What does it mean to 'fit in?' In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging ...

After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France ...

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered ...

"these essays . . . provide interesting reading strategies and different systems of interpretations that may help us with the difficult task of being ...

Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the 'Middle Ages' has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. ...

"Vermeersch provides his reader with a wealth of analysis based on personal interviews with prominent Romani activists¿The Romani Movement is a ...

To open this volume Jean Comaroff, one of the most important voices in the anthropology of religion over the past 30 years, reflects on the development ...

" . . . a rich, complex, authoritative, scholarly survey of Germany's socialist heritage." - The Midwest Book Review "Can twenty-three essays present ...

The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its ...

"This collected edition of Professor Kaufmann's essays, written over many years and now translated into English, offers a way of thinking about the welfare ...