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In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic ...

Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and ...

Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and ...

The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. ...

Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways ...

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The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. ...

West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the ...

The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss ...