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(Foreign) Bodies: Stigmatizing New Christians in Early Modern Spain
(2020)
The ideology of purity-of-blood (limpieza de sangre) divided
early modern Iberian society into two different classes: Old
Christians and New Christians. New Christians, i.e. Conversos (converted Jews) and Moriscos ...
Ernst Lothar
(2016)
The monograph explores the life, work and legacy of the Austrian writer, director and producer Ernst Lothar (1890–1974) through the analysis of hitherto unpublished correspondence as well as other unpublished writings/documents ...
Die Korrespondenz des Ministers für Cultus und Unterricht Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1849–1860). Auswahledition: Zu den Reformen von Unterricht und Bildung in der Habsburgermonarchie
(2022)
The book publishes for the first time private letters from an to Leo Thun-Hohenstein, minister of education 1849–1860. In this periode Thun profoundly reformed the Austrian educational system.
Geburten/Kontrolle
(2010)
The volume aims at a comprehensive historical reconstruction of policies, conflicts, attitudes, and regulations covering the diverse field of human reproduction. The analysis is based on two case studies: the United States ...
Bairisch-österreichische Dialektliteratur vor 1800
(2019)
These days, it is commonly forgotten that Bavarian-Austrian dialect art flourished in elite culture and even more in popular counterculture before 1800. The book makes the amazing variety of forms and modes of operation ...
Rückkehr unerwünscht
(2014)
"Rückkehr unerwünscht" (Return Undesired) is the first systematic study on deportation in the Habsburg empire. The measures taken against protestants, deviants and losers in the modernisation process are both delineated ...
August Wilhelm Ambros Musikaufsätze und -rezensionen 1872–1876, Bd. 2: 1874–1876
(2019-04)
The present edition of musical essays and reviews by August Wilhelm Ambros (1816–1876) covers the years 1872–1876—a time that Ambros spent as a music reviewer for the Wiener Zeitung in Vienna. The second volume contains, ...
The Spanish Connection
(2016)
In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrepôt between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, ...
Zwischen Authentizität und Fiktion
(2012)
The main focus of this study is a methodological analysis of private letters written by Spanish emigrants from the Americas to their relatives and friends back in Europe, with an intensive discussion about the interaction ...
Geraubte Identität
(2010)
Stolen identity - the forced "Germanization" of "racially valuable" children during National Socialism, illustrated by the country of Poland.
Heinrich Himmler, acting in his capacity as “Reich Commissioner for the ...