Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany, Hardback - Jenny Wustenberg

This interdisciplinary approach to postwar German memory politics charts the role of social movements in shaping public memory and democratic value...

This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most importan...

Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of the...

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 27Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Eric Werthei...

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in r...

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual ...

A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Thomas C. (Royalty...

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and col...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 21Cover type: Hardback...

An exploration of the portrait arts in China, from the dynastic to the contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video.Publisher: Reakt...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offer...

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Remco (Radboud University, The Netherlands) EnselIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illus...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cecilia (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) MelloIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

Reducere. A total of 160, 000 people, a mix of r sistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World ...

Reducere. What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in M...

Plecand de la experiente artistice si estetice, culegerea de fata ofera posibile raspunsuri la intrebarile legate de felul in care imaginea si sune...

This original book argues that non-sectarian LGBTQand feminist movements are powerful agents of political and social change inpostwar LebanonPublis...

DescriptionWolfe Frank was Chief Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed 'The Voice of Doom.' A playboy turned resistance worker he...

Reducere. "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debat...

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture an...

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

Reducere. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Adele NelsonIllustration(s): 50 color illustrations, 50 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 392Co...

In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction after the Se...

Beginning with an interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's co...

Reducere. In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered...

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflect...

Reducere. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE (a French-German state-funded tel...

DescriptionThe Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cl...

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially ...

Reducere. In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African American...

A study of German traditions of cultural renewal from their origins in antifascist activism in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America...

Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify both state power and liberati...

With the end of the Second World War Britain needed time to recover; it could not face another war, but the new threat of Soviet hegemony put paid ...

Reducere. From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's Africa From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, Afric...

Fashioning a new Jerusalem in Austerity Britain

In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that t...

A new interpretation of citizenship in socialist Eastern Europe and non-Western histories of human rights, based upon the vivid social and politica...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sarah-Neel SmithIllustration(s): 42 color illustrations, 20 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 2...

This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum institutions. The author p...

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews

Weaving insightful scholarship with beautiful storytelling, Legalized Prostitution in Germany provides readers with a deeper understanding of the c...

In this challenge to traditional historiography, the author argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany during the ...

A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished jou...