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In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly i...
No other symbol is as omnipresent in Poland as the cross. This multilayered and contradictory icon features prominently in public spaces and state institutions. It is anchored in the country's visual history, inspires protest culture, and dominates urban and rural landscapes. The cross recalls Poland's historic struggles for independence and anti-Communist dissent, but it also encapsulates the country's current position in Europe as a self-avowed bulwark of Christianity and a champion of conservative values. It is both a national symbol – defining the boundaries of Polishness in opposition to a changing constellation of the country's Others – and a key object of contestation in the creative arts and political culture. Despite its long history, the cross has never been systematically studied as a political symbol in its capacity to mobilize for action and solidify power structures. Cross Purposes is the first cultural history of the cross in modern Poland, deconstructing this key symbol and exploring how it has been deployed in different political battles.
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Micro/Nano Devices for Chemical Analysis" that was published in Micromachines
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.
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Der vorliegende Band 10.2 der Trauregister-Reihe fasst 3146Trau-Einträge aus den Kirchenbüchern des ehemaligen Amtes Niederaula in Hessen zusammen und bietet damit Familienforschern eine ideale Basis, die Herkunft einer Familie überregional zu erforschen. Aus dem Amt Felsberg ist die heutige Gemeinden Niederaula und Kircheim entstanden. Dieser Band enthält die früheren Kirchspiele Frielingen und Kirchheim - die heitige Gemeinde Kirchheim ohne die Ortsteile Kemmerode und Reimboldshausen. Die Gemeinden liegt ca. 20 km südlich/ südwestlich der Stadt Bad Hersfled.