Localism Landscape And The Ambiguities Of Place
Download Localism Landscape And The Ambiguities Of Place full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Localism Landscape And The Ambiguities Of Place ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: David Blackbourn |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2015-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442624399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442624396 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place by : David Blackbourn
What makes a person call a particular place ‘home’? Does it follow simply from being born there? Is it the result of a language shared with neighbours or attachment to a familiar landscape? Perhaps it is a piece of music, or a painting, or even a travelogue that captures the essence of home. And what about the sense of belonging that inspires nationalist or local autonomy movements? Each of these can be a marker of identity, but all are ambiguous. Where you were born has a different meaning if, like so many modern Germans, you have moved on and now live elsewhere. Representing the ‘national interest’ in parliament becomes more difficult when voters demand attention to local and regional issues or when ethnic tensions erupt. In all these situations the landscape of ‘home’ takes on a more elusive meaning. Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place is about the German nation state and the German-speaking lands beyond it, from the 1860s to the 1930s. The authors explore a wide range of subjects: music and art, elections and political festivities, local landscape and nature conservation, tourism and language struggles in the family and the school. Yet they share an interest in the ambiguities of German identity in an age of extraordinarily rapid socio-economic change. These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the ‘sense of place’ as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of ‘Germanness’ that was neither self-evident nor unchanging.
Author |
: Matthew Jefferies |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 2016-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317043218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317043219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany by : Matthew Jefferies
Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an 'extraordinary body of historical scholarship', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to reflect the full range of research being undertaken on imperial German history today and together offer a comprehensive and authoritative reference resource. Overall this collection will provide scholars and students with a lively take on this fascinating period of German history, from the nation’s unification in 1871 right up until the end of World War I.
Author |
: Bernhard Gissibl, |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2012-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857455253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857455257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civilizing Nature by : Bernhard Gissibl,
Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.
Author |
: James N. Retallack |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 894 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802091451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802091458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The German Right, 1860-1920 by : James N. Retallack
With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics. The dynamic political culture that emerged challenged the adaptability of the 'interlocking directorate of the Right.' This work examines how the authoritarian imagination inspired the Right and how political pragmatism constrained it.
Author |
: James Retallack |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2015-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442624108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442624108 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Germany's Second Reich by : James Retallack
Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II with a wide-ranging reassessment of the period and its connections with past traditions and future possibilities. In this volume, Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.
Author |
: James M. Brophy |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 2024-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198845720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198845723 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Print Markets and Political Dissent in Central Europe by : James M. Brophy
Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world.The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.
Author |
: Friederike Ursula Eigler |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781571139030 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1571139036 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heimat, Space, Narrative by : Friederike Ursula Eigler
Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging. At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turnin literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- arguing for a transnational approach to the legacies of flight and expulsion and for a spatial approach to Heimat. She explores notions of belonging in selected postwar and contemporary German novels, with a comparative look at a Polish novel, Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night (1998). Eigler finds dynamic manifestations of place in Tokarczuk's novel, in Horst Bienek's 1972-82 Gleiwitz tetralogy about the historical border region of Upper Silesia, and in contemporary novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Kathrin Schmidt, Tanja Dückers, Olaf Müller, and Sabrina Janesch. In a decisive departure from earlierapproaches, Eigler explores how these novels foster an awareness of the regions' multiethnic and multinational histories, unsettling traditional notions of Heimat without altogether abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Friederike Eigler is Professor of German at Georgetown University.
Author |
: Thomas M. Lekan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2020-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199843671 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199843678 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Gigantic Zoo by : Thomas M. Lekan
How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari? In this book, Thomas M. Lekan illuminates the controversial origins of this national park by examining how Europe's greatest wildlife conservationist, former Frankfurt Zoo director and Oscar-winning documentarian Bernhard Grzimek, popularized it as a global destination. In the 1950s, Grimzek and his son Michael began a quest to save the Serengeti from modernization and "overpopulation" by remaking an imperial game reserve into a gigantic zoo for the earth's last great mammals. Grzimek, well-known to German audiences through his long-running television program, A Place for Animals, used the film Seregenti Shall Not Die to convince ordinary Europeans that they could save nature. Yet their message sidestepped the uncomfortable legacies of German colonial exploitation in the region that had endangered animals and excluded local people. After independence, Grzimek raised funds, brokered diplomatic favors, and convinced German tourists to book travel packages--all to persuade Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere that wildlife would fuel the young nation's economic development. Grzimek helped Tanzania to create almost a dozen new national parks by 1975, but wooing tourists conflicted with rights of the Maasai and other African communities to inhabit the landscape on their own terms. Grzimek's global priorities eventually clashed with Nyerere's nationalist ones, as a more self-assertive Tanzania resented conservationists' meddling and failed promises. A story that demonstrates the conflicts between international conservation, nature tourism, decolonization, and national sovereignty, Our Gigantic Zoo explores the legacy of the man who portrayed himself as a second Noah, called on a sacred mission to protect the last vestiges of paradise for all humankind.
Author |
: Raf de Bont |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2017-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351750912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351750917 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spatializing the History of Ecology by : Raf de Bont
Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecology is a field science that has thrived on the study of concrete spatial entities, such as islands, forests or rivers. These spaces are the workplaces in which ecological phenomena are identified, observed and experimented on. They provide both epistemic opportunities and constraints that structure the agenda and the analytical sensibilities of ecological researchers. On the other hand, ecological knowledge and practices have become important resources through which spaces and places are classified, delineated, explained, experienced and managed. The impact of these activities reaches far beyond the realms of the ecological discipline. Many ecological concepts such as "biotopes," "ecosystems" and "the biosphere" have become entities that widely resonate in public life and policy making. This book explores the mutual entanglement between space and knowledge-making in the history of ecology. Its first goal is to explore to which extent a spatial perspective can shed new light on the history of ecological science. Second, it uses ecology as a critical site to gain broader insights into the history of the environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Via a series of case studies – discussing topics that range from ecological field stations in the early-twentieth century Caribbean over wisent breeding in Nazi Germany to computer modelling in North American deserts – the book offers a tour through the changing landscapes of modern ecology.
Author |
: Xosé M. Núñez Seixas |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2018-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474275217 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474275214 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regionalism and Modern Europe by : Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present. A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others – evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others – Brittany, Bavaria – do not. They look at how regional identities - through regional folklore, language, crafts, dishes, beverages and tourist attractions - were constructed during the 20th century and explore the relationship between national and subnational identities, as well as regional and local identities. The book also includes 7 images, 7 maps and useful end-of-chapter further reading lists. This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical – and at times controversial – subject of regionalism in modern Europe.