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This is a collection of essays exploring the relationship between classics and national cultures across many regions including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms

All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World covers the widest definition of "medieval Europe" possible, not by covering history in the traditional, textbook manner of listing wars, leaders, and significant historic events, but by presenting detailed alphabetical entries that describe the artifacts of medieval Europe. By examining the hidden material culture and by presenting information about topics that few books cover--pottery, locks and keys, shoes, weaving looms, barrels, toys, pets, ink, kitchen utensils, and much more--readers get invaluable insights into the nature of life during that time period and area. The heartland European regions such as England, France, Italy, and Germany are covered extensively, and information regarding the objects of regions such as Byzantium, Muslim Spain, and Scandinavia are also included. For each topic of material culture, the entry considers the full scope of the medieval period--roughly 500-1450--to give the reader a historical perspective of related traditions or inventions and describes the craftsmen and tools that produced it

A comparative and interdisciplinary approach to secular power and the foundation of medieval churches. 0Local churches were an established part of many towns and villages across early medieval Western Europe, and their continued presence make them an invaluable marker for comparing different societies. Up to now, however, the dynamics of power behind church building and the importance of their presence within the landscape have largely been neglected.00This book takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of early medieval churches, drawing together archaeology, history, architecture, and landscape studies in order to explore the relationship between church foundation, social power, and political organization across Europe. Key subjects addressed here include the role played by local elites and the importance of the church in buttressing authority, as well as the connections between archaeology and ideology, and the importance of individual church buildings in their broader landscape contexts.00Bringing together case-studies from diverse regions across Western Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the British Isles, Denmark, and Iceland), the seventeen contributions to this volume offer new insights into the relationships between church foundations, social power, and political organization. In doing so, they provide a means to better understand social power in the landscape of early medieval Europe

The Warsaw positivists, one of Poland's most influential intellectual collectives, emerged in the 1860s with an ambitious plan to strengthen the Polish nation. The self-proclaimed progressives, enamored with trends popular in Europe's contemporary liberal circles, declared that Poles were a backward nation stuck in the feudal era. Consequently, they proposed comprehensive national reforms inspired by Western Europe, or the region that the Warsaw positivists designated to be the beacon of progress and civilization. However, as Western European empires intensified their colonial efforts in Africa in the final quarter of the nineteenth century, the Warsaw positivists felt compelled to reassess Western Europe through the lens of its ongoing imperial politics. This article examines the Warsaw positivist critique of Western European imperialism in Africa and argues that while the Warsaw positivists denounced Western European imperial methods, they stopped short of condemning imperialism per se. That allowed them to decry Western Europe for exploiting Africa and simultaneously justify Western European plans to subjugate the continent. Most importantly, the positivist critique of Western European actions in Africa opened space to redefine the place of Poles on the axis of progress and civilization. While never employing the category of whiteness explicitly, the Warsaw positivists included Poles in the increasingly racialized categories of civilization, progress, and Europeanness, even if, or perhaps particularly because, as a nation, Poles were politically vulnerable under the control of Russia, Germany and the Habsburg Empire, functioned on Europe's margins, and in so many ways lagged behind Western Europe.

The age of nationalism offers us many examples which prove that affinities in descent or language have no influence on the formation of modern nations or on their political ideas. Switzerland is only one of several Germanic lands which developed a nationalism resembling much more closely that of England rather than that of Germany. The case of the Low Countries is similar. Both were until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries politically and historically a part of the German Empire. Both grew into separate nations in border regions where Germanic and Latin civilizations have met since the beginning of European history. Both gained their national character by a process of intellectual and political emancipation from Germany. The Dutch historian, Jan Huizinga, affirmed in Berlin at the beginning of 1933 in a lecture on the Netherlands as mediator between Western and Central Europe that "Our whole history as a people and a state is, with a few exceptions, Western European history. Our relations with the West have conditioned our independence as a people and as a state. Be it as friends, be it as enemies, France and England were our teachers. The Netherlands have significance and a meaningful place only as a territory oriented toward the West."

"In 1918, as Europe's continental empires were violently replaced with a patchwork of nominally post-imperial nation-states, elites in Poland drew on the global language of civilization to launch a state-building mission in the non-ethnically Polish, nationally contested, and war-torn region of Volhynia. By following eastward in the footsteps of border guards, military settlers, provincial administrators, regional activists, health professionals, urban planners, teachers, and academics, the work traces how a colorful cast of characters adapted the prevailing language of European imperialism while simultaneously rejecting the very idea that they could act imperialistically in an historically Polish borderland. Their tension-ridden approaches were never static. Some Polish nationalists declared that they alone could act as benign civilizational conduits in mainly Ukrainian villages and predominantly Jewish towns, while others attempted to craft a regional identity. But by the eve of the Second World War, the province had become a testing ground for visions of demographic transformation that favoured antisemitic schemes of Jewish emigration and the forced assimilation of non-Polish Slavs. Throughout, doubts about the national strength of local Poles, competitions between diverse groups of self-declared civilizers, and mounting anxieties about the rise of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, meant that Volhynia served as an arena for redefining the precise contours of the modern Polish nation. Rather than simply a successor state embroiled in the quintessentially east European problem of "national minorities," Poland was a place where people engaged with the concept of civilization, recasting its meaning in conceptual spaces between empire and nation-state"--

"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as well as of North Africans by European forces, turning the Barbary Coast into the nemesis of any who went to sea. Through a variety of specifically selected narrative case studies, this book displays the blend of both authentic eye witness accounts and literary fictions that emerged against the backdrop of the tumultuous Mediterranean Sea. A wide range of other primary sources, from letters to ransom lists and newspaper articles to scientific texts, highlights the impact of piracy and captivity across key European regions, including France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, and Britain, as well as the United States and North Africa. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean addresses both the background from which captivity narratives were born and the narratives themselves. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern slavery and piracy."--Provided by publisher

"This volume surveys transnational encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asia since 1945, a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the two regions. It examines their socio-political and cultural connections through a variety of media. Since 1945, cultural flow between Germany and East Asia has increasingly become bi-directional, spurred by East Asian economies' unprecedented growth. In exploring their dynamic and evolving relations, this volume emphasizes how they have negotiated their differences and have frequently cooperated towards common goals in meeting the challenges of the contemporary world. Given their long-standing historical differences, their post-1945 relations reveal a surprisingly high degree of affinity in many areas. To show how they have deeply shaped each other's views, this volume presents twelve chapters by scholars from the fields of history, sinology, sociology, literature, music, and film. Topics include cultural topics, such as German and Swiss writers on East Asia (Enzensberg, Muschg, and Kreitz), Japanese writers on Germany (Tezuka and Tawada), German commemorative culture in Korea, Beethoven in China, metal music in Germany and Japan, diary films on Japan (Wenders), as well as socio-political topics, such as Sino-East German diplomacy, Germans and Korean democracy, and Japanese and Korean communities in Germany"--

Anti-liberal Europe : a neglected source of Europeanism / Dieter Gosewinkel -- The elusiveness of European (anti- )liberalism / Michael Freeden -- Europe as a colonial project : a critique of its anti-liberalism / Fabian Klose -- Facing the future backwards : 'Abendland' as an anti-liberal idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War and the 1960s / Vanesa Conze -- The call for a new European order : origins and variants of the anti-liberal concept of the "Europe of the regions" / Undine Ruge -- The 'New European Order' of national socialism : some remarks on its sources, genesis and manifestations / Jurgen Elvert -- Three kinds of collaboration : concepts of Europe and the 'Franco-German understanding' : the career of SS Brigadefuhrer Gustav Krukenberg / Peter Schuttler -- Communist Europeanism : a case study of the GDR / Jana Wuestenhagen -- Afterword : the limits of an anti-liberal Europe / Martin Conway.

Divided, but not disconnected : Germany as a border region of the Cold War / Thomas Lindenberger -- Fighting the First World War in the Cold War : East and West German historiography on the origins of the First World War, 1949-1959 / Matthew Stibbe -- The sideways gaze : the Cold War and memory of the Nazi past, 1949-1970 / Bill Niven -- Recasting Luther's image : the 1983 commemoration of Martin Luther in the GDR / Jon Berndt Olsen -- West German labour internationalism and the Cold War / Quinn Slobodian -- The German question and Polish/East German relations, 1945-1962 / Sheldon Anderson -- From bulwark of freedom to cosmopolitan cocktails : the Cold War, mass tourism and the marketing West Berlin as a tourist destination / Michelle A. Standley -- Projections of history : East German film-makers and the Berlin Wall / Séan Allan -- Defending the border? : satirical treatments of the Bundeswehr after the 1960s / Andrew Plowman -- East versus West : Olympic sport as a German Cold War phenomenon / Christopher Young -- Films from the other side : the influence of the Cold War on West German feature film import in the GDR / Rosemary Stott -- The shadows of the past in Germany : visual representation, the male hero, and the Cold War / Inge Marszolek -- Reenacting the first battle of the Cold War : post-wall German television confronts the Berlin Airlift in Die Luftbrücke : nur der Himmel war frei / Tobias Hochscherf and Christoph Laucht -- Unusual censor readings : East German science fiction and the GDR ministry of culture / Patrick Major -- Funerals in Berlin : the geopolitical and cultural spaces of the Cold War / James Chapman

"Why don't you study your own country?" Situating the semi-self, amongst hybrid identities / Julten Abdelhalim -- Settler colonial curriculum in Carlisle Boarding School : a historical and personal qualitative research study / Patrick Gerard Eagle Staff -- Between confidence and mistrust, rejection and collaboration : Anglolan Region drums in third academic space at Universidade Federal de Minas, Brazil / Felix Ulombe Kaputu -- How to be a good immigrant in Australian academia / Diana Carolina Arbeláez-Ruiz -- Inclusion and exclusion of postcolonial subjects in knowledge production : academic experience in Sweden, Cameroon, and Germany / Jonathan Ngeh -- Cannibalizing the foundations of western civilization / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Acculturation : navigating academia as a third culture child / Marcella Chiromo -- Like a laughing dove : defining and decolonizing spaces in the western academy / Lydia Wanja Gitau -- Challenging the binary : reflections on multiple and unconventional positionality through a lens of multi-layered institutional whiteness / Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Kyoko Shinozaki -- Disrupting trauma tourism in diversity workshops and scholarship essays : a participatory study describing counternarratives by queer, trans, and students of colour / Óscar Fernández, Staci B. Martin, Luz Maria Anaya, Anayeli Diaz-Espinoza, Wendy Soriano-Valencia, Stevie Cadiz, Hollis Kinner, Crystal Romero -- The role of memory and emotions in the long migration journey to Germany / Deepra Dandekar -- Transforming ordinary spaces into hopeful spaces / Staci B. Martin, Debra Tavares, D. Philipos, Milan Alvarez, Aline Maranghi, Irving Sanchez Cisneros, Danna Diaz, David Peterson del Mar -- History dialogues : opportunities and challenges of oral history research through refugee voices, narratives, and memories / Mohamed Zakaria Abdalla, Richesse Ndiritiro, Shaema Omar, Kate Reed, Samson Rer, Marcia C. Schenk, Gerawork Teferra -- Reconceptualizing academic mobility in exile : advancing a more equitable exchange of ideas / Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen, Alfred Babo, Sarina S. Rosenthal.

"The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11 attacks she has reported stories among the most dangerous members of her religion; when she is told to come alone to an interview, she never knows what awaits at her destination. In this compelling and evocative book, Mekhennet seeks to answer the question, "What is in the minds of these young jihadists, and how can we understand and defuse it?" She has unique and exclusive access into the world of jihad and sometimes her reporting has put her life in danger. We accompany her from Germany to the heart of the Muslim world -- from the Middle East to North Africa, from Sunni Pakistan to Shia Iran, and the Turkish/ Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. She then returns to Europe, first in London, where she uncovers the identity of the notorious ISIS executioner "Jihadi John," and then in Paris and Brussels, where terror has come to the heart of Western civilization. Too often we find ourselves unable to see the human stories behind the headlines, and so Mekhennet - with a foot in many different camps - is the ideal guide to take us where no Western reporter can go. Her story is a journey that changes her life and will have a deep impact on us as well. "--

"Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their subjects expired. Even though Germany lost its credit as a world power twice in that century, in the global cultural memory, the old Germanic families remained associated with the idea of Europe in areas reaching from Mexico to the Baltic region and India. Gusejnova's book sheds light on a group of German-speaking intellectuals of aristocratic origin who became pioneers of Europe's future regeneration. In the minds of transnational elites, the continent's future horizons retained the contours of phantom empires"--Publisher's description

Generally idea of united Europe has to guarantee peace and stabilization on it territory. At what there is dispute in aspect of stated of this territory. It notices itself, that borders of Europe wasn't definite; it treats this particularly it concerns eastern border, which was movable. Trying to show borders of Europe usually it calls itself three conceptions. First from cancellation oneself to empire of Charles Great. Ruler that created monarchy in conditions of threat expansion of Arabs. That notion came into being European also, which fighting knights with Arabias invasions on Pyrenean Peninsula were de! ned. Heirs of Great Charles, Ottons, divided own territory on four large regions: Italy, Germany, Gaul and Sclavinia. Eastern border came to river Elbe: with run of years Otton's territory included Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland. Second conception was built on so-called eastern schisms from 16th July of 1054 year. Christian world divided (orthodox) and western (roman catholic onto eastern order, called also catholic). Line of division ran resource from Adriatic to Danube, existing in XX century called state Yugoslavia; on Balkans they be shaped then Slavic communities; Serbians as well as Bulgarians tied with Orthodox Church, Slovenians and Croats with Catholicism. Alongside with Christianization civilization border shi! ed beyond Danube reaching for Arctic borders of continent. In Catholic circle there were Hungarians, western Slavs (Czechs, Slovaks, poles), Balts, Estonians and Finns; meanwhile in circle of order orthodox church found themselves Romanians and eastern Slavs (Ukrainians, Byelorussian).2 Russian diplomatist Wasilij Tatiszew on beginning XVIII age advanced third conception, recognizing mountains and river Ural for eastern border of Europe; he showed, that one should Russia to Europe.