Publications
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Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise ...
Das Tagebuch von Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1825–1842)
(2023)
The edition of Leo Thun-Hohenstein's diary allows an intimate look at the early years of the later reformer of Austrians education system. Dealing with foreign cultures and questioning social norms characterized Thun's ...
A History of Displaced Knowledge : Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia
(2025)
The book examines the migration of ideas and knowledge carried in the cultural baggage of Austrian refugees who fled to Australia in 1938 and 1939 to escape National Socialism. Through 26 life stories, it explores the ...
Das Wiener Hetzamphitheater (1755-1796)
(2024)
The “Wiener Hetzamphitheater” (1755-1796) was the largest theater in Vienna until it burned down. The study is dedicated to a neglected chapter of local and European theater history by focusing on the staged animal fights. ...
Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
(2024)
“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the ...
Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law
(2000)
liability; multinational; corporations; international; SMSD; MNC
The Devil Next Door
(2014)
Rather than theoretical or abstract, above all else, this monograph endeavors to serve as a practical guide, a handbook for helping us navigate a dark terrain. It neither presumes to examine the sources of evil nor suggest ...
Educating Multilingual Students in Rural Schools
(2023)
Illuminating issues of diversity at the intersection of rural education and multilingual learners (ML) in the United States, this edited volume brings forth new research that captures the importance of place and rurality ...
Citizens' Rights and the Right to Be a Citizen
(2014)
Ernst Hirsch Ballin discusses the significance of citizens’ rights against the backdrop of ongoing migration and urbanization in the beginning of the 21st century. The traditional view that each state has the sovereign ...
Shinkokinshū
(2015)
The Shinkokinshū: A New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 1205) is supreme among the twenty-one anthologies of court poetry ordered by the Japanese emperors between the tenth and fifteenth centuries in terms of ...