OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2026)Analysis of two key medieval reflections at the intersection of our mental representations and external reality Thought, in a sense, transforms the world. When we think of a particular thing - Charlie the dog, for example ...
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(2026)A transdisciplinary history of the 20th-century office, exploring how its spatial forms, technological systems and managerial ideologies were constructed, challenged and lived with. Throughout the twentieth century, office ...
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(2026)The book analyses the contested nature of the Liberal International Order (LIO) by distinguishing between ‘normal’ contestations, which constitute routine engagement with norms, and ‘deep’ contestations, which challenge ...
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(2025)The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of ‘blue remembered hills’. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched ...
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(2025)Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a ‘strange ...
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(2025)This book brings to light an extraordinary connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the Jewish historian Josephus. Writing in 93/4 ce, Josephus composed an account of Jesus known as the Testimonium Flavianum. Despite this ...
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(2025)This book tells the unlikely story of how the European Union survived COVID-19, which came on the heels of a difficult decade during which the EU wrestled with repeated crises, from the Euro area, to refugees, populism, ...
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(2025)The path charting industrial policy towards economic catch-up increasingly recognize the importance of a profound knowledge of firms, including their location, industry, and time specificities. Going beyond simple case ...
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(2025)Global norms form the core infrastructure of economic and political globalization. To be influential, these norms need to be codified into policy scripts that spell out their practical application. This process of developing ...
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(2025)Consciousness is the most fascinating—but tantalizingly difficult—topic in the whole of biology. Although many people now believe that mammals, birds, and possibly all vertebrates are conscious, there are also claims that ...
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(2025)In rund 450 Kurzbiographien beleuchtet dieser Band Herkunft, Ausbildung und Laufbahn von Bürgermeistern, Kämmerern und Senatoren neumärkischer Städte in der friderizianischen Zeit und ordnet sie in den historischen Kontext ...
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(2026)Contemporary Dutch hip hop is one of the most influential music genres and youth cultures in the Netherlands. Both the music and its surrounding youth culture tell personal and collective histories—stories which echo not ...
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(2026)Situated Marxism analyzes theoretical practices in postwar Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on their own terms and within their institutional, social, and historical contexts. Challenging enduring narratives of dogma ...
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(2025)This book addresses the growing awareness of the historical collections of film and media devices in film archives and media museums. Over thirty experts reflect on the prominent roles media technologies play in a range ...
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(2025)The battle cry ‘Bersiap!’ resounded in numerous cities and towns across Indonesia during the first months following the declaration of independence on August 17, 1945. Heard from all sides, this call to ‘stand by’ for the ...
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(2026)This study offers an ethnographic exploration of how memory, identity, and history are contested in the city of Opava and the surrounding Hlu.ín area – former sites of Austrian and Prussian rule shaped by post-imperial ...
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(2026)In February 2024 the designated body of the geological sciences rejected the proposition that humans have entered the Anthropocene epoch. Historians are yet to tell history as the interaction with materials and living ...
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(2025)Marine painting is a four hundred year old specialism of the traditional Dutch school of painting. Painting ships and the sea requires both nautical knowledge and great artistic talent. Cécile Bosman examines the background, ...
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(2025)This book explores the sacralization of history with a focus on modern Eastern Europe where the erasure of Soviet traditions has triggered a search for specific “usable pasts”. It discusses the importance of sacralization ...
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(2025)Democracy on a Tightrope explores the complex relationship between politics and bureaucracy in Brazil’s democratic development since the 1988 Constitution. Drawing from academic research and firsthand government experience, ...
