriestaaten warben von den 1950er bis zu den frühen 1970er Jahren Millionen ausländische Arbeitskräfte an, um ihre nationalen Arbeitsmärkte in Zeiten der ...
Europäische Volkswirtschaften unter deutscher Hegemonie. 1938-1945
(2012)
Die nationalsozialistische Besatzung Europas wirkte massiv auf die Volkswirtschaften aller betroffenen Gebiete ein. Die Proklamation eines Großwirtschaftsraums eröffnete die Perspektive der Grenzenlosigkeit. Den zur ...
Europäische Wissenschaftskulturen und politische Ordnungen in der Moderne (1890-1970)
(2014)
At the beginning of the 20th century, two revolutionary processes intersected in European industrialized societies. The sciences became a central force for interpreting the world, and the democratization of modern life ...
Die Europäisierung des Privatrechts und die Rechtsvergleichung. Vortrag, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 15. Juni 2005
(2006)
Lecture held before the Judicial Society in Berlin on June 15, 2005, on the subject of the Europization of private law as a function of and challenge for comparative law.
Evaluation of childrens' play. Tools and methods
(2018)
This book is one of the outcomes of the COST Action TD139 “LUDI – Play for Children with Disabilities" (2014–2018), a multidisciplinary network of European researchers and practitioners devoted to the theme of play from ...
Exercises with Solutions in Radiation Physics
(2015)
The textbook begins with exercises related to radioactive sources and decay schemes. The problems covered include series decay and how to determine the frequency and energy of emitted particles in disintegrations. The next ...
La fine del mondo nel ›De rerum natura‹ di Lucrezio
(2020)
Lucretius’ De rerum natura can be considered as the first Latin “apocalyptic” poem and, at the same time, the most important source on Epicurean cosmic eschatology. This book examines Lucretius’ treatment of the mortality ...
Flectat cardinales ad velle suum? Clemens VI. und sein Kardinalskolleg. Ein Beitrag zur kurialen Politik in der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts
(2007)
Ralf Lützelschwab beleuchtet das spannungsreiche Verhältnis zwischen einem in der Forschung schlecht beleumundeten Papst – Clemens VI. (1342-1352) – und seinen engsten Mitarbeitern, den Kardinälen. Die Auswertung bisher ...
Fractured Modernity. America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s to 1940s
(2013)
The ten essays in this volume deal with the debates and conflicts about modernity in a period of American history when the tensions and strains caused by seemingly unrestrained change and the reactions to it were particularly ...
Fragmentierungen
(2018)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Saarbrücken, 4–7 October 2017