This volume addresses a diverse range of contemporary conflicts and crises including the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality... Læs mere
This collection is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the political, social, and intellectual consequences of the efforts to regain German unity.
Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the... Læs mere
From its scattered beginnings in the 1980s the Austrian new wave has developed into a cinema with broad international recognition.
Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across... Læs mere
Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies... Læs mere
Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state... Læs mere
Federico Fellini's script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/6), is published here for the... Læs mere
Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War 'the Holocaust before the Holocaust'. Around one and a half million Armenians... Læs mere
Analyses social movements in the past and in the present Features social movements in both the East and West (Global Europe) Examines social movements as relations between the local, national and global Conducts a transnational social movement analysis across disciplines
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