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  • Ukraine's Search for Justice in the Shadow of the Donbas Conflict

    Strategic Reforms or Crisis Management?

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Political Transition
    Should we punish wrongdoers? Should we take care of the ones who suffered from wrongdoings? Although we may believe answers to these questions are obvious, they become less so when similar questions are asked under exceptional circumstances, such as armed conflicts. These answers may decide about the continuation of hostilities or their end. The stakes are high, while we can hardly ignore the need ... Read more

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  • Trajectories of Memory

    Excavating the Past in Indonesia

    Edited by Melani Budianta, Sylvia Tiwon ...
    This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second ... Read more

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  • Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

    Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its ... Read more

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  • The Cold War in the Classroom

    International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the ... Read more

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  • Speciesism in Biology and Culture

    How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

    This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and ... Read more

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  • Documenting the Armenian Genocide

    Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
    This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, ... Read more

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  • Mnemonic Solidarity

    Global Interventions

    Edited by Jie-Hyun Lim, Eve Rosenhaft ...
    Series series Entangled Memories in the Global South
    This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical actors ... Read more

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  • Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War

    Series Book 33 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as ... Read more

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  • Barbarian Europe

    Translated by Ewa Macura ...
    European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this thoughtfully conducted comparative study sheds light on the illiterate ... Read more

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  • Crusade: The Uses of a Word from the Middle Ages to the Present

    Edited by Benjamin Weber ...
    Series series Crusades - Subsidia
    The word ‘crusade’ covers today a wide variety of meanings in most European languages. The link between these uses and the historical phenomenon labelled as ‘crusade’ by historians is often very narrow and particularly changing. Understanding the real meaning of the word ‘crusade’, its connotations and implications, and thus the conscious or unconscious intentions of its uses requires a precise ... Read more

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  • Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory

    Series series Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
    Informed by the author’s long-standing work on violent conflict, peace and education in countries of the Global South, particularly Colombia, this open access book presents a comprehensive narrative about the relationship between peace education, historical memory and the sustaining peace agenda, advocating for the adoption of a new perspective on education for sustaining peace through historical ... Read more

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  • An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1

    Overview

    Series series Economy and Social Inclusion
    This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals with an intellectual disability tell their life stories, while their family members, teachers, classmates, and co-workers describe their professional, academic, and family ... Read more

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  • History from Loss

    A Global Introduction to Histories written from defeat, colonization, exile, and imprisonment

    History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety.A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and important ... Read more

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  • The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe

    A Study in the Philosophy of History

    Series Book 31 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance – so characteristic for Western-European societies – ... Read more

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  • The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

    The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

    Series Book 10 - Environmental History
    This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolism ... Read more

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  • Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland

    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Contemporary History
    In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to ... Read more

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  • Bilderberg Group: What Don’t You Know? Conspiracy Theories Surrounding The Top Secret Society

    Secret Societies, #1

    Series Book 1 - Secret Societies
    Every year since 1954 a Bilderberg Meeting has been held in an exclusive hotel in Europe or North America. Attendance is by invitation only and includes some of the most powerful and influential people in the Western World.However, just what happens during meetings is unknown because none of the people who attend will talk about what they do. The people who organize these meetings insist that this ... Read more

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  • Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies

    by Geoffrey Yeo ...
    Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, ... Read more

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  • Polish Theory of History and Metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk

    From Hayden White and Beyond

    by Jan Pomorski ...
    This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White.Poland’s reception of White’s work has gone through different phases, from distancing to a period of fascination and eventual critical analysis, beginning with ... Read more

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  • Remapping Knowledge

    Intercultural Studies for a Global Age

    Series Book 8 - Making Sense of History
    The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational ... Read more

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  • Thinking Europe

    A History of the European Idea since 1800

    by MATS ANDRÉN ...
    Series Book 46 - Making Sense of History
    Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European ... Read more

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  • Socialism and Legal History

    The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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  • Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography

    Series Book 21 - Routledge Approaches to History
    Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of objective historiography. The other is historical explanation.The point of departure for the treatment ... Read more

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  • Textualization of Experience

    Studies on Ancient Greek Literature

    Series Book 12 - Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
    The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the “textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories ... Read more

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