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This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in
transatlantic relations between the United States, and Western and
Central European nations in the period from the Cold War to the
present day. Sitting at the intersection of international
relations, history, memory studies and various "area" studies,
Memory in Transatlantic Relations examines the role of memory in an
international context, including the ways in which policy and
decision makers utilize memory; the relationship between trauma,
memory and international politics; the multiplicity of actors who
shape memory; and the role of memory in the conflicts in post-Cold
War Europe. Thematically organized and presenting studies centered
on the U.S., Hungary, France, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the
authors explore the built environment (memorials) and performances
of memory (commemorations), shedding light on the ways in which
memories are mobilized to frame relations between the U.S. and
nations in Western and Central Europe. As such, it will appeal to
scholars across the social sciences and historians with interests
in memory studies, foreign policy and international relations.
This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in
transatlantic relations between the United States, and Western and
Central European nations in the period from the Cold War to the
present day. Sitting at the intersection of international
relations, history, memory studies and various "area" studies,
Memory in Transatlantic Relations examines the role of memory in an
international context, including the ways in which policy and
decision makers utilize memory; the relationship between trauma,
memory and international politics; the multiplicity of actors who
shape memory; and the role of memory in the conflicts in post-Cold
War Europe. Thematically organized and presenting studies centered
on the U.S., Hungary, France, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the
authors explore the built environment (memorials) and performances
of memory (commemorations), shedding light on the ways in which
memories are mobilized to frame relations between the U.S. and
nations in Western and Central Europe. As such, it will appeal to
scholars across the social sciences and historians with interests
in memory studies, foreign policy and international relations.
The key aspect of this volume is to place Hungary on the map of
European literacy rates over the whole period between the initial
stimuli of Renaissance and Reformation and the developed,
state-organized educational systems of the later 19th century.
Toth's work is a broad international comparative analysis,
concentrating on the long-term development of literacy rates and
the use of written and oral culture in early modern societies. An
examination is provided of elementarey schools and their teachers,
as well as book reading among peasants and noblemen throughout the
16th to 19th centuries in Hungary. Significant sections are
included on the development of libraries during the period and on
the use of different languages, particularly Latin. By way of
illustration examples are taken of village life, legal and
administrative issues and the clergy to contribute to major debates
in the field of language, literacy, linguistics and social history.
There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing
inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the
economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has
been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate,
and research in the social sciences. The central questions
addressed by this book, and the major research project GINI on
which it is based, are: - Have inequalities in income, wealth and
education increased over the past 30 years or so across the rich
countries, and if so why? - What are the social, cultural and
political impacts of increasing inequalities in income, wealth and
education? - What are the implications for policy and for the
future development of welfare states? In seeking to answer these
questions, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that
draws on economics, sociology, and political science, and applies
this approach to learning from the experiences over the last three
decades of European countries together with the USA, Japan, Canada,
Australia, and South Korea. It combines comparative research with
lessons from specific country experiences, and highlights the
challenges in seeking to adequately assess the factors underpinning
increasing inequalities and in identify the channels through which
these may impact on key social and political outcomes, as well as
the importance of framing inequality trends and impacts in the
institutional and policy context of the country in question.
Religious beliefs, their practice and expression, were fundamental
to the cultural fabric of early modern Europe. They were
representations of belonging, identity, power and social meaning.
In the era of Europe's reformations and subsequent
confessionalizations coinciding with its first colonial empires and
its conflictual relations with other faiths on its eastern
borderlands, this volume, first published in 2007, examines the
role of religion as a vehicle for cultural conflict, cohabitation
and cultural exchange. Essays by leading historians show the
complexity and diversity of the processes of religious
differentiation that contributed to the making of modern Europe,
with case studies ranging from Transylvania and Lithuania to Spain
and Portugal and from Italy to England. The volume will appeal to
scholars in early modern European history, history of religion, as
well as social and cultural history.
Religious beliefs, their practice and expression, were fundamental
to the cultural fabric of early modern Europe. They were
representations of belonging, identity, power and social meaning.
In the era of Europe's reformations and subsequent
confessionalizations coinciding with its first colonial empires and
its conflictual relations with other faiths on its eastern
borderlands, this volume, first published in 2007, examines the
role of religion as a vehicle for cultural conflict, cohabitation
and cultural exchange. Essays by leading historians show the
complexity and diversity of the processes of religious
differentiation that contributed to the making of modern Europe,
with case studies ranging from Transylvania and Lithuania to Spain
and Portugal and from Italy to England. The volume will appeal to
scholars in early modern European history, history of religion, as
well as social and cultural history.
Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and
effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing
lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too wide
to bridge, with potentially grave consequences for American social,
political as well as economic development? This book discusses
important contemporary U.S. wedge issues such as gun rights, racial
and economic inequality, the role of the state, the politics of
culture, interpretations of history and collective memory,
polarization in national politics, and factionalism in domestic and
foreign policy. It provides readers with conceptual tools to grasp
the complexity of the current processes, policy formation, and
political and social change under way in the United States.
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