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This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of ...

Insurgent Skin: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionar...

The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, an...

This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth...

Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also...

Anlass für das 350 Seiten umfassenden Buch ist der 50. Jahrestag der Gebietsreform in Nordrhein-Westfalen am 1.1.2023, durch die die Gemeinde Blasheim nach jahrhundertelanger Zugehörigkeit zu Preuß...

Writing Tambora

What might the often cited phrases from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison theology mean for the ethical discourse at the beginning of the 21st century? Which hermeneutical concepts might enable contempo...

Creativity in the Writing of Percy Bysshe Shelley

This five-volume series, , historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessingboth canonical and lesser-known British women's writing decad...

Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sendi...

Die Reihe ZMO-Studien veröffentlicht Forschungsergebnisse, die das Forschungsprofil des Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient reflektieren und ergänzen.

A Moveable East

A European Encounter

Die Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands war ein Ziehkind der sowjetischen Besatzer. 1948 geschaffen, um die SED zu stützen, sah diese in der neuen Blockpartei nicht selten eine Rivalin, der sie...