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The Last Ghetto

An Everyday History of Theresienstadt

By: Anna Hájková

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The Last Ghetto

An Everyday History of Theresienstadt

By: Anna Hájková

Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age, ethnicity, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp's existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies, The Last Ghetto is a transnational, cultural, social, gender, and organizational history of Terezín, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility, agency and its boundaries, and belonging.

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Oxford University Press

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0190051787

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9780190051785

Look at the People! (Bilingual Edition)

The New Objectivity Type Portrait in the Weimar Period

By: Jan Bürger,Alina Grehl,Anna Katharina Hahn,Christin Hansen,Erik Koenen,Nadine Metzger,Anne Vieth,Nils Warnecke

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Look at the People! (Bilingual Edition)

The New Objectivity Type Portrait in the Weimar Period

By: Jan Bürger,Alina Grehl,Anna Katharina Hahn,Christin Hansen,Erik Koenen,Nadine Metzger,Anne Vieth,Nils Warnecke

The search for "the face of the era" how typology influenced art of the Weimar Republic and beyond In Weimar Germany, portraits by New Objectivity artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel were a testimony to the fascination with "types." This volume explores their relevance from the 1920s to the present day, underscoring the dilemma of stereotyping individuals.

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Hatje Cantz Verlag

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3775756000

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9783775756006

Jazz Italian Style

From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra

By: Anna Harwell Celenza

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Jazz Italian Style

From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra

By: Anna Harwell Celenza

Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War I, it quickly became part of the local music culture. In Italy, thanks to the gramophone and radio, many Italian listeners paid little attention to a performer's national and ethnic identity. Nick LaRocca (Italian-American), Gorni Kramer (Italian), the Trio Lescano (Jewish-Dutch), and Louis Armstrong (African-American), to name a few, all found equal footing in the Italian soundscape. The book reveals how Italians made jazz their own, and how, by the mid-1930s, a genre of jazz distinguishable from American varieties and supported by Mussolini began to flourish in northern Italy and in its turn influenced Italian-American musicians. Most importantly, the book recovers a lost repertoire and an array of musicians whose stories and performances are compelling and well worth remembering.

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269

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Cambridge University Press

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1316764095

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9781316764091

The Sounds of Silent Films

New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice

By: Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch

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The Sounds of Silent Films

New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice

By: Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

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371

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Springer

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1137410728

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9781137410726

Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle

By: Anna Maria van Schurman

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Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle

By: Anna Maria van Schurman

Advocate and exemplar of women's education, female of aristocratic birth and modest demeanor, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was one of Reformation Europe's most renowned writers defending women's intelligence. From her early teens, Schurman garnered recognition and admiration for her accomplishments in languages, philosophy, poetry, and painting. As an adult she actively engaged in written correspondence and debate with Europe's leading intellectuals. Nevertheless, Schurman refused to regard herself as an anomaly among women. A supporter of the female sex, she argues that the same rigorous education that shaped her should be made available to all Christian daughters of the aristocracy. Gathered here in meticulous translation are Anna Maria van Schurman's defense of women's education, her letters to other learned women, and her own account of her early life, as well as responses to her work from male contemporaries, and rare writings by Schurman's mentor, Voetius. This volume will interest the general reader as well as students of women's, religious, and social history.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226849988

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9780226849980

EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations in a Multipolar World

Hic Sunt Dracones

By: Anna Katharina Stahl

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EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations in a Multipolar World

Hic Sunt Dracones

By: Anna Katharina Stahl

This book considers the effect of China’s unprecedented economic growth and more prominent geopolitical role in the twenty-first century. Rising powers considerably alter international relations, leading to the emergence of a multipolar world order that impacts more traditional international players like the European Union (EU). China’s growing economic and diplomatic influence is particularly relevant in Africa, where it presents an alternative to conventional North-South relations and proposes a new type of South-South partnership. Stahl examines the EU’s foreign policy response regarding China’s growing presence in Africa, as well as the EU’s attempts to refocus attention on the African continent. Drawing on a rich body of evidence collected through fieldwork in China and Africa, and extensive expert interviews, the author sheds light on the novel trend of EU-China-Africa trilateral relations. The book offers a new analytical framework for the study of the EU’s foreign policy of engagement with emerging powers and will appeal to graduate students and scholars interested in the EU’s international role, international relations and development, as well as contemporary Chinese and African studies.

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243

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Springer

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1137587024

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9781137587022

Following Norberg-Schulz

An Architectural History through the Essay Film

By: Anna Ulrikke Andersen

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Following Norberg-Schulz

An Architectural History through the Essay Film

By: Anna Ulrikke Andersen

This book examines the 'window' in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000). It draws new attention to his architectural designs and re-examines his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of architecture and place within the context of a biography of his life, linking him with other historical figures such as Helen Keller and Rainer Maria Rilke, and framing him within the modernist tradition of the latter. Taking a novel, experimental approach, the book also explores the potential of the essay-film as an innovative new approach to producing architectural history. Bridging archival research and artistic exploration, its ten chapters, written by an architectural historian who is also a film-maker, are each accompanied by a short documentary film, hosted online and linked from within the chapter, which use the medium of film to creatively explore and delve deeper into little-known aspects of Norberg-Schulz's theory of genius loci and the phenomenology of architecture. The book questions what it means to 'follow' those who came before, exploring the positionality of the architectural historian/filmmaker. Offering an insightful account of the life, work, and theory of a key thinker, Following Norberg-Schulz is also essential reading for those interested in practice-led research methodologies, particularly in the practice of film-making and the essay film, providing a highly innovative example of scholarly research which bridges the text-film gap.

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225

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135024838X

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9781350248380

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The Last Ghetto

The Last Ghetto

Look at the People! (Bilingual Edition)

Look at the People! (Bilingual Edition)

Jazz Italian Style

Jazz Italian Style

The Sounds of Silent Films

The Sounds of Silent Films

Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle

Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle

EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations in a Multipolar World

EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations in a Multipolar World

Following Norberg-Schulz

Following Norberg-Schulz

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