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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.
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.
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.
Judith Mengler
/
Kristina Müller-Bongard
(eds.)
Doing Cultural History
Insights, Innovations, Impulses
Doing Cultural History sheds light on the inspirational power of the concepts of Cultural History to young academics.
Jacob Moleschott – A Transnational Biography
Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This biography of Jacob Moleschott enlightens the entanglement of science, politics, and popularization in 19th-century Europe.
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.
American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire
A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 1820-1898
Hami Inan Gümüs ascertains and analyzes the conceptual metaphor networks in American missionary texts from the Ottoman mission (1820-1898).