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Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity

With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions - and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary - the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe - patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European 'identity', but rather to a European 'mode' of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities. Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.

Women and ETA is the first book-length study of women in radical Basque nationalism. It uses a unique body of oral history interviews to examine the history of women as supporters and direct participants in ETA, including violence, from 1959 to the period before ETA's declaration of a permanent ceasefire in March 2006.

International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science, history, literature, art, and politics.

International law international law and revolution : 1917 and beyon / Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford, Ntina Tzouvala and Anna Saunders -- Looking eastwards : the Bolshevik theory of imperialism and international law / Ntina Tzouvala and Robert Knox -- Lenin at Nuremberg : anti-imperialism and the juridification of crimes against humanity / Amanda Alexander -- Excluding revolutionary states : Mexico, Russia and The League Of Nations / Alison Duxbury -- Law, class struggle and nervous breakdowns / Mai Taha -- Microcosm soviet constitutional internationality / Scott Newton -- Law and socialist revolution : early soviet legal theory and practice / Owen Taylor -- Intervention : sketches from the scenes of the Mexican and Russian revolutions / Dino Kritsiotis -- Mexican revolutionary constituencies and the Latin American critique of us intervention / Juan Pablo Scarf -- Mexican post-revolutionary foreign policy and the Spanish civil war : legal struggles over intervention at the league of nations / Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçosos -- 1917 : property, revolution and rejection in international law / Kate Miles -- 1917 and its implications for the law of expropriation / Daria Davitti -- Contestations over legal authority : the Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930 / Andrea Leiter -- The Mexican revolution : alien protection and international economic order / Kathryn Greenman -- Animated by the European spirit' : European human rights as counterrevolutionary legality / Anna Saunders -- Human rights, revolution and the 'good society' : the Soviet Union and the universal declaration of human rights / Jessica Whyte.

Thinking through Transition is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-communism can be understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions), and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular