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Harco Willems
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Jan-Michael Dahms
(eds.)
The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt
Ancient Egypt as we know it with all its wonders like pyramids and temples wouldn't have existed without the Nile. The first recent attempt to explain the importance of this natural phenomenon for the culture of pharaonic Egypt.
Roman Charity
Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture
»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of Pero, the daughter who breastfed her father, as a figure of excess, queer desire, and dissent in early modern patriarchy.
Bonded Labour
Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century)
After slavery, indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap labour. This volume investigates global variants of bonded labour that exist until today.
Gesa zur Nieden
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Berthold Over
(eds.)
Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe
Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges
In the book musicologists and historians examine music migrations between elite and everyday musicians' mobilities during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Elisabeth Cheauré
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Regine Nohejl
(eds.)
Humour and Laughter in History
Transcultural Perspectives
By using examples from different cultures and different historical epochs this book shows how humour can be used as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis.
Malte Griesse
(ed.)
From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War
Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations
The early-modern media-revolution influenced both the very course of revolts, and their representations. Since authorities persecuted dissident views on such delicate events, the book focuses mainly on cross-border depictions.
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.
The Transatlantic Sixties
Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade
The 1960s from a transatlantic perspective: The book comprises critical essays on transatlantic and globalized American studies, focused on politics and culture.
Birgit Schwelling
(ed.)
Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
This volume examines the role of civil society in local and transnational reconciliation initiatives in 20th-century Europe, challenging the conventional view of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process.
Nina Möllers
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Karin Zachmann
(eds.)
Past and Present Energy Societies
How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy shapes history. The volume analyzes discourses of energy and their materialization into technical systems, media and consumer practice.