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The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book reexamines the politics of disability in interwar and socialist Czechoslovakia as embedded into nation building, recruited to legitimize diverse forms of structural violence against people with disabilities and ethnic minorities.
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Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The essays in this book highlight how shapeshifting cannot be studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topics, such as the supernatural, monstrosity, animality, gender and identity.
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Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this book, the medical history of the liver is traced through the ages through an examination of historical texts on the organ’s functions and properties, parallel to the art movements in which the fascinating iconography of Prometheus is reviewed.
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The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces: 1750-1918 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book examines ephemeral exhibition spaces from 1750-1918, focusing on domestic interiors and public exhibitions that displayed national/imperial identity alongside foreign otherness.
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The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal.
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The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 and Its Global Visualization: Political Iconography and Transcultural Negotiation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing the global image discourse related to the event by bringing together visualizations from three decades and four continents.
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The Visual Memory of Protest (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of photography in this memory-activism nexus.
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Reading Memory Sites Through Signs: Hiding into Landscape (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The book describes the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen case studies of memory... Læs mere
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Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book examines the intersection of translation and the culture of gift-giving in early modern England, arguing that this intersection allowed women to subvert dominant modes of discourse through acts of linguistic and inter-semiotic translation and conventions of gifting.
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Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious... Læs mere
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Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650: Reading Debates over Risk and Reward (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England’s earliest global trading ventures.
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The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This project offers an original and comprehensive analysis of an iconic historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) writing in the age of collapse.
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