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Au-pair: Von der Kulturträgerin zum Dienstmädchen
(2008)
Since the 1970s, highly educated families in Austria have employed Au-pairs for taking care of their children. Why have these families preferred Au-pairs to kindergartens with qualified teachers? Were Au-pairs just a ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The first volume contains beside an Introduction (of 32 p.) 202 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from kinships names to moral categories.First map volume of a linguistic atlas with five map volumes and ...
Adorno versus Lyotard
(2014)
It is well known that Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetic theory is grounded in his profound musical knowledge. The importance of music for Jean-François Lyotard, however, has not been adequately recognized until today; neither ...
Tell el-Dabca XXIV: The Late Middle Kingdom Settlement of Area A/II A Holistic Study of Non-élite Inhabitants at Tell el-Dabca, Vol. 1
(2020-09)
This book comprises the final excavation report of the western part of the late Middle Kingdom settlement in Area A (ca 1830 to 1700 BC) excavated from 1966 to 1969. Included are a comprehensive description of the archaeology, ...
A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
(2015)
This book examines child poverty as a topic of social justice. The authors develop a theory of social justice for children based within the capability approach, apply it to the injustice of child poverty and propose a ...
Liminalität und Adoleszenz
(2016)
Based upon the description of the psychoanalytic subtext in the work of Victor Turner, his concept of structure and antistructure is submitted to a fundamental revision.
Die Lebenszeugnisse Oswalds von Wolkenstein, Band 4
(2011)
The Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca 1376 - 1445) is considered to be the most important German poet and composer of the Late Middle Ages. Besides his songs and compositions more than 1000 documents bear evidence ...
Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Maria Charlotte Sweceny
(2013)
In the centre of this study stand some 154 letters exchanged between the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) and Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (née Stein, 1904-1956), the co-proprietor of the Viennese ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493)
(2012)
As a result of the death of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the marriage of his only daughter Mary to Maximilian, the heir of Emperor Frederick III, the economically and culturally prospering lands of Flanders and ...
Geschichte der italienischen Literatur in Österreich
(2011)
Towards the end of the 20th century the Italian literature created outside Italy finally started to receive proper attention, because research began to focus on the socio-cultural analysis of the different forms of internal ...
Die synchronisierte Stadt
(2015)
The work at hand explores the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Viennas public clocks from the middle of the 19th century until today.The need for knowing the exact time steadily increased ...
Bithynien und Hellespont, Band 1
(2020-04)
The book contains detailed introductory chapters regarding the borders of the area in question, its history and church history, communications and economy in the Byzantine period. The body of the book consists of an ...
Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika
(2002)
Contemporary art of Africa reached a wider audience in the aftermath of the Magiciens de la Terre exhibition (Paris 1989). This study of fourteen artists from Ivory Coast and Benin is based on ethnographic fieldwork in ...
ПУТИ РАЗВИТИЯ ЗАПАДНОГО ПЕРЕВОДОВЕДЕНИЯ
(2015)
The development of translation studies is outlined against the epistemological and intellectual background that characterized the rise of the new discipline and which has to be taken into account if one is to understand ...
Anna Freud
(2014)
Brigitte Spreitzer makes Anna Freud’s literary texts fully accessible in this book for the first time. The detailed preface contextualises Anna Freud’s literary texts as paradigmatic sources, which are documenting the ...
From Mind to Text
(2018)
From Mind to Text: Continuities and Breaks Between Cognitive, Aesthetic and Textualist Approaches to Literature explores the historical context of theory formation and of its contemporary status, including an overview of ...
Die Mission des American Board in Syrien im 19. Jahrhundert
(2016)
The focus of this study is the “Syria Mission”, directed by the Protestant missionary society American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from 1819 to 1870 in the Ottoman province of Syria, operating mainly ...
Die gelehrte Korrespondenz der Brüder Pez, Text, Regesten, Kommentare
(2010)
The submitted manuscript for Vol. I. comprises the learned correspondence of the Benedictine historians Bernhard and Hieronymus Pez of Melk abbey from the years 1709 to 1715. The edition and commentary were prepared between ...
ከንጥቂያ ባሻገር. የገቢር መጽሃፍ
(2021)
As transnational extractivism, neo-fascist politics, and economies of abandonment and disposability expand around the world, can we facilitate situated practices of storytelling and worldmaking that enliven futures propelled ...
Das Wiener Hetzamphitheater (1755-1796)
(2024)
The “Wiener Hetzamphitheater” (1755-1796) was the largest theater in Vienna until it burned down. The study is dedicated to a neglected chapter of local and European theater history by focusing on the staged animal fights. ...
The Emergence of Ukraine
(2015)
This book is a collection of essays by prominent historians from Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Poland and Russia, who undertook a thorough and detailed study of one as yet inadequately researched aspect of the First World ...
Chaostheorie und Literaturwissenschaft
(2008)
This book presents the development and present status of adaptions of chaos theory for literary studies. Furthermore the integration of these methodological approaches into a discipline that is oriented towards cultural ...
Moskaus (in)existente Mittelschicht
(2022)
The Russian ‚middle class‘ has been heavily researched since the end of the Soviet Union, which is mainly rooted in its attributed socio-political functions as a catalyst of democratic and market-economic transformations ...
Hermann Czech
(2023)
The present book documents, analyzes and interprets the background and career as well as the works of Hermann Czech, probably the most important living architect and architectural theorist in Austria. An introductory section ...
Pattern Recognition, Tracking and Vertex Reconstruction in Particle Detectors
(2021)
The book describes methods of track and vertex resonstruction in particle detectors. The main topics are pattern recognition and statistical estimation of geometrical and physical properties of charged particles and of ...
Ein Brandhorizont aus der Zeit der Markomannenkriege im südostnorischen Munizipium Flavia Solva
(2014)
The publication provides a detailed study of a burnt layer from Insula XLI in Flavia Solva (Wagna, Austria), dated ca. AD 170, i.e. within the period of the Marcomannic Wars.
A Commentary on the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
(2020-12)
This comprehensive Commentary provides the first fully up-to-date analysis and interpretation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. It offers a concise yet thorough article-by-article ...
Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability
(2014)
Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach ...
Homo interreligiosus: Zur biographischen Verortung interreligiöser Prozesse bei Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010). Beiträge einer internationalen Fachtagung zu seinem 100. Geburtstag
(2021-05)
The essays of this volume are mainly lectures given at the international conference held at the Center for Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religion at the University of Salzburg on the occasion of Raimon Panikkars ...
Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen
(2021)
This volume is the first to examine the museum landscape of all post-socialist EU member states. How do museums present the Second World War, the Holocaust, and Soviet crimes? As part of their nations’ attempts to join the ...
Qhapaq Ñan Inkastraßen im Wandel der Zeit
(2015)
Qhapaq Ñan, refers to a network of roads built during the time of the great inca empire. Almost 55,000 kilometers long this net of roads extended across the entire geographical area of the Inca. The Thesis, that guides ...
Re-Reading Hanslick’s Aesthetics
(2019)
This study examines the reception of Eduard Hanslick in Anglo-american discourse from its earliest instances in the 19th century up to analytical philosophy of music. This book thus analyzes primarily the discoursive ...
Housing the Poor
(2023)
This book analyses in detail half a century of international discussions on housing, slums and informal settlements, identifies policy phases (self-help, enabling) and discusses pros and cons of applied measures globally ...
Kirchenbild und Kircheneinheit : Der dominikanische „Tractatus contra Graecos“ (1252) in seinem theologischen und historischen Kontext
(2020-12)
The book focuses on the “Tractatus contra Graecos” (1252) by an anonymous Dominican from the convent of Constantinople, a theological dossier outstanding with regard to its various interaction with contemporary Latin-Greek ...
Schauspiel & Doppeltes Bewusstsein
(2024)
The present study examines how four acting theorists—Constant Coquelin, William Archer, Max Martersteig, and Edward Gordon Craig—incorporated new psychological insights on consciousness splits into their considerations. ...
Despite Dispossession
(2021)
As transnational extractivism, neo-fascist politics, and economies of abandonment and disposability expand around the world, can we facilitate situated practices of storytelling and worldmaking that enliven futures propelled ...
Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond
(2013)
This volume presents the results of a scholarly meeting which focused on the patronage of women in the Byzantine Empire. In their scope, the articles address broadly not only the founding or re-founding of churches and ...
Geschichte der Krim
(2020)
The book surveys the history of the Crimea from ancient times to the present, reflecting both the latest research and the author’s own recent findings. In the context of recent developments in the Crimea and what most legal ...
Im Nebel
(2002)
The relationship between the intellectual development of the young Georg Lukacs and the culture of Vienna around the turn of the century was investigated in the research project: Georg Lukacs and Vienna. Because of this ...
Kerne, Kooperation und Konkurrenz
(2014)
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was ...
Postmigrantische Literaturgeschichte
(2024)
Which role does literature play in the process of social change through migration? Postmigrant literary history establishes a new field-theoretical approach and considers migrants as an integral part of literary fields ...
The Management of Opera (1861-1918)
(2023)
This study offers a glance into the dense network of relationships between impresarios, theatre managers, singers, musicians and publishers who populated the multicultural territory of the Eastern Adriatic theatres in the ...
Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935
(2021)
This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap’s philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of ...
Tell el-Dab’a XXII. „Der Mund der beiden Wege“. Teil I:Text
(2015)
The final and comprehensive publication of the archaeological results of excavations by the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the site of Ezbet Rushdi (area “R/I”) within the broader archaeological region of Tell el-Daba ...
Ethik und Moral im Wiener Kreis
(2014)
This monograph undertakes a long-overdue revision of the prevailing view on the role and conception of ethics and morality in the Vienna Circle. This view is rejected as being too partial and undifferentiated.
Mitteleuropäische Schulen IV (ca. 1380–1400); Tafel- und Registerband
(2014-10)
The catalog is dedicated to those manuscripts of the Austrian National Library which were commissioned by King Wenceslas IV (1361–1419) and the Prague court. It forms a unit together with the catalog “Central European ...
Germans and Hungarians in Southeast Europe
(2016)
Der zeiltiche Fokus liegt vor allem auf der postsozialistischen Zeit ab 1989/90 bis etwa 2012; die räumliche Ausdehnung der Forschungen schliesst Ungarn (Herberge- Patronagestaat), Slowenien, Kroatien (Slawonien), Serbien ...
Die Siegel der Erzbischöfe und Bischöfe in der Salzburger Metropole : Beschreibung, Abbildungen, Fotos und Zeichnungen
(2021)
In historical sciences and in local history research, seal images of the bishops and archbishops of the dioceses in the Salzburg metropolis are repeatedly included. The photographic documentation of examples of all hitherto ...
Bilderbuch-Heimkehr? Remigration im Kontext
(2017)
This publication addresses the topic of remigration – focussing on the return of exiles to Germany and Austria after 1945. The articles of this book explore the multidiscipli-nary field primarily from the point of view of ...
Ein Fürstenleben zwischen Alltag und Aufruhr: Die französische Korrespondenz (1772–1801) des letzten Salzburger Fürsterzbischofs Hieronymus Colloredo mit seinem Bruder Gundaker
(2021)
Hieronymus Colloredo (1732–1812) was Salzburg's Prince Archbishop between 1772 and 1803. He corresponded with his brother, the imperial vice-chancellor Gundaker Collordo (1731–1807). A total of 655 letters have been ...
Die mykenische Akropolis. Grabungen 1975–1980: Stratigraphie und Bebauung
(2020-10)
The second volume on the Austrian excavations of the years 1975-1980 on the acropolis of Aigeira aims at a reconstruction of the post-palatial Mycenaean settlement, based on stratigraphy and findings. Spatial analyses were ...
Zum jüdischen Erbe in der Wiener Architektur
(2016)
A survey of the role played by jewish architects working in Vienna in the period between 1868-1938.
European Voices II
(2011)
Although the fundamental meaning of basic terminology is well established for every scholarly discipline, many concepts are often questioned and redefined. In the case of ethnomusicology, this process is all too familiar, ...
Erica Tietze-Conrat, Tagebücher (1923-1926)
(2015)
In her early diaries the art historian Erica Tietze-Conrat discribes her eventfull life in Vienna in the 1920ies, were she had been in touch with all the important art circles of the time..
A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
(2023)
‘Anticlassicisms’ react to the various forms of ‘classicisms.’ This volume discusses the history and possible implications of the label in Renaissance studies and analyzes such ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various ...
Schmerzengeld für Schock- und Trauerschäden
(2009)
The doctoral thesis is a comparing study of the Austrian, German, Swiss, England and French tort law,
also contains the Principles of the European Group of tort law and handle four major questions:
(1) Who are the close ...
Bithynien und Hellespont, Band 2
(2020-04)
The book contains detailed introductory chapters regarding the borders of the area in question, its history and church history, communications and economy in the Byzantine period. The body of the book consists of an ...
Address in Portuguese and Spanish
(2020)
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish—two intimately related languages sharing historical, political and geographic contexts. Including ...
WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft Teil 2.3 Register – Das Weltliche Lied : Jodler, Jodler-Lied, Gstanzl und Tanz
(2021)
Melodic Incipits; dictionary of local dialect; list of yodel-, yodel-song and quatrain strophes;
Index of places and names in the Wechsel region.
General index of places / names of other regions and subjects.
• WeXel ...
Ödön von Horváth, Ein Sklavenball/ Pompej, Band 2
(2015-11)
The farce Ein Sklavenball mit Gesang und Tanz [A Slave Ball with song and dance] and the comedy that was developed out of it Pompeji [Pompei] (both 1937) are the last two dramas completed by Ödön von Horváth. The present ...