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In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte der österreichischen Literatur seit der Gründung der eigenständigen Österreichischen Monarchie (1804) bis in die Gegenwart des 21. Jahrhunderts erzählt. Die Literaturgeschichte präsentiert einen Blick von außen und betrachtet die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-01
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Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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Die Gründung des modernen Staates Albanien jährt sich 2012 zum 100. Mal. Deutschland beteiligte sich an dieser Gründung in besonderer Weise: Das Deutsche Reich war eine der sechs Schutzmächte, welche die Selbständigkeit des Staates garantierten. Zudem war der erste...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-22
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Philosophy as a discipline has not only been distinct and crucial but also consistent in the enduring search for practical solutions to human problems. This study discusses the role philosophical enquiries and postulations can play in the practical reconstruction of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-19
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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-10-18
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Gegenstand der Arbeit ist das Phänomen der «arteigenen Religion/Religiosität», welches in Deutschland seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert bis ins erste Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts zu beobachten ist. Die Arbeit befasst sich sowohl mit den verschiedenen theoretischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-16
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Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-15
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This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-10
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Actas del seminario doctoral de verano, «Memorias y Lugares de Memoria de Europa», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste y Palacio de Carlos V, en Extremadura, España (del 6 al 9 de julio...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-09-28
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Recent years have seen the topic of victims and victimhood brought to the fore on the island of Ireland, both in the North with the publication of the controversial Eames/Bradley report dealing with victims of the Troubles, and in the Republic with the publication of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-28
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The current attempt in European politics to develop a European identity makes scientific research about discourses on Europe especially relevant. This book takes an analytical gaze at philosophical and political attempts to conceptualise Europe from antiquity to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-27
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This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-21
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The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizations Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizations Details how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropology’s key...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-20
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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A highly signi?cant movement within the Silver Age, harlequinade did not surface in Russian high culture until the turn of the twentieth century, when it suddenly began to attract the close attention of symbolist authors. In the present work, an attempt is made to show...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-20
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‘The Brownies’ Book:’ Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America’s first magazine for young African-Americans. Published by W.E.B. Du Bois in cooperation with Jessie Fauset and Augustus Granville Dill,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-20
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A wide spectrum of events are covered ranging from floods, the tsunami of 2004, earthquakes and landslides to such long-term processes as the decline of pastures or coastlines. The diversity of the case studies opens up questions on method and the conceptualization of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-18
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Industrie und Postindustrie, Früh- und Spätkapitalismus, Moderne und Postmoderne liefern die Schlagwörter für diesen interdisziplinär orientierten Band. Es wurden Beiträge versammelt, die die komplexen Zusammenhänge zwischen der Entwicklung der europäischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-17
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The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities. Mostly absent from these narratives of victory and defeat, however, are the experiences of prisoners of war, despite what these can teach us about cruelty, ingenuity,...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-09-14
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What links Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles and Mick Jagger? Each have illuminated our Elizabethan age in their own, inimitable, way.Margaret Thatcher - the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mould of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-09-13
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This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar , spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-09-13
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