Publications
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The Reparations Controversy. The Jewish State and German Money in the Shadow of the Holocaust 1951-1952
(2011)
This book about the reparations issue (Wiedergutmachung in German shilumim in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held in the Knesset, in its Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, in the Government ...
Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945-52). Remigration, Ränke, Rückgabe: Der steinige Weg einer Berliner Traditionsfirma
(2020)
After the end of the Second World War, the Ullstein family fought to reclaim the publishing house that they were forced to sell in 1934. But the Americans needed the company’s printing plant in the Tempelhof district of ...
Schön wie Venus, mutig wie Mars. Anna d'Este, Herzogin von Guise und von Nemours (1531-1607)
(2007)
Anna d'Este, Tochter des Herzogs von Ferrara, Ercole d'Este, und der Renée de France, ist eine zentrale Figur der französischen Religionskriege. Christiane Coester macht ihre Biographie nun erstmals zugänglich. Sie nimmt ...
Semantic Fields in Sign Languages. Colour, Kinship and Quantification
(2016)
This book presents primary data and typological comparisons across sign languages with respect to three semantic fields: kinship terms, colour terms and quantification. Based on a large-scale study of 32 sign languages ...
Die Rolle der Geisteswissenschaften im Dritten Reich 1933–1945
(2002)
Die Geschichte der Geisteswissenschaften im Dritten Reich hat erst in jüngster Zeit intensivere wissenschaftliche Zuwendung erfahren. Während Exil und Exilanten früh die Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zogen, blieben die Fächer ...
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages. Form and Content
(2020)
In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this ...
Rom und Mailand in der Spätantike. Repräsentationen städtischer Räume in Literatur, Architektur und Kunst
(2011)
The multidisciplinary contributions to this collection of papers look at Rome as the cultural and Milan as the political capital in the 4th and 5th centuries. In the literature of the time both cities were perceived as ...
Die Rückkehr der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft in die "Ökumene der Historiker". Ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Ansatz
(2008)
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg galt es für die deutsche Historikerschaft, die eigene Position im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen nationalem Selbstverständnis und internationaler Wissenschaft neu zu justieren. Die Beiträge dieses ...
Russian Policy in the Orthodox East. Patriarchate of Constantinople (1878-1914)
(2014)
The book is the first attempt to make a systematic analysis of the Russian ecclesiastical policy in the diocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the period of 1878-1914. It is based mainly on unedited materials ...
Simplifying Complexity. Rhetoric and the Social Politics of Dealing with Ignorance
(2015)
Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the ...
Praxeologie. Beiträge zur interdisziplinären Reichweite praxistheoretischer Ansätze in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
(2014)
‘Praxeology’ as theoretical concept has obtained growing attention in recent years, at the same time there is a lack of empirical findings upon its scope in applied research. The contributions of this volume prove the ...
Shape optimization and spectral theory
(2017)
„Shape optimization and spectral theory” is a survey book aiming to give an overview of recent results in spectral geometry and its links with shape optimization. It covers most of the issues which are important for people ...
Das Siebenstromland zwischen Bronze- und Früheisenzeit. Eine Regionalstudie
(2016)
The southeastern Land of Seven Rivers (Kazakhstan) – a small region in the Eurasian steppes – shows an enormous concentration of Bronze and early Iron Age archeological monuments, only a small fraction of which have been ...
Sprachkorpora – Datenmengen und Erkenntnisfortschritt
(2007)
Large linguistic corpora are becoming increasingly important for linguistic work. For several years now, research endeavors have been dedicated to the construction of large corpora, the theory of data and corpora, as well ...