Oswald Menghin

Author : Robert Obermair
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783111057309

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Oswald Menghin by Robert Obermair Pdf

The fundamental idea of this book is to show – based on the example of Oswald Menghin, Minister of Education of the National Socialist Austrian “Anschluss”-government, and the networks surrounding him – how science and politics were interwoven in Austria in the first half of the 20th century and how the ideas and networks created in that milieu outlasted the alleged caesurae of this period and found continuation in post-war South America. As Menghin traversed an astonishing number of political upheavals and changes – time after time in exalted positions –, his biography may be considered as paradigmatic for the Age of Extremes. The following aspects form the core interest of this book: (1) Menghin’s position in the political and scientific field, as well as the interconnection between these spheres. (2) The transnational entanglement between the two central areas of Menghin’s geographic spheres of action. (3) Continuities and changes both in Menghin’s biography and in a broader political and scientific context in Austria and Argentina. (4) Menghin’s scope of action and the extent of his responsibility for crucial and often dire developments in all these facets.

Author : Richard Geehr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474734

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The Aesthetics of Horror by Richard Geehr Pdf

Austrian-born Richard von Kralik (1852–1934), the so-called poet laureate of Christian Socialism, used nationalist propaganda couched in art, poetry, music, and literature in pursuit of “pure” German culture. Professor Richard Geehr assesses judiciously Richard von Kralik’s life and influence in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Austria.

Author : John Coles,Arkadiusz Marciniak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443822510

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Grahame Clark and His Legacy by John Coles,Arkadiusz Marciniak Pdf

Grahame Clark was a major figure in European archaeology for over 50 years, and pioneered work in prehistoric economies and ecology, in science-based archaeology and in a world view of ancient societies. In this book a variety of authorities from Europe and beyond assess these major contributions and provide discussions about Clark's own colleagues and contemporaries, his major archaeological themes and his varied approaches, and his world-wide contacts and travels. The papers provide surveys and opinions on Clark's role in the development of archaeology in the 20th century, and the basis that it provided for archaeological work of today. The book will be a valuable source of evidence, ideas and references for scholars interested in the development of the discipline.

Author : Thomas Schneider,Peter Raulwing
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004243309

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Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich by Thomas Schneider,Peter Raulwing Pdf

Only recently has Egyptology started examining ideology and its implications for our self-understanding and understanding of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the past as a whole. This edition presents aspects of ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies from World War I to the “Third Reich”.

Author : Mats Andrén,Thomas Lindkvist,Ingmar Söhrman,Katharina Vajta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335914

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Cultural Borders of Europe by Mats Andrén,Thomas Lindkvist,Ingmar Söhrman,Katharina Vajta Pdf

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of European intercultural relations today.

Author : Tim Murray,Christopher Evans
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191563942

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Histories of Archaeology by Tim Murray,Christopher Evans Pdf

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in the history of the discipline of archaeology. Local, national, and international histories of archaeology that deal with institutions, concepts, categories, and the social and political contexts of archaeological practice have begun to influence the development of archaeological theory. This volume contributes to these developments by reprinting 19 significant papers. Spanning much of the last 200 years and global in coverage and outlook, the papers provide a thorough grounding in the historiography of archaeology, and will enhance understanding of the origins and growth of its theory and practice. A general introduction which is itself a contribution to historiography orients readers by outlining core themes and issues in the field.

Author : Wolfgang Mueller,Dirk Rupnow
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847014126

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Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s until Today by Wolfgang Mueller,Dirk Rupnow Pdf

One of the oldest phenomena in the history of mankind is migration, whether peaceful or violent, voluntary or forced, barely noticeable outfl ow or mass movements. In the 19th century, regional migration to frontier territories, as for example in the Russian Empire or the United States of America, was a natural object of research. In the 1960s there was renewed interest in migration history in Western Europe due to the increase of immigration. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the so-called Eastern Bloc, the history of borders came again into focus, leading to a new generation in migration history. This development was reinforced by the "summer of migration" of 2015. The history of migration to Austria, especially during the Second Republic, has long been a topic overlooked by historians, but received increased attention since the 1980s. The present volume presents research currently being done on the history of migration to or through Austria.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082988398

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gustavo G. Politis,Luis A. Borrero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009463690

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The Archaeology of the Pampas and Patagonia by Gustavo G. Politis,Luis A. Borrero Pdf

In this book, Gustavo G. Politis and Luis A. Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina's Pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene until the 20th century. Offering a history of the nomadic foragers living in the harsh habitats of the South America's Southern Cone, they provide detailed account of human adaptations to a range of environmental and social conditions. The authors show how the region's earliest inhabitants interacted with now-extinct animals as they explored and settled the vast open prairies and steppes of the region until they occupied most of its available habitats. They also trace technological advances, including the development of pottery, the use of bows and arrows, and horticulture. Making new research and data available for the first time, Politis and Borrero's volume demonstrates how geographical variation in the Southern Cone generated diverse adaptation strategies.

Author : Per Cornell,Fredrik Fahlander
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443804103

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Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations by Per Cornell,Fredrik Fahlander Pdf

This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things, use things, leave things etc. The repeated social encounter is often a confrontation with something, such as an opinion, a performance, or with materialities and the effects are often unpredictable. Encounters may reproduce a social pattern, but also contain potential for transformation and change. Such varied responses to encounters will certainly have effects on the archaeological record. The primary focus of the volume is the effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal encounters. The collection hence fills a theoretical and methodological gap in the study of the encounter in archaeology. There is a need for elaborating aspects of postcolonial theory in order to develop new ways of approaching the archaeological record. The articles of this volume include examples from various regions and time periods. They range from Scandinavian Stone Age, through Buddhist social practices of the first millennium AD, Maya warfare and ideology, to Aboriginal-European encounters in 20th century Australia.Per Cornell (PhD, Ass. Prof.) is currently lecturer at the Department of archaeology, University of Gothenburg. Cornell has been involved in extensive field-work in Latin America and current research topics include settlement archaeology, formation processes and social theory. Among his recent books are Local, Regional, Global, co-edited with Per Stenborg (Gotarc, 2004).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004699571

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Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945 by Anonim Pdf

Aside from the prominent perpetrators such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele or Klaus Barbie, there were numerous other cases of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers from Germany and Austria who ended up in Latin America after 1945. Their life trajectories, professional activities, and contacts to local elites in their new homes have hardly been subject to systematic research to date. Their new lives in Latin America, their careers e.g. as diplomats, secret service agents or scientists are therefore a main focus of this volume. The biographies of these people and their networks are woven into the larger political, social, and scientific contexts of postwar Europe and Latin America, especially in the early Cold War period.

Author : Donald Malcolm Reid
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617979569

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Contesting Antiquity in Egypt by Donald Malcolm Reid Pdf

The history of the struggles for control over Egypt's antiquities, and their repercussions, during a period of intense national ferment The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun’s tomb, close on the heels of Britain’s declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of ‘pharaonism'—popular interest in ancient Egypt—as an inspiration in the struggle for full independence. Emphasizing the three decades from 1922 until Nasser’s revolution in 1952, this compelling follow-up to Whose Pharaohs? looks at the ways in which Egypt developed its own archaeologies—Islamic, Coptic, and Greco-Roman, as well as the more dominant ancient Egyptian. Each of these four archaeologies had given birth to, and grown up around, a major antiquities museum in Egypt. Later, Cairo, Alexandria, and Ain Shams universities joined in shaping these fields. Contesting Antiquity in Egypt brings all four disciplines, as well as the closely related history of tourism, together in a single engaging framework. Throughout this semi-colonial era, the British fought a prolonged rearguard action to retain control of the country while the French continued to dominate the Antiquities Service, as they had since 1858. Traditional accounts highlight the role of European and American archaeologists in discovering and interpreting Egypt’s long past. Donald Reid redresses the balance by also paying close attention to the lives and careers of often-neglected Egyptian specialists. He draws attention not only to the contests between westerners and Egyptians over the control of antiquities, but also to passionate debates among Egyptians themselves over pharaonism in relation to Islam and Arabism during a critical period of nascent nationalism. Drawing on rich archival and published sources, extensive interviews, and material objects ranging from statues and murals to photographs and postage stamps, this comprehensive study by one of the leading scholars in the field will make fascinating reading for scholars and students of Middle East history, archaeology, politics, and museum and heritage studies, as well as for the interested lay reader.

Author : H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0472089269

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Worldly Provincialism by H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl Pdf

Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth to German anthropology were channeled and shaped by contexts as various as romantic voyages in the South Pacific, the Herero wars in Southwest Africa, open-air presentations of exotic peoples in Berlin, and prison camps during World War I. It also shows that Germans' unique intellectual traditions, their emphasis on concepts of culture, and the late arrival of both the German nation-state and the German colonial empire affected their interest in and relationships with non-Europeans. Worldly Provincialism confirms that there is no justification for presupposing that Europeans shared a common cultural code while abroad or for assuming that they would have behaved similarly during their interactions with non-Europeans. Thus, we must rethink the relationships among anthropology, colonialism, and race. It also forces a rethinking of our understanding of race in the nineteenth century, when race science emerged and eclipsed many alternative racial theories. H. Glenn Penny is Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Matti Bunzl is Aaron and Robin Fischer Assistant Professor of Jewish Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Author : Óscar Moro Abadía,Margaret Wright Conkey,Josephine McDonald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9783031546389

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Deep-time Images in the Age of Globalization by Óscar Moro Abadía,Margaret Wright Conkey,Josephine McDonald Pdf

This open access volume explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art research’s Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to facilitate new conversations and discourses in new post-colonial realities. The book uses seven main themes to explore theoretical, methodological, ethical, and practical developments that are orienting the study of Pleistocene and Holocene arts in the age of globalization. Compiling studies as diverse as genetics, visualization, with the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated archaeological techniques, means that vast quantities of materials and techniques are now incorporated into the analysis of the world’s visual cultures. Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization aims to promote critical reflection on the multitude of positive – and negative – impacts that globalization has wrought in rock art research. The volume brings new theoretical frameworks as well as engagement with indigenous knowledge and perspectives from art history. It highlights technical, methodological and interpretive developments, and showcases rock art characteristics from previously unknown (in the global north) geographic areas. This book provides comparative approaches on rock art globally and scrutinises the impacts of globalization on research, preservation, and management of deep-time art. This book will appeal to archaeologists, social scientists and art historians working in the field as well as lovers of rock art. .

Author : Marianne Klemun,Fritz Blakolmer,Hubert D. Szemethy,Martina Fuchs
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783205797036

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1365 – 2015 – 2065 by Marianne Klemun,Fritz Blakolmer,Hubert D. Szemethy,Martina Fuchs Pdf

Life at the University of Vienna from 1388-2065, told through the eyes of fictional students.