Segre (Hispanic studies, U. of Cambridge, UK) examines the ways in which the interdisciplinary, the eclectic and the combinatory have served a strategic purpose in the development of a self-aware and
Politicians argued that providing a Croatian homeland would develop national identity and prevent ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and virulent nationalism. However, those who were more or less forced to
Buckler seeks reasons for why Gypsies and local official officials in northern England are not able to reach agreement on what seem tractable if not easy conflicts even when everyone is clearly making
The life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval stand at the centre of the book. It sets out in 1
In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant civil society. However, the simultaneou
Ardener (international development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford U., UK) and Moore (international human resource management, Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) bring together seven essays on how indiv
Spicka (history, Shippensburg U) explores the electoral messaging and public relations campaigns that were used by West Germany's Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union party coalition to s
Historians and other scholars examine contributions by the Germany Protestant denomination and its members to the European colonization of the New World during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The t
The 18 essays on German history presented here by Biess (modern German and European history, U. of California at San Diego, US), Roseman (Jewish studies, U. of Indiana, US), and Schissler (modern hist
In this comparative history of the construction and collapse of the modern colonial empires, Etemad (history, U. of Geneva and U. of Lausanne, Switzerland) analyzes the tools of empire that allowed fo
For anthropologists and psychoanalysts, Mimica (anthropology, U. of Sydney, Australia) brings together nine essays on psychoanalysis and ethnography that focus on the human culture as explored through
Postcoloniality, as defined by Majumdar (francophone studies, U. of Portsmouth, UK) for the purposes of this study, is concerned with the transformation of old ideological and cultural forms and the d
The goals of many indigenous cultural centers and museums include preserving the heritage of the local population but also may involve capturing the tourist market. As they attempt to attain both goal
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political
A January 2002 conference in Berlin drew historians from several European countries and the US who have studied the Holocaust in particular and World War II in general to discuss the theft of Jewish p
To what extent do historians, merely by constructing a European history as a framework for analyzing events in and between countries, further the political agenda of European integration? That is, doe
Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. T
At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains
France's response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation, 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation's historians. The consensus amongst le
From often disparate, sometimes parallel, and occasionally even intersecting approaches and worldviews, says Harrison (emeritus psychology, U. of California-Davis) people try to locate contemporary hu
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and
Editor Grasseni (anthropology, U. of Bergamo) and her contributors use case studies and maintain an ethnographic approach in their essays on the possibility of rehabilitating the concept of vision to
Peacock (anthropology and comparative literature, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Thornton (political science, Trinity College), and Inman (a freelance academic editor and independent historian)
As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using
A pan-European scholar of the humanities, Berghahn here examines the experience of German and Austrian Jews who fled to Britain as refugees from Nazism. It is a study of contact between ethnic minorit
Mostly European social scientists specializing in Nepal examine the formation of the state and resistance to it by local activists, ethnic groups, and the Maoist insurgency. All but one of the 10 chap
The period from 1898 to 1923 was a particularly dramatic one in Spanish history; it culminated in the violent Barcelona "labor wars" and was only brought to a close with the coup d'état launched by th
In this ethnography of a small fishing village in the central Indian state of Kerala, Hoeppe (social anthropology, U. of Heidelberg, Germany) explores local environmental knowledge and views of human-
In what has come to be known as the Auschwitz Protocol, Wetzler (1918-1988) and a fellow escapee provided rare documentation of the horrors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. Their smuggled re
The Third Republic, known as the 'belle epoque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals o
One of the core themes of anti-Semitic propaganda is that Jews commit ritual and serial murder, either in groups as a religious exercise or individually as a being uncontrolled by religion or sanity.
Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In
In an exploration of emotions associated with male friendship, Kaplan (Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy, Tel Aviv U.) argues that some emotions can only be experienced through a sense of loss
Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view
Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his fo
Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and ag
Indonesia, a huge secular, archipelagic nation-state in Southeast Asia, is one of the world's newest democracies. Yet little is known to outsiders about this complex and fascinating country, the home
In 1798 Franz Xaver Niemetschek published this biography of Mozart - the only one written by an eyewitness and authorized by Mozart's widow Konstanze. It includes a dedication to Haydn and is one of
In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, w
At a time when the international community is again threatening some countries with sanctions, this book comes as a warning. It should be mandatory reading for all those politicians and their foreign-
