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May 2007Die Gabe der Seele
Geschichte eines Kindsmords
by Adriano Prosperi, Joachim Schulte
Bologna, 5. Dezember 1709: Lucia Cremonini bringt in den frühen Morgenstunden ein Kind zur Welt, das kurz nach der Geburt unter zunächst ungeklärten Umständen stirbt. Die Behörden beginnen zu ermitteln, der Verdacht auf Kindsmord bestätigt sich. Ein typischer Justizfall der frühen Neuzeit nimmt seinen Lauf. Adriano Prosperi rekonstruiert anhand der originalen Prozeßakten den Fall der Lucia Cremonini als das Drama einer unverheirateten jungen Frau am Rande der Gesellschaft. Aber es geht in diesem spannenden Buch nicht nur um ein individuelles Schicksal, sondern auch um die Frage, wie sich der Umgang mit dem Delikt des Kindsmordes und seine Bewertung durch Juristen, Theologen und Mediziner im Laufe der Zeit verändert haben. Denn während in der Antike Kindstötung und Abtreibung als Instrument zur Bevölkerungsregulierung akzeptiert waren und noch im Mittelalter als läßliche Sünde behandelt wurden, kam es im 17. Jahrhundert zu einem Einstellungswandel, der bis heute fortwirkt. Von nun an, so Prosperi, geriet die Furcht vor dem Kindsmord zur Obsession, Abtreibung und Kindstötung wurden zunehmend genauer definiert und das ungeborene und neugeborene Leben zu einer Sache staatlicher Kontrolle. Mit detektivischem Spürsinn und großer erzählerischer Kraft erschließt Prosperi ein bisher kaum beachtetes Kapitel europäischer Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte. Er läßt uns an der Entwicklung eines Diskurses teilhaben, der bis heute von ungebrochener Aktualität ist und dessen zentrale Frage nach wie vor lautet: Wie definiert die westliche Tradition den Beginn des Lebens?
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2024Graveyard Gothic
by Eric Parisot, David McAllister, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry, fiction, TV, film and video games. The volume also extends its geographic scope beyond British traditions to accommodate multiple cultural perspectives, including those from the US, Mexico, Japan, Australia, India and Eastern Europe. The seventeen chapters from key international Gothic scholars engage a range of theoretical frameworks, including the historical, material, colonial, political and religious. With a critical introduction offering a platform for further scholarship and a coda mapping potential future critical and cultural developments, Graveyard Gothic is a landmark volume defining a new area of Gothic studies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The French empire between the wars
Imperialism, politics and society
by Martin Thomas
By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonization in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in Africa, Syria and Indochina. The book also connects French theories of colonial governance to the lived experience of colonial rule in a period scarred by war and economic dislocation.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017Imperialism and juvenile literature
by Jeffrey Richards
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this truer than in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. It both reflects popular attitudes, ideas and preconceptions and it generates support for selected views and opinions. This book examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times: in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. It seeks to examine in detail the articulation and diffusion of imperialism in the field of juvenile literature by stressing its pervasiveness across boundaries of class, nation and gender. It analyses the production, distribution and marketing of imperially-charged juvenile fiction, stressing the significance of the Victorians' discovery of adolescence, technological advance and educational reforms as the context of the great expansion of such literature. An overview of the phenomenon of Robinson Crusoe follows, tracing the process of its transformation into a classic text of imperialism and imperial masculinity for boys. The imperial commitment took to the air in the form of the heroic airmen of inter-war fiction. The book highlights that athleticism, imperialism and militarism become enmeshed at the public schools. It also explores the promotion of imperialism and imperialist role models in fiction for girls, particularly Girl Guide stories.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Britain in China
by Robert Bickers
This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
Air power and colonial control
by David Omissi
Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.
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October 2000Machen Sie es richtig!
Stolpersteine im Deutschen: Schnelle Hilfe von Aussprache bis Satzbau
by Bury, Ernst
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2020Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
by Duncan Sayer, Joshua Pollard
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September 2020Das Graveyard Buch
by Gaiman, Neil
Spannend, gruselig und voller fantastischer Ideen erzählt der preisgekrönte Neil Gaiman von Nobody Owens, der auf einem Friedhof von Geistern und Untoten aufgezogen wird - eine wahrlich schaurig-schöne Geschichte! Nobody Owens ist ein eher unauffälliger Junge. Er lebt auf dem Friedhof, liebevoll erzogen und behütet von den Geistern und Untoten, die dort zu Hause sind. Doch der tödliche Feind, vor dem der kleine Bod einst auf den Friedhof floh, ruht nicht. Er wartet auf den Tag, an dem Bod sein Zuhause verlassen wird, um zurückzukehren in die Welt der Lebenden. Wer wird Nobody dann noch beschützen? Gedruckt auf Umweltpapier und zertifiziert mit dem "Blauen Engel".
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2019Fantomas is Buried Here
by Yuriy Andrukhovych
TSN’s are columns in which Yuriy Andrukhovych speaks once a week on the site tsn.ua "Television News Service" on Channel "1+1". Since December 2010, he has already published about two hundred of them. To your attention is offered a kind of selection from these weekly recordings, arranged in a strictly chronological sequence. When preparing this collection, the author deliberately did not make content adjustments, but considered it appropriate to indicate the exact date of each publication. Dates here are not only a framework, but also substantially a landmark.
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