Berghahn Books: 740 books
State Practices and Zionist Images
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between...
Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century
Archives, Stories, Memories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, captivity’s historical significance extends far beyond the front lines, ultimately inextricable from the histories of mobilization, nationalism,...
Cultural Borders of Europe
Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well...
Czechs, Germans, Jews?
National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it was...
Durkheim in Dialogue
A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim¹s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple...
How Enemies Are Made
Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory. The author develops a decision theory which explains the conditions...
Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates...
A Lover's Quarrel with the Past
Romance, Representation, Reading
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological...
Reconstructing Obesity
The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic methods...
Patient-Centred IVF
Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily clinical practices. Through the ethnographic...
The Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life....
by Aref Abu-Rabia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data...
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a...
The Spirit of the Laws
The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the...