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In the Kingdom of Shoes
In the Kingdom of Shoes tells the story of the pioneering Bata Company, which created a fascinating company culture as it globalized industrial shoe production.
A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles
Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves, and prisons have become staples of memorial museums, exhibited to the public as material testimony in order to evoke sympathy and promote human rights. How do these objects take on such power, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of deploying them for political purposes? A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles examines how artifacts of atrocities circulate and, in so doing, sheds new light on the institutions and social processes tha...
Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’
In the midst of a contentious atmosphere of the interwar period, the far-eastern province of Subcarpathian Rus’ attracted the personal curiosity and professional attention of Russian ethnographer and theoretician Petr Bogatyrev and Czech journalist-writer Ivan Olbracht. Both traveled extensively in the region and immersed themselves deeply in the life and culture of the local residents, Carpatho-Rusyns, and Hasidic Jews. Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht explores for the first time in English the legacy they bequeathed in their respective work: Bogatyrev as an apolitical ethnographic collector and theoretician and Olbracht as a passionately committed Communist whose reports and brilliant stories from the region, including Nikola Šuhaj, Brigand, and The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karadjic capture a glimpse of a world destined to change radically as a result of the ravages of war.
Czechoslovakia at the World’s Fairs
Established in 1918, as a new state the First Czechoslovak Republic was keen to project a distinct image. Participation in World Fairs offered the perfect opportunity-. In this comprehensive account of Czechoslovak participation in international exhibitions of the interwar period Marta Filipová looks beyond the sleek façade of the modernist pavilions to examine the intersections of architecture, art and design with commercial interests, state agendas, individual action and the public, offering a complex insight into the production and reception of national displays. The rich collection of images – mainly photographs – provides a close look at the Czechoslovak pavilions. The design, con...
Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century
This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; urban consumer cultures in the Interwar Period; and consumer and advertising cultures in the Soviet Union and its satellite republics. It traces the development of marketing throughout the century, and the changes in society brought about by democratization and the 'Americanization' of consumption. Taken together, the essays gathered here make a valuable contribution to our understanding of consumption and advertising in the region.
Gegen die Welt
Mit Gegen die Welt legt die US-amerikanische Historikerin Tara Zahra eine fantastisch geschriebene Geschichte des antiglobalistischen, antiinternationalistischen Denkens und Handelns in der Zeit zwischen dem Ersten und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg vor. Sie zeigt, wie ein Gemisch aus Nationalismus, Protektionismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit rund um den Globus die Politik und das Denken eroberte. Ihr ebenso packendes wie bedrückendes Porträt einer Welt im Moment ihres Auseinanderbrechens ist auch eine Warnung: Die Ordnung, die wir für selbstverständlich erachten, kann brüchig sein. Schon während der ersten Welle der Globalisierung bildeten sich gefährliche Unterströmungen. Migration und ökonom...
Today We Die a Little
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The definitive biography of one of the greatest, most extraordinary runners and Olympic heroes of all time, from the author of running classic Feet in the Clouds. Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals, set 18 world records, and went undefeated over 10,000 metres for six years. He redefined the boundaries of endurance, training in Army boots, in snow, in sand, in darkness. But his toughness was matched by a spirit of friendship and a joie de vivre that transcended the darkest days of the Cold War. His triumphs put his country on the map, yet when Soviet tanks moved in to crush Czechoslovakia’s new freedoms in 1968, Zátopek paid a heavy personal price for his brave defence of ‘socialism with a human face’. Rehabilitated two decades later, he was a shadow of the man he had been – and the world had all but forgotten him. Today We Die A Little strips away the myths to tell the complex and deeply moving story of the most inspiring Olympic hero of them all.
Kulturelle Souveränität
Kulturelle Souveränität – ist das nicht ein Widerspruch? Lassen sich das flüchtige und prozesshafte Verständnis von Kultur und der häufig monolithisch verstandene Begriff der Souveränität überhaupt sinnvoll zueinander in Bezug setzen? In ihren Beiträgen zu Nation, Religion und Kultur argumentieren die Autorinnen und Autoren zugunsten eines neuen Instruments für die historische Analyse von Souveränitätspraktiken jenseits des Staates. Kulturelle Souveränität erschließt gesellschaftliches und politisches Handeln aus Sicht der jeweiligen Akteure und entwickelt so einen kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugang zu einem zentralen Konzept europäischer Geschichte.
In the Kingdom of Shoes
In the Kingdom of Shoes tells the story of the pioneering Bata Company, which created a fascinating company culture as it globalized industrial shoe production.
In the Kingdom of Shoes
One of the world’s largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, the company Americanized its production model while also trying to Americanize its workforce. It promised a technocratic form of governance in the chaos of postwar Czechoslovakia, and during the Roaring Twenties, it became synonymous with rationalization across Europe and thus a flashpoint for a continent-wide debate. While other companies contracted in response to the Great Depression, Bata did the opposite, becoming the first shoe company to unlock the potential of globalization. ...
