Provides an insight into understanding the political upheavals in the 20th Century in Germany. Facilitates understanding of the workings of the corrupt Nazi system. Analyses the "Coming to Terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.
The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture... Læs mere
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the 'just-so' stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games.
Ruptures in the Everyday brings together twenty-six interdisciplinary researchers in an innovative, collectively authored work of scholarship that investigates Alltag—everyday life—through such fragmentary experiences.
This volume analyzes the relationships between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations.
Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.
Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this... Læs mere
As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.
Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from... Læs mere
Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.
How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.
Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from... Læs mere