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Die amerikanische Verheissung Schweizer Aussenpolitik im Wirtschaftskrieg 1917/18
(2016)
Abstract in English* The promise of America
Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18
The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between ...
Lichtduschen Geschichte einer Gesundheitstechnik, 1890–1975
(2015)
Light showers History of a Health Technology, 1890-1960
In the interwar period, western health experts considered ultraviolet light a powerful means for stimulating the population. In Germany, the electrical industry ...
Die Ordnung des Theaters. Eine Soziologie der Regie
(2013)
Theater direction is today more unfettered, the sphere of artistic possibilities more open, than ever before. Creative chaos on all sides? Not really. Denis Hänzi investigates how old ideals and new realities in the ...
Klossowski, l’incommunicable
(2015)
Can we communicate the incommunicable? Language is general, but the “depths of the soul” are unique, and only the experience lived in silence is authentic. Would it be possible to find a language that would appear to say ...
Soixante-trois. La peur de la grande année climactérique à la Renaissance
(2013)
People have interpreted the numeration of the years of their life since Antiquity (when, for example, the Emperor Augustus did so). Ancient medical theories thus maintained that matter is renewed every seven or nine years. ...
Buchführung für die Ewigkeit
(2014)
Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval Switzerland
How were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the ...
Le Nigeria et la Suisse, des affaires d’indépendance
(2016)
During Nigeria’s decolonization, Swiss traders and diplomats, aware of the exceptional potential for growth, attentively observed this new market for possible business opportunities. This book focuses on multinational ...
Construire les Carpates: L’Institutionnalisation d’une Éco-Region
(2015)
This book promotes a new understanding of the regional monograph. It investigates its research topic – the Carpathian Mountains – through the prism of institutions and organizations that have objectified it and have ...
Die Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Prekäre Proteste. Politik und Ökonomie im Zeichen der Prekarisierung
(2013)
Society appears to us today in the flickering light of instability. It has not just been since the financial crisis that matters related to working and living conditions have proved themselves to be precarious. The author ...
Japanizität aus dem Geist der europäischen Romantik
(2013)
After the opening of the country in the middle of the 19th century, Japan quickly moved towards becoming an industrialized world power. But the romanticist syndrome, imported from Europe by Mori Ogai since the 1890s, ...