This two-volume set, Regionalism in an Age of Globalism, examines the concept of region and regionalism in today's rapidly shrinking world. Building on the insights of a diverse group of scholars, the first volume, Concepts of Regionalism, showcases the wide range of theories and methods that are being applied to regionalism today in the humanities and social sciences. Despite these differences many common themes emerge, most importantly that regions are social and cultural constructs. The second volume, Forms of Regionalism, expands on these themes by presenting concrete examples of...
This two-volume set, Regionalism in an Age of Globalism, examines the concept of region and regionalism in today's rapidly shrinking world. Building o...
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.
Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil...
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and on...
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.
Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil...
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and on...
Der Begriff gender hat in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten eine rasante Karriere durchlebt und sich zu einer unverzichtbaren Analysekategorie (fast) aller wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen entwickelt. Aber nicht nur das: Die transdisziplinare Geschlechterforschung hat die Wissenschaften grundlegend verandert. Auch davon erzahlen die Beitrage in Gender Talks. Dabei spannen sie einen weiten Bogen von der Philosophie uber die Theologie und die Geschichts- und Kommunikationswissenschaften zu den Cultural Studies und spuren unter anderem folgenden Fragen nach: Was hat die Philosophie zur...
Der Begriff gender hat in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten eine rasante Karriere durchlebt und sich zu einer unverzichtbaren Analysekategorie (fast...
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and blackness onto sites of...
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots,...
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and blackness onto sites of...
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots,...
