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Germany 1916-23
During the last four decades the German Revolution 1918/19 has only attracted little scholarly attention. This volume offers new cultural historical perspectives, puts this …
Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck – Historical Semantics and Beyond
Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of …
American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire – A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 1820–1898
This book is a metaphor based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the Ottoman Empire between …
Jacob Moleschott – A Transnational Biography – Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth–Century Europe
This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in German, Italian, Dutch, French, and …
Congoism – Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in …
From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War – Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations
The Arab spring, protest movements in the EU, Russia, Turkey or elsewhere, are often labeled as twitter-revolutions. A crucial role is attributed to the new media, coverage of …
Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones – World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged …
Material Cultures of Psychiatry
In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used …
Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations
When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters - or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as …
Accidents and the State – Understanding Risks in the 20th Century
The beginning of the 20th century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. While accidents had traditionally been considered as inevitable, modern societies debated …
Peripheral Memories
After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus …