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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Evocation -- One. Provenances -- Two. Oeconomia Rerum et Verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire -- Three. The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich -- West Indian Interlude -- Four. The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court -- Interlude in the Laboratory -- Five. Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars -- Epilogue. Projection -- Bibliography -- Index

Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, family and marriage, the intersections of sexuality with race and class, male and female homoerotic relations, trans and gender variant sexuality, the sale of sex, sexual violence, sexual science, sexuality and emotion, erotic art and literature, and the material culture of sexuality.

Invited experts who study and teach economic history in American, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian universities answer questions about the recent trends and perspectives in the economic history of Eastern Europe. They demonstrate how the relationship between history and other disciplines developed in Eastern European scholarship. They explain the reasons for the relatively underdeveloped scholarly community of the field in the region. Finally, they talk about the applicable theories and concepts which could challenge Gerschenkron's theoretical framework when discussing the history of economy and business in Eastern Europe. Authors mostly accept the suggested statement that the economic history of Eastern Europe is institutionally underdeveloped if compared with Western scholarship. At the same time, they see the situation as a good opportunity for the development of new research projects. The authors emphasize the necessity to "learn the language of other disciplines" as well as to develop skills in data analysis. They also point out that to explain the global economic transformations in history, working with archival sources and understanding the context are as important as the application of economic theories and quantitative analysis.

Part I. Introduction -- Chinese in Europe : from the early 17th century to present day, an overview /Beatrice Knerr --Part II. Career ContextQingtian immigrants in Europe : developments and trends in their progress, status, and business affairs /Xu Liwang,Yang Taoyu --Highly qualified migration from China to Germany : trends in the early 21st century /Kaikai Zhang,Beatrice Knerr --Ethnic entrepreneurship of self-employer Chinese in Germany /Xi Zhao,Beatrice Knerr --Unbreakable "glass ceiling"? : investigating the living situation of first generation overseas Chinese in Denmark /Jing Zhao --Part III. The Role of Language --Studying abroad and its consequences for Chinese language classes at Zhejiang University /Eline Joosten --Part IV. Cultural Identity --Cultural identity of the second generation of overseas Chinese : approaches and prospect of a new research field /Yue Liu --Cultural memory of Chinese migrants in Europe : a analysis of letters sent from Turin to Wenzhou (1957-1985) /Jieping Fan,Sun Jun --Guanxi and the organisation of Chinese New Year festivals in England /Yi Fu,Philip Long,Rhodri Thomas --The receptioin of mainland China TV series among Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia.

"Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and intellectual disability in particular - remaining largely unquestioned among many. Yet the understanding, depiction, and representation of disability is also clearly in a process of transformation. This volume analyzes that transformation, taking a close look at attitudes toward disability, understood as a "deviation" from what a non-disabled body should ostensibly be able to do and how it should look, in historical and contemporary German-speaking contexts. The volume begins with an overview of the emergence and growth of disability studies in German-speaking Europe against the background of the field's emergence a decade or so earlier in the US and UK. The differences in timing, methodology, and research concentrations bring into focus how each cultural context has shaped the field. Building on recent scholarship that uses a cultural studies approach, the volume's three sections analyze disability and ability constructs in history, memory, and culture. The essays in the history section examine the emotions, morality, and power as they are negotiated on the individual level. Those in the memory section grapple with the origins of the Nazi persecution of people with disabilities, the fight for recognition of this genocide, and the politics of its commemoration. Finally, the culture section offers close readings of disability in literary and filmic texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--