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  | | Social Bonds As Freedom(1st Edition) Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular by Paul Dumouchel, Reiko Gotoh, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2015 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-693-3, ISBN: 1-78238-693-9 " Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic ..." |
 | | Aging and the Digital Life Course(1st Edition) (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations) by David Prendergast, Chiara Garattini, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2015 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-691-9, ISBN: 1-78238-691-2 ""This book presents us with an interesting study of how various technologies, including web-based tools and information and communication technologies, are embedded in particular social processes and experiences of aging and the life course. Instead of taking the usual position that 'technology' is something that is consumed and thrust upon us . . . this book shows how technologies are themselves a set of relations and processes that ar ..." |
 | | Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe(1st Edition) by Eric Langenbacher, Ruth Wittlinger, Bill Niven, Berghahn Books, William John Niven Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-577-2, ISBN: 0-85745-577-X " The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today's eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more "self-critical" memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memo ..." |
 | | Comrades of Color(1st Edition) East Germany in the Cold War World (Protest, Culture & Society) by Quinn Slobodian, Berghahn Books Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-737-6, ISBN: 1-78533-737-8 " In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, ho ..." |
 | | Communities and Place A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States (Hardback) by Katherine Crawford-Lackey, Berghahn Books, Megan E. Springate Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2020 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-708-8, ISBN: 1-78920-708-8 "Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans." |
 | | Views of Violence(1st Edition) Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association) by Jörg Echternkamp, Stephan Jaeger, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 2019 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-126-0, ISBN: 1-78920-126-8 " Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Se ..." |
 | | Austrian History Yearbook 1976-1977 : Articles: 12-13 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57181-355-8, ISBN: 1-57181-355-1 |
 | | Austrian History Yearbook 1976-1977 : Bibliographical Information by Berghahn Books Paperback, Published by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57181-356-5, ISBN: 1-57181-356-X |
 | | Concentrationary Art(1st Edition) Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-970-7, ISBN: 1-78533-970-2 " Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art―the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe―proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of ..." |
 | | Food Health Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health (Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition) by Janet Chrzan, John Brett, Berghahn Books Paperback, 241 Pages, Published 2019 by Berghahn Books Sep 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-525-1, ISBN: 1-78920-525-5 "Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices." |
 | | German Division as Shared Experience(1st Edition) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday by Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 318 Pages, Published 2019 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-242-7, ISBN: 1-78920-242-6 " Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 ..." |
 | | Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation(1st Edition) Between Text and Practice by Barbara Hausmair, Ben Jervis, Ruth Nugent, Eleanor Williams, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2018 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-765-9, ISBN: 1-78533-765-3 " How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between pe ..." |
 | | The Second Generation(Reprint) Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historianswith a Biobibliographic Guide (Studies in German History) by Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan, Berghahn Books Paperback, 473 Pages, Published 2018 by P648 - Manchester Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-052-2, ISBN: 1-78920-052-0 " Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. F ..." |
 | | The CSCE and the End of the Cold War Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990 by Nicolas Badalassi, Berghahn Books, Sarah B. Snyder 404 Pages, Published 2018 by Berghahn Books Nov 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-026-3, ISBN: 1-78920-026-1 "Bringing together new and innovative research on the CSCE, this volume explores questions key to understanding the Cold War: What role did diplomats play in shaping the 1975 Helsinki Final Act?" |
 | | A Living Past(1st Edition) Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (Environment in History: International Perspectives) by John Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2018 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-390-3, ISBN: 1-78533-390-9 " Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to- ..." |
 | | Methodologies of Mobility(1st Edition) Ethnography and Experiment (Worlds in Motion) by Alice Elliot, Roger Norum, Noel B. Salazar, Simone Abram, Berghahn Books, Elliot Norum Salazar Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2017 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-480-1, ISBN: 1-78533-480-8 " Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the m ..." |
 | | The Emergence of Film Culture(1st Edition) Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945 (Film Europa) by Malte Hagener, Berghahn Books Paperback, 390 Pages, Published 2017 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-354-5, ISBN: 1-78533-354-2 " Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new ..." |
 | | Indigeneity and the Sacred(1st Edition) Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology) by Fausto Sarmiento, Sarah Hitchner, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 2017 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-396-5, ISBN: 1-78533-396-8 " This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of rurality, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conserv ..." |
 | | The Anthropology of the Fetus(1st Edition) Biology, Culture, and Society (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives) by Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, Berghahn Books Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2017 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-691-1, ISBN: 1-78533-691-6 " As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. Contributors draw on research in prehistoric, historic, and contemporary sites in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America to explo ..." |
 | | Protest in Hitler's âNational Communityâ(1st Edition) Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response (Protest, Culture & Society) by Nathan Stoltzfus, Birgit Maier-Katkin, Berghahn Books Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2017 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-733-8, ISBN: 1-78533-733-5 " That Hitler's Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which "racial" Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime's response. Workers, women, and religious groups all convinced the Nazis to appease rather than repress "ra ..." |
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