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ISBN: 0-674-58741-3 , 0-674-58749-9 , 9780674283718

Series Statement: Russian Research Center 〈Cambridge, Mass.〉: Russian Research Center studies 88

Content: Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropolis of nine million people that Boris Yeltsin, during two frustrating years as the city's party boss, began his move away from Communist orthodoxy. Colton charts the general course of events that led to this move, tracing the political and social developments that have given the city its modern character. He shows how the monolith of Soviet power broke down in the process of metropolitan governance, where the constraints of censorship and party oversight could not keep up with proliferating points of view, haphazard integration, and recurrent deviation from approved rules and goals. Everything that goes into making a city - from town planning, housing, and retail services to environmental and architectural concernsfigures in Colton's account of what makes Moscow unique. He shows us how these aspects of the city's organization, and the actions of leaders and elite groups within them, coordinated or conflicted with the overall power structure and policy imperatives of the Soviet Union. Against this background, Colton explores the growth of the anti-Communist revolution in Moscow politics, as well as fledgling attempts to establish democratic institutions and a market economy.

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Subjects: History , Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Gemeindeverwaltung ; Gemeindeverfassung ; Kommunalpolitik ; Kommunalpolitik ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie

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Format: 1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 94-6372-035-9 , 90-485-5322-9

Series Statement: Asian History ; 11

Content: This volume brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and empire. An enormous apparatus that employed 22,000 men and women at its heyday, the Department operated a "machine" with myriad moving parts. The first part of the book portrays the people who kept it running, from technical experts to menial servants, and scrutinises the paper trails they left behind. Part two uncovers the working principles of the machine by following the production chains of some of its most splendid products: gilded statues, jade, porcelain, and textiles. Part three tackles the most complex task of all, managing living organisms in nature, including lotus plants grown in imperial ponds in Beijing, fresh medicines sourced from disparate regions, and tribute elephants from Southeast Asia.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Conventions for the Notation of Time, Weights, and Measures -- , Note on Translation -- , Note on the Frontmatter Maps and Cover Image -- , Introduction -- , Part I Operating the Machine: Personnel and Paper Trails -- , Vignette Essay I -- , Moving Pieces -- , 1 Working the Qing Palace Machine -- , 2 Manager or Craftsman -- , 3 Kupiao and the Accounting System of the Imperial Household Workshops -- , Part II Producing the Court: Materials and Artefacts -- , Vignette essay II -- , The Story of An Image -- , 4 Piecing Shards Together -- , 5 Resplendent Innovations -- , 6 Transporting Jade -- , Part III Mobilizing Nature: Plants and Animals -- , Vignette essay III -- , Decluttering -- , 7 Growing and Organizing Lotus in Qing Imperial Spaces -- , 8 The Medicine Supply System of the Qing Court -- , 9 When There Is Peace, There Are Elephants -- , Coda -- , Contributors -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

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Subjects: History

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1515/9789048553228

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Series Statement: New perspectives on the history of liberalism and freethought ; Volume 2

Content: Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today's world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and different forms of violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger for physical action but also a form of how violence was experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike.

Note: Includes index. , List of Illustrations 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World / Eveline G. Bouwers -- 1 Blasphemy and Violence: Crossing Social Norms and Religious Boundaries in the Modern World / Eveline G. Bouwers -- PART I: BLASPHEMY AS A COMPANION TO VIOLENCE -- 2 Violence and the Sacred, or Blasphemy during the French Revolution / Alain Cabantous -- 3 Blasphemy, Religious Adherence and Political Loyalty in the Papal States (1790s through 1810s) / Marco Emanuele Omes -- 4 Blasphemy, War and Revolution: Spain, 1936 / Julio De La Cueva -- PART II: BLASPHEMY AS A FORM OF EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE -- 5 Conflicting Narratives of Blasphemy, Heresy and Religious Reform: The Jatho Affair in Wilhelmine Germany / Christoffer Leber -- 6 The Imagined Violence of Blasphemy in England / David Nash -- 7 Pokémon in the Church: The Case of Ruslan Sokolovskiy and the Limits of Religious Performance in Contemporary Russia / Marcin Skladanowski -- PART III: VIOLENCE AS A REACTION TO BLASPHEMY -- 8 Protecting Muslims' Feelings, Protecting Public Order: Tunisian Blasphemy Cases from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Laura Thompson -- 9 The Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the Crowd / Matthew Kerry -- 10 The Politics of Religious Outrage: The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah's Licence to Kill / Manfred Sing -- 11 Conclusion / David Nash -- Notes on Authors -- Abstracts -- Index.

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Subjects: History

Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: 1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

ISBN: 3-11-068615-5

Series Statement: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; 14

Content: In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail. This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge. Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.

Note: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Geography and Religious Knowledge -- , Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography -- , It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! -- , The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations -- , Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas -- , Ordering and Reading the World -- , The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ -- , Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions -- , Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms -- , The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 -- , The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography -- , Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews -- , Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps -- , When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists -- , The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience -- , Getting There by Manipulating the Medium -- , Note on Contributors -- , Index , In English.

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Subjects: History

Keywords: History. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1515/9783110686159

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ISBN: 978-1-934843-39-0

Series Statement: Borderlines

Content: "This book explores the construction of the Jew's physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal "exotic" and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in contemporary Russian society and culture"--P. [4] of cover.

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Subjects: History , Slavic Studies

Keywords: Kultur ; Judenbild

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Author information: Mondry, Henrietta.

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Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-64189-966-2 , 1-80270-059-5

Series Statement: War and conflict in premodern societies

Content: This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and international scholarship, the book discusses the paganism of the landscape in written sources pre-dating the crusades, in addition to the narrative, legal, and visual evidence of the crusade period. It draws out the key sacralizing elements as expressed in those sources, which structure the definition of sacred landscape, particularly martyrdom, the manifestation of the sacred, and use of relics in battle. By analyzing these aspects with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), a map of the Baltic campaigns emerges that provides a fresh approach to studying contemporary views of holy war in a region with no initial links to the loca sancta of Jerusalem or Europe.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , Chapter 1 LANDSCAPE IMAGERY IN THE TEXTS DOCUMENTING THE BALTIC CRUSADES -- , Chapter 2 LITERARY THEMES AND LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION IN THE WRITTEN EVIDENCE FOR THE BALTIC CRUSADES -- , Chapter 3 MAPPING LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION DURING THE BALTIC CRUSADES, THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES -- , Chapter 4 RELICS, PROCESSIONS, AND SACRED LANDSCAPE IN THE BALTIC, THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES -- , Chapter 5 SPACE, VISUAL CULTURE, AND LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION IN THE BALTIC -- , CONCLUSION -- , CONCORDANCE OF PLACENAMES -- , Appendix RELICS IN THE BALTIC REGION (THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- , ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , English

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Subjects: History

DOI: 10.1515/9781802700596

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 462 Seiten) : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-3-11-054136-6 , 9783110541397 , 9783110541571

Series Statement: Studies in manuscript cultures volume 11

Content: "Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as 'the general system of the formation and transformation of statements' in his 'Archaeology of knowledge' (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the 'archival turn'. In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and 'grounding' them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes)"--PDF title overview

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Subjects: History

Keywords: Archiv ; Handschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift

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Author information: Kienitz, Sabine 1958-

Author information: Bausi, Alessandro 1963-

Author information: Brockmann, Christian 1960-

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ISBN: 1-3995-0367-7

Content: Reinterprets the making of the Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi borderlands from a decentred and connected perspectiveAnalyses the violence and forced displacement in the borderlands of the post-Ottoman Middle EastExamines the contribution of border populations to the making of the history of the borderlands, nation-states and the region as a wholeCovers the borderlands stretching between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq while paying attention to border variations Turkey-Syria/Turkey-Iraq/Syria-IraqUtilises theoretical and methodological debates in borderlands and mobility studies, as well as social, environmental and transnational historyWhile the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called “Islamic Caliphate” have brought the debate about the crisis of the territorial nation-state in the Middle East once again to the fore, this issue cannot be simply understood as the logical consequence of either an imported political construction or the purported artificiality of Middle Eastern borders. Instead, the process of state formation in the region has been a complicated course that involved different institutional traditions, managing societies marked by varying degrees of political loyalty to central power, and dealing with colonial interference. Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East seeks to disentangle some of these complexities by proposing both a decentred and dialectic approach. Taking its cue from the bourgeoning field of borderland studies and a variety of historical sub-disciplines, this monograph pays attention to the circulation of people, goods, diseases and ideas as well as to the everyday encounters between a wide range of state and non-state actors in the borderlands laying between Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The goal is to provide a much more holistic yet finely-grained understanding of the formation of the territorial state in the interwar Middle East.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , FIGURES -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction -- , 1 Networks of Violence in the Shatterzones of the Post-Ottoman Middle East -- , 2 Refugees, Borders and Identity Boundaries -- , 3 Cross-Border Infringements: Smugglers, Criminals and Fugitives -- , 4 Interstate Cooperation Against Diseases and Plagues and its Limits -- , 5 Railroads, Uneven Mobilities and Frail States -- , 6 Irredentism in a Context of Global Uncertainty -- , 7 De-Bordering and Re-Bordering Middle Eastern States -- , Conclusion -- , Bibliography -- , INDEX , In English.

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Subjects: History , Political Science

DOI: 10.1515/9781399503679

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ISBN: 978-0-19-023782-0

Content: In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the "victims" of the afterlife of the Holocaust in America. They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory, such as museums, monuments, and movies, could severely damage the Federal Republic's reputation and even cause Americans to question the Federal Republic's status as an ally. From their perspective, American Holocaust memorial culture constituted a stumbling block for (West) German-American relations since the late 1970s. Providing the first comprehensive, archival study of German efforts to cope with the Nazi past vis-a-vis the United States up to the 1990s, this book uncovers the fears of German officials - some of whom were former Nazis or World War II veterans - about the impact of Holocaust memory on the reputation of the Federal Republic and reveals their at times negative perceptions of American Jews. Focusing on a variety of fields of interaction, ranging from the diplomatic to the scholarly and public spheres, the book unearths the complicated and often contradictory process of managing the legacies of genocide on an international stage. West German decision makers realized that American Holocaust memory was not an "anti-German plot" by American Jews and acknowledged that they could not significantly change American Holocaust discourse. In the end, German confrontation with American Holocaust memory contributed to a more open engagement on the part of the West German government with this memory and eventually rendered it a "positive resource" for German self-representation abroad. Quelle/Source: Umschlag.

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Subjects: History , Political Science

Keywords: Judenvernichtung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Transnationale Politik ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Judenvernichtung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

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Author information: Eder, Jacob S. 1979-

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ISBN: 978-1-61811-476-1

Series Statement: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy

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Subjects: History

Keywords: Juden ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

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