Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have... Læs mere
These essays uncover the distinctive elements of 'modern' German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II, while at the same time advancing alternative readings of events before 1914.
Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the... Læs mere
When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were... Læs mere
Explores the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. Working across established disciplines and methodological divides,... Læs mere
"Death of the Father" is a comparative examination of the crises in symbolic identification and national traumas that have resulted from the defeat and/or implosion of regimes in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Communist Eastern Europe.