War and Journalism : The Presentation of Conflict and Provision of Actuality /
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It were journalists that made war accessible for private households since the 19th century. Detailed reports and images brought the front to the living room and people around the world could follow military action on a daily basis. The people who reported about wars therefore shaped the perceptions of the respective conflicts and could even turn into political agents. This volume presents several case studies demonstrating how war and journalism were tied together on multiple levels. The contributions reflect questions related to agency, description, perception and politics alike. The authors explore which role journalists actually played in times of war and conflict and how their work fits into the overall history of violence since the 19th century.
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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657794744
Vom Versuch, Biografien zu nationalisieren : Die Deutsche Volksliste in der Region Lodz: Vorgeschichte, Umsetzung und Nachwirkungen 1914-1960 /
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Eine Biografie birgt immer etwas Politisches, insbesondere in Zeiten des Krieges und der Krisen. In dieser Studie stellt Michał Turski die Biografien der Lodzer Deutschen zwischen 1914 und 196 dar. Dabei führte die deutsche Besatzung Polens zwischen 1939 und 1945 zu staatsbürgerschaftlichen Dilemmata mit schwerwiegenden Folgen. Die zunächst in Wartheland eingeführte "Deutsche Volksliste" bedeutete für alle ehemaligen Bürger Polens der deutschen Nationalität immense Probleme. Soll man Volksdeutscher werden oder soll man dieses Angebot ablehnen und nach dem Krieg weiter in Polen leben? Die Region Lodz gilt als das Beispiel für die Folgen der Nationalisierung von Biografien: Vor 1939 lebten Polen, Juden und Deutsche zusammen, ab 193 jedoch immer mehr voneinander getrennt. Die Lodzer Verhältnisse dieser Zeit bieten ein Forschungsfeld, in dem die Auswirkungen, welche die rassistische Bevölkerungspolitik auf Biografien einzelner Personen hatte, anhand von zeitgenössischen Quellen untersucht werden können.
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1 online resource (610 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657797356
Au coeur du harem : Les princesses ottomanes à l'aune du pouvoir (XVe-XVIIIe s.) /
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Les femmes ottomanes n'auraient pas leur place en politique ; recluses dans leur harem, elles passeraient leur temps en distractions superficielles ou en intrigues pernicieuses : tel est l'héritage de l'orientalisme et de l'historiographie traditionnelle. Loin de ces poncifs, cet ouvrage propose une plongée dans les cadres institutionnels et sociaux ottomans, qui commandent le spectre des interactions sociales et politiques des femmes de la cour ottomane, en prenant pour champ d'étude une figure largement ignorée de l'historiographie : les filles de sang des souverains ottomans - les sultanes. Ottoman women would have no place in politics; recluse in their harem, they would pass their time in superficial distractions or in pernicious intrigues: such is the heritage of Orientalism and traditional historiography. Far from these clichés, this work offers a dive into the Ottoman institutional and social frameworks, which govern the spectrum of social and political interactions of the women of the Ottoman court, taking as a field of study a figure largely ignored by historiography: the blood daughters of the Ottoman rulers - the sultanas.
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Ce livre propose une analyse historique des conditions politiques et sociales des princesses ottomanes à l'époque moderne, au cœur d'une société de cour dominée par les logiques de discrimination sexuelle. This book offers a historical analysis of the political and social conditions of the Ottoman princesses in modern times, at the heart of a court society dominated by the logic of sexual discrimination. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004500402
9789004500396
Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ : The Fatimid Egyptian Convert Who Shaped Christian Views of Islam /
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Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ (ca. 955-ca. 1020) was a celebrated writer of Coptic Christianity from Fatimid Egypt. Born to an influential Muslim family in Cairo, Ibn Rajāʾ later converted to Christianity and composed The Truthful Exposer ( Kitāb al-Wāḍiḥ bi-l-Ḥaqq ) outlining his skepticism regarding Islam. His ideas circulated across the Middle East and the Mediterranean in the medieval period, shaping the Christian understanding of the Qurʾan's origins, Muḥammad's life, the practice of Islamic law, and Muslim political history. This book includes a study of Ibn Rajāʾ's life, along with an Arabic edition and English translation of The Truthful Exposer.
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In eleventh-century Egypt, the Christian convert Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ composed The Truthful Exposercritiquing Islam. This publication includes a study of Ibn Rajāʾ's biography, his impact on Christian approaches to Islam, and an Arabic edition with English translation of his work. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004517400
9789004517394
England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry /
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The world-shaking forced evictions of English peasants during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are treated by most historians as largely a 'Tudor myth'. For them, the peasantry disappeared much later through fair means thanks to industrialisation and trade. Centred on close scrutiny of the royal commission of 1517 - 'England's Second Domesday' - this book overturns these accounts. It demonstrates, unequivocally, that capitalism carved fundamental and irreversible breaches into the English countryside between 1400 and 1620. It began, grew and thrived on widespread illegal clearances of rural people and their culture by the English ruling class, long before the British industrial revolution.
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1 online resource (828 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004319448
Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society /
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In both exile and execution, society must be complicit; people must be willing to ostracize their neighbors or watch their execution, participating in the spectacle that reifies the power of the state. This collection investigates the relationship between the exiled and the landscape, physical or psychological, into which they are (dis)placed in conversation with accounts of execution, constructed by the authorities or invented to criticize the whole system. The essays cover a broad range of material including early Irish penitential literature, French courtly epics, English legendary histories, Spanish textual evidence of executions, and legal treatises governing both exile and execution in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Contributors are Gillian Adler, Gila Aloni, Kim Bergqvist, Karen Casey Casebier, Westley Follet, Radosław Kotecki, Mireille J. Pardon, Ben Parsons, Bojana Radovanović, Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez, Susan Small, and Larissa Tracy.
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1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004742598
On Western Influences and the Transformation of Chinese Academic Thought /
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This book analyses the growth of disciplinary knowledge in modern China through Sino-foreign cultural exchange. It examines Western influences and the transformation of Chinese academic thought through "modern scientific disciplines" rather than mere westernization based on the "nationality" of knowledge. Historically, this transformation is not the unidirectional "eastward dissemination of Western learning," but the "introduction of West learning into China" with more active participation and choice by Chinese scholars. This understanding of the historical process focuses more on the innovation of the medium of knowledge, emphasizing the material and technological background of the dissemination of Western learning.
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1 online resource (579 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004749436
Chinese Household Registration Data of Yugan County (Jiangxi Province), ca 1947 /
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Population statistics are crucial for both policy and research purposes. They cover important social factors such as birth rates, labour force structure, growth, gender, and well-being. This book provides individual-level data on the Yugan county (Jiangxi Province, China) for 1947 and covers many of the above-mentioned socio-economic factors, including family size and structure, occupation, education, gender, age, and marriage.
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1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004721951
The Revolutionary Organisation : Armed Struggle from the Late 18th Century to the Present /
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This is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the armed-struggle revolutionary organisation. The Revolutionary Organisation covers the period from the late 18th century to the present, is global in scope, and discusses organisations inspired by all main ideological traditions: communist, anti-colonialist, nationalist, democratic, Islamist, fascist, and white supremacist. The condition of life-and-death struggle with the state imposes similar patterns of operation upon these organisations, irrespective of their ideological inclinations. This work interprets armed-struggle revolutionary organisations as hybrids of three orientations: an apparatus of professional revolutionaries; an emotional community sustained by ideology, battle comradeship, and ritual; and an instrument of physical force nurturing an heroic organisational ethos.
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1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004737235