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Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginaries and how they operate socially. In tracing the changing fortunes of nationalization movements and the ways in which their efforts were received by mass constituencies, he provides an innovative and compelling account of the historical utilization, manipulation, and contestation of names.

Entangled Entertainers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Entangled Entertainers

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to prejudice, showing how they articulated identity through performative engagement rather than anchoring it in origin and descent. In this way, they attempted to transcend a racialized identity even as they indelibly inscribed their Jewish existence into the cultural history of the era.

Entangled Objects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Entangled Objects

Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity. All traffic, and commerce, whether economic or intellectual, between Western anthropologists and the rest of the world, is predicated upon the possibility of establishing reciprocal relations between the West and the indigenous peoples it has colonized for centuries.

The Historical Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

The Historical Magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1863
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396
Sacred History, Selected from the Scriptures ... By Mrs. Trimmer. (Eighth Edition.).
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Sacred History, Selected from the Scriptures ... By Mrs. Trimmer. (Eighth Edition.).

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1824
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Remembering the Samsui Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Remembering the Samsui Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-15
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Remembering the Samsui Women tells the story of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China, who migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, while others worked in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as "red-head-scarf," after the headgear that protected them from the sun. Contributing to current debates in the fields of social memory and migration studies, this is the first book to examine how the Samsui women remember their own migratory experiences and how they, in turn, are remembered as pioneering figures in both Singapore and China.

Comparative and Transnational History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Comparative and Transnational History

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however, this approach has felt pressure from two sources: cultural historical approaches, which stress microhistory and the construction of cultural transfer on the one hand, global history and transnational approaches with emphasis on connected history on the other. This volume introduces the reader to some of the major methodological debates and to recent empirical research of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.