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Marko Kölbl
/
Fritz Trümpi
(eds.)
Music and Democracy
Participatory Approaches
This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.
Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond
A unique story of 19th century medical knowledge, ambition, and controversy – of crossing boundaries and challenging taboos.
Matej Santi
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Elias Berner
(eds.)
Music – Media – History
Re-Thinking Musicology in an Age of Digital Media
Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media. How would history be told if audio-visual documents were used as primary sources?
Monika Ankele
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Benoît Majerus
(eds.)
Material Cultures of Psychiatry
Straitjackets, cribs and binding belts have shaped our ideas of psychiatry in the past. But what do we really know about these and other powerful psychiatric objects?
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.
Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations
Does size matter in the perception of monuments? How can one quantify the monumental? This volume considers these questions in an interdisciplinary approach.
Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the question of the construction and transfer of knowledge about man and nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
History's Queer Stories
Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
History's Queer Stories disrupts seemingly well-established knowledge of the Second World War and its literary negotiation when adding homosexuality to the battlefield.
Sissy Helff
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Stefanie Michels
(eds.)
Global Photographies
Memory – History – Archives
This compilation connects photography to global practices in historic perspective. Colonial and postcolonial photography is presented as an entangled and contested site.
Congoism
Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
Congoism radically deconstructs the many dismissive discourses on today's Democratic Republic of the Congo in the works of U.S. intellectuals.