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Past (Im)Perfect Continuous
Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the comprehension of the postmemory of WWII, accounting for a number of different intellectual trajectories that investigate WWII and the Holocaust as paradigms for other traumas within a global and multidirectional context. Indeed, by exceeding the geographical boundaries of nations and states and overcoming contextual specificities, postmemory foregrounds continuous, active, connective, transcultural, and always imperfect representations of violence that engage with the alterity of other histories and other subjects. 75 years after the end of WWII, this volume is primarily concerned with the convergence between postmemory and underexamined aspects of the history and aftermath of WWII, as well as with several sociopolitical anxieties and representational preoccupations. Drawing from different disciplines, the critical and visual works gathered in this volume interrogate the referential power of postmemory, considering its transcultural interplay with various forms, media, frames of reference, conceptual registers, and narrative structures.
The Effective President
Papers and discussion presented at the Symposium on the American Presidency held at the University of California, Irvine, in 1976.
Big World, Small Planet
“A carefully laid-out argument about the ecological limits of our planet—and the challenge these limits pose to our patterns of life and economic growth.”—Daniel C. Esty, coauthor of Green to Gold Big World, Small Planet probes the urgent predicament of our times: how is it possible to create a positive future for both humanity and Earth? We have entered the Anthropocene—the era of massive human impacts on the planet—and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize Earth’s natural systems, with cascading consequences for human societies. In this extraordinary book, the authors combine the latest science with compelling storytelling and amazing photography...
A New Nobility of Blood and Soil
Fearsome and provocative, the slogan "Blood and Soil" speaks to the interplay between the land and the people on it-the power of a land to shape a people and the power of a people to shape a land. Richard Walther Darré, an Obergruppenführer in the SS, was the leading "Blood and Soil" ideologist of Germany and served his people as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. This book, A New Nobility of Blood and Soil, was massively popular in the Third Reich and led to a strengthening of the agrarian and agriculturalist movements. Highly influential on Hitler, the principles in this book are foundational to the National Socialist worldview. This worldview held that Germany's natural elite, its ...
Luoghi dell’ospitalità in Italia nel Medioevo
Metafora della vita urbana e rurale, la taverna nell’Italia medievale è uno spazio insieme concreto e immaginario dove prende corpo una molteplicità di rapporti istituzionali, economici, sociali e culturali, spesso in bilico fra il lecito e l’illecito, il rispetto delle regole e la loro trasgressione. Le testimonianze su osti e albergatori – tra le cui fila spicca una cospicua presenza femminile – ci restituiscono una figura professionale dai contorni sfumati: gestore, mercante e daziere, giocatore e ruffiano, operatore impegnato in attività di assistenza e cura. Fondamentali sono le funzioni di natura pubblica svolte da osterie e alberghi sul territorio, entro le mura cittadine e nelle campagne, lungo le vie di percorrenza e gli snodi di mercato: fra IX e XV secolo, tali strutture vengono a costituire una rete di servizi che soddisfano la domanda di una clientela assai diversificata.
