OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)The eleven contributions in the volume examine the terminology used to refer to enslaved people and people in other forms of strong asymmetrical dependency as well as narratives by means of which dependency has been either ...
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(2023)There is hardly any other German company that was so polarizing in the twentieth century as Krupp. Publicly, "Krupp haters" and "Krupp fans" exchanged high-profile punches. Roelevink delves into this conflict, inquiring ...
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(2023)By looking at the development of international economic statistics, this book examines globalization processes and the dynamics that drive them. It questions widespread periodizations by showing that, from the First World ...
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(2023)Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos’ scholarly and scribal activity by ...
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(2023)The seventh volume of Communications from the German & Russian Historical Committee documents colloquia held in 2013 in Moscow and 2014 in Berlin devoted to the theme, "The First World War: Germany and Russia in a European ...
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(2023)The sixth volume of the "Communications" of the German-Russian Historical Commission includes papers presented at the 2012 Hamburg Colloquium. Presented bilingually – as always – the fifteen essays by prominent German and ...
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(2023)The time between the Hitler-Stalin pact of 23 August 1939 and Germany`s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 remains a controversial period in European historiography. This volume presents the still multivalent ...
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(2023)This edited volume examines the forms and functions of the interaction between hand writing and print culture in the period ca. 1500 to 1800. Handwritten interventions into printed books interrupt the text fixed in print ...
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(2023)It is difficult to imagine food today without flavorings, whether natural, synthetic, or artificial. But at the same time, they are substances that society is viewing increasingly critically and whose chemical and industrial ...
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(2023)This is the first treatment entirely dedicated to an analytic study of spectral flow for paths of selfadjoint Fredholm operators, possibly unbounded or understood in a semi finite sense. The importance of spectral flow for ...
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(2023)Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship ...
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(2023)This book examines paper and material aspects of the written word in early modern Europe. The contributors investigate the origins of paper production as well as manufacture, use, ownership, trade and preservation of books. ...
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(2023)Rivers have always been a formative component of spaces. They serve as natural borders, mold the character of a landscape, shape how entire regions look, and often mark politically contested border areas. At the same time, ...
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(2023)Since 2014, the project "Coding da Vinci," which was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2019 to 2022, has been connecting communities of cultural enthusiasts and technologically minded people with German ...
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(2023)This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of 16th-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less studied aspects: not only was Gelli deeply interested in figurative art, attested ...
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(2023)The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both resumed and rejuvenated the long Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different takes on time, he offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating ...
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(2023)A focus on methods can currently be observed in all subfields of linguistics. The book brings together the current discussion of methods and assembles contributions that move along the spectrum of ethnography, mixed methods, ...
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(2023)As a representative of the intellectual elites of his time, Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) was active in various cultural fields (Latin and German poetry, pious literature and theology, law, book illustration). The contributions ...
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(2023)Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts ...
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(2023)Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography with various discussions on issues like slave agency, slavery and law, slavery and capitalism, slave families, demography of slavery, ...
