Histoire culturelle

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they di …

Lange hat sich die soziologische Biografieforschung ganz überwiegend auf Menschen konzentriert, die im ‘globalen Norden’ leben. Dieser Band ist ein Beitrag zu den jüngeren Bemühungen, diese viel zu e …

AS the Pyrates in the West-Indies have been so formidable and numerous, that they have interrupted the Trade of Europe into those Parts; and our English Merchants, in particular, have suffered more b …

Theaetetus Plato – Perception, memory, truth, and knowledge all play major roles in this dialogue. What is remarkable about Platos treatment of those ideas is how contemporary are both the questions …

The contributors to this collection explore the multidimensional transformation of independent Ukraine and deal with her politics, society, private sector, identity, arts, religions, media, and democ …

Content As Brazil 2014 will yet again show, the FIFA World Cup is a mega-event followed by billions of spectators around the globe. This volume is the first scholarly attempt to capture the history o …

Max Weber as a sociologist of music? Scrutinising an array of nineteenth-century discourses on the concept of ‘development’ in music, Ana Petrov focuses on Max Weber’s theory of rationalisation in mu …

Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding – poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexually voracious predators or witches – widows have b …

Regardless of social rank and religion, whether Christian, Jew, or Muslim, Arab women in the middle ages played an important role in the functioning of society. This book is a journey into their dail …

Die Dissertation Role Playing Materials untersucht die materielle Seite von Larp, Mixed Reality und Pen’n’Paper Rollenspielen. Wie kooperieren Gewandung, Virtuelle-Realität-Brille, oder ein Bleistift …