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The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu
How can democracy be learned? And how successful are we at teaching and learning it?This book does three things: First, it explains why civic education is important for the growth and survival of (any type of) democracy. Second, it focuses on a particular country, which is in many ways representative for the general problems of post-communist transition to democracy. It carefully examines the practical reality of civic education in Romania both at the level of general schooling and in higher education. Emphasis lies on the ways in which the ideals of civic education clash with post-communist realities and on the obstacles that continue to exist in this transition country to the democratic em...
Liberty and the Search for Identity
Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology, it was also the first secular movement to have an international presence. The scholarly articles in this collection, skillfully edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes, examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and analyze various relationships between liberalisms and nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts, nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities, traditions and modernities, images of the self and the others, modernization strategies and identity creations. This volume provides an important historical analysis that is essential toward understanding the questions and motivations of liberalism in the European Union today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to both historiography and contemporary politics.
Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity
This book explores historical discourses on the various forms of identity production in film that are based on memory and shows how these narratives get 'mediated' by (documentary) film. Most films about the Balkans produced in the last two decades were in fact made in response to immediate concerns about the economic crises and political conflicts that struck the region during the 1990s. These new forms of communication about history mostly show a rather self-critical approach. The book's case studies give the reader a clear idea of how processes informing identity formations are directly launched and later on maintained in peoples' real and everyday lives. Thus, the case studies' principal...
Central and East European Politics
Now in a fully updated edition, this essential text explores the other half of Europe—the new and future members of the European Union along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage. Clear and comprehensive, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the transformations and realities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Ukraine. Divided into two parts, the book presents a set of comparative country case studies as well as thematic chapters on key issues, including EU and NATO expansion, the economic transition and its social ramifications, the role of women, persistent problems of ethnicity and nationalism, and political reform. ...
Nicolae Ceauşescu
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Clio in the Balkans
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Phytochemicals – Biosynthesis, Function and Application
The 44th volume of RAP contains articles based on work presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America. They were selected to showcase exciting examples of current research in plant chemistry, to highlight the diversity in this field spanning analytical chemistry, ethnobotany, biosynthesis, bioactivity, chemical ecology and biotechnology. Specifically, the perspectives paper by Zerbe and Bohlmann summarizes recent findings on the genes and enzymes involved in conifer resin biosynthesis, while papers by Timoshenko et al. and Guerrero-Analco et al. highlight progress on toxic lectins and bioactive phytochemicals from Canadian forest plants used by Aboriginals...
Lampi di luce sul niello longobardo. Processi artigianali, analisi scientifiche e studio delle fonti
Questo contributo si basa sulla ricostruzione sperimentale dei processi artigianali. I reperti di origine sono la fibula ad arco CBTn4328, datata alla metà del VI secolo, facente parte delle collezioni archeologiche del Castello del Buonconsiglio di Trento e la placchetta a “S” in argento con decorazione a motivo equino proveniente dalla tomba 4 di Trezzo d’Adda (MI) (inv. n. ST.47899), datata alla metà del VII secolo e conservata presso il Civico Museo Archeologico di Milano. Durante il restauro dei due reperti metallici longobardi è stata rilevata la presenza di cloruro di argento, precisamente sotto forma di piccoli punti presenti a distanza regolare sui decori niellati. Una presenza da ritenere verosimilmente intenzionale con funzione decorativa oppure sigillante e/o di protezione di un tratto particolarmente elaborato e più esposto all’usura. Nell’articolo si documenta la ricostruzione sperimentale del niello – I reperti – Il niello e la ricostruzione sperimentale – Il cloruro di argento – Note – Bibliografia – Abstract in English Di Matteo Alessandro Pacini Estratto da Kermes 92 (Ottobre-Dicembre 2013) – pagine 57-63
