Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Investigating Hong Kong English
Globalization and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern among the local population. Despite prolific research into attitudes towards language variation within the field of sociolinguistics in general, very few studies have focused on the Hong Kong context. Previous research has demonstrated...
Globalizing On-line
Telecollaboration, Internationalization, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Internationalization plays an important role in shaping the philosophy and practice of higher education, and it is arguably one of the most durable University achievements. Offering creative ways to achieve a shift from isolation to communication between people of different economic, cultural and...
Staging the Fascist War
The Ministry of Popular Culture and Italian Propaganda on the Home Front, 19381943
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Historians regard the Italian home front during the Second World War as an observation post from which to study the relationship between Fascism and society during the years of the collapse of the Mussolini regime. Yet the role of propaganda in influencing that relationship has received little attention....
Musique, Folie et Nature au Moyen Âge
Les figurations du fou musicien dans les manuscrits enluminés (XIII e -XV e siècles)
Language: French
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Basé sur une anthropologie des images de la musique, ce livre étudie les figurations du fou musicien dans les manuscrits du Moyen Âge. A partir d’un vaste corpus, il en rappelle les fondements antiques et patristiques, les modèles mystiques et politiques, ainsi que les réseaux thématiques....
by Michael Stannard
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) is revered as Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century author. Writing in the realist tradition of Dickens, Zola and Balzac, he described life in Madrid with unequalled fidelity. In addition, he was unique among novelists of his time in his knowledge of medicine, revealed...
Penser les frontières européennes au XXIe siècle
Réflexion croisée des sciences sociales
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015
La frontière n’est jamais innocente et elle n’est jamais (ou quasiment jamais) « naturelle ». C’est un artifice qui a d’abord servi à affermir une souveraineté, et donc un État, le plus souvent contre les autres : en ce sens, l’Europe est le plus couturé de tous les continents, suite...
Partial Visions
Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American and western European history when the utopian dimension of political movements was particularly generative...
Invisibility Studies
Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments,...
Public-Private Partnership in the Cultural Sector
A Comparative Analysis of European Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book contributes to the debate on the emerging governance systems and management models of the cultural sector by means of a comparative analysis of significant case studies of public-private partnerships in Europe.
The research focuses on the development of public-private collaborations...
Tabloid Century
The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the present
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Popular newspapers played a vital role in shaping British politics, society and culture in the twentieth century. This book provides a concise and accessible historical overview of the rise of the tabloid format and examines how the national press reported the major stories of the period, from World...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The PEERS program proposes international exchanges adapted to the context of teacher training institutions wishing to take advantage of internationalization in order to link training, research, and practice. PEERS is based on the completion of Research and Innovation (R&I) projects during the...
Censure et autorités publiques
De lépoque moderne à nos jours
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
L’histoire récente consacre le passage de la censure étatique directe à des formes intériorisées d’autocensure. Le sujet n’en reste pas moins d’actualité, y compris dans les démocraties occidentales où on assiste à des demandes émanant de groupes religieux pour faire interdire disques,...
Economic Crisis and New Nationalisms
German Political Economy as Perceived by European Partners
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
As of a consequence of the ongoing economic crisis, in 2010 there was a marked deterioration in cross-border relations between Italy and Germany. In both countries the press published articles openly blaming economic hardship on the squandering attitude of southerners or the egoistic and mercantilist...
Towards Europe
The Story of a Reluctant Norway
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Does Norway belong to Western Europe? This provocative question, put to the head of the Norwegian delegation to the conference on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II, begins the history of Norwegian attitudes towards European integration. From 1905 to 1994, Norway opposed practically all...