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The nationalization of democracy in the Weimar and First Austrian republics -- The search for symbols -- Representative democracy : commemorating the republics -- Staging a greater German republic : cross-border republican rallies -- Composing the Volk : cultural commemorations with political implications -- Anschluss before Hitler : the politics of the Österreichisch-Deutscher Volksbund

In Alltags- und Arbeitskontexten soll Technik funktionieren. Beim Spiel tritt eine Aufgabe hinzu, die zentral ist: Mittels Technik - eben Glücksmaschinen - sollen Emotionen geweckt, gar gesteuert werden. Ein Bereich originär menschlichen Handelns wird an Technik delegiert. Die Eindringtiefe und die Wirkmächtigkeit von Technik sind hier bedeutend höher als bei der Arbeit und im Alltag. Es ergeben sich spielspezifische Anforderungen an Technik. Stefan Poser analysiert diese Entwicklung, die uns seit der technischen Moderne prägt, anhand von Beispielen aus dem Sport, dem Jahrmarktsvergnügen und dem Spiel mit »Technischem Spielzeug«. Damit öffnet er ein neues Feld der Technik- und Kulturgeschichte.

This volume examines the cultural interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture, which can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium. Focusing in particular on literature and textual culture, chapters from leading experts cover a wide range of topics such as religion, philosophy, historiography, romance, and translation.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Krzysztof Ulanowski -- War in Mesopotamian Culture /Pietro Mander -- Some Remarks Concerning the Development of the Theology of War in Ancient Mesopotamia /Vladimir Sazonov -- Battle-Descriptions in Mesopotamian Sources i: Presargonic and Sargonic Period /Sebastian Fink -- A Comparison of the Role of Bāru and Mantis in Ancient Warfare /Krzysztof Ulanowski -- Eclipses and the Precipitation of Conflict: Deciphering the Signal to Attack /Micah Ross -- War and Religion in Ancient Greece /Robert Parker -- The Terrified Face of Alcyoneus: The Religious Character of Greek Warfare, or What about the Vanquished? /Bogdan Burliga -- The Burning of Greek Temples by the Persians and Greek War-Propaganda /Eduard Rung -- Weather, Luck and the Divine in Thucydides /Rachel Bruzzone -- Xenophon's Piety within the Hipparchikos /Simone Agrimonti -- The Mounted Torch-Race at the Athenian Bendideia /Nicholas Sekunda -- Like Gods among Men. The Use of Religion and Mythical Issues during Alexander's Campaign /Borja Antela-Bernárdez -- Defence and Offence in the Egyptian Royal Titles of Alexander the Great /Ivan Ladynin -- Egyptian Warriors: Machimoi, in Coroplastic Art—Selected Examples /Sławomir Jędraszek -- Clenar larans etnam svalce: Myth, Religion, and Warfare in Etruria /Joshua R. Hall -- The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Campus Martius: Peace and War, Antinomic or Complementary Realities in the Roman World /Dan-Tudor Ionescu -- The Religious Legitimation of War in the Reign of Antoninus Pius /André Heller -- Roman Soldiers in Official Cult Ceremonies: Performance, Participation and Religious Experience /Tomasz Dziurdzik -- Religious Aspects of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: The Founding of Aelia Capitolina on the Ruins of Jerusalem /Boaz Zissu and Hanan Eshel -- Index of Authors.

"During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitting to this fear would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial superiority. In this fascinating book, Kenton Storey challenges the idea that a series of colonial crises in the mid-nineteenth century led to a decline in the popularity of humanitarianism across the British Empire. Instead, he demonstrates how colonial newspapers in New Zealand and on Vancouver Island appropriated humanitarian language as a means of justifying the expansion of settlers' access to land, promoting racial segregation, and allaying fears of potential Indigenous resistance."--

"This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ways in which gender norms, and their evolution, shaped not only those women's experience of business, but the ways they were perceived by contemporaries, documented in sources and, partly as a consequence, viewed by historians"--

"Social Services as Electoral Strategy in India Elite Parties, Poor Voters. Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base. Tariq Thachil is an assistant professor in the department of political science and director of undergraduate studies on the South Asian studies council at Yale University. He also serves as a faculty associate at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

A Brief History of Tibet -- Chinese-style Development in Tibet: Narrative -- Tibetan Unrest and the Dalai Lama: Narrative -- Determinants of Spatial (Dis)integration: Analytics -- Going Back to Tibet: Analytic Narrative -- Ethnic Autonomy and Tibet: Policy Options -- Epilogue: Center versus Peripheries -- References.