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Science and the Secrets of Nature
By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines.
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Computing Legacies
A media history of simulation that contextualizes our digital heritage and the history of computing. In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a media history of simulation to excavate three salient aspects of digital culture. Firstly, he profiles simulation as cultural technique, enabling symbolic work and foregrounding hypothetical literacy. Secondly, he positions simulation as crucial for the preservation of cultural memory, where modeling, emulation, and serious play are constitutive in how we relate to our mediated history. And lastly, despite suggestions that we may already live in a simulation, he interrogates how simulation can serve as critique of the computer age. In tracing our ...
The Lion and the Eagle
The German and Spanish-speaking worlds have, over the centuries, developed an intrinsic relationship, one which predates the Habsburg dynasty and the Renaissance and baroque periods. The cross-fertilization and challenges have been both fruitful and complex with novel inventions surfacing in one culture often achieving their greatest prosperity in the other: Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation stimulated a response in Spain that was to define the European Counter Reformation; Spanish Baroque writers were seminal in the development of German Romanticism; Carl Christian Friedrich Krause and other nineteenth-century liberals provided the foundation for Spanish reformist efforts on the one ha...
Österreichische JournalistInnen und PublizistInnen im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg 1936 – 1939
Dieses Buch analysiert den soziopolitischen Prozess und die mediale Praxis im Spanischen Bürgerkriegs 1936 - 39. Besonders berücksichtigt werden die Medien der Internationalen Brigaden, ihre Entwicklung, Struktur und Funktionen anhand des soziopolitischen Kontextes innerhalb des Phänomens republikanischer Frontmedien. Zudem wurden 21 österreichische JournalistInnen erfasst, die aktiv an der Guerra Civil teilnahmen. Ihre Lebenswege wurden im Rahmen des Themenkreises Exilpublizistik analysiert.
Angstzonen
Die Studie untersucht die Erscheinungsformen rechtsextremer Dominanz im öffentlichen Raum („Angstzonen“). Auf der Basis von Feldbeobachtungen und Interviews mit den wichtigsten lokalen Akteuren wird das Auftreten rechter Gesellungen an verschiedenen Orten in vier ostdeutschen Städten beschrieben. Eine Medienanalyse rekonstruiert zudem die öffentliche Wahrnehmung dieser als „Angstzonen“ oder „national befreiten Zonen“ beschriebenen Räume.
The Naval Flank of the Western Front
Belgium was once described as the 'dagger held at the throat of England', a collection of provinces that had long been a critical factor in British foreign policy, and the traditional concern was that Belgium, and especially the Flanders coast, would fall into the hands of the strongest continental power. In 1914, Germany's occupation of Belgium brought about the spectre of enemy ships only seventy miles from the British coast, and the coast of Flanders became, effectively, the naval flank of the Western Front.?Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was one of the few within the German navy who recognised the strategic potential of the three ports of Ostend, Zeebrugge and Brugges; that they were closer ...
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