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Anna-Brigitte Schlittler
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Katharina Tietze
(eds.)
Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
In the 1930s, shoes became fashionable objects with wide consequences for design and industrial production. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution.
»Truth« and Fiction
Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature
Analyses of conspirational thinking in Eastern European cultures and literatures.
Fictions of Legibility
The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin
This monograph focuses on the human body as a symbolic medium through which novelistic literature negotiated its identity vis-à-vis other disciplines.
Jens Herlth
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Edward M. Swiderski
(eds.)
Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas
Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond
The first English-language collection of essays on the intellectual and cultural contexts of the works of the great Polish writer and philosopher.
Mario Dunkel
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Sina A. Nitzsche
(eds.)
Popular Music and Public Diplomacy
Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
From Jazz to Hip-Hop – This book illuminates the use of popular music in international relations and its repercussions from the 20th century until the present.
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. The contributions focus on such different implementations such as faked traditions, imposters, identity theft and hoaxes in different contexts. They scrutinize the bonds and borders between original and forgery, and turn out their epistemic capability.
Jörg Rogge
(ed.)
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice
Historical Perspectives
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice.