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Built on the theme "history, culture and international law", this special course gives a comprehensive review of China's contemporary perspective and practice of international law in the past 60 years, with its focus on the recent 30 years when China is gradually integrated into international legal system through its opening up and economic reform process.

Der Beitrag befaßt sich mit einer wichtigen Verschiebung der Forschungsinteressen in der jüngeren Arbeitergeschichte, die unter dem Schlagwort "Alltagsgeschichte" stärker darauf insistiert, daß der Historiker auch zu untersuchen hat, wie Strukturen und Prozesse die Menschen betrafen, von ihnen erlebt und beeinflußt wurden. Die Erschließung der Welt der Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen, der Deutungen und Sichtweisen, der "Kultur" in einem weiten Sinn, die man im "Alltag" der Arbeiter aufzuspüren versucht, versetzen den Historiker in die Lage, Wirklichkeitsdimensionen zu thematisieren, die in vielen sozialgeschichtlichen Arbeiten der letzten Jahrzehnte wenig berücksichtigt wurden: Rituale und Feste, Gebräuche und ungeschriebene Verhaltensregeln, Gesten und Symbole, Leiden und Freuden, Emotionen und Affekte, Affektkontrollen und Wahrnehmungsformen, Arbeitsverhältnisse, Herrschaftsstrukturen, soziale Beziehungen aller Art. Zwar wurde diese Entwicklung vom Autor als willkommene Erweiterung und auch als manchmal berechtigte Korrektur anerkannt. Als neo-historistischer Rückfall und Flucht vor der Anstrengung des Begriffs, ja als Sackgasse wurde die "Alltagsgeschichte" jedoch dann kritisiert, wenn sie die Geschichte auf die "Abfolge von vielen Alltagen" reduziert, wenn sie Strukturgeschichte durch Erfahrungsgeschichte nicht ergänzt, sondern ersetzt, wenn sie die begriffliche Analyse von Strukturen und Prozessen als repressiv verwirft und die sympathisierende Erzählung von der Welt der kleinen Leute für ausreichend, ja besonders demokratisch hält ("Geschichte von unten"). Mikrohistorisierung und die emphatische Ablehnung gesamtgesellschaftlicher Analysen, überhaupt eine anti-analytische Stimmung wurde Teilen der heutigen "Alltagsgeschichte" vorgeworfen, wobei als Grundstimmung eine Sicht der Modernisierung als Zerstörung und Verlust statt als Aufbau und Fortschritt diagnostiziert wurde.

This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious history.

Part I. Putting Indians into American history -- Listening to Indians: a commentary / by Clifford Trafzer -- A continent awakes -- Indians of the sound -- Tecumseh, the greatest Indian -- The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indians -- "A most satisfactory council" -- Red morning in Minnesota -- The last stand of Chief Joseph -- Part II. Indians and the natural world -- Native endurance: a connection to place: a commentary / by Jaime Pinkham -- Cornplanter, can you swim? The Native Americans' fight to hold onto their land base -- "Like giving heroin to an addict": the reassertion of Native American water rights -- The great northwest fishing war -- The Hopi way -- Part III. The miracle of Indian survival -- Let's make the deal: Indian country's history of success: a commentary / by Mark Trahant -- The American Indian and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- The historical and cultural context of White-Native American conflicts -- "You are on Indian land!

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession. Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terror--from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. A history of the present crisis, Security and Terror also examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theory--in novels by Teju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot D�az, and Roberto Bola�o, and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture

This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.

"The Roman Principate was defined by its embrace of a central paradox - the ruling order strenuously advertised continuity with the past, even as the emperor's monarchical power represented a fundamental breach with the traditions of the "free" Republic it had replaced. Drawing on the evidence of coins, public monuments, and literary texts ranging from Tacitus and Pliny the Younger to Frontinus and Silius Italicus, this study traces a series of six crucial moments in which the memory of the Republic intruded upon Roman public discourse in the period from the fall of Nero to the height of Trajan's power. During these years, remembering the Republic was anything but a remote and antiquarian undertaking. It was instead a vital cultural process, through which emperors and their subjects attempted to navigate many of the fault lines that ran through Roman Imperial culture"--Provided by publisher

How did digital media happen? Through a unique approach to digital documents, and detailed intricate histories of illicit internet piracy networks, The Digital Culture Industry goes beyond the Napster creation myth and illuminates the unseen individuals, code and events behind the turn to digital media

So far in the twenty-first century, triumphalism has dominated Russian culture. As manifest in popularized history and film, this wave has often been described by recourse to interpretive paradigms derived from a neo-Soviet or neo-socialist realist orientation, particularly when the subject is war. While understandable, this interpretive practice cannot account for salient productions that upstage Soviet conventions by reconfiguring the Russian historical experience along a narrative trajectory anchored by two scenarios diat constitute the alpha and omega of national achievement and pride: Aleksandr Nevskii and the Time of Troubles. Tapping into deep structures of myth, contemporary reproductions of these two tie their significance explicitly to the post-Soviet period. Supported by the state and church, their increasing traction in war narratives facilitates a new discourse of nationalism that supersedes Soviet precedent, reconfigures traditional domains of triumphalism, and sets a standard for future constructions of Russian history that eclipses key problems of the real or imagined past.