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Die Ausführungen zerfallen in zwei Teile, die nicht gleichartig angelegt sind. Im ersten Teil wird der Versuch unternommen, das schweizerische Geschichts- und Nationalbewusstsein und seine bernische Ausprägung der Jahrhunderte der alten Eidgenossenschaft nach Entstehung und Wandel vornehmlich mit Blick auf die Geschichtsschreibung zu skizzieren. Im zweiten Teil wird diese Skizze für das 19. Jahrhundert weitergeführt, nun jedoch mit der Entwicklung des bernischen Staatslebens enger verbunden oder jedenfalls nach Möglichkeit mit ihr ins Verhältnis gesetzt.

This is an eight scene ethnodrama portraying Black women reliving their journey of Higher Education and Work-based learning in the NHS. Black women's voices are centralised reflecting on the complexities and dynamics of institutional power, professional exploitation, silencing, subordination and non-transformative education.

English Modernism.

The study of Czechoslovak women refugees in Britain is noticeably missing from current research and Anglo-Czechoslovak historiography. Oral interviews from former refugees and archival research offer insights into women's diverse experiences, dilemmas and contributions.

The first comprehensive analysis of the Irish-Argentine community in a century, this book uses the archive of the Southern Cross, the Irish-Argentine newspaper, to analyse the divisions that opened up in the Irish-Argentine community in response to 1916, the two World Wars, Peronism, the military dictatorship, and the Falklands/Malvinas war.

Clementine Kramer, who is relatively unknown today, was a prolific German Jewish writer and leader of the women's movement who experienced at first hand the First World War and the rise to power of the National Socialists. This book makes an important contribution to the scholarship by revealing a fresh perspective on this tumultuous time.

In the age of the selfie, this book traces self-portraiture in film and video from the Western tradition in painting and literature into present-day digital media. The essays assess the significance of the self-portrait in the moving image and new media by exploring a varied and international body of works.

Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by art gardens, such as the meaningful encounters of humans, animals and plants in the context of the garden. Tupare, a garden in New Zealand, is used as source material.

The concept of the public sphere has long been limited by its division into the twin approaches of normative argumentation in democratic theory and empirical-theoretical application in the social sciences. This book goes beyond this divide, showing how democratic theory can become empirically applicable and the social sciences normatively relevant.

This book is the first full-length critical account of the life and work of Constance Naden, a unique visionary within Victorian literature and science. Her poetry, philosophy and scientific studies are examined in this thought-provoking contribution to the study of nineteenth-century intellectual culture.

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland's finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence. This interdisciplinary collection of essays supplies a criticalbut appreciative engagement with von Matt's writing, the first volume devoted specifically to probing the legacy of his thought.

Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.

Before Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, the fate of German Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed. This book provides a detailed historical look at German Jewish emigration to Kenya with a focus on child exile, taking Stephanie Zweig's autobiographical works as a point of departure.

From the MidVictorian Age to the Great War 18701921.

This book examines the poetry of Bernard Vargaftig (1934-2012) with a focus on his emphasis on the sacredness of words. His spiritual yearnings, as well as a need to heal due to lingering trauma from wartime hiding, are shown to underlie his poetry, which reflect a continual process of renewal and self-discovery.

The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists, pioneering what would later be labelled kinetic art. Through original archival research and illuminating comparisons with other artists and movements, both within and outside Italy, this volume offers a unique analysis of Munari's seven-decade-long career.

This work connects productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov with adaptations made by contemporary Irish playwrights, demonstrating the significance of international influence for the national canon.

This ambitious and exciting study analyses the use of colour language in the work of Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wassily Kandinsky and Else Lasker-Schuler to open up an understanding of how poetic language works and to ask how we read poetry.

This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present.

Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. This book will help scholars and general readers grasp the magnitude of change as it has transformed an important aspect of Scottish Gaelic culture.

The on-going debate on the legacies of European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. This book is a literary and intellectual history both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the birth and development of an Italian Orientalist expression in the post-unification and fascist periods.

This book explores the rich variety of non-human figures in contemporary science fiction literature and film and considers what these figures tell us about our notions of humankind. The posthuman ultimately comes to serve as the symbol of a revolutionary vision of humanity that embraces a new, more humble way of being and living.

From the Metaphysicals to the Romantics.

Four plays by new and upcoming Romanian playwrights.