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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.
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.
Thomas Lahusen
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Schamma Schahadat
(eds.)
Postsocialist Landscapes
Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang
This volume explores the traces of socialism in very different parts of the world today, from East Central Europe to North Korea, in private as well as in public spaces.
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.
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
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.
Judith Mengler
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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.
The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs
The Lock-and-Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
By reconstructing the history of the lock-and-key analogy in fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, this book reveals new aspects of the mutual interactions between analogy usage, model building and research development.