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Masquerade
The author recounts his years lived under a fake Christian identity during the Nazi occupation of Hungary in the Second World War, including the efforts he put forth to protect his family as well as many other Jews.
Scientific Babel
Today, the language of science is English. But the dominance of this particular language is a relatively recent phenomenon - and far from a foregone conclusion. In a sweeping history that takes us from antiquity to the modern day, Michael D. Gordin untangles the web of politics, money, personality and international conflict that created the monoglot world of science we now inhabit. Beginning with the rise of Latin, Gordin reveals how we went on to use (and then lose) Dutch, Italian, Swedish and many other languages on the way, and sheds light on just how significant language is in the nationalistic realm of science - just one word mistranslated into German from Russian triggered an inflammatory face-off between the two countries for the credit of having discovered the periodic table. Intelligent, revealing and full of compelling stories, Scientific Babel shows how the world has shaped science just as much as science has transformed the world.
Esperanto and Its Rivals
Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Garvía investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.
International Planned Languages
The author of this book, the German interlinguist and Esperanto researcher Detlev Blanke (1941-2016), has influenced the study of planned languages like no one else. It is to a large extent due to his lifelong scholarly devotion to this area of research that Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies (Esperantology) have become serious subjects of study in the academic world. In his publications, Blanke gives an overview of the history of language creation. He describes the most important planned language systems and presents various systems of classification. A special focus is put on Esperanto initiated by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887. (Sabine Fiedler) For Blanke, a planned language was essentially a...
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.
Stalin's Russia
SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
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Erster Weltkrieg
Der Erste Weltkrieg: einschneidende Modernisierungs- und Krisenerfahrung. Das Handbuch verfolgt die Entwicklungen und Veränderungen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Technik und Mentalitäten bis in die 1920er Jahre hinein und wirft einen beispiellosen Blick hinter die geschichtlichen Fakten. Welche Themen, Diskurse und Mythen ranken sich um die Ereignisse? Wie werden diese wahrgenommen, gedeutet und verarbeitet? Welchen Widerhall finden sie in Kultur, Literatur und Kunst? Das Handbuch betrachtet die Phänomene der Zeit aus moderner, interdisziplinärer Perspektive, so zum Beispiel die Kriegsaffirmation, den industrialisierten Krieg, den Stellungskrieg und Nahkampf, die emotionale Mobilmachung und Erinnerungskultur, Männerbünde, Körper- und Nervenkrisen.
