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Making Nordic Historiography
Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Is there a “Nordic history”? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this informative volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Whether recounting Foucault’s departure from Sweden or tracing the rise of movements...
Resistance in an Amazonian Community
Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by oil...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it...
Youth Gangs and Street Children
Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. These children are perceived to be in a constant state of destitution, violence and vagrancy, and therefore must be a serious threat to society, needing heavy-handed...
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably...
Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany
Origins, Practices, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
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, such...
Sexual Knowledge
Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the...
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in...
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries....
Becoming East German
Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded...
Up Close and Personal
On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book 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...
Peaceful Selves
Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994...
The Fateful Alliance
German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On 30 January 1933, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. This book analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between Conservatives and Nazis and offers a...
The Devil's Riches
A Modern History of Greed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust...