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This collection of essays considers McLuhan's ground-breaking approach within a number of new contexts and explores the distinguishing features of his media theory.

Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses.

In this colourfully illustrated book, Rose Walker surveys Spanish and Portuguese art and architecture from the time of the Roman conquest to the early twelfth century.

Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilized land and labor, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.

This timely book presents the results of the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey that examines the experiences of residents of Stockholm who are descended from Turkish migrants

Using data from the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey, this timely study focuses on the second generation of immigrants from Turkey and former Yugoslavia in Switzerland.

This book assembles a collection of field research, data, theoretical analyses, and cross-country comparisons to show the significance of the Gezi protests both within Turkey and throughout the world.

Bas von Benda-Beckmann explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on postwar identity and looks at whether the history of the air war forms a counternarrative against the idea of German collective guilt.

Essays drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar explore social movements throughout the world.

Leading specialists in the field offer a multidimensional perspective on the social dynamics that led to the creation of the Roman villa complex of Hogeloon in the hinterland of the Lower Rhine.

This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives.

This timely volume examines how migration trajectories in Asia are experienced and how they acquire new meanings.

What fresh perspectives can viewing copyright law through a humanities' looking glass bring to key notions of tomorrow's copyright law?

The first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology.

The cultural history of same-sex sexual matters in later medieval England.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the Philippines and Hawaii. Meanwhile, the possible disintegration of China and Japan's growing nationalism added new dimensions to the rivalries.Surveying these and other international developments in the Pacific basin during the three decades preceding World War I, Kees van Dijk traces the emergence of superpowers during the colonial race and analyzes their conduct as they struggled for territory. Extensive in scope, Pacific Strife is a fascinating look at a volatile moment in history.

This volume brings together thirty-five essays in honor of the IISH's longtime director Jaap Kloosterman.

The history of the production of multi-language version films at Ufa, complete with readings and reflections of individual, original and remake films.

An illuminating investigation on the depiction of madness from early horror films of the 20s and 30s to the proliferation of today's conspiracy thrillers.

Motivated by ongoing debates over welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book compares the situation of older workers in Germany and the United States over the past three decades. Both nations are seeing a rise in insecurity for older workers, but the differences in support programs, pensions, and retirement options have led to differing outcomes for workers faced with early retirement or job loss.

How contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through the aid of photography.

A wide and scientific overview on migration potential from the NEMA region to the EU.

A study on how national policies of integration exert little influence over the reception practices of secondary schools in Rotterdam and Barcelona.

This book surveys the many different ways in which irregular migrants settle and make a living in Belgium and the Netherlands. Offering an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research's focus on survival strategies, overreliance on comparisons of migrant communities, and overemphasis on structural explanations, Masja van Meeteren instead takes the aspirations of irregular migrants as her starting point, which opens up fascinating new questions about their lives and roles in their new home nations.

Surrealism and the Occult offers a fresh view of the debate whether Surrealism was involved with occultism and the esoteric or not, with special examination of the movement's leadership by its founder, Andre Breton.

Experts of diverse disciplines join forces to analyse the new publication cultures in the humanities.