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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.
Jörg Rogge
(ed.)
Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle
Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages
Fighting and warfare is hardly imaginable without the use of the "resource" body. The body techniques of fighters and their perception take centre stage in this book.
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.