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The bourgeois revolution in france 1789-1815
In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and Willi...
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Economic citizenship
Describes how, with the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Exposes the paradoxes that are deep within neoliberal interpretations of citizenship. Analyzes the unexpected consequences...
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Green encounters
Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable developm...
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Narratives in the making
Compares the production of narratives at two very different types of institutions. Based on original participant observation in these institutions’ day-to-day work. Explores the production of representations of the East German past at a unique historical moment – in the run up to the...
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The americanization of europe
Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by some, welcomed by others, seems to progress unabated. This volume explores, for the first time and in a comparative manner, the role American culture and anti-Americanism p...
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Medicine and medical ethics in nazi germany
The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, ...
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On the order of chaos
Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insig...
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Jewish explorations of sexuality
Every religious community has been affected by the "sexual revolution". The conflict between contemporary attitudes and traditional practices has led to major divisions and controversies, particularly when focused on issues such as homosexuality. This is the first attempt to take abroad look at...
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Transitions and transformations
illustrates how population ageing has become embedded within individual, social and cultural life courses introduces a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations explores the overl...
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After unity
The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay reade...
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Up close and personal
Combines rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today Is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm ...
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Vanished history
Comparative analysis of Czech and Slovak historical cultures. First analysis of the Holocaust Memory in Czech and Slovak historical cultures. New perspective on Oskar Schindler in the context of the “Sudeten German” minority in Czechoslovakia. View of a construction of ...
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Grace after genocide
An ethnographic study that extends over 35 years and spans the United States. Reviews the history of Cambodian refugees and discusses the impact of American military activities overseas on particular individuals. Describes the activities of first generation refugees before resettleme...
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Archeologies of confession
Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of re...
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On the path to genocide
First book to focus predominantly on the issue of the timing of genocide. Presents a full history of the long-term and intervening factors that led to the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. Explores pre-genocidal massacres in Ottoman Armenia and Rwanda. Explores constraints that inh...
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Silence, screen, and spectacle
Takes on an innovative focus on “spectacular memory,” asking how spectacle functions in processes of memory, countermemory, and silencing. Breaks new ground in the discussion of absence, both in terms of the ‘absent,’ missing dialogues, texts, monuments and communities, as well as the “d...
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Understanding multiculturalism
Offers a comparative, critical analysis of muticulturalism as a concept for understanding pluricultural societies and offers historical studies of the Central European experience to show how pluricultural situations can be effectively analyzed and interpreted. Critically analyzes the con...
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Crime and criminal justice in modern germany
Utilises a number of primary sources including archival material Includes essays written by more than a dozen of the leading, international mid-career historians of crime and criminal justice in Germany Appropriate for scholars and students new to this field as well as scholars alrea...
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The long aftermath
This broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories of the "Long Second World War" and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and other cul...
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Media and revolt
Specific focus on the interrelation of Social Movements and Mass Media Historical focus on the 1960s when new forms of interaction between social movements and mass media emerged Combines historical and systematic perspectives Special focus on framing theory
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Day of the dead
The Day of the Dead is the most important annual celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico. Skillfully combining textual information and photographic imagery, this book begins with a discussion of the people of Oaxaca, their way of life, and their way of looking at the world. It then takes the reader throu...
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The body in balance
Offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions" over the last 2,000 years Re-visits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of these traditions Asks how "balance" is defined, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances
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About the hearth
Addresses a major theme in anthropological theory. Has a full circumpolar range of examples. Is an interdisciplinary collection. Addresses the complexity of northern indigenous architectural design.
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War and women across continents
An important collection of articles that challenge both historically and currently the hegemonic masculinity of wars, conflicts and soldiers involved in wars and conflict. Highlights women’s experiences and sacrifices in defending their countries and laments their societal traditional cu...
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Humour, comedy and laughter
An examination of the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Describes how the positive aspects of humour far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions a...
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Exiles from european revolutions
Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributor...
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Holocaust monuments and national memory
Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany during the Second World War have received intense public attention: the Vélo d'Hiver (Winter Velodrome) in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Monument i...
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Empire of pictures
Based on multi-lingual sources (German, Spanish, and English) and multi-archival research conducted in six different countries around the world. At the cutting edge of new research trends in the field of international/global history. The first work to analyze the important history of...
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New hong kong cinema
Advocates the model of ‘Cinema of Transitions’ to study Hong Kong-related, Chinese-language films that are concerned with Hong Kong’s sovereignty transfer. Intervenes in the studies of Hong Kong cinema from a combined perspective of Diaspora and East Asian Studies, rather than situating ...
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The rhythm of eternity
This study is one of the very few comprehensive studies of the history of the German youth movement in the English language. This book finally debunks the persistent myth that the German Youth Movement was a reactionary movement. This study bridges the gap between historiography and ...
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The state and the grassroots
First study of immigrant organizations conducted in the U.S. and Europe. First comparative study of immigrant organizations conducted with the same research methodology. First study to focus explicitly on the relation between immigrant organizations and development in sending c...
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Crude domination
Deeply ethnographic New "domination" theoretical approach Geographically broad (Africa, Latin America, Eurasia) Examines global/local connections in novel manner
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Who abolished slavery?
The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, s...
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Researching food habits
The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its m...
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The bounded field
Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino r...
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Selling the economic miracle
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Soci...
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The silk roads
Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, ...
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The making of anthropology in east and southeast asia
CHOICE OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005 Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academ...
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The dance of nurture
Holistic approach to infant feeding Combines biological and cultural approaches to infant feeding in a single frame Integrates issues from the global north and south Provides ethnographic insight into advocacy work on infant feeding
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Death of the public university?
Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new la...
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Children of the camp
This is one of the very few books published focusing on refugee youth and the only one focusing on Somali refugee youth in protracted exile; The use of photography teaching as a research method is rather unusual and gives an insight into the visual world of young refugees in camps; T...
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Evidence and meaning
Comprehensive theory of historical studies, covering the whole field of metahistory, methodology of historical research, theory of historical culture and history didactics
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Gender, violence, refugees
The book links forced migration, violence and gender relations. Most studies have a particular focus on sexual violence in refugee camps and/or situations. Many chapters cover different countries and offer original empirical research. The volume offers innovative conceptual appro...
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Living before dying
In-depth life in a nursing home Researcher worked alongside care assistants Long-term observation of people with dementia Insight into residential care for people with dementia and their relatives
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A goddess in motion
Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.
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Managing ambiguity
First ethnographic study of favors in a former Yugoslav country; First ethnographic study of a welfare system in a former Yugoslav country; It explores how the same people pursue favors across several fields (social protection, healthcare, humanitarianism), rather than just to focus ...
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Cultural borders of europe
The essays in this anthology address processes of defining European cultural borders, as well as their dependence on – and relation to – various kinds of European belonging and national identity. By proceeding from cultural borders as the object of investigation, we open the door to a range ...
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Money in the german-speaking lands
Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until t...
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Faithfully urban
Examines the lives of ordinary residents and mosque communities in Stuttgart to analyze moments and spaces where Muslims and non-Muslims engage with each other and accommodate their respective needs. These accounts show that even in the face of resentment and discrimination, a pious Mus...
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