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Yearbook of Transnational History - (2023) (Hardcover)
Thomas Adam; Assisted by Austin E. Loignon; Edited by (ghost editors) Barry L. Stiefel, Shelley-Anne Peleg; Contributions by Marie Brøndgaard, …
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The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
sixth volume investigates the treatment of tangible and intangible
heritage sites created before the advent of nation states and in
spaces that are not under the control of nation states. Chapters
discuss the appropriation of heritage sites that originated in the
era of the Crusades by modern nation states, the lack of national
appropriation in the case of transnational sealing sites in
Antarctica, the process of recognizing transnational heritage sites
in the case of assembly halls created by the transnational labor
movement, and the treatment of potential heritage sites in outer
space.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into
early modern times. The six chapters of this volume explore topics
and themes from early modern times to the fall of Communism. This
volume includes chapters about the Huguenots and Sephardi Jews as
transnational nations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century,
the construction of cannabis knowledge cultures in the
transatlantic world of the nineteenth century, the role of the
German pastor Martin Niemoeller in the construction of
transnational religious identities in the aftermath of World War
II, and the labor migration - from Cuba to East Germany - within
the Socialist world in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
fourth volume is focused to the theme of exile. Authors from across
the historical discipline provide insights into central aspects of
research into the phenomenon of exile in the nineteenth and
twentieth century. Both centuries have seen large numbers of people
- left-leaning revolutionaries as well as monarchists and
conservatives - fleeing revolutions, oppression, persecution, and
extermination. This volume is the first publication to provide a
comprehensive overview over exiles of various political and ethnic
groups beginning with the French Revolution and ending with the
transfer of Nazi scientists from post-World-War-II Germany to the
United States. This volume contains contributions about the
refugees created by the French Revolution, the Forty-Eighters who
were forced out of Germany after the failed Revolution of 1848/49,
the anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, Vietnamese
anti-colonial activists in France, the exiles of Nazi Germany, and
the transfer of Nazi scientists such as Wernher von Braun to the
United States after World War II.
This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted
part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century.
The author argues that college was largely free to
nineteenth-century college students since local and religious
communities, donors, and the state agreed to pay the tuition bill
in the expectation that the students would serve society upon
graduation. College education was essentially considered a public
good. This arrangement ended after 1900. The increasing
secularization and professionalization of college education as well
as changes in the socio-economic composition of the student
body-which included more and more students from well-off
families-caused educators, college administrators, and donors to
argue that students pursued a college degree for their own
advancement and therefore should be made to pay for it. Students
were expected to pay tuition themselves and to take out student
loans in order to fund their education.
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars
addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three
Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The
contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths
address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective
societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices
among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal
with the distribution of wealth, in the recognition that not all
members of a given society have equal access to it, and in the
relationship of charity to the inheritance systems and family
structures. They reveal systemic patterns that are similar--norms,
virtue, theological validations, exclusionary rules, private
responsibility to society--issues that have implications for
intercultural and interfaith understanding. Conversely, the essays
inquire how the three faiths differ in their understanding of
poverty, wealth, and justifications for charity.
This volume includes the travel logs of Anna and George Ticknor
from two journeys to the German Confederation from 1815 to 1817 and
from 1835 to 1836. As members of an exclusive social class, the
Ticknors enjoyed the privilege of traveling and living for an
extended period in the German-speaking world, which conferred
much-sought-after cultural and social distinction on them in
Boston. A valuable primary source for American and German
historians alike, these journals offer insight into the
construction of American identities, as well as outside
perspectives on German society, culture, and politics in the Age of
Goethe. Simultaneously and independently composed by this husband
and wife, these journals are the only known case of parallel male
and female travel writing, thus affording a unique opportunity to
explore gender as a factor in shaping their perceptions. A
biographical glossary and extensive explanatory footnotes make this
text accessible to a wide audience.
This volume includes the travel logs of Anna and George Ticknor
from two journeys to the German Confederation from 1815 to 1817 and
from 1835 to 1836. As members of an exclusive social class, the
Ticknors enjoyed the privilege of traveling and living for an
extended period in the German-speaking world, which conferred
much-sought-after cultural and social distinction on them in
Boston. A valuable primary source for American and German
historians alike, these journals offer insight into the
construction of American identities, as well as outside
perspectives on German society, culture, and politics in the Age of
Goethe. Simultaneously and independently composed by this husband
and wife, these journals are the only known case of parallel male
and female travel writing, thus affording a unique opportunity to
explore gender as a factor in shaping their perceptions. A
biographical glossary and extensive explanatory footnotes make this
text accessible to a wide audience.
In this book, Thomas Adams Upchurch presents the true story of a
white youth's experiences with race relations in the early years of
integration in Mississippi. Upchurch, a first-generation product of
the integrated public schools in Mississippi, describes what it was
like to be white in a public school that was 70% black. The book
offers a glimpse into the triumphs, challenges, and failures of
integration in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond, from one 'white
minorityOs' perspective. By analyzing the factors of prejudice,
academics, sports, masculinity, religion, and attempts at racial
reconciliation, this book vividly shows why race relations must be
kept in the context of the larger picture of southern life and
society. It hopes to bring more attention to this little-discussed
and infrequently written-about period and topic of American
history.
This book provides a collective biography of the Mond family and
explores the philanthropic activities of Ludwig Mond and of his two
sons Alfred and Robert in the field of art collecting, the fight
against early childhood mortality, the advancement of research and
of higher education, archaeological excavations in Egypt and
Palestine, and for the founding of the State of Israel from the
1890s to the late 1930s. These activities resulted in the creation
of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the donation of Ludwig Mond's
art collection to the National Gallery in London, the funding of
the excavation of the sacred Buchis Bulls at Armant in Egypt, the
establishment of the Children's Hospital in London, and the support
of many natural science institutes and associations in England,
France, Germany, and Italy.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as
soccer, travel, music, and social policy. These articles highlight
the movement of ideas, people, policies, and practices across
various cultures and societies and explore the relations and
connections, and spaces created by these movements. These articles
make clear that historical phenomena from travel to music cannot be
contained and explained within just one national setting. The
volume offers, further, a number of theoretical and methodological
articles that provide insights into the concept of transnational
history and the approach of intercultural transfer studies. Last
but not least, the volume also includes a number of review
articles. These review articles provide an examination of books
central to teaching transnational history as well as a
historiographical exploration of the impact of transnational
history on the field of sports history.
This book provides a collective biography of the Mond family and
explores the philanthropic activities of Ludwig Mond and of his two
sons Alfred and Robert in the field of art collecting, the fight
against early childhood mortality, the advancement of research and
of higher education, archaeological excavations in Egypt and
Palestine, and for the founding of the State of Israel from the
1890s to the late 1930s. These activities resulted in the creation
of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the donation of Ludwig Mond's
art collection to the National Gallery in London, the funding of
the excavation of the sacred Buchis Bulls at Armant in Egypt, the
establishment of the Children's Hospital in London, and the support
of many natural science institutes and associations in England,
France, Germany, and Italy.
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars
addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three
Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The
contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths
address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective
societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices
among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal
with the distribution of wealth, in the recognition that not all
members of a given society have equal access to it, and in the
relationship of charity to the inheritance systems and family
structures. They reveal systemic patterns that are similar--norms,
virtue, theological validations, exclusionary rules, private
responsibility to society--issues that have implications for
intercultural and interfaith understanding. Conversely, the essays
inquire how the three faiths differ in their understanding of
poverty, wealth, and justifications for charity.
The first book to provide the English-speaking reader with the
revisionist interpretation of the role of the state and
philanthropy in Germany that is increasingly embraced by German
historians. Largely unnoticed among English-speaking scholars of
German history, a major shift in interpretation of German history
has been underway during the past three decades among German
historians of Germany. While American and British historians
continue to subscribe to an interpretation of German society as
state centered, their German counterparts have begun to embrace an
interpretation in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century German
society was characterized by private initiative and a vibrant civil
society. Public institutions such as museums, high schools,
universities, hospitals, and charities relied heavily on the
support of wealthy donors. State funding for universitiesand high
schools, for instance, accounted only for a fragment of the
operating costs of those institutions, while private endowments
running into the millions of marks funded scholarships as well as
health care for teachers and students. Private support for public
institutions was essential for their existence and survival: it was
the backbone of Germany's civil society. This book is the first to
provide the English-speaking reader with this revisionist
interpretation of the role of the state and philanthropy in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany: a society in which
private actors claimed responsibility for the common good and used
philanthropic engagement to shape societyaccording to their
visions. . Thomas Adam is Professor of History at the University of
Texas at Arlington. He has published extensively in the field of
transnational history and the history of philanthropy.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban
history. It brings together articles that investigate the
transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for
urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to
modernize cities across East and Central Europe and the United
States. This collection includes studies about regionals fairs as
centers of knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe, about the transfer
of city planning among developing urban centers within the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, about the introduction of the Bauhaus into
American society, and about the movement for constructing paved
roads to connect cities on a global scale. The volume concludes
with a historiographical article that discusses the potential of
the transnational perspective to urban history. The articles in
this volume highlight the movement of ideas and practices across
various cultures and societies and explore the relations,
connections, and spaces created by these movements. The articles
show that modern cities across the European continent and North
America emerged from intensive exchanges of ideas for almost every
aspect of modern urban life.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
second volume provides readers with articles on topics such as
transnational marriages, exile, soccer, and missionaries as well as
on the campaigns in Communist countries for freeing the American
civil-rights activist Angela Davis. These articles highlight the
movement of ideas, people, policies, and practices across various
cultures and societies and explore the relations, connections, and
spaces created by these movements. The articles in this volume
explore interconnected historical phenomena in Asia, North and
South America, and Europe from the late seventeenth century to the
late twentieth century. These articles make clear that historical
phenomena such as soccer and exile cannot be contained and
explained within just one national setting. This volume also offers
a theoretical article that provides insights into the concept of
intercultural transfer studies and its relationship to comparative
and global history. and an article that surveys the state of
research in the field of transnational crime.
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Terror Scribes (Paperback)
Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan, Richard Thomas; Edited by Adam Lowe, Chris Kelso
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Terror Scribes is a satisfyingly diverse anthology, furnished with
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give you bouts of gooseflesh. From the home-grown talent of Sue
Phillips to prolific US gore-hound Deb Hoag, from the satirists to
the psychopaths to the traditionalists, from demonic possession of
celebrities to masturbating werewolves, from hair-raising
fairytales to disturbing accounts of everyday terror, you will
shiver and gasp and question. We are not oblivious to the fear
Terror Scribes will evoke. Quite the contrary, we're advocates of
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