OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)Life, Earth, Colony explores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), famous for developing the foundations of geopolitical thought. Ratzel produced ...
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(2024)Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the German stage has been ...
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(2024)Opera for Everyone: The Industry’s Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age draws on seven years of multi-sited ethnography to examine the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based opera company The ...
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(2024)In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books—zombies that aren’t quite what ...
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(2024)Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm is the first environmental history of Egypt’s Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century ...
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(2025)In the first half of the 20th century, Vienna developed its own ‘academic culture’, which was expressed in the field of law and political science in particular by the Vienna School of Legal Theory founded by Hans Kelsen. ...
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(2013)The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing ...
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(2013)The story of the Polytechnic and of the legacy of Quintin Hogg is the third publication exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. A fitting tribute to the life and legacy of Hogg, his holistic ...
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(2025)Wie rezipieren chinesische Historikerinnen und Historiker globalgeschichtliche Ansätze aus Nordamerika und Europa? Mit neun ausführlich kommentierten Texten parteinaher und -ferner Gelehrter mit und ohne Forschungserfahrung ...
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(2025)Welche Rolle spielt die Internationale Geschichte in der Geschichtswissenschaft? Welche neuen Perspektiven lassen sich identifizieren, welche Blindstellen lassen sich erkennen? Anhand der sechs Schlüsselkategorien »Diplomatie«, ...
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(2025)Around 1200, a new institution of teaching and learning emerged in Paris: the university. But how was it possible that teachers came together to form a community and regulate their activities? A hitherto underestimated ...
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(2024)Only vestiges of the Middle Ages remain. They embody a period that has been assigned a wide range of historical, political and cultural meanings in modern and contemporary times. In addition to texts, images have also ...
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(2024)"Florentine Banks in Germany" offers a thorough examination of the market strategies employed by the influential Florentine banking families Alberti, Medici, and Spinelli from 1400 to 1475. Kurt Weissen reveals how these ...
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(2024)This study provides a new synthesis of the architectural history of the Munich Residence and its urban environment from the mid-fifteenth century to the eve of the Thirty Years’ War. It is primarily based on a systematic ...
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(2025)Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China’s nation-state building project from the early Republican era ...
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(2024)This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concept has been gaining ...
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(2025)Adult social care in England has been under sustained pressure for decades. The sector has long functioned in crisis mode due to cuts and chronic under-resourcing but, since early 2020, those using and providing adult ...
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(2025)Ecopreneurs – founders of young start-ups with an ecologically sustainable business model – are seen as the beacons of hope for the sustainable transformation of society. With the combination of idealistic motivation, ...
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(2025)This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their corresponding accessibility features. The volume demonstrates how audiovisual ...
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(2024)With a preface written by Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon and an introduction by Professor Maria de Lurdes Rosa and researcher Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa, this book brings together the forty-eight texts that, over four years, ...
