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Historical Urban Landscape

This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently codified notion of international urban heritage conservation - to demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate history from cultural heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the latter have on history. It also demonstrates how the history of cultural heritage can be constructed as a historical problem. First, the conceptual history of urban heritage preservation – based on the standard setting instruments of international organizations – reveals the fundamental elements of the current concept of urban heritage. Second, this concept, as worded in the HUL approach, is investigated through the analysis of Vienna, which played a crucial role in the establishment of HUL. These examples are used to to show how the evolution of cultural heritage can be constructed as a historical problem.

Historicising Gender and Sexuality (Gender and History Special Issues #9)

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes

Historicising Gender and Sexuality (Gender and History Special Issues #11)

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes

Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other

Written from a cultural studies point of view, thirteen original essays analyse literary accounts of historically famous sites of conversion. Beginning with the Renaissance and extending to the present, authors under discussion include: Beaumont and Fletcher, Lope de Vega, Guamam Poma, Thomas Nashe, Daniel Defoe, Chateaubriand, Salvation Army pamphleteers, Chinese missionaries, Stephen Riggs, Samson Occom, Shusaku Endo, Mongo Beti, and Rigoberta Menchu. What were the missionaries' intentions, and how were they perceived?

Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s

Lifestyles have a history, and lifestyle media is fundamentally implicated in this history. This original volume examines issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, providing a wealth of empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping' and 'Playboy', it explores the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present to provide a better understanding of the representation of lifestyle and its relationship to the self. The volume demonstrates how ideas about gender, nation and 'race' problematize taken-for-granted assumptions about lifestyle, with particular emphasis on the new middle classes in the US. The book also examines the role of advertising and marketing in mediating ideas about lifestyle, the role of material culture in the construction of cultural hierarchies and the positioning of social groups within wider cartographies of taste. The volume makes a significant contribution to this growing field and will interest academics and students in media and cultural studies, communication studies, cultural history and sociology.

Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s

Lifestyles have a history, and lifestyle media is fundamentally implicated in this history. This original volume examines issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, providing a wealth of empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping' and 'Playboy', it explores the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present to provide a better understanding of the representation of lifestyle and its relationship to the self. The volume demonstrates how ideas about gender, nation and 'race' problematize taken-for-granted assumptions about lifestyle, with particular emphasis on the new middle classes in the US. The book also examines the role of advertising and marketing in mediating ideas about lifestyle, the role of material culture in the construction of cultural hierarchies and the positioning of social groups within wider cartographies of taste. The volume makes a significant contribution to this growing field and will interest academics and students in media and cultural studies, communication studies, cultural history and sociology.

Historicizing the Pan-American Games (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of the Olympic Movement across the Americas, a stage for competing ideologies of Pan-American unity, and an occasion for host city infrastructural stimulus and economic development. And yet until this volume, the Games have never been studied as a single entity from a scholarly viewpoint. Historicizing the Pan-American Games presents 12 original articles on the Games. Topics range from the origins of the Games in the period between the world wars, to their urban, hemispheric and cultural legacies, to the policy implications of specific Games for international sport. The entire collection is set against the shifting economic, social, political, cultural, sporting and artistic contexts of the turbulent western hemisphere. Historicizing the Pan-American Games makes a significant contribution to the literature on major games, Olympic sport and sport in the western hemisphere. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Historicizing the Pan-American Games (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of the Olympic Movement across the Americas, a stage for competing ideologies of Pan-American unity, and an occasion for host city infrastructural stimulus and economic development. And yet until this volume, the Games have never been studied as a single entity from a scholarly viewpoint. Historicizing the Pan-American Games presents 12 original articles on the Games. Topics range from the origins of the Games in the period between the world wars, to their urban, hemispheric and cultural legacies, to the policy implications of specific Games for international sport. The entire collection is set against the shifting economic, social, political, cultural, sporting and artistic contexts of the turbulent western hemisphere. Historicizing the Pan-American Games makes a significant contribution to the literature on major games, Olympic sport and sport in the western hemisphere. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education: Aims, Contradictions, Promises and Problems

This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world. Such exploration is particularly necessary given the complex operational barriers to education, and higher education in particular, within prison-based teaching and learning. These operational barriers are matched by cultural and polemical barriers, such as the criticism of diverting resources to and spending money on prisoner education when the cost of some education seems prohibitive for people outside prison. More so than in other education contexts, prison education may fall short of higher ideals because it is shot through with both practical and moral-political problems and challenges, especially in the age of global late capitalism, high technology and mass incarceration or securitization. This book includes insights and issues around a wide range of areas including: ethics, religion, sociology, justice, identity and political and moral philosophy.

The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300: Translation and Commentary

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. Until recently, almost all of the sources for medieval Germany were available only in the original Latin or in German translations, while most scholarly investigation has been in German. The limited English-language scholarship has focused on royal politics and the aristocracy. Even today, English-speaking students will find very little about the lower social orders, or Germany’s urban centers that came to play an increasingly important role in the social, economic, political, religious, and military life of the German kingdom after the turn of the millennium. The translation of the four texts in this volume is intended to help fill these lacunae. They focus on the city of Worms in the period c.1000 to c.1300. From them readers can follow developments in this city over a period of almost three centuries from the perspective of writers who lived there, gaining insights about the lives of both rich and poor, Christian and Jew. No other city in Germany provides a similar opportunity for comparison of changes over time. As important, Worms was an ’early adopter’ of new political, economic, institutional, and military traditions, which would later become normative for cities throughout the German kingdom. Worms was one of the first cities to develop as a center of episcopal power; it was also one of the first to develop an independent urban government, and was precocious in emerging as a de facto city-state in the mid-thirteenth century. These political developments, with their concomitant social, economic, and military consequences, would define urban life throughout the German kingdom. In sum, the history of Worms as told in the narrative sources in this volume can be understood as illuminating the broader urban history of the German kingdom at the heigh

The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300: Translation and Commentary

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. Until recently, almost all of the sources for medieval Germany were available only in the original Latin or in German translations, while most scholarly investigation has been in German. The limited English-language scholarship has focused on royal politics and the aristocracy. Even today, English-speaking students will find very little about the lower social orders, or Germany’s urban centers that came to play an increasingly important role in the social, economic, political, religious, and military life of the German kingdom after the turn of the millennium. The translation of the four texts in this volume is intended to help fill these lacunae. They focus on the city of Worms in the period c.1000 to c.1300. From them readers can follow developments in this city over a period of almost three centuries from the perspective of writers who lived there, gaining insights about the lives of both rich and poor, Christian and Jew. No other city in Germany provides a similar opportunity for comparison of changes over time. As important, Worms was an ’early adopter’ of new political, economic, institutional, and military traditions, which would later become normative for cities throughout the German kingdom. Worms was one of the first cities to develop as a center of episcopal power; it was also one of the first to develop an independent urban government, and was precocious in emerging as a de facto city-state in the mid-thirteenth century. These political developments, with their concomitant social, economic, and military consequences, would define urban life throughout the German kingdom. In sum, the history of Worms as told in the narrative sources in this volume can be understood as illuminating the broader urban history of the German kingdom at the heigh

Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and <em>The Making of the English Working Class</em>

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson’s monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the complex impact of Thompson’s book, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865–2000

This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula.

Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come. These histories also disclose that our patterns of expectation are much influenced by our relationship to the past.

Histories Of The Transgender Child: (pdf)

With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender. Beginning with the early 1900s when children with “ambiguous” sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies. Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century—a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents.

Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power: European Perspectives

Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies, and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism; societies in times of peace and societies marked by colonial, civil, world, or cold wars.The dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s made extensive use of the potential of planning for economic growth, for brutal repression, but also for the integration of certain population groups and as an effective means of propaganda. The legacy of these dictatorships still characterizes many European cities today and confronts planning with complex tasks. Dictatorial state socialism planned to establish a new social order with a particular technocratic rationality, which did not, however, cancel completely the tendential autonomy of the professional planning sphere. Parliamentary democracies and illiberal regimes have developed specific new practices of using planning to rebuild cities in the interests of neoliberal economic growth and populistic legitimization of power.Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power takes the next steps in significantly expanding our understanding of planning and politics. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urbanism, urban/town planning, spatial planning, spatial politics, urban development, urban policies, and planning history and European history of the 20th century.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power: European Perspectives

Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies, and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism; societies in times of peace and societies marked by colonial, civil, world, or cold wars.The dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s made extensive use of the potential of planning for economic growth, for brutal repression, but also for the integration of certain population groups and as an effective means of propaganda. The legacy of these dictatorships still characterizes many European cities today and confronts planning with complex tasks. Dictatorial state socialism planned to establish a new social order with a particular technocratic rationality, which did not, however, cancel completely the tendential autonomy of the professional planning sphere. Parliamentary democracies and illiberal regimes have developed specific new practices of using planning to rebuild cities in the interests of neoliberal economic growth and populistic legitimization of power.Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power takes the next steps in significantly expanding our understanding of planning and politics. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urbanism, urban/town planning, spatial planning, spatial politics, urban development, urban policies, and planning history and European history of the 20th century.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport: A Man’s World? (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics)

Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival material to uncover histories of women’s work in sport, from swimming teachers in nineteenth-century England to national sports administrators in twentieth-century Côte d’Ivoire, and many places in between. Their work has been varied, holding roles as teachers, wives, and secretaries in sporting contexts around the world, often with diplomatic functions—including at the 1968 and 1992 Olympic Games. Finally, this collection shows how gender initiatives have developed in sporting institutions in Europe and international sport federations today. With a foreword by Grégory Quin and afterword by Anaïs Bohuon, this is a pioneering study into gender and women’s work in global sport.

Historisch-Genetische Theorie (essentials)

Die historisch-genetische Theorie verfolgt den Anspruch, die Genese der menschlichen kulturellen Lebensweise aus den naturgeschichtlichen Ausgangsbedingungen und die historisch differenten gesellschaftlichen Organisationsformen in ihrer Strukturfolge erklären zu können. Für die Theorie zentral ist das methodologische Primat ontogenetischer Entwicklungsprozesse. Die gesellschaftlichen Organisationsformen sind diesen konstruktiv verbunden, folgen in ihrer Entwicklung aber anderen Mechanismen. Es werden die Grundlagen der Theorie herausgearbeitet und auf deren zentrale Fragen und Themenbereiche eingegangen.

Historisch-genetische Theorie der Gesellschaft: Macht - Herrschaft - Gerechtigkeit (Gesammelte Schriften #13)

Die Theorie der Gesellschaft muss neu verhandelt werden. Es gibt unseres Wissens keine Theorie, die ihren Bildungsprozess aus der Evolution herausführt, um hernach ihrer Entwicklung in der Geschichte zu folgen. Exakt darum geht es in diesem Band. Möglich ist eine solche Theorie nur, wenn man den Bildungsprozess der Gesellschaft wie ihre Entwicklung historisch-genetisch rekonstruiert. Zugrunde liegt ihr der Erwerb der Handlungskompetenz, formiert hat sich die Gesellschaft über Macht. In der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung hat Macht sich als Verhängnis erwiesen. Die von ihr bewirkten hierarchischen Strukturen waren in Häuptlingstümern und Big-man-Gesellschaften noch moderat, mit der Ausbildung von Herrschaft und Staat in den frühen Hochkulturen verlieren die der Herrschaft unterworfenen Subjekte Selbstbestimmung und Freiheit. Gerechtigkeit als Widerspruch gegen den Zugriff der Potentaten auf die Lebensformen der Subjekte wurde dadurch unter der Schwelle des Bewusstseins gehalten, dass Herrschaft einem Absoluten am Grunde der Welt zugeschrieben wurde und von Gott verordnet galt. Phasen des Widerstandes wurden durch das Machtpotential der Herrschaft ebenso unterdrückt, wie durch die Logik des Denkens im Ausgang von einem Absoluten. Auch noch in der Antike wurde Gerechtigkeit einem Absoluten zugeschrieben: Geist, der auf die Idee des Guten konvergierte. Nach dem Umbruch der Logik in der Neuzeit richtet sich das Postulat der Gerechtigkeit auf die Organisationsformen der Gesellschaft. Durch sie soll jeder ein Leben führen können, das den Sinnanforderungen der Zeit gerecht wird.Der InhaltAnforderungen an eine Theorie der GesellschaftMacht als Triebkraft und Verhängnis der historischen EntwicklungGerechtigkeitDer AutorDr. Günter Dux ist Prof. emeritus am Institut für Soziologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur: Instabile Welten – Zur Prozessualen Logik im kulturellen Wandel (Gesammelte Schriften #2)

Nichts hat sich so sehr in das Selbstverständnis des Menschen in der Moderne eingeschrieben wie das Wissen, dass die Lebensformen des Menschen von ihm selbst konstruktiv geschaffene Lebensformen darstellen. Nichts ist so wenig verstanden worden wie der konstruktive Prozess, durch den es möglich war, die Welt des Menschen entstehen zu lassen.Die Arbeiten von Dux eröffnen eine grandiose Erkenntnisperspektive, in dem er an das Wissen um die Evolution des Menschen anschließt. Die Pointe der von ihm dabei entwickelten Theorie der Kultur ist, dass er die Lebensformen des Menschen nicht schon in der Natur verortet, vielmehr auch deren Grundformen, Handeln, Denken und Sprache erst durch den Menschen entwickelt versteht. Dazu bedarf es allerdings einer anderen, einer prozessualen Logik im Verständnis der Lebensformen des Menschen. Anders als in einem Denken, in dem im Ausgang immer schon gelegen ist, was sich aus ihm entwickelt, bilden sich in einer prozessualen Logik die menschlichen Lebensformen erst in einem Prozess aus vorgegebenen Bedingungen heraus, ohne in ihnen selbst schon gelegen zu sein. Der Schlüssel zu ihrem Verständnis liegt, folgt man Dux, in der Ontogenese der Gattungsmitglieder. Mit den Formen ihrer Weiterentwicklungen setzen wir uns auf die Spur unserer selbst in der Geschichte und holen uns schließlich auch selbst ein.

Historische Diskursanalysen: Genealogie, Theorie, Anwendungen

Was ist und was leistet Diskursanalyse in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften? Ist sie eine Methode, die explizit vorliegt und - wie andere Methoden - gelehrt und gelernt werden kann? Oder handelt es sich um eine theoretische, vielleicht sogar philosophische Haltung? Das Buch zieht die Verwirrung ans Licht und ordnet die Differenzen. Es enthält Beiträge zur Genealogie der Diskursanalyse und zu ihren theoretischen Problemen, und es zeigt die vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in den historischen Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Historische Soziologie - Sozioökonomie - Wirtschaftssoziologie (Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft)

Die soziologische Erforschung der Wirtschaft muss sich an Sozial- und Gesellschaftstheorien orientieren, aber sie erfordert auch die Auseinandersetzung mit den verschiedenen Strömungen in der Ökonomie. Überdies bedarf sie einer historischen Perspektive sowohl mit Bezug auf die Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsgesellschaften als auch in ihrem Selbstverständnis. Der Band enthält Beiträge zur Programmatik und Ideengeschichte sowie zu verschiedenen Arbeitsfeldern der Wirtschaftssoziologie wie Geld, Arbeit, Management, Finanzmarkt etc.

Historisches Organisationslernen als Wegbereiter zukünftiger Lernprozesse: Double-Loop-Learning in einer Prozessrekonstruktion am Beispiel der Linde AG von 1954-1984

Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie: Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe. Band 1: Anatomie–Ganzheit.

Das Wörterbuch präsentiert die Grundbegriffe der Biologie in Form einer ausführlichen Wort- und Begriffsgeschichte. 112 Haupt- und 1.760 Nebeneinträge, von der Prägung der Begriffe bis zu den heute dominanten Bedeutungen, umreißen die Geschichte der biologischen Ideen, Konzepte und Theorien. Dafür wurden die seit Kurzem digital verfügbaren großen Datenbanken naturwissenschaftlicher Texte systematisch ausgewertet. Eine unschätzbare Informationsquelle nicht nur für Biologen und Wissenschaftshistoriker, sondern auch für Philosophen, Sprach-, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftler.