Hearts and Minds: US Cultural Management in 21st Century Foreign Relations, Matthew Chambers
Автор: Grote, Georg Название: South tyrol question, 1866-2010 ISBN: 3039113364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783039113361 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 10930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: South Tyrol is a small, mountainous area located in the central Alps. This book provides a fresh analysis of this dynamic and turbulent period of South Tyrolean and European history. It also provides insights into the political and cultural evolution of the understanding of the region and the definition of its role within the European framework.
Описание: Karl Hanssen’s memoirs provide an invaluable outsider’s view of life in New Zealand prisons and a unique perspective on German Samoa under New Zealand occupation. In October 1915, Hanssen, manager of the DHPG, a large German copra production company, was sent from Samoa to New Zealand to serve a six-month sentence imposed by a New Zealand military court for bypassing war censorship regulations. He served his sentence in a number of prisons in New Zealand, including two months in the high-security prison, Mt Eden. Hanssen’s memoirs – in English translation and in the original German – are made available for the first time in this edition, which also features photos from his Samoan album and a comprehensive introduction by Bronwyn Chapman on the historical and political background.
Описание: What makes one nation curious about another nation? Curious enough that the study of the others culture and language becomes a natural commitment or something that could be described as a national project? This question lies behind much of the writing in this book as it explores the history, education policy and changing fortunes of the Indonesian/Malay language in Australia. While formal education programs are central to this discussion, individual effort and chance encounters with the language are also examined in the context of Australias evolving historical ties with its near neighbours. These relationships have grown in importance since the end of the Second World War, but Australians typically continue to view the region as testing. This is exemplified by the AustralianIndonesian relationship, the primary focus of this volume. While much has been written on the political relationship, this book builds its view of the two countries interactions on the cultural activity of language learning. This is, perhaps, the most fundamental of cultural activities in any effort to promote mutual understanding.
Название: Civil war of words ISBN: 3034319509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034319508 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 14458.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Great War did not only mark the history of the twentieth century: to a large extent, the conflict also affected culture and literature in Europe and the rest of the world. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a broad and transdisciplinary perspective on the cultural and political impact of the Great War. Using a comparative approach and focusing on Catalonia and Spain, this volume reflects the enormous variety of representations of the ‘theatre of war’ in both neutral and belligerent countries, causing a significant rejuvenation in fiction and journalistic genres in the subsequent decades. This book features essays by some of the most important specialists in the First World War from Spain, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Latin America, who, in the centenary of the conflict, provide an innovative critical approach to this crucial event in contemporary history.
Автор: Nnebedum, Chigozie Название: Human trafficking as a quintessence of 21st century slavery ISBN: 3631727658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631727652 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 8957.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human trafficking and its root causes. The author analyzes human trafficking, which can be termed as «modern-day slavery» and in its complexity and dynamism ends up in the exploitation of the victims for the personal gains of a person or group of persons. A majority of the victims, especially women, end up in the sex industries. In most cases people are transported from the so-called underdeveloped to supposedly developed regions. As a result, women and girls are smuggled yearly from underdeveloped countries, for example Nigeria, to Europe and America.
Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. This book contributes to the discussion by opening up previously locked concepts of the relation between the terms color, race, and “Jews”, and by engaging with globalism, multiculturalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The contributors—leading scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies—discuss how it is not merely a question of whether Jews are acknowledged to be interracial, but how to address academic and social discourses that continue to place Jews and others in a race/color category.
Название: Fictions of the irish land war ISBN: 3034309996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034309998 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 10586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into ‘us’ and ‘them’ were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem. This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland’s little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.
Автор: Mccann, Dr. Ben Название: Ripping open the set ISBN: 3039103113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783039103119 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 11454.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: French film design throughout the 1930s was a period of `ripping open` film sets to make them not just descriptive, but also expressive. This book details the elaborate paraphrasing tendencies of French film design in the period, exploring the crucial role of the set designer in the film`s evolutionary process.
Название: Vietnam`s ethnic and religious minorities: ISBN: 3631660421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631660423 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 9971.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The book deals with Vietnam’s ethnic and religious minorities in a historical perspective. The time frame stretches from the pre-colonial era to contemporary times. Except for one paper on the situation of the Vietnam-China border area, the authors focus on South or Southern Central Vietnam. The Chinese, the Cham and the Bahnar represent three different categories of ethnic minorities: the so-called Foreign Asians, the highly developed nationalities and the former tribal populations, who once lived at the margins. The Vietnamese and Highland Catholics as well as the French Protestants are two prominent religious minorities. The aim of this book is to contribute to a discussion about common features, categories and tasks, which transcend regional, ethnic or religious particularities and the familiar lowland-highland divide.
Автор: Gunther, Lena-simone Название: War experience and trauma in american literature ISBN: 3631655118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631655115 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 12422.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military, the selected soldier-authors are thrust into a conflict which soon exceeded governmental, military and public expectations. Focusing on core elements which link the selected military memoirs of Nathaniel Fick, Colby Buzzell, Clint Van Winkle, John Crawford and Matt Gallagher together, this book follows the soldier-authors’ process of soldierization, their loss of innocence, moral responsibility and, finally, coping mechanisms for traumatic experiences sustained in combat.
Автор: Raich, Lola Название: Africa in 21st century us and eu agendas ISBN: 3631672470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631672471 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 8957.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book investigates issues pertaining to the US and EU agendas in Africa since the dawn of the new century. It discusses how the African continent has featured within the US and EU foreign policy agendas, by looking at ensuing gaps between a rhetoric that claimed to have put Africa within the high politics agenda and the reality. The case studies analyse the reasons for the very different acknowledgements of USAFRICOM and JAES P&S, even though both policies state to aim the same: support Africa in tackling its own security concerns. The book concludes with a deliberation on which of the two outlooks seems to offer an appropriate approach to the context and which offers pragmatic solutions.
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