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Im April 1909 verklagte Charlie Chaplin im Grafschaftsgericht von West Hartlepool, Nordostengland, den Schatzmeister einer Seemannsmission auf 14 Pfund und 10 Shilling, weil der ihm den vereinbarten Lohn und die Miete fur einen Kinematographen und Filme nicht bezahlt hatte. Die Klage des gerade zwanzigjahrigen, erst spater als Filmschauspieler beruhmt gewordenen Chaplin ist eine von mehreren tausend -Begegnungen vor Gericht-, die den Ausgangspunkt und die Grundlage fur dieses Buch bilden. Aus Berichten und Aktennotizen uber Auseinandersetzungen um Lohne, Kundigungen, Arbeitsunfalle und...

This volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

In recent years political history has been rediscovered by historians. In this volume the contributors approach the new political history in a constructivist way, conceiving the political as a communicative space whose boundaries are constantly reconfigured through acts of verbal, visual, and sometimes violent communication. "Writing Political History Today "is organized into four sections, focusing on politics and the political as contested concepts; boundary disputes between the political and other spheres; the question whether violence is a means, an object, or the end of political...