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"Infants' Sense of People focuses on infants during their first year of life, exploring how they begin to think about other people, their feelings, emotions, and intentions, and how they become aware of these aspects of their own development. Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theory, Maria Legerstee takes the view that infants have an innate sense of people at birth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions. She questions the idea that infants use physical parameters such as contingencies or motion to distinguish people from objects, and rejects the assumption that infants are mechanical creatures before they become psychological ones. She argues persuasively that before infants learn to speak, interactions with others are possible because infants have a primitive pre-linguistic 'Theory of Mind.' This accessible book provides a valuable synthesis of current thinking on early social and cognitive development and the origins of Theory of Mind."--Publisher's description

In »Call Me Ishmael«, Charles Olson exclaims »SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America«. Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the »city upon a hill« to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America. Reihe American Culture Studies - Band 3.

In »Call Me Ishmael«, Charles Olson exclaims »SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America«. Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the »city upon a hill« to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it.With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.

Cover -- Excavating Memory -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Engaging Memory: An Introduction -- Part I. Sites of Contestation: Memory Work in the Nation-State -- 1. Bureaucratizing the Glorious Past: Moscow's Victory Memorial Project during Late Socialism -- 2. Sites of Memory of the 1980 Military Coup in Turkey -- 3. Remembering Right, Remembering White: Public Art, Colonial Memory, and Gentrification in Toronto's Parkdale Neighborhood -- 4. Power Line: Memory and the March on Blair Mountain -- Part II. Unremembered Heritage: Memories and Silences -- 5. Marginalized Narratives: Memory Work at African Shrines in Kochi, India -- 6. Land of Amnesia: Power, Predation, and Heritage in Central Africa -- 7. Imprisonment Is a Permanent Scar: Women's Penitentiaries in Francoist Spain -- 8. Pioneer Mothers for the New Millennium -- Part III. Storied Landscapes: Memory as Embodied Practice -- 9. Material Memories: (Re)Collecting Clandestine Crossings of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands -- 10. Hate Sits in Places: Folk Knowledge and the Power of Place in Rosewood, Florida -- 11. Persistent Practice and Racial Politics: Maple Sugaring on the Dennis Farm -- 12. The Memory Market: Black Women's Stories and the Legacy of the South African TRC -- Part IV. Violence and Conflict: Excavating Painful Memories -- 13. Representations of Forced Labor in the Irish Magdalen Laundries: Contemporary Visual Art as Site of Memory -- 14. Memory, Identity, and a Painful Past: Contesting the Former Dachau Concentration Camp -- 15. Excavating a Hidden Past: The Forensic Turn in Spain's Collective Memory -- 16. The Armenian Genocide: Forensic Intervention, Narrative, and the Historical Record.

Kaum jemand kennt sie, die Kaiserinnen des Heiligen Römischen Reichs in der Frühen Neuzeit – mit der bezeichnenden Ausnahme der »großen« Maria Theresia, Tochter Karls VI. und Gemahlin Franz' I. Doch auch die anderen, unbekannten Kaiserinnen waren weit mehr als lediglich die Gemahlinnen ihrer kaiserlichen Ehemänner und Stammmütter der Dynastie. Dank ihrer je spezifischen Ausstattung mit ökonomischem, sozialem und kulturellem Kapital durch ihre Herkunftsfamilien wurden sie zu wichtigen Akteurinnen am Kaiserhof, die eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Aktivitäten entfalteten: Sie wirkten als Vermittlerinnen im Kulturtransfer, förderten als Mäzeninnen Kunst und Wissenschaften und spielten eine zentrale Rolle im religiösen Leben des Hofes. Aber sie waren auch Ansprechpartnerinnen für ausländische Gesandte und galten teilweise als Kopf einer eigenen Hofpartei. Der Band bietet erstmals einen Überblick über eine repräsentative Auswahl dieser Fürstinnen und zeigt, dass sie weit mehr waren als »nur die Frau des Kaisers«.

"In late eighteenth-century Vienna, a remarkable coterie of five aristocratic women, popularly known as the 'five princesses,' achieved social preeminence and acclaim as close associates of the reforming Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. They were Princess Maria Josepha Clary; Princess Maria Sidonia Kinsky; Princess Maria Leopoldine Liechtenstein; Countess, subsequently Princess, Maria Leopoldine Kaunitz; and Princess Maria Eleonore Liechtenstein. During the Viennese social season, members of the group made their way several times each week to the inner city palace of one of the 'Dames,' as members of the group called themselves. Through analysis of the correspondence of these women and of the published and unpublished commentaries of their contemporaries, this study scrutinizes the activities of this select group of women during the co-regency period (1765-1780) when Joseph shared responsibility with his mother, Maria Theresia, and during Joseph's decade as sole ruler (1780-1790) after Maria Theresia's death--years during which the women enjoyed their special position"--