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WHAT IS THERE TO SEE? That was the question the authors of this book, Elke and Niko Rollman, heard all the time when explaining their photographic project. The answer is LOOK AGAIN, this book will encourage its readers to see the London Underground in a different light. There is indeed a multitude of images on offer, ranging from architecture to technology, from old design classics to modern art. For anyone interested in the history of the London Underground, spanning over 150 years, this is the book for you. Once you discover the beauty of this particular underworld, it can turn your daily routine into an exciting and almost endless trail of new impressions. The authors also want to encoura...
WHAT IS THERE TO SEE? That was the question the authors of this book, Elke and Niko Rollman, heard all the time when explaining their photographic project. The answer is LOOK AGAIN, this book will encourage its readers to see the London Underground in a different light. There is indeed a multitude of images on offer, ranging from architecture to technology, from old design classics to modern art. For anyone interested in the history of the London Underground, spanning over 150 years, this is the book for you. Once you discover the beauty of this particular underworld, it can turn your daily routine into an exciting and almost endless trail of new impressions. The authors also want to encoura...
This book explores the way in which the legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands has been turned into heritage (or, conversely, neglected) over the last 70 years. Once seen as the ‘taint of the mark of the beast’, the perception of much of what the Germans left behind has slowly changed from being despised and reviled, buried underground or dumped at sea, to being reclaimed, restored, highly valued and treated as ‘heritage’. This book examines the journey of various aspects of this heritage, exploring the role of each post-war generation in picking at the scar of occupation, refusing to let it heal or fade. By discovering and interpreting anew their once-hated legacy, e...
Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help to better understand new global forms of democracy in action.
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities.
Von der oktroyierten Demokratie zur demokratischen Bürgergesellschaft - so ließe sich der Weg der Bundesrepublik beschreiben. Mit dem Beitritt der DDR zur Bundesrepublik im Jahre 1990 ist die Bundesrepublik vor die historische Aufgabe gestellt, die Integration einerTeilgesellschaft ohne demokratische Traditionen unter wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Krisenbedingungen zu vollziehen. Die politischen und institutionellen Bedingungen für Stabilität, politische Kontinuität und die Entwicklung einer demokratischen Bürgergesellschaft in der Bundesrepublik stehen im Zentrum der Betrachtung. Im Kontrast dazu werden die krisenhafte Entwicklung und gescheiterte Modernisierung des politischen Systems der DDR und der Umbruch des Jahres 1989 dargestellt. Breiten Raum nehmen die verfassungspolitischenund politisch-institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen des Vereinigungsprozesses und die politischen Verwerfungen nach der deutschen Einheit ein.
Après avoir raconté l'émergence et les évolutions récentes de l'archéologie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, discipline scientifique qui met ses chercheurs et ses méthodes au service d'une histoire interdisciplinaire, Vincent Carpentier présente, dans une synthèse inédite, les grandes catégories de vestiges conservés ou mis au jour sur les théâtres de ce conflit majeur. En premier lieu, il aborde les ouvrages défensifs ou logistiques – lignes fortifiées de l'Atlantique au Pacifique, aérodromes, bases de missiles, de U-Boote, abris, etc. –, dans lesquels le béton et l'acier occupent une place de choix. Puis il s'intéresse aux vestiges polymorphes des champs de bataille pr...
Wie können Menschen zu Hause bleiben, die kein Zuhause haben? Obdach- und wohnungslose Menschen waren mit am stärksten von der COVID-19-Pandemie betroffen, wurden aber lange von der Politik übersehen. Apelle wie unter dem Hashtag StayAtHome wirkten ihnen gegenüber geradezu zynisch. Auch in der Forschungslandschaft fand die Situation dieser Menschen bisher wenig Berücksichtigung. Die Beiträger*innen nehmen sich dieser Lücke an und bündeln den derzeitigen Forschungsstand zum sozialen Phänomen der Obdach- und Wohnungslosigkeit sowie daran angrenzende Themengebiete in pandemischen Zeiten. Ein Blick zurück lohnt sich, um aus dieser Zeit zu lernen und für künftige Pandemien besser gewappnet zu sein.