Humanities & Social Sciences

In The Green Cockatoo, a one-act play from 1898, Arthur Schnitzler thematizes the indistinguishability of fiction and reality. The historical-critical edition reconstructs the history of the play and its publication, presents archival materials, and provides a print text and commentary. Moreover, it documents the censorship of the premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1899.

Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.

Dieses Open-Access-Buch sammelt die Ergebnisse der vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten INSIDE Studie und setzt sich mit zentralen Fragen rund um die inklusive Bildung auseinander. Von der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Regelschul- und sonderpädagogischen Lehrkräften, über Elternarbeit und demokratisches Lernen bis hin zur Entwicklung schulischer Kompetenzen von Schüler:innen mit besonderen Unterstützungsbedarfen werden verschiedene Aspekte der inklusiven Bildung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet. Das Buch richtet sich an Lehrende, Forschende und alle Interessierten, die sich mit inklusiver Bildung befassen und nachhaltige Veränderungen im Bildungssystem vorantreiben möchten.

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period. The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies. Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.

It is the intention of this dissertation to investigate, as thoroughly as possible, the portrayal of the German as he appears in the prose works (drama and poetry have been excluded) of four of Russia's greatest nineteenth-century literary writers- I. A, Gončarov, I. S. Turgenev, F. M. Dostoevskij, and L. N. Tolstoj.

This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sources; when the traditions were formed; and to what extent they are shaped by formulaic themes and story-patterns. It challenges several mainstream assumptions on the subject, for example, that the traditions were formed mainly in the Post-Classical period; that the only significant source for the legends is the works of the particular poet; and that the poets were perceived as “new heroes.”

The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its ›heroic‹ confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the ›historical work‹ of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and ›white crisis‹.

Recent developments have caused important changes in the IT industry: while being considered comparatively resistant to international relocation of jobs for a long time, the IT industry's landscape has changed a lot in the course of the 1990s, when IT companies started to make use of low-wage destinations and integrated them in globally distributed workflows. According to many authors the internationalisation of the IT industry does not only put jobs in high-wage countries into jeopardy, but also formalizes and standardizes the working processes, thus significantly limiting the employees´ task discretion. Drawing upon case studies in the Indian subsidiaries of two transnationally operating IT companies, the presented study critically questions this prognosis. The results clearly show that the forms of work organisation and control in the IT industry do not develop homogeneously or uniformly in the course of internationalization. Instead, it is possible to identify specific modes of reorganization that are shaped by varying patterns of internationalization, on the one hand, and the institutional settings of the offshore destinations, on the other hand."

This book is one of the first to study the regional role of women in public and professional life, breaking new ground in early twentieth-century local and gender history. Covering politics (Eleanor Acland and Clara Daymond), medicine and education (Dr Mabel Ramsay and Jessie Headridge), and a variety of voluntary organizations (Florence Cecil, Georgiana Buller, Jane Clinton and Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn), it shows how women worked individually and in collaboration to create new opportunities for women and girls in a large, mainly rural, county far from London and the industrial heartlands of England. These biographical studies are based on original research and reveal the huge public contribution made by these eight women, who up to now have been largely hidden from history. Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900–1950 is a contribution to the history of women in Britain between the wars, a period that has received less attention than the Edwardian era and the two World Wars. It also fills a major gap in the history of Devon women, on which almost nothing has been published, and on Devon in the inter-war period, similarly neglected by historians. It will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of gender history and the history of modern Britain, as well as everyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Devon.

The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwindled to virtually nothing, is one of the most important themes in understanding the modern history of East and Southeast Asia. This book considers a range of issues that illustrate the significance and influence of the British Empire in Asia and the nature of Britain’s imperial decline. Subjects covered include the challenges posed by Germany and Japan during the First World War, British efforts at international co-operation in the interwar period, the British relationship with Korea and Japan in the wake of the Second World War, and the complicated path of decolonisation in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implementing the 2030 Agenda and demonstrates how the SDGs have transformed and accelerated trends in quantification.

The conference proceedings are a collection of contributions from the 4th Forum Architekturwissenschaft on architectural design and its artifacts. The Conference was held in November, 2017 at the TU Berlin. Contributors to the present publication are interested in the epistemic potential of sketches, renderings, models, photographs and drawings in architectural design. All follow the thesis that media in the draft not only depict, but in turn are the basis of further acts of knowledge. Using case studies ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, the texts trace the particular qualitative influence that "making" a design has on the artifact for this design. The structure for both the conference and this publication came out of the attempt to bring together theoretical positions and the results of practical work - artifacts: The conference was associated with an exhibition at the Museum of Architecture of the TU Berlin and in the present volume, theoretical contributions alternate with textual descriptions of the shown artifacts.

What are the skills to be attributed to the good politician in a historical phase marked by the metamorphosis of politics? To ethically reset the complexity of politics understood as a profession, it is essential to start from an interdisciplinary analysis of its skills. In this book the history of political philosophy with economics and scientific research, pedagogy with teaching and finally psychology with sociology interact with each other to identify those essential practical skills even in non-routine situations. A study full of empirical data and historical references, a useful tool both for the political theory scholar and for the professional politician who intend to compete with demanding issues of very topical relevance.

Die Deutsche Bibliothek war Produkt des Kalten Krieges, Kulturspeicher mit mühseliger Erfolgsgeschichte und westdeutsches Gedächtnislabor nach dem NS. Kurz nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges und mit Blick auf die absehbare deutsche Teilung mit US-amerikanischer Schützenhilfe gegründet, konnte die Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt a. M. kein unpolitischer Ort sein. Schon gar nicht, wenn sie sich auf die Fahnen schrieb, das gesamte Schrifttum in Deutschland zu sammeln. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Leipziger Bücherei, die den gleichen Anspruch vom Osten her erhob, wurde zur zweiten Frankfurter Natur. Zugleich lernte die Deutsche Bibliothek in den 1950er Jahren, Rhetoriken des Kalten Kriegs einzusetzen, um von Skeptikern und der Bonner Politik anerkannt zu werden. Am ehesten kam sie in den 1960er Jahren mit der Emigrantenbibliothek (heute Exilarchiv) in der westdeutschen Demokratie an. Denn sie beteiligte und diskutierte das lange verdrängte Exil als Teil des zentralen Kulturspeichers. Planungspolitik und Technisierung machten die Bibliothek in den 1970er und 80er Jahren zu einer international wahrgenommenen Kulturinstanz. Die Wiedervereinigung 1990 kam unerwartet und mündete 2006 in der Verschmelzung mit der Deutschen Bücherei in Leipzig. Helke Rausch hat eine längst überfällige politische Zeitgeschichte der Deutschen Bibliothek geschrieben.

The seabed of the port of Piombino was to be modified to allow the arrivals of cruise ships. The great problem to overcome was the presence of Posidonia oceanica (Linnaeus) Delile, 1813 meadows. Initially, the project was to remove and grind the plants of the meadow causing a considerable environmental damage. The Port Authority of Piombino asked the Institute of Marine Biology and Ecology to study an alternative project. Knowing the short results of the methods of replanting P. oceanica plant by plant we decided to transplant 340 clods of P. oceanica of 2 m2 to a nearby meadow.