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Seebäderforschung als eigenständiges wissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld gibt es erst seit den 1990er Jahren. Mit "Seebadsaison" wird ein Werk vorgelegt, das den Leser die Besonderheiten und Geheimnisse des Kulturraums Seebad - ausgehend von den Umbrüchen in den Seebädern der DDR-Ostseeküste ab den 1990er Jahren - entdecken lässt. Der breit gefasste historische Rahmen des Buchs vermittelt - über fünf politische Formationen der deutschen Historie hinweg - ein umfangreiches Bild des Heil- und Kurbadens und der europäischen Körperreinigungsriten und -sitten, auch vor dem Hintergrund von Technik- und Ideengeschichte.
English summary: This book details the cultural history of the Danube from 1740 to 1875, with the main focus centered on that section of the river which flowed through a great part of the territory of the Habsburg Empire, from whom the central course of the river served as a conduit of traffic as well as of culture. In particular, this book is concerned with that part of the Danube which acquired strategic importance for Austrian politics and economy after the wars against the Ottoman Empire. This study asks in what way the Danube differentiated itself from other great rivers of Europe and how it influenced neighboring territories in their material and immaterial characteristics. The develop...
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The point of departure for this collection is a translation of excerpts from Zwischenstadt by Thomas Sieverts.
Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD "Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring, grappling with, arguing about, and learning from this absolutely fascinating book."-JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR, Necessary Losses and Imperfect Control "Written with brilliance and insight, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision takes us on a daring, at times chilling, journey to the early years of psychoanalysis, revealing both the human weaknesses and the professional triumphs of its founder. . . . Cutting away the accretions of fabrication and rom...
Wer arbeitet an welchen Themen in Deutschland? Diese Frage ist für alle Historiker(innen) lebenswichtig, die ein neues Thema in Angriff nehmen. Die Antwort findet sich im "Index der Forschung". Wer erforscht was zur Geschichte Lateinamerikas? Anlässlich der zweihundertjährigen Unabhängigkeit von zehn lateinamerikanischen Staaten gibt das aktuelle Jahrbuch im Berichtsteil einen Überblick über die Historische Lateinamerikaforschung in Deutschland. Der "Index der Forschung" ist online verfügbar: www.historische-bibliographie.de und wird ständig aktualisiert.
The only listing of historic persons and birth, deaths and affiliations for western Canadian native peoples and fur trade workers for the Fur Trade eras of 1600 to 1900.
Thinking about and relating to the environment – what the Germans call Umwelt, i.e., the world that surrounds us – in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth century on voyages of discovery to then unknown parts of the world. For some explorers, discovery meant the fundamental confirmation of their own superiority vis-à-vis primitive peoples and primitive natures; for others it resulted in a shake-up of their belief in the superiority of European civilization in the face of the achievements of other civilizations, or in the face of spectacular nature scene...