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The site of political demonstrations, sporting events, and barbecues, and the object of loving, if not obsessive, care and attention, the lawn is also symbolically tied to our notions of community and civic responsibility, serving in the process as one of the foundations of democracy.
Seven short stories, in which are found vivid retellings of the gypsy tales collected from the Wood family of Caegwyn. Including magical tales rich with the mystery of the Welsh landscape and quest stories. Suitable for readers aged 9-11 years. Winner of the 2007 Tir na n-Og Award. Reprint; first published in July 2006. -- Welsh Books Council
New England was built on letters. Its colonists left behind thousands of them, brittle and browning and crammed with curls of purplish script. How they were delivered, though, remains mysterious. We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed—not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a “public print.” But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of travelers, rumors, movement, and letters. Unearthing that early American communications frontier, American Passage retells the story of English colonization as less orderly and more precarious than the quiet villages of popular imagination. Th...
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individualchapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespreadrising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as arecurrent point of reference.
The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe. In this context, the growing plight of Europe's biggest minority, the Roma (Gypsies), has been particularly salient. Traditionally dispersed, possessing few resources and devoid of a common "kin state" to protect their interests, the Roma have often suffered from widespread exclusion and institutionalized discrimination. Politically underrepresented and lacking popular support amongst the wider populations of their host countries, the Roma have consequently become one of Europe's greatest "losers...
Der Auftaktband der neuen Reihe präsentiert zentrale Texte zur Erforschung der armenischen Geschichte und Kultur teilweise erstmalig in deutscher übersetzung. Diese Anthologie spiegelt in ihrer breiten thematischen Ausrichtung die zahlreichen historischen und aktuellen Facetten der Erforschung der Armenier in Osteuropa zwischen Narva und der Krim, zwischen Armenierstadt und Astrachan.
HauptbeschreibungDie Situation der Roma znhlt derzeit europaweit zu den grAten menschenrechtlichen Herausforderungen. Dementsprechend sind die Roma zunehmend in das Blickfeld der Europnischen Union gerckt. Spntestens seit der europarechtswidrigen Massenausweisung von Roma 2010 in Frankreich stellt sich fr die EU mit aller Schnrfe die Frage nach dem eigenen Verhnltnis zu ihrer grAten Minderheit: Wie lassen sich gesellschaftliche Strukturen handhaben, die bestimmte Minderheiten faktisch benachteiligen? Welche MAglichkeiten bieten der Vertrag von Lissabon und die EU-Antidiskriminierungsrichtlinie und vor allem, welche Weiterentwicklungen sind rechtlich mAglich? Nach einem allgemeinen berblick d...