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This book contributes to the discussion about the instrumental use of history. It analyses two examples of public festivities related to the events and legacy of the final stage of World War II: the...

Con motivo del 80 cumplea?os de Joseph T. Snow, una centena de investigadores se dio cita en Contarte he maravillas... . Congreso Internacional de Estudios Medievales Hisp?nicos en honor a Joseph T...

This Yearbook of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists is devoted to the analysis of the consequences of Central and Eastern European transition in...

This book examines aspects of Celtic linguistics, including Irish initial mutations from a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. It also analyses deverbal adjectives and assertive and...

The book is a collection of chapters that adopt a systemic functional perspective on linguistics. Chapters challenge theoretical notions, refine concepts, expand SFL to historical domains and across...

Although legal arrangements have been made against discrimination, discrimination is both explicitly and implicitly active in different parts of society and in different areas. In order to recognize,...

Globalisation and social transformation, Immigration management (policy), Migration process and life course, Integration processes and identity formation, Intersectionality and biographical narrative...

This book presents several theoretical proposals about social and familial - but alsopolitical and cultural - change in Spain in the transition from the Ancien R?gime tothe modern age. The...

The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult...

This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. The author demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity...

The book is the first study in the world to deal with the subject of the rebellion of the Chernobyl liquidators, as well as a broad attempt to present this issue from the point of view of the...

This book presents the results of a project aiming at mapping child poverty in the Mamak district of Ankara. Taking the local conditions into consideration, an action plan has been developed to...

The work argues strongly that child adoption is something good and noble when it aims at the good and welfare of the child but at the same time not relegating the welfare of the adoptive parents to...

The author exposes how, and to what extent, the National Socialist's primary ideology was reflected in the children's literature produced between 1933 and 1945. This work uncovers many surprising...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Form und Funktion der auf China bezogenen multimodalen Zeichenverwendungen im ?ffentlichen Raum in Deutschland; diese werden als China-Repr?sentationen bezeichnet. Ziel der...

Die Beitr?ge dieses Bandes gehen dem Zusammenhang von s?kularer Demokratie, politischer Liberalit?t und der christlichen Religion nach. Demokratie und Christentum bedingen und brauchen einander...

This monograph presents Old English renderings of Christian words found in interlinear glosses, especially the Gospels and the Psalter glosses. Nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs in biblical...

Im Fokus der Beitr?ge steht der Lyriker Christian Wagner, Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Er engagiert sich f?r Pazifismus, ?kologische Landwirtschaft, Minderheiten, Tierschutz sowie...

Die Studie ist eine diskurs- und begriffsgeschichtliche sowie sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Hauptquellen der tagalischen Religionshistoriographie. Im Kern der Analyse stehen das Konzept...

Using mainly literature-based methods, this work seeks to dig into the understanding of civil society from the ancient Aristotelian polis to its 21st century African idea. It discusses the place of...

Teniendo en cuenta la frecuente invisibilidad del cine de mujeres y del cine queer en los manuales de historia del cine, el presente volumen se dedica a un estudio transnacional de cuestiones de...

Matthias Hausmann / J?rg T?rschmann: Introducci?n - Nadia Lie: Lo transnacional como 'travelling concept' y como nuevo paradigma en los estudios del cine - Deborah Shaw: El cine latinoamericano m?s...

Este libro aborda la producci?n cultural en Espa?a y Latinoam?rica en los a?os noventa del siglo XX, desde una variedad de perspectivas hist?ricas y metodol?gicas. Estudia con detalle la producci?n,...

Los cap?tulos de este libro se ocupan, desde diferentes disciplinas, de la escritura y diversas manifestaciones art?sticas y culturales que est?n al servicio o en contra del poder. Se analizan en ?l...

Em tempos de ondas migrat?rias globais, este livro prop?e uma aproxima??o te?rica ao conceito de um cinema de migra??o. Acompanha as reflex?es a respeito de alguns dos exemplos mais not?veis do...

This book delineates cinema in China prior to WWI into five periods and interprets this section of history under references of up-to-date early film theories. The spreading of cinema is treated as a...

The author analyzes selected historical films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda with respect to historical memory and its impact on national identity. The Holocaust, self-scrutiny in historical...

La b?squeda de enfoques eficaces para el aprendizaje de idiomas ha atra?do hasta la fecha a un creciente n?mero de investigadores e incluso se ha convertido en un tema de discusi?n social. En esta...

The book examines the early modern debates on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, the 18th- and 19th-century shift towards natural science, and contemporary philosophy on decolonization...

El presente volumen se enmarca en el ?mbito de la ling??stica contrastiva y tiene como objetivo someter a una mirada cr?tica distintas clases y categor?as tradicionales de la gram?tica espa?ola y de...