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Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood : A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma /
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Ratfale Jasfa (Romani: 'Tears of Blood') is a poem by the Romani poet Papusza (Bronisława Wajs) who survived the German occupation and the Second World War in Volhynia, currently Ukraine. It is also one of the earliest known testimonies by a Romani genocide survivor and a Romani woman. This book introduces the recently re-discovered manuscript which is four times longer than the previously known text. The volume includes a transcript of the poem in Romani, a translation into English, extensive historical-philological commentaries, alongside stand-alone chapters on the poet, manuscript and the historical context.
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1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657791316
The Civilization of Modernity: An Anthology of Carlo Cattaneo's Writings /
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Carlo Cattaneo was one of the most prominent Italian intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Known for his prominent role in the Five Days of Milan uprising in 1848, he combined a vivid intelligence with a reform-oriented mind and a strong civic passion. This volume offers an exhaustive selection of Cattaneo's writings, which cover a wide range of issues and advance highly innovative theories, such as the achievement of republican federalism in Italy and Europe, thought as a principle of political economy, and the psychology of associated mind. The two introductory essays examine how his ideas developed through the time and argue for their enduring vitality See Less
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1 online resource (462 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004711181
Die Landeskinderheilstätte Mammolshöhe und ihr Direktor Werner Catel : Fürsorge, Therapie und unethische Forschung 1927-1954 /
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Die Landeskinderheilstätte Mammolshöhe in Mammolshain/Taunus war von 1927 bis 1947 ein Sanatorium, in dem an Tuberkulose erkrankte Kinder und Jugendliche behandelt wurden. Ab 1947 nahm die Einrichtung einen klinischen Charakter an und wurde zu einer Stätte der TBC-Forschung. Dieser Umschwung war das Werk des neuen Direktors Werner Catel, der vor 1945 in zentraler Funktion an der NS-Kinder-"Euthanasie" mitgewirkt hatte. Er begann auf der Mammolshöhe mit einer Versuchsreihe zur Erprobung eines neu entwickelten Präparats gegen TBC. Die Vorgänge rund um die Versuchsreihe wurden im Zusammenhang mit einer von Verleugnung und Verharmlosung der Fakten geprägten Neuerfindung der Biographie Catels umgedeutet. Die Studie zeigt exemplarisch, wie sich die ausbleibende kritische Auseinandersetzung der Medizin mit der eigenen Rolle im NS-Staat nach 1945 auswirken konnte.
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1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657796786
Border Fears in the Baltic Sea Region since 1918 /
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Collective fear is probably the most productive emotion in shaping international relations not only in short-term political decision-making processes, but also in the deeper layers of intercultural communication based on social and cultural memory. Taking into account the Baltic Sea Region as an area of multi-layered interdependencies, identities, and interests is the starting point to consider the emotional factors of international relations in this macro-region. Given the deep territorial changes in the Baltic Sea Region throughout the twentieth century, one of the most burning issues would concern political, geopolitical, cultural, ethnical, and linguistic borders. The multi-perspectivity of the volume including studies by historians, political scientists, and sociologists aims at casting a new light on bordering, de-bordering and re-bordering processes in the Baltic Sea Region since 1918.
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1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657798223
Vices of the Learned : Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices /
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Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages? With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a panoramic overview of qualities, habits, and inclinations that scholars at various times and places saw as detrimental to their work. Innovative is the volume's longue durée approach. The volume breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of "low" genres (aphorisms, proverbs, anecdotes) and stereotypical figures (the pedant, the charlatan, the mammon) in transmitting vices over time.
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1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004725058
Presse als Medium des Kulturtransfers : Das Journal Thornische Nachrichten von gelehrten Sachen (1762-1766) im preußisch-polnischen Kulturraum /
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Die "gelehrten Journale" des 18. Jahrhunderts ermöglichen es, Einblicke in den europäischen Informations- und Ideentransfer während der Zeit der Aufklärung zu gewinnen. Die "Thornischen Nachrichten von gelehrten Sachen" (1762-1766) tun dies - dank ihrer Prägung durch mehrere Kulturräume - auf eine ganz besondere Weise. Konzipiert in deutscher Sprache und nach dem Muster der deutschen Rezensionszeitschriften, herausgegeben auf dem Gebiet Polen-Litauens, aber in einer Region (Königliches Preußen) deren Bewohner sich als Preußen identifizierten, hatte sich das Journal Informationsvermittlung über Neuerscheinungen aus Polen und Preußen auf die Fahne geschrieben. Katarzyna Chlewicka erschließte ihrer Leserschaft den komplexen Charakter dieser Publikationen, indem sie darstellt, wie sich regionale preußische Identität, Konzepte der Literaturkritik sowie die Rezeption der polnischen und preußischen Aufklärung in den Journalen niederschlugen.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657796663
Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de prima lectura : Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition /
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The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Nicole Oresme, a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, stood as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. This volume presents the critical edition of Oresme's earliest work, his first cycle of lectures on Aristotle's Meteorology (1346). Transcribed directly by one of his students at Paris Arts Faculty, this text explores problems of physics, cosmology, geology, and optics, providing invaluable insights into late medieval philosophy of nature.
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1 online resource (500 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004689237