Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)
German travellers, explorers, missionaries and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic in Europe and elsewhere from the 17th until the 19th century. However, until now, no English-language study or collective volume has been dedicated to their representations of the Arctic. Possibly due to linguistic barriers, this corpus has not been sufficiently taken into account in transnational and circumpolar approaches to the fast-growing field of Arctic Studies. This volume serves to heighten awareness about the importance of these writings in view of the history of the Far North. The chapters gathered here offer critical readings of manuscripts and publications, including travelogues, natural histories of the Arctic, newspaper articles and scholarly texts based on first-hand observations, as well as works of fiction. The sources are considered in their historical context, as political, religious, social, economic and cultural aspects are discussed in relation to discourses about the Arctic in general. The volume opens with a spirited preface by Professor Jean Malaurie, France’s most distinguished Arctic specialist and author of The Last Kings of Thule (1955).
Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765)
This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and countries. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the reach of the book beyond its initial purpose as a record of missionary work, and into secular and political fields beyond Greenland and Germany. The chapters also reveal how the book contributed to broader discussions and conceptualizations of Greenland as part of the Atlantic world. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume allows for a layered reading of Cranz’s book that demonstrates how different meanings could be drawn from the book in different contexts and how the book resonated throughout time and space. It also makes the broader argument that the construction of the Artic in the eighteenth century broadened our understanding of the Atlantic.
TRANSPOSITIONES 2022 Vol. 1, Issue 2: Intraconnectedness and World-making: Technologies, Bodies, Matters
In his 1978 book Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking.” The new-materialistic approach to the potential for meaning of extra-human materiality and its multidimensional entanglements and the intraconnectedness shifts the concept of world-making into new perspectives of interpretation. In the categories of Karen Barad’s “agential realism,” it applies to practices of knowledge production and to a diffractive (re)configuration of the world’s matter and its meaning. “World-making” gains a further specific expression in Donna Haraway’s concept of “worlding” which shows the intraactive entanglement of matter, substance, meaning, storytelling and thinking on the fundamental level of the polysemic linguistic tissue itself.
Strategic Imaginations
Imaginations of female rule and the imaginative strategies of women rulers What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ? Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the pas...
Foreign Correspondence
Though writers and readers have long agreed that travel does not only broaden the mind, but that it is also useful to report on such an experience, the question of what to report on and how has remained a matter of debate. To think of travel and travel writing as “foreign correspondence” is to apply, metaphorically, a phrase that has its own complex and overlapping history in journalism, politics, and international culture. The chapters of this volume focus on this notion, seen here as a dual problematic oscillating between the private and the public, whether as letters or other forms of writing sent from abroad. From Mandeville’s notorious Travels to fin de siècle Hispanic writing, t...
Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe
Which works and tenets of early modern natural law reached East-Central Europe, and how? How was it received, what influence did it have? And how did theorists and users of natural law in East- Central Europe enrich the pan-European discourse? This volume is pioneering in two ways; it draws the east of the Empire and its borderlands into the study of natural law, and it adds natural law to the practical discourse of this region. Drawing on a large amount of previously neglected printed or handwritten sources, the authors highlight the impact that Grotius, Pufendorf, Heineccius and others exerted on the teaching of politics and moral philosophy as well as on policies regarding public law, codification praxis, or religious toleration. Contributors are: Péter Balázs, Ivo Cerman, Karin Friedrich, Gábor Gángó, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Knud Haakonssen, Steffen Huber, Borbála Lovas, Martin P. Schennach, and József Simon.
Die Nieder- und Oberlausitz – Konturen einer Integrationslandschaft
Eingebettet in die großen konfessionellen und politischen Konflikte des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, werden die die Nieder- und Oberlausitz maßgeblich bestimmenden adligen und städtischen Landstände und ihre »Freiheiten«, die mühevolle Herausbildung multikonfessioneller Landschaften, die Ausbildung der Standesherrschaften und die Ausgestaltung von Residenzen (u.a. Dobrilugk) sowie abgrenzende und grenzübergreifende Austauschvorgänge vorgestellt. Es handelt sich um den zweiten Band der dreiteiligen Publikation »Die Nieder- und Oberlausitz – Konturen einer Integrationslandschaft«: Brandenburgische Landesgeschichte grenzübergreifend – dieser nachbarschafts-geschichtlichen Perspekti...
Tro og samfund i Grønland
Da den norske præst Hans Egede i 1721 drog mod Grønland, var han bogstaveligt talt en mand med en mission. Han ville gøre indbyggerne på Grønland kristne, og det var lykkedes ham at få Frederik 4.s opbakning til sit livs kald. Egede og hans familie slog sig ned i omegnen af Nuuk, hvor han kæmpede for at omvende de omkringboende inuitter. Men da Egede i 1736 forlod Grønland igen, var størstedelen af menigheden, inklusive Egedes kone, døde af en epidemi, og han lå i dyb strid med sig selv, om han virkelig havde udført Guds gerning. Tro og samfund i Grønland kaster nyt lys over Egedes mission og belyser, hvordan der også i dag står strid om hans virke. Nogle ser ham som en tyrannisk undertrykker af et oprindeligt folks særegne kultur og som repræsentant for Danmarks kolonisering. Andre betragter ham som en befrier med et nyt menneskesyn, der civiliserede og samlede Grønland og beredte grunden for et moderne velfærdssamfund 300 år senere.
Upperisaq inuiaqatigiillu
Norgemiu palasi Hans Egede 1721-mi Kalaallit Nunaannut aallarami eqqortumik oqaatigissagaanni aalajangersimasumik anguniagaqarluni taamaaliorpoq Kalaallit Nunaanni innuttaasut kristumiunngortinniarpai, iluatsippaalu inuunermini suliassatut misigisimasaminut Frederik 4-annit tapersersorneqarnissani. Egede aamma ilaqutai Nuup eqqaani najugaqalerput, tamaani eqqaani najugaqartut inuit kristumiunngortinniarlugit ilungersuutigalugu. Kisianni Egedep Kalaallit Nunaat 1736-mi qimakkammagu ilagiit amerlanerpaartaat, aamma Egedep nulia Gertrud Rask, nappaalallutik toqusimapput, imminullu assortortorujussuuvoq ilumut Guutip suliassaritaa suliarisimanerlugu. Kalaallit Nunaanni upperisaq inuiaqatigiillu Egedep ajoqersuiartorneranik nutaamik paasissutissiivoq, suliaata ullumikkut akerleriissutaanera pillugu. Ilaasa Danmark sinnerlugu nunasiaatilittut nunap inoqqaavinik, immikkuullarissumik kulturilinnik, naqisimannittutut peqqarniitsutut isigaat. Allat aniguisitsisutut inuppalaartutut isiginiarpaat, Kalaallit Nunaannik siuarsaasutut ataqatigiissitsisutullu taamalu ukiut 300-t qaangiunneranni inuiaqatigiit atugartuunngorsakkat nutaaliaasut aqqutissiuisuattut.
