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Thieves in Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Thieves in Court

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

Internationale Bibliographie zur Papiergeschichte (IBP)
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 2448

Internationale Bibliographie zur Papiergeschichte (IBP)

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Enlightened Nationalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Enlightened Nationalism

Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the conventional notion that Prussia lagged behind Western Europe in its political development, demonstrating that Prussian leaders embraced a distinctive program of political modernization in response to their country's defeat by Napoleon in 1806-1807. Building on the eighteenth-century tradition of enlightened absolutism, Prussian leaders attempted to unite a rationalized monarchy with a politically active "nation," thus mobilizing the populace to resist the French oppressors. The new culture of "enlightened nationalism...

Working Through Colonial Collections
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Working Through Colonial Collections

Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin’s Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum’s ...

Eating Nature in Modern Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

Eating Nature in Modern Germany

A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850.

The Cultural Politics of Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Cultural Politics of Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy. It discusses both the central as well as local levels and contextualizes EU policies with programmes of other European organisations, such as the Council of Europe. By asking what "Europe" actually means for European cultural policy, the book goes beyond the confines of official organizations and the political sphere, to discuss the contribution, impact and appropriation among a more diverse group of actors and participants, such as tra...

Mobs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

Mobs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Mobs are complex, often an enigma. The topic of Mobs presented here serves as a means to address not only an important historical as well as present consideration, but to provide multiple disciplinary methods and viewpoints, bringing the past into the present.

A Companion to Folklore
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 690

A Companion to Folklore

A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

Central Europe in the High Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 549

Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.