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    • Salenius, Sirpa (2025)
      Despite their scant knowledge of Finland, 19th-century Americans constructed persistent images of the Russian autonomous Grand Duchy and its people in their travel writing and fictional works. Americans, who commonly passed ...
    • Tagsold, Christian (2025)
      In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity. Only in the late nineteenth century did a new class of political and business leaders revive interest in horticulture, ...
    • Goshadze, Mariam (2025)
      Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming ...
    • Singerton, Jonathan; Krizova, Marketa; Burri, Michael (2025)
      The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peoples as a continual ...
    • Zwengel, Almut (2025)
      Diese Einführung in die Soziologie setzt klare Schwerpunkte. Makro- und Meso-Ebene werden berücksichtigt, doch im Zentrum steht die Mikrosoziologie, und zwar insbesondere durch Berücksichtigung von Kleingruppen und von ...
    • Mahir, Lukas (2024)
      Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen vor allem sechs Bücher von ehemaligen Angehörigen der SS-Division „Totenkopf“, einem militärischen Großverband der Waffen-SS. Diese Erinnerungswerke, in denen die ehemaligen Mitglieder ...
    • Parekh, Serena (2016)
      This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited ...
    • Hurka, Steffen (2017)
      While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage ...
    • Pellow, Deborah; Scheld, Suzanne (2023)
      This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to ...
    • Ferrara, Silvia; Cartolano, Mattia; Ottaviano, Ludovica (2024)
      This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume ...
    • Rogers, Samuel (2024)
      This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding ...
    • Langlois, Adèle (2013)
      A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. The sequencing of the entire ...
    • Trillo, Roberto Alonso (2018)
      While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature, semiotics, and related disciplines, its impact ...
    • van Wessel, Margit; Kontinen, Tiina; Bawole, Justice Nyigmah (2023)
      At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there ...
    • Jurkowlaniec, Grażyna; Matyjaszkiewicz, Ika; Sarnecka, Zuzanna (2017)
      This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical ...
    • Donnelly, Shawn (2018)
      This book examines the politics of Banking Union and EMU reform in the EU, and draws lessons for what it means for international politics, both in Europe, and for international relations more broadly. It demonstrates that ...
    • Pinfield, Stephen; Wakeling, Simon; Bawden, David; Robinson, Lyn (2020)
      Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current ...
    • Ugelvik, Synnøve (2018)
      The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, rapid EU legal developments mean that European police forces are no longer tied to a specific national legal context or a ...
    • Holma, Katariina; Kontinen, Tiina (2019)
      Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday ...
    • Tamminen, Sakari; Deibel, Eric (2018)
      This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault’s biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. ...