The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case studies provided in this volume are of global scope, focusing on routes of escape and migration to Iceland, Italy, the Near East, Portugal and Shanghai, and South-, Central-, and North America. The chapters examine the hybrid ways refugees envisaged, managed, organized, and subsequently mediated their migrations. It focuses on how they dealt with their escape in their art and science. The chapters ask how the emigrants located themselves––did they associate with ethnic, religious, and/or cultural affiliations, specific social classes, or specific parts of society—and how such identifications were portrayed in their knowledge transfer and cultural translations. Building on such possible avenues for research, this volume aims to offer a global analysis of the multifarious processes not only of cultural translation and knowledge transfer affecting culture, sciences, networks, but also everyday life in different areas of the world.

The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case studies provided in this volume are of global scope, focusing on routes of escape and migration to Iceland, Italy, the Near East, Portugal and Shanghai, and South-, Central-, and North America. The chapters examine the hybrid ways refugees envisaged, managed, organized, and subsequently mediated their migrations. It focuses on how they dealt with their escape in their art and science. The chapters ask how the emigrants located themselves--did they associate with ethnic, religious, and/or cultural affiliations, specific social classes, or specific parts of society-and how such identifications were portrayed in their knowledge transfer and cultural translations. Building on such possible avenues for research, this volume aims to offer a global analysis of the multifarious processes not only of cultural translation and knowledge transfer affecting culture, sciences, networks, but also everyday life in different areas of the world.

This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development of skiing around the world during the crucial post-war years. With its global lens, Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts highlights both commonalities and differences between countries. Experts across various fields of research cover developments across the ski-able world, from Europe, Asia and America to Australia. Attention to media and material cultures reveals an insight into global fashions, consumption and ski cultures, and the impact of mainstream media in the 1960s and 1970s. This global and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to history, sociology, cultural and media research scholars interested in a cultural history of skiing, as well as those with more broad interests in globalization, consumption research, and knowledge transfer.

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind's history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.

This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development of skiing around the world during the crucial post-war years. With its global lens, Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts highlights both commonalities and differences between countries. Experts across various fields of research cover developments across the ski-able world, from Europe, Asia and America to Australia. Attention to media and material cultures reveals an insight into global fashions, consumption and ski cultures, and the impact of mainstream media in the 1960s and 1970s. This global and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to history, sociology, cultural and media research scholars interested in a cultural history of skiing, as well as those with more broad interests in globalization, consumption research, and knowledge transfer.

The term globalization arouses different feelings. Some people regard it with fear; others consider it the incarnation of a new time - a time when the relations between different cultures and parts of the world intensify increasingly. Consequently, the term is not only used to explain highly diverse phenomena but also to shed light on the alleged darkness of a world in change. In this collective volume, scientists from different academic disciplines and regions of the world wanted to make available their perceptions of this ample term to a broader audience. Twenty contributions comprising nine academic disciplines depict the process of the growing together of the world via different approaches. Apart from the contributions from historians, the reader will find articles from the fields of philosophy, architecture, economics, sociology, political science, journalism, anthropology, and law. This is to offer the reader a small insight into the variety of research about globalization and may contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon that is treated differently in diverse academic disciplines and different parts of the world.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Gesch. Europa - Deutschland - I. Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, Note: 1, Leopold-Franzens-Universitat Innsbruck (Institut fur Geschichte), Veranstaltung: VU Judische Frauen und Madchen, 5 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gibt es so etwas wie ein Musterbeispiel fur die typische judische Frau der Vorkriegszeit? Lassen sich bestimmte Charakteristika feststellen, anhand derer man grosse Gemeinsamkeiten ausmachen kann? Ist ihre Position beispielsweise mehr im hauslichen Bereich, als ordentliche Kindererzieherin und fleissige Mutter zu sehen, oder war sie grossteils starker im Berufsleben, in Kunst oder auch Kultur tatig? War ihr Leben starker religionsverbunden, oder legte sie mehr wert auf weltliche Lebensfuhrung? Diese Arbeit hat das Ziel, die Rolle der judischen Frau im Deutschland der Vorkriegszeit naher zu beleuchten. So viel sei vorab schon erwahnt, eine einheitliche Typisierung ist, wie in so vielen Bereichen des menschlichen Daseins ganz und gar nicht moglich. So zahlreich, wie diese ungefahr 300.000 Personen umfassende Gesellschaftsgruppe im damaligen Deutschland war, so unterschiedlich sind auch die weiblichen Positionen in deren jeweiligen Familien, sowie ihre personlichen Einstellungen zu den unterschiedlichsten Fragen des Lebens. Was allerdings in dieser Arbeit bewerkstelligt werden kann, ist die Beleuchtung des Lebens einiger Vertreterinnen dieser Gesellschaftsgruppe anhand verschiedener Biographien. Dadurch konnen exemplarisch die Positionen einiger ausgewahlter judischer Frauen innerhalb ihrer Familien aufgezeigt werden. Bei der Auswahl der Biographien habe ich versucht einen einigermassen breiten Querschnitt durch die verschiedenen Gesellschaftsschichten zu bieten, da es mir logisch erscheint, dass die Lebensfuhrung im Hause eines wohlhabenden judischen Bankiers sicherlich eine andere war, als die der eher einfacheren judischen Viehhandlerfamilie. Ich habe meine Arbeit in