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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa
(2021)
This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within ...
Medieval Women and Their Objects
(2016)
"The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, ...
Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
(2016-03-01)
Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth – geoengineering – is receiving serious consideration as a way to address climate change. Contemporary environmental ...
Aufstieg zur Energiemacht
(2018)
Russland zählt seit Jahrzehnten zu den führenden Produzenten, Verbrauchern und Exporteuren von Erdöl und anderen fossilen Energieträgern. Besonders für die brennstoffarmen europäischen Volkswirtschaften ist der östliche ...
The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945
(2006-08-08)
60 years after the trials of the main German war criminals, the articles in this book attempt to assess the Nuremberg Trials from a historical and legal point of view, and to illustrate connections, contradictions and ...
Die Entwicklung von Sicherheit
(2009-07-15)
Seit den 1990er Jahren durchläuft Entwicklungspolitik eine Wandlung. Die Frage bewaffneter Konflikte und Kriege in den Peripherien hat "Nachhaltigkeit" als neue und zentrale Problemstellung abgelöst. Dieser Prozess verläuft ...
Emotion in the Tudor Court
(2018-01-15)
Uniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Irish freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life ...
Die Polemik der Restauration
(2019-11-15)
Auf die Französische Revolution folgte eine Epoche der »Restauration«: Die europäische Politik Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts wollte die vorrevolutionäre Ordnung des Ancien Régime wiederherstellen. Der Autodidakt Karl Ludwig ...
Women's Perspectives on (Post)Migration
(2023)
This volume takes a closer look at women’s perspectives on (post-)migration and explores the uncertainties, frictions, struggles and opportunities emerging from that context. It revolves around African and Afrodescendant ...
Beastly Journeys - Travel and Transformation at the fin de siècle
(2013)
A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature. Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the ...
The Qur'an Seminar Commentary
(2016-11-11)
The Qur'an Seminar Commentary is an unprecedented work of collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies, involving the insights of 25 scholars on 50 Qur'anic passages. These scholars represent a diverse range of disciplinary ...
War and Law in the Islamic World
(2015)
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, ...
Methods in prosody
(2018-11-15)
This book presents a collection of pioneering papers reflecting current methods in prosody research with a focus on Romance languages. The rapid expansion of the field of prosody research in the last decades has given rise ...
Recoding World Literature
(2016)
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of ...
Mafiacraft
(2021)
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I've never seen it." Mafiosi have often reacted this way to questions from journalists and law enforcement. Social scientists ...
Three-Way Street
(2016)
As German Jews emigrated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany—and ...
Das utopische Europa
(2015-01-15)
Welche Rolle spielt(e) das Utopische im Prozess der Europäischen Integration? Was bedeutet die Formulierung vom "utopischen Europa" in Zeiten der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise in der EU? Anhand der Analyse juristischer ...
Bilingual Couples in Conversation (Volume 149)
(2022)
This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the communication between highly proficient bilingual couples, each consisting of a native speaker of English and of Swiss German. Combining the accounts of ten couples ...
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories
(2013)
Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the ...
Land zwischen den Zeiten
(2022)
Die Geschichte Brandenburgs war nach 1945 von einschneidenden Umbrüchen geprägt, deren Auswirkungen bis heute spürbar sind. Der Befreiung von der NS-Herrschaft durch die Rote Armee folgte unter den Bedingungen der sowjetischen ...