OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2016)Where was the locus of parapsychology – the academic involvement with the occult – during the 20th century? In this first attempt at an international comparison, the authors examine various institutional venues, including ...
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(2016)Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside ...
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(2015)The collaboration between the military and the media that we know today was developed in the first half of the 20th century. This study shows that military leaders were primarily interested in the media because they hoped ...
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(2016)Pre-Modern Europe`s diverse ethnic and religious groups were in continuous contact with each other and also with "cultures" beyond Europe. This collected volume analyzes these reciprocal exchange processes, taking into ...
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(2016)This volume includes lectures and discussions from the Conference of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers in Speyer from 7 to 10 October 2015.
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(2016)First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors.
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(2015)In 2013, § 22, para. 3 of the Civil Status Act (PStG) made clear that the civil status of intersexual persons could be entered in birth records without an indication of gender affiliation. However, German family law is ...
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(2018)This volume addresses interdependencies between the original and the copy while focusing on the latter. Going beyond established imperatives for innovation, the essays in this volume examine artistic repetition and concentrate ...
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(2015)On the 50th anniversary of the German Stock Corporation Act, which was originally ratified in 1965, leading legal scholars met at the birthplace of the law in Bonn to discuss current pressing challenges in this area of ...
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(2017)What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other ...
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(2016)With courage born of desperation, Jewish fighters began their resistance in April 1943 in the Warsaw ghetto. This was the best known but only one of many Jewish resistance activities against the National Socialist policy ...
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(2015)This book gets to the heart of discussions on big data and the digital age. It presents the 200-year history of the idea that people and societies are nothing more than the sum total of the data collected by quantitative ...
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(2016)A comparison between Western European Catholic monasteries and Russian Orthodox monasteries during the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period reveals their common roots in the Western and Eastern monastic traditions as ...
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(2014)As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the ...
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(2015)Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an "other" which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions ...
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(2014)This volume provides the very first transcription of correspondence between Richard Dedekind and Heinrich Weber, one of the most important instances of written dialog between mathematicians in the 19th century. Nearly every ...
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(2014)Modern popular culture came to the world from the stage. Even before film and radio had established themselves, popular theater had developed into a commercial and boundary-crossing entertainment industry that reached a ...
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(2013)The Baden Administrative Court was the first administrative court to be established in Germany and began its work in October 1863 in Karlsruhe. In 2013, the anniversary of its founding provided the occasion to reflect on ...
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(2014)This volume contains presentations and discussions from the meeting of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors in Greifswald from 2 to 5 October 2013.
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(2013)In the last decades, Ingvar Johansson has made a formidable contribution to the development of philosophy and particularly that of metaphysics. This volume consists of original papers written by 50 philosophers from all ...
