Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common ...histories until today. However, many of the manifold connections, exchanges, and entanglements between the areas have not received thorough scholarly attention yet. The contributors to this volume address this by bringing together various innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. They thereby further the understanding of the two areas' entangled histories and diversify prevailing concepts and narratives. Through this, the volume also offers enriching insights into the global history of the early 20th century.
Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically ...from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium — border regions detached from the German Empire after the First World War. It demonstrates how newly configured countries envisioned borderland schools and language learning as tools for realizing the imagined peaceful Europe that underscored the political geography of the interwar period.
Der Rechtsextremismus begleitet die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik seit ihren Anfängen. Dazu gehören u.a. Parteien, im Hintergrund arbeitende Kulturorganisationen, Jugendbünde, aber auch militante und ...terroristische Gruppierungen. Die Existenz vielfältiger Organisationen und Zusammenschlüsse, ihre inhaltliche Ausrichtung und die Vernetzung untereinander waren und sind in hohem Maß auch durch das Engagement einzelner Akteure und Akteurinnen geprägt. Der Band versammelt biografische Studien zu 24 einschlägigen Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten des bundesdeutschen Rechtsextremismus. Der akteurszentrierte Ansatz vertieft die geschichtswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über diese „besondere politische Kultur" (Peter Dudek/Hans-Gerd Jaschke) in Deutschland. Die vorgestellten Lebensläufe stehen exemplarisch für unterschiedliche Alterskohorten, Sozialisationsverläufe und politische Ausrichtungen im rechtsextremen Milieu. Gleichzeitig führen sie eindrücklich vor Augen, in welcher Weise politische und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen die „Erfolgsfähigkeit" der hier vorgestellten Akteurinnen und Akteure mitbestimmten. ; Der Rechtsextremismus begleitet die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik seit ihren Anfängen. Dazu gehören u.a. Parteien, im Hintergrund arbeitende Kulturorganisationen, Jugendbünde, aber auch militante und terroristische Gruppierungen. Die Existenz vielfältiger Organisationen und Zusammenschlüsse, ihre inhaltliche Ausrichtung und die Vernetzung untereinander waren und sind in hohem Maß auch durch das Engagement einzelner Akteure und Akteurinnen geprägt. Der Band versammelt biografische Studien zu 24 einschlägigen Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten des bundesdeutschen Rechtsextremismus. Der akteurszentrierte Ansatz vertieft die geschichtswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über diese „besondere politische Kultur" (Peter Dudek/Hans-Gerd Jaschke) in Deutschland. Die vorgestellten Lebensläufe stehen exemplarisch für unterschiedliche Alterskohorten, Sozialisationsverläufe und politische Ausrichtungen im rechtsextremen Milieu. Gleichzeitig führen sie eindrücklich vor Augen, in welcher Weise politische und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen die „Erfolgsfähigkeit" der hier vorgestellten Akteurinnen und Akteure mitbestimmten.
While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been ...paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.
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The nineteenth century has been called an age of monuments. In some places even one piece made a difference. This book is a study of the intellectual background and physical making of Finland’s first ...public sculpture, the statue of Professor Henrik Gabriel Porthan by Carl Eneas Sjöstrand. The idealised but sombre Porthan was born under the influence of German neoclassicism. Development on the project was slow but sure. The Swedish artist had to be supported over three years while he was putting together his first monumental piece in Munich and Rome, after which came another three years wait before the cast arrived to Finland. The bronze sculpture, commissioned by the Finnish Literary Society and raised by public subscriptions from people of all classes, was unveiled in the city of Turku in September 1864. Finns took some pride in the fact that, unlike other nations that had raised monuments to kings and generals, here the first place was given to a scholar. In this study Sjöstrand’s pioneering bronze is placed in a wider context and compared with works by his precursors and contemporaries in the international sculptor colony of Rome.
It is difficult to imagine food today without flavorings, whether natural, synthetic, or artificial. But at the same time, they are substances that society is viewing increasingly critically and ...whose chemical and industrial roots are under scrutiny. A History with Taste tells the story of flavor production and regulation, discussing the potential naturalization of synthetic flavorings.
What is the meaning of studying the history of an Armenian librarian and his books in Paris during the interwar period, and their fate under German Occupation? In a historiography dominated by the ...themes of genocide, statehood, migrations and the diaspora, there is hardly any place for books, and even less for libraries. However, their study sheds light on the structuring of an Armenian transnational space in the 20th century. It questions how writings and places might become national heritage in the frame of emigration. Finally, it allows us to explore the reconstruction of a sense of nation in exile, in a historical context shaped by annihilation and dispersion.
Denkmalpflege und -schutz befanden sich in der DDR in einem Gefüge divergierender Interessen, die es wiederholt auszuhandeln galt. Franziska Klemstein präsentiert ein differenziertes Bild ...denkmalpflegerischer Denk- und Arbeitsweisen sowie regionale Unterschiede im Zeitraum von 1952 bis 1975. Sie veranschaulicht das Handlungsgefüge der institutionellen Denkmalpflege im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kultur und Bauwesen und rückt exemplarisch Handlungsmöglichkeiten und die Auswirkungen konkreter Entscheidungen ausgewählter Akteur*innen wie Ludwig Deiters, Fritz Rothstein und Käthe Rieck ins Zentrum der Untersuchung.
Tracing a practice called "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally ...through popular open-world videogames. Case studies of the Grand Theft Auto, Watch Dogs, and Red Dead Redemption franchises highlight different figurations of this phenomenon.
Described and discussed here are three ceramic stoves from Esztergom Castle, all made during the period after the recapture of the castle from the Turks by the Christian forces in 1686. All three ...ceramic stoves were made by highly skilled foreign stove-builders.