Publications
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Digital History
(2022)
Research and teaching in history have undergone profound changes within the scope of digitalization. This volume asks questions such as: What changes is digitalization making possible in the way that historical research ...
Der Kampf um Chinas kollektives Gedächtnis
(2021)
Since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the Chinese Communist Party has been fighting for an inner-party and societal consensus on how to deal with its own “historical mistakes.” Anja Blanke shows that the battle for ...
Chapter Hesperia, a Database for Palaeohispanic Languages; and AELAW, a Database for the Ancient European Languages and Writings. Challenges, Solutions, Prospects
(2019)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
50 Jahre Aktiengesetz
(2015)
On the 50th anniversary of the German Stock Corporation Act, which was originally ratified in 1965, leading legal scholars met at the birthplace of the law in Bonn to discuss current pressing challenges in this area of ...
The Heirs of the Roman West
(2009)
In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. – their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural ...
Paragesellschaften
(2021)
In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this ...
Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter
(2013)
The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution ...
How Is World Literature Made?
(2021)
The debate over world literature, and the underlying questions of global interconnections in a polycentric world, has recently become very visible. Until now, however, the theoretical discussion has lacked material-based ...
Wir sind nicht auf der Welt, um zu schweigen
(2018)
We are not in the world to mention is the title of a somewhat unconventional "introduction to rhetoric". It is not an introduction to its history or system, but exposes the specific question interest of rhetoric. Since ...
Marriage Discourses
(2021)
Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the ...
Klassische Archäologie
(2015)
Mit dem 2014 im Themenfeld "Klassische Archäologie" ausgeschriebenen Preis wird der 1946 geborene Franzose Alain Schnapp ausgezeichnet. Er ist Professor für Archäologie der Universität Paris I und war Leiter der Abteilung ...
Global Histories of Work
(2016)
First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors.
Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden
(2022)
In Europe, the bible was long used to determine the age of human civilization, supplemented by accounts written by the historians of classical antiquity. The early modern development of the natural sciences called supposed ...
Migration and Diaspora Formation
(2022)
Migration has come to be regarded as one of the defining features – if not the feature – of our times. Church History as an academic discipline has so far paid only limited attention to this changing reality. What would a ...
Kafka and the Universal
(2016-07-25)
Kafka`s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of ...
Globale Herausforderungen gemeinsam meistern – gestern, heute, morgen
(2021)
Der Welt-Museumsverband International Council of Museums wurde 1946 als Antwort auf die Gräuel des Zweiten Weltkriegs gegründet. ICOM versteht sich als Brückenbauer, Think Tank und Netzwerk der Museumsfachleute und Museen. ...
The Maghrib in the Mashriq
(2021)
This book is about the impact of knowledge produced in the Islamic West on the Mashriq. Topics include the emergence and construction of the concept ‘Maghrib’, the role of travel in the transmission, reception and integration ...
The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants / L’intégration linguistique des migrants adultes
(2017)
This volume provides a comprehensive report on a symposium organised by the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) in 2016 in the context of its human rights agenda. Its purpose was to explore some of the ways in which scientific ...
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
(2022)
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological and political crises, and brings them to both exhibition spaces and courtrooms by applying its “investigative aesthetics” (MACBA 2017). Using ...
The Meaning of Media
(2021)
This book addresses various aspects of materiality and mediality in the manuscript culture of Scandinavia represented in epigraphic writing with runes, the introduction of Roman script and the earliest period of print. The ...