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If the Walls Could Speak
The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brought a dramatic shift, as communists all over the region, often veterans of interwar prisons or war-time concentration camps, used incarceration sites as a way to mold the future. The prison system functioned as a tool to subjugate society and silence or destroy enemies- anti-communists as well as committed communists. Arrests, trials, and prison sentences directly and indirectly affected tens of tho...
Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe
Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents essays on the cultural codes of conflict and its resolution in this period under three broad themes: peacemaking as practice; the nature of mediation and arbitration; and the role of criminal law in conflicts. Through an exploration of conflict and peacemaking, this volume provides innovative accounts of state formation, community and religion in the early modern period.
The Samoans
Ua fuifui faatasi, ae vaoeseese "Gathered into one flock from different parts of the forest" The beauty of this Samoan proverb poetically describes The Samoans: A Global Family. From the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the deserts of the Sudan, from the Himalayas of Bhutan to the jungles of Brazil, and from the People's Republic of China to Papua New Guinea, a family is gathered in 285 color photographs captioned with the proverbs of 30 languages. Each person recounts his or her autobiography: a cardinal in Rome, a cowboy in the outback of Australia, a champion sumo wrestler in Japan, a jet pilot in nothern Alaska, an NFL football player at the Super Bowl, a nun in the slums of Lima, Peru. Each brings a story from his part of the "forest." The book is the result of a two-and-a-half-year odyssey around the world, through 45 countries and 20 states and into the lives of over 125 Samoans documenting what it means to be Samoan not only in Samoa but in the farthest reaches of the globe.
Anna Müller aus Braunschweig
Anna Wilhelmine Karoline Müller wird 1897 in Braunschweig geboren, verbringt dort ihre Kindheit und zieht mit den Eltern nach Hamburg, als sie 10 geworden ist. Die Jugend verbringt sie in Hamburg und verliebt sich in einen westerländer Seemann, dem sie nach Sylt folgt, als sie 16 wird. Während des ersten Weltkrieges bleibt sie alleine in Westerland. Im zweiten Weltkrieg verliert sie enge Angehörige in Hamburg bei Brandbombenangriffen. Nach dem Krieg lebt die Familie in bescheidenen Verhältnissen bis zu Annas frühem Krebstod mit 54 Jahren. Annas Vorfahren stammen bis auf Elias Funcke aus der Gegend von Braunschweig, Bad Gandersheim, Wolfenbüttel, Bornhausen, Teichhütte und Einbeck. Me...
Imagining the Witch
The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern Wurttemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for their life to avoid the stake.
The Frauenstein Letters
This book investigates the migration of nearly 20% of the population from the village of Frauenstein-Wiesbaden (Germany) in the mid nineteenth century (1852-54) to Australia, using the letters and diaries of the towns-people, as well as official records and documentation. These migrants were imported as indentured workers for the developing wine industry, being sponsored by the Australian colonial authorities, and their stories make a significant contribution to both the migration debate as well as early Australian history. Using the voices of ordinary people revealed in their writing to and from Europe (the Frauenstein Letters) gives new insights into the migration process: What urged these...
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Volume contains: Unreported Case (Matter of Hardy) Unreported Case (Matter of Hillard) Unreported Case (Matter of Muller) Unreported Case (Matter of Neafie) Unreported Case (Matter of Prentice) Unreported Case (Matter of Sheldon) Unreported Case (Matter of Whittall) Unreported Case (National Wall Paper Co. v. Hobbs) Unreported Case (Norton v. Third Ave. R.R. Co.)
Tapestry of Memory
In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about the validity of qualitative research based on narratives, this volume aims to illuminate how truth and evidence form part of a much wider debate on the representation of history.The volume includes the work of historians but the interdisciplinary nature of the contributions shows that the validity debate also applies to the broader fields of cultural studies, sociology, and other social sciences. The distinction between memory and testimony is a crucial theme. Memory, though selective, is the basis of testimony. Testimony provides an audience wit...
