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Traditions Can Be Changed
Tanzanian Nationalist Debates around Decolonizing »Race« and Gender, 1960s-1970s
The dynamic 1960s and 70s in Tanzania – when a society, fractured by colonialism, celebrated freedom and debated unity, solidarity, and equality.
Representations of Global Civility
English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863
Global civility instead of colonial domination: this study provides a striking new perspective on both travel and travel-writing in the long eighteenth century.
Repensar la Revolución del Poncho
Activismo católico y políticas de representación en el espacio andino del Ecuador (1955-1988)
La primera historia integral de la teología de la liberación en Ecuador y su impacto sobre la formación del movimiento indígena.
Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine
Biographies and Geographies
The first collection of studies on queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870-1960).
Concepts of Urban-Environmental History
The history of cities and of the environment are inseparably intertwined. This volume presents concepts and key issues from this field of research.
Berthold Over
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Gesa zur Nieden
(eds.)
Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe
Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics
The musical pastiche of the 18th century reconsidered in a collection of musicological and interdisciplinary essays, written by renowned specialists.
Genealogy of Popular Science
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
Every time has the science communication it deserves. Origins, continuities and transformations of »popular science« analyzed as a recurrent cultural practice.
Monika Ankele
/
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?
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.