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A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering various disciplines (Assyriology, Mamluk studies etc.) as well as historiographical schools

"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

The book summarizes the reports of 14 speakers of the conference "Latvian industry before and after regaining independence" on December 13, 2013: scientists, historians, factory managers and civil servants about what industry was actually like during the USSR and what and why happened after the restoration of independence with these "powerful" factories, why a large part of them stopped working, including the famous VEF. The book contains an overview of Latvia's economy before the occupation of 1940 during the 1st independence period, an analytical overview of the USSR-era industry and its specifics, as well as the prospects for today's industrial development.

Verlagsinfo: Riga war das Zentrum jüdischen Lebens in Lettland. Mit dem Einmarsch deutscher Truppen im Juli 1941 wurde die Stadt zu einem Zielort von Deportationen und zum Tatort nationalsozialistischer Vernichtungspolitik. Angehörige von SS, Polizei und Wehrmacht sowie lokale Hilfstruppen ermordeten fast alle lettischen sowie die aus Deutschland, Wien, Prag und Brünn nach Riga deportierten Jüdinnen und Juden. Unter den Deportierten waren auch 753 Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger. Der Hannoversche Bahnhof war Ausgangspunkt, aber auch Zwischenstation für Deportationen aus Norddeutschland nach Riga. Die wenigen Überlebenden kehrten nur selten in ihre Heimatländer zurück. Zumeist kämpften sie vergeblich um Gerechtigkeit. Ebenso blieb eine umfassende juristische Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen aus. Zwei der umfangreichsten Verfahren zu den deutschen Verbrechen in Riga fanden in den 1950er und 1970er Jahren vor dem Hamburger Landgericht statt. Heute ist der Hannoversche Bahnhof in Hamburg ein wichtiger Erinnerungsort an die Deportationen nach Riga. Die Ausstellung möchte dazu beitragen, die Deportationen nach Riga und das nationalsozialistische Morden im öffentlichen Gedenken Deutschlands wie auch Lettlands zu verankern.