A dramatic reinvention

A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.

Disputed territories

Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, the author contends that Western Europe has a track record in containing and settling ethnic conflicts which provides valuable lessons for confl...

Polish film and the holocaust

Provides the first detailed monograph (in any language) on the representation of the Holocaust in Polish cinema Incorporates new materials and sources, mostly in the Polish language, obtained through extensive archival research Introduces a multidisciplinary approach drawing on recen...

Between tradition and modernity

Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, book-length study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. It analyse...

Béla balázs: early film theory

Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film stu...

Nazism, the holocaust, and the middle east

Focus on the diversity of responses from different elements in the Arab states and Turkey Chapters written by noted scholars in the field of Middle East Studies Offers responses to Nazism and the Holocaust that readers can compare to European responses Substantial bibliography on...

Under the sign of the cross

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization...

Morality and economic growth in rural west africa

Based on fieldwork conducted in 2 national economic cycles, one of petroleum-boom prosperity, the other of macro-economic decline Unveils new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah Describes a uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation, limiting the ...

Women of two countries

Introduces the lives and works of German-American women Clara Neymann and Mathilde Wendt, which have been untold until now despite the women's historical prominence Gives a balanced perspective on nativism as a strategy in the women's rights movement in the United States 1848-1890 De...

Sacred places, emerging spaces

‘Folk’ sacred places (informality, hybridity) Contemporary multi-religious / multi-ethnic societies in the Caucasus Social meaning of pilgrimage and its transformation Practices of Sharing and Non-Sharing Diversity of field sites: rural & urban; North and South Caucasus (...

Revealing the invisible mine

The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and s...

Humanitarian shame and redemption

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean“, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian w...

Shakespeare and money

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to b...

The german student movement and the literary imagination

Traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction Provides a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm Reveals layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventiona...

Sustaining indigenous songs

The holocaust in bohemia and moravia

This book is the only recent account on the Holocaust in Bohemia Moravia (Last in English 15 years ago) Study is based on tons of new and unknown material , including weekly Jewish community reports to Eichmann, For the first time includes emphasis on individual and collective respon...

Carnivalizing reconciliation

This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesq...

State and civil society in northern europe

In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant civil society. However, the simultaneous presence in Sweden of both a famously large public sector and an unusually vital civil societ...

Practical archaeogaming

As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built env...

An enchantment of digital archaeology

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explo...

South africa's dreams

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book a...

Parallel lives revisited

The study has a long-term perspective, whereas most research on integration looks at a moment in time It does not focus on one ‘ethnic group’ but looks at a cross-section of migrants from different countries, thus combating the ‘ethnic groupism’ that characterizes a lot of the research ...

A new african elite

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence ...

Concentrationary cinema

It is the first dedicated study of Alain Resnais’s benchmark film that draws together a range of authors across French, film and anti-colonial studies to analyse the political aesthetics of this film It proposes a new perspective on Alain Resnais’s film by shifting it from Holocaust stud...

Risk on the table

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between pol...

The reluctant revolutionary

Combines a historical and theological analysis of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life and work Utilises a large amount of secondary literature Coincides with the ongoing publication of Bonhoeffer’s complete works in English

The kings and the pawns

The most encompassing representation of the phenomenon of Byelorussian collaboration during World War II Illumination of virtually unknownaspects in modern East European history Study basing on multiple sources in different languages

Conversations on the beach

Already on the margins of an agrarian society, the marine fisherfolk of the South Indian state of Kerala are faced with a severe environmental problem: overfishing. The actions of trawlers and industrial fishing ships, it seems, have caused the resources on which they depend to dwindle rapidly....

Playing politics with history

Communist parties revisited

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.

Cameroon's tycoon

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with ...

From bullies to officers and gentlemen

Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, the book assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organisation that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authori...

Audiences of nazism

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Peaceful selves

With its focus on personhood and self-making, it investigates gaps in understanding left behind by dominant frameworks for analyzing life in post-conflict societies, such as reconciliation, justice, and commemoration politics The argument is built around fundamental tensions in Rwandan c...

An archaeology of unchecked capitalism

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social just...

Shakespeare and his biographical afterlives

New Shakespeare biographies are published every year, though very little new documentary evidence has come to light. Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and no...

Stategraphy

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...

Conservation’s roots

The disputed austro-hungarian border

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state b...

Reading hitler’s victims

An original study exploring previously undiscovered archival sources and literary texts by neglected refugee authors and translators, including women. Significant to contemporary understanding and memory of the Holocaust – it illuminates Britian’s chronology of knowledge regarding the Ho...

French foreign policy since 1945

Recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities, from the aftermath of World War II to the present. Provides insightful analysis of France's triumphs and setbacks through the years of decolonization, Cold War ma...

Robbery and restitution

The robbery and restitution of Jewish property are two inextricably linked social processes. It is not possible to understand the lawsuits and international agreements on the restoration of Jewish property of the late 1990s without examining what was robbed and by whom. In this volume distingui...

Sense and essence

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and ...

Tibetans in nepal

Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international ...