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by Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's...
Work in a Modern Society
The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations...
The Surplus Woman
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections...
Civil Society and Gender Justice
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist...
Maternalism Reconsidered
Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations,...
A European Memory?
Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues...
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust within the historiography...
Kristeva in Focus
From Theory to Film Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love.
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Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging...
Small Town and Village in Bavaria
The Passing of a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,000,...
Nature of the Miracle Years
Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context....