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Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State
This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical insights for bridging the everyday life and institutional structures. The chapters analyze how the welfare state as a particular individual-society relationship has become …
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- 1
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- 9783031216633
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- XX, 379 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 1
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- 9783030921408
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- XIII, 305 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
This open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions. It revolves around the following questions: What kinds of experiences have engendered national mobilization and feelings of national belonging? How have political and societal conflicts tu…
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- 1
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- 9783030698829
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- XXI, 392 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Documenting the Armenian 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…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-36753-3
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- -
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
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- XII, 308
Theories of History: History Read across the Humanities
This book considers ‘history’ through its supplementary function to the field rather than the ground of a study, bringing new insights into historical thinking and historiography across the humanities. It fosters engagement from around the disciplines in historical thinking and invites historians and philosophers of history to see the impact of their work outside of their own specific field…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781474271301, 9781474271301
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- 907 THE t
The Cold War in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and m…
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 past. Authors analysing educational media point t…
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- 9783030119997
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- 909.825072
Trajectories of Memory: Excavating the Past in Indonesia
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 sec…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789819919956, 9789819919949
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- 316
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- 907.2 TRA t
The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq
This book is a study of the cultural and political history of Christian Iraq, the Church of the East, the so–called ‘Nestorians’. This history is seen through the Chronicle of Seert, a medieval Arabic Chronicle that reuses sources written several centuries earlier. This monograph aims to isolate different layers of composition and looks for trends in the choice of material and the agenda …
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- 2013
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Writing History in the Digital Age
Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed on the public web.To facilitate this innovative volume, editors Jack Dougherty and Kristen N…
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- 9780472900244
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- 809 NAW w
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