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For the first time, this volume compiles essays on aspects of the 19th and 20th century history of leisure and consumption in the Silesian metropolis Breslau. How and where did the inhabitants of Breslau spend their leisure time, what athletic activities did they pursue, where did they shop, what cultural offerings did they enjoy? These questions, among others, are the focus of this volume, which uses an interdisciplinary historical approach

The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense exchange but also competition, despite country differences, planning has developed as a European field of practice and scientific discipline. Planning is here much more than the addition of individual histories; however, historiography has treated this history very selective regarding geography and content. This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and Northern Europe address the issues of the public led production of city and the social functions of urban planning in capitalist and state-socialist countries. The examined examples include Poland and USSR, Czech Republic and Slovakia, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal and Spain, Italy, and Sweden. The book will be of interest to students and scholars for Urbanism, Urban/Town Planning, Spatial Planning, Spatial Politics, Urban Development, Urban Policies, Planning History and European History of the 20th Century

This book examines the social construction of legal relations between people and things in Brazil during the 19th century through the analysis of court cases discussing dominion and possession over slaves and land. The chapters address topics such as the role of social recognition in situations of possession, the process of delegitimizing acts of land usage from indigenous peoples, dependent persons and women, and the widespread illegal acquisition of slaves and land

Les hommes du Moyen Âge, pour racheter leurs péchés, multipliaient les dons aux monastères qui accumulèrent d'importants patrimoines. Le livre oppose deux monastères vénitiens, l'un rural situé sur la frontière lagunaire, La Trinité de Brondolo, l'autre, urbain, placé au cœur du pouvoir politique, San Giorgio Maggiore. San Giorgio a multiplié les donations, La Trinité a entrepris une audacieuse politique de mise en valeur de la Lagune et pour obtenir le produit des dîmes, s'opposa à la noblesse campagnarde et à la paysannerie. Sous le poids des procès, le monastère s'endetta et le pape en confia la gestion aux Cisterciens, jusqu'à sa destruction en 1380. Le monastère de San Giorgio subit aussi la crise au XIVe siècle, le mouvement de réforme rassembla les monastères bénédictins dans des congrégations, sous le patronage de l'abbaye de saint Benoit et sous l'autorité du pape. La Congrégation instituait la solidarité financière entre ses membres sollicités de contribuer aux finances pontificales et aux guerres contre les Turcs. Le monastère a alors recouru aux instruments de crédit mis au point dans une république marchande. Ayant appelé les plus grands architectes, Palladio et Longhena, pour reconstruire ses bâtiments et les embellir, à la chute de la République il disposait d'un patrimoine immobilier considérable

Étroitement associé au triomphe de la ville, le nom de Florence évoque l'éclosion d'une culture politique et sociale contenue aux murs de la cité. La documentation conservée par les institutions ecclésiastiques témoigne du dynamisme précoce des sociétés rurales. En prenant pour cadre le quart sud-est du contado florentin, l'ouvrage met en lumière la participation et la résistance des populations rurales au processus de formation d'un territoire dominé par la cité. On s'intéresse ici à une mosaïque de sociétés dont la structure sociale ne se résume pas à l'opposition frontale entre seigneurs et paysans. Riches tenanciers, intermédiaires seigneuriaux, artisans ruraux, notaires, clercs et frères convers viennent compliquer le panorama. Ils participent à la formation d'un milieu de notables affranchis, au moins partiellement, des contraintes les plus pressantes du travail contraint ou vivrier. À travers l'étude de ces notables, l'ouvrage interroge les ressorts et l'évolution de la domination sociale dans une période de profonde transformation des structures politiques et économiques

Im Gegensatz zu Adorno hat Habermas kein Interesse mehr daran, sich mit der Metaphysik im Augenblick ihres Sturzes solidarisch zu erklären. Daher behauptet er explizit, ohne »metaphysische Rückendeckung« zu philosophieren und macht dies auch theoriestrategisch deutlich. Die Studie untersucht zunächst die Strategie der Metaphysikkritik bei Habermas, um anschließend die Folgen dieses Vorgehens zu analysieren. Dabei kommt sie zu dem Schluss, dass Habermas eine Naturalisierungsstrategie einschlägt, deren Folgen auf die Konzeption der Diskursethik bisher nicht berücksichtigt worden sind. Dies hat zur Konsequenz, dass Habermas wichtige Aspekte seiner eigenen Ethik unterminiert und damit gerade jener Form von Naturalismus Vorschub leistet, die er eigentlich kritisieren wollte

New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period. "L'Étrurie est à la mode", French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria had not only been attracting the attention of archaeologists and specialists of all sorts, but it had also been a fascinating and, in some cases, captivating destination for poets, novelists, painters and sculptors from all over Europe. This volume deals with the impact of the constantly expanding knowledge on the Etruscans and their mysterious civilisation on Italian, French, English, and German literature, arts and culture, with particular regard to the modernist period (1890–1950). The volume brings a distinctive point of view to the subject by approaching it from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, and by looking at a quite diverse range of topics and artefacts, which includes, but is not limited to, the study of drawings, art works, travel essays, novels, cooking recipes, schoolbooks, photographs, and movies. By exploring a new paradigm to understand ancient cultures, beyond the traditional ideas and models of "reception of the classics", and by challenging the alleged fracture between the so-called "two cultures" of humanities and natural sciences, Modern Etruscans will be of interest to scholars from various disciplines. Designed as a learning tool for university courses on the interplay between literature and science in the twentieth century, it is suited as recommended reading for students in the humanities. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)

This volume contains the previously unpublished correspondence of the philosopher and writer Günther Anders (1902-1992) with philosophers of a related philosophical tradition. Some of the letters date from the pre-war period of the 1920s and 1930s, the majority dates from the post-war period up to the 1970s. Based on the correspondence of this volume, Anders' intellectual and biographical development from an academic philosopher to a politically engaged thinker and activist can be traced. Moreover these letters make it clear that he was part of an intellectual network that included numerous philosophers, writers and activists of the 20th century and therefore are also a contemporary historical document which illustrates a part of German history of philosophy of the 20th century

Explores cities of exile from different perspectives and presents different methods and sources for exile and urban studies. The essays are written by internationally recognized scholars, and contain a wide range of themes including mapping, oral history, queerness, photography. This book will make a significant contribution to the theory and methodology of research on historical exile, cities and modernities, as well as present multidisciplinary exile research from an urban perspective.With a blend of case studies, and theoretical approaches, it interweaves histories of modernism and exile in different urban environments and focuses on historical dislocations in the first half of the twentieth century, when artistic and urban movements constituted themselves in global exchange. Although this book takes a historical perspective, it is written with an awareness of current flight movements and will make a significant contribution to the theory and methodology of research on exile.The knowledge of previous historical exile experiences is important for the understanding of contemporary flight movements: after all, these are not singular phenomena. For migration movements in the first half of the 20th century and for those of today, it is equally possible to speak of urban centres of attraction for refugees: Today, Berlin is a European metropolis of exile; in the 1930s and 1940s, Paris, Prague, London, New York, Istanbul and Shanghai were destinations for refugees.With contributions from Maddalena Alvi, Ekaterina Aygün, Claudia Cendales Paredes, Julia Eichenberg, Margit Franz, Nils Grosch, Mareike Hetschold, Louis Kaplan, Laura Karp Lugo, Katya Knyazeva, Merve Köksal, Rachel Lee, Chris McConville, Anna Messner, Alexis Nuselovici, Robert Pascoe, Valentina Pino Reyes, Helene Roth, Valeria Sánchez Michel, Marine Schütz, Seza Sinanlar Uslu, Felicitas Söhner, Mareike Schwarz, Marina Sorokina, Xin Tong, Diana Wechsler, Jessica Williams Stark and Federico Vitelli

Urban Planning During Socialism delves into the evolution of cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century, summarizing the urban and architectural studies that trace their transformations. The book focuses primarily on the periphery of the socialist world, both spatially and in terms of scholarly thinking. The case study cities presented in this book draw on cultural and material studies to demonstrate diverse and novel concepts of 'periphery' through transformations of socialist cityscapes rather than homogenous views on cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century. In doing so the book explores the transversalities of political, economic, and social phenomena; the places for everyday life in socialist cities; the role of professional communities on production and reproduction of space and ecological thinking. This book is aimed at scholarly readership, in particular scholars in architecture, urban planning, and human geography, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students in these disciplines studying the urban transformation of cities after World War II in socialist countries. It will also be of interest for planning officials, architects, policymakers and activists in former socialist countries

Long description: Dieses Jahrbuch des Frankreichzentrums verbindet zwei Schwerpunkte: Es befasst sich zum einen mit dem Zusammenhang von Europa und Literatur, zum anderen mit dem Verhältnis von Interkulturalität und Krieg. Der erste Teil fragt, wie der Text Europa den Ort Europa konstituiert - und umgekehrt. Die Beiträge thematisieren u.a. Deleuzes Konzept des Nomadischen, die Geokritik sowie Werke von Paul Valéry und Romain Gary. Der zweite Teil widmet sich aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive einer provokativen Frage: Sind Kriege Motor interkultureller Kommunikation und Verständigung? Am Beispiel der Weltkriege und der Entkolonialisierungskonflikte des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie anhand von filmischen und literarischen Fallstudien aus dem frankophonen Kulturraum werden Phänomene wie Fremdwahrnehmung und interkulturelle Kommunikation analysiert

"Dorothy Fujita-Rony's 'The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History' examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women's memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, 'The Memorykeepers' is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies"--

This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ten dialogues in this book were part of the "China and the World" series of online discussions hosted by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG). The series features CCG President Huiyao Wang in conversation with experts from a range of fields, from renowned scholars of international relations, economics, and history, to journalists, policymakers, and business leaders. The speakers featured in this book are Graham Allison, David Blair, Kerry Brown, Anne Case, Li Chen, Wendy Cutler, Angus Deaton, Thomas L. Friedman, Valerie Hansen, Pascal Lamy, Kishore Mahbubani, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Adam Posen, J. Stapleton Roy, John L. Thornton, Huiyao Wang, Martin Wolf, and Zhu Guangyao. These wide-ranging discussions offer unique insights and perspectives on key trends shaping our world in the 21st century. These include the rise of China and shifts in geopolitics, as well as the evolving nature of globalization, transnational threats, and multilateralism. This is an open access book. This is an open access book

A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of?private? applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages