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Citizens into Dishonored Felons
Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights—such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting—as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany’s criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons demonstrates how criminal punishment was never solely a disciplinary measure, but that it reflected a national moral compass that authorities used to dictate the rights to citizenship, honour and trust.
Bulletproof Fashion
In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy has gained public attention: bulletproof fashion. This book examines concerns about security focusing on armored clothing and accessories for civilians. Available for children and adults, such ballistic products include colorful backpacks, elegant suits, sports jackets, feminine dresses, trendy vests, and medical lab coats. These products are paradigmatic of a "fashion of fear"—the practice of outfitting the body with apparel aimed at maximizing personal security. This fashion encourages the emergence of both a fortress body and an armored society. Sutton also explores th...
Feeling Lucky
Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces and architecture were carefully designed to enable a rapid growth of the casino industry and produce experiences on previous unimaginable scale. Feeling Lucky, is a “making of story,” about cities which acquired a strange and captivating allure of mystery around them. It is more than a mere descriptive account, however. Combining urban history, the history of consumption, and sociological appro...
Political Friendship
Between periods of revolution, state repression, and war across Central and Western Europe from the 1840s through the 1860s, German liberals practiced politics beyond the more well-defined realms of voluntary associations, state legislatures, and burgeoning political parties. Political Friendship approaches 19th century German history’s trajectory to unification through the lens of academics, journalists, and artists who formed close personal relationships with one another and with powerful state leaders. Michael Weaver argues that German liberals thought with their friends by demonstrating the previously neglected aspects of political friendship were central to German political culture.
New Perspectives in Book History
New Perspectives in Book History verschijnt ter gelegenheid van het 14de SHARP congres dat in juli 2006 in Leiden en Den Haag plaatsvindt. De Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) is een internationale organisatie met wereldwijd zo’n 1200 leden. Het boek bevat 13 artikelen van zowel jonge als gevestigde boekhistorici uit Nederland en België. De onderwerpen lopen uiteen van de Leuvense Universiteit in de vroegmoderne tijd, 17de-eeuwse marskramers en 20ste-eeuwse uitgeverijen tot de toepassing van modellen uit de bedrijfsgeschiedenis of uit de netwerkanalyse in het moderne boekhistorische onderzoek. In het boek is aandacht voor nieuwe ontdekkingen zoals boekenloterijen en voor de internationale positie van Nederland in het boekenvak. Tezamen vormen deze artikelen een staalkaart van het moderne boekhistorische onderzoek in de Lage Landen.
Feeling Political
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its effects. The sources range from parliamentary buildings and social movements, to images and speeches of presidents, from fascist cemeteries to the International Criminal Court. Both the timeframe and the geographical focus have been chosen to highlight the increasingly participatory character of nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics, which is inconceivable without the work of emotions.
Wiederherstellbare Ehre
Ist der Ruf erst ruiniert ... lässt er sich auch wiederherstellen? Die soziale Reintegration von Delinquenten in der frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft des Heiligen Römischen Reichs deutscher Nation war durchaus möglich. Am Beispiel der Ehrrestitutionssuppliken am Reichshofrat Kaiser Rudolfs II. (1576-1612) analysiert Florian Zeilinger die Wiederherstellung verlorengegangener Ehre durch kaiserliche Gnade. Er fokussiert auf die kommunikativen Praktiken und Strategien der Supplikanten und des Reichshofrats, ihre Argumente für die Ehrrestitution sowie die darin erkennbaren Ehrkonzepte. Die analytische Konzeptualisierung von Ehre als Sozialkredit erweist sich dabei als erkenntnisfördernd.
Shakespeare Survey
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
The Politics of Humiliation
The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women collaborators in occupied France to the social media pillorying of the 21st century.
