Zusammenfassungen der wissenschaftlichen Jahrestagung in Krakau, von 1. bis 5. April 1991, gehaltenen Vorträge
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 224
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Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918
Author: Jan Surman
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1612495621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe. By going beyond national narratives, Surman reveals the Empire as a state with institutions divided by language but united by legislation, practices, and other influences. Such an approach allows readers a better view to how scholars turned gradually away from state-centric discourse to form distinct language communities after 1867; these influences affected scholarship, and by examining the scholarly record, Surman tracks the turn. Drawing on archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, Surman analyzes the careers of several thousand scholars from the faculties of philosophy and medicine of a number of Habsburg universities, thus covering various moments in the history of the Empire for the widest view. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918 focuses on the tension between the political and linguistic spaces scholars occupied and shows that this tension did not lead to a gradual dissolution of the monarchy’s academia, but rather to an ongoing development of new strategies to cope with the cultural and linguistic multitude.
Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages
Author: Christian Scholl
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631706251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume examines imperial rule in the Middle Ages. It asks for the characteristics of imperial leadership as well as the reasons why some rulers strove for imperial titles such as emperor whereas others voluntarily shrank from them. Thus, the authors adopt a transcultural perspective, covering Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East.
Literatur, Politik, Identität
Author: Leslie Bodi
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 612
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy of the Information Society
Author: Herbert Hrachovec
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 3110328488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, on Ethics and the political economy of information society. Also included are papers presented in a workshop on electronic philosophy resources and open source/open access.
Small Towns in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521893749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the great wave of publications on European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period, little has been written about the thousands of small towns which played a key role in the economic, social and cultural life of early modern Europe. This collection, written by leading experts, redresses that imbalance. It provides the first comparative overview of European small towns from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, examining their position in the urban hierarchy, demographic structures, economic trends, relations with the countryside, and political and cultural developments. Case studies discuss networks in all the major European countries, as well as looking at the distinctive world of small towns in the more 'peripheral' countries of Scandinavia and central Europe. A wide-ranging editorial introduction puts individual chapters in historical perspective.
The Politics of Ethnic Survival
Author: Gary B. Cohen
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1557534047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the city and with their own sharp numerical decline: in the 1910 census only seven percent of the metropolitan population claimed that they spoke primarily German. The study uses census returns, extensive police and bureaucratic records, newspaper accounts, and memoirs on local social and political life to show how the German minority and the Czech majority developed demographically and economically in relation to each other and created separate social and political lives for their group members. The study carefully traces the roles of occupation, class, religion, and political ideology in the formation of German group loyalties and social solidarities.
Creating the Other
Author: Nancy M. Wingfield
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1571813853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of ethnic stereotypes during the "long" nineteenth century initially had other functions than simply the homogenization of the particular culture and the exclusion of "others" from the public sphere, the evaluation of peoples according to criteria that included "level of civilization" yielded "rankings" of ethnic groups within the Habsburg Monarchy. That provided the basis for later, more divisive ethnic characterizations of exclusive nationalism, as addressed in this volume that examines the roots and results of ethnic, nationalist, and racial conflict in the region from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives.
From Prejudice to Persecution
Author: Bruce F. Pauley
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1998-03-01
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780807847138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providin
Between Stillness and Motion
Author: Eivind Røssaak
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9089642129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the development of film as an artistic medium in the 1890s, there has been an inherent tension between still photographic images and moving cinematic images, from their form and function to the messages they convey and their impact on the beholder and on culture at large. This volume, one of the first book-length works to analyze, critique, and further the international debate about the meaning and use of motion and stillness in film and photography, takes these concepts out of the theoretical arena of cinematic studies and applies them to the wider and ever-changing landscape of images and media. With contributions from such acclaimed international scholars as Tom Gunning, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark B. N. Hansen, George Baker, Ina Blom, and Christa Blümlinger, these collected essays examine the strategic uses of stillness and motion in art from the mid-nineteenth century to the technologically driven present.
