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Vol. 1: Sued-Badillo, Jalil (ed.): Autochthonous societies. - 2003. - 442 S. : Tab., Ill., Lit. S. 363-430. ISBN: 92-3-103832-X

Review.

The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) was founded in Vienna in 1982 by a group of scholars from Eastern Europe and the West. The purpose of the Institute was to overcome the cultural and intellectual division of Europe by promoting conferences, seminars and research programmes. The latest report of the Institute stresses that the disappearance of the Iron Curtain has made the work of the Institute all the more important. As the authors of the report explain, '…the civil society which is reemerging in Eastern Europe will hardly be viable without living connections to the West and, equally, the Western world will be much poorer without the historical experiences of the East. The Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen views itself as a place where the experiences and perspectives of Eastern Europeans can be (re-) introduced into the Western discussion as a means of rousing, changing and broadening Western culture. Europe should be seen as a challenge: as a manifold, but also contradictory, intellectual and cultural unity.'

Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries as a bureaucratic monster eroding national sovereignty: at best wasteful, at worst dangerous. How did we reach this point and how has European integration impacted on ordinary people's lives - not just in the member states, but also beyond? Did the predecessors of today's EU really create peace after World War II, as is often argued? How about its contribution to creating prosperity? What was the role of citizens in this process, and can the EU justifiably claim to be a 'community of values'? Kiran Klaus Patel's bracing look back at the myths and realities of integration challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike and shows that the future of Project Europe will depend on the lessons that Europeans derive from its past.

Gender is a good place from which to start reflections on European history: gender history deliberately transcends borders and, at the same time, demonstrates the difficulties of writing European, or transnational, history. Focusing on recent syntheses of modern European history, both general works and those specifically devoted to gender, the article asks what kind of Europe emerges from the encounter between gender and history. It suggests that the writing of European history includes either Eastern Europe (and, sometimes, the Ottoman Empire) or a gender perspective, but seldom both. Thus, the projects of integrating a European dimension into gender history and gender into European history remain unfinished. The result is a history of a rather 'small Europe'. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]

It is commonplace that the modern world is more international than at any point in human history. Yet the sheer profusion of terms for describing politics beyond the nation state-including "international," "European," "global," "transnational" and "cosmopolitan," among others - is but one indication of how conceptually complex this field actually is. Taking a wide view of internationalism(s) in Europe since the eighteenth century, Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined explores discourses and practices to challenge nation-centered histories and trace the entanglements that arise from international cooperation. A multidisciplinary group of scholars in history, discourse studies and digital humanities asks how internationalism has been experienced, understood, constructed, debated and redefined across different European political cultures as well as related to the wider world

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction: Conceiving the Everyday in the Twentieth Century -- 1. Charting Everyday Experience -- 2. From Scullery to Conservatory: Everyday Life in the Scottish Home -- 3. Changing Intimacy: Seeking and Forming Couple Relationships -- 4. The Realities and Narratives of Paid Work: The Scottish Workplace -- 5. Being a Man: Everyday Masculinities -- 6. Spectacle, Restraint and the Sabbath Wars: The 'Everyday' Scottish Sunday -- 7. After 'The Religion of My Fathers': The Quest for Composure in the 'Post-Presbyterian' Self -- 8. Culture in the Everyday: Art and Society -- 9. Sickness and Health -- 10. Passing Time: Cultures of Death and Mourning -- Further Reading -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Preface -- 1 Balancing Acts: The Crown and Parliament -- 2 The First Estate: Parliament and the Church -- 3 The Second Estate: Parliament and the Nobility -- 4 The Third Estate: Parliament and the Burghs -- 5 House Rules: Parliamentary Procedure -- 6 Parliament and the Law -- 7 The Law of the Person: Parliament and Social Control -- 8 Political Ideas and Parliament -- 9 Parliament and Politics -- Index