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  • Cultural Memories

    The Geographical Point of View

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, Edgar Wunder ...
    Series Book 4 - Knowledge and Space
    The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Intellectual Temptation

    Dangerous Ideas in Politics

    by Frits Bolkestein ...
    an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.- Joshua Muravchikan erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.- Christopher CaldwellBolkestein exposes todays fashionable, yet dangerous ideas, doing a great service not only to Europe ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ruins of Modernity

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Envisioning Power

    Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis

    by Eric R. Wolf ...
    With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the circumstances of cultural production. Responding to social-science notions of ideology that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Nature of Fascism

    by Roger Griffin ...
    The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students.Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

    Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

    by Zaheer Baber, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor0, Andrew Eungi Kim1, Irving M. Zeitlin2, J.I. Bakker3, John Keane4, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens5, Michael Zeitlin6, Elijah Anderson7 ...
    This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • German Colonialism

    Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

    Edited by Volker Langbehn, Mohammad Salama ...
    More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the "continuity thesis," this anthology debates the ... Read more

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  • The New Conservatism

    Cultural Criticism and the Historian's Debate

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Jürgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly writings on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences. The New Conservatism brings to light another side of Habermas's work, showing him to be an incisive commentator on a wide range of contemporary themes.The 1980s have been a crucial decade in the political life of Western democracies in general, and of the Federal Republic of Germany in ... Read more

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  • Civilizing the Enemy

    German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West

    by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson ...
    For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first part of the twentieth century, but emerged as a staunch Western ally after World War II.By examining German ... Read more

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  • Thinking Europe

    A History of the European Idea since 1800

    by MATS ANDRÉN ...
    Series Book 46 - Making Sense of History
    Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Nation

    by Lord Acton, Otto Bauer, John Breuilly ...
    Series series Mappings Series
    In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntingdon proposed his influential and troubling ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts, and political theorists. No consensus exists concerning its identity, genesis, or future. Are we reverting to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving into a globalized, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD