englischThis book provides interested readers a very personal insight into the history of German pediatric surgery. The experiences and perspectives of 10 retired pediatric surgeons in former leadership positions are complied in personal interviews. A particularly interesting aspect of this book is [...]
more informationenglischAs a relatively new discipline, psychiatry always strived to live up to the latest medical standards. In doing so, it had to let itself be judged above all by its institutions. However, with each step forward taken in the field of medicine, these buildings were regarded as out of date as [...]
more informationenglischWho were the participants in the ‘Cosmic Round’ that made Schwabing a magical place around 1900? And what can the ‘Cosmics’ still tell us today? The contributions in this conference volume address these questions. Their aim is to revive research on the mystical tendencies of Munich's [...]
more informationenglischThe First World War was the first great catastrophe of the twentieth century, and the Ottoman Empire was part of it. The Ottoman theatre in the Great War witnessed both the demolition and re-making of the modern Middle East. This volume focuses on specific topics which touch upon concrete [...]
more informationenglischAs a relatively new discipline, psychiatry always strived to live up to the latest medical standards. In doing so, it had to let itself be judged above all by its institutions. However, with each step forward taken in the field of medicine, these buildings were regarded as out of date as [...]
more informationenglischThis book provides interested readers a very personal insight into the history of German pediatric surgery. The experiences and perspectives of 10 retired pediatric surgeons in former leadership positions are complied in personal interviews. A particularly interesting aspect of this book is [...]
more informationDer Band knüpft an die 1995 (als Bd. 1 der Reihe) erschienene Aufsatzsammlung „Religionssoziologie um 1900“ an. Ebenso wie sein Vorgänger behandelt der Band anhand von Fallstudien ausgewählte Probleme der Geschichte der Religionssoziologie, darunter das Verhältnis der Religionssoziologie zu [...]
more informationenglischŠamsaddīn an-Nawāǧī (788–859/1386–1455) was an outstanding poet and a successful author of anthologies. As many authors of the Mamluk period he has been largely neglected by scholarship. An-Nawāǧī’s oeuvre includes treatises on grammar and prosody, an extensive and widely received Dīwān, and [...]
more informationenglischThis study examines the production of knowledge on Tripolitania, Benghazi and Fezzan by the late Ottoman state, the ways in which local subjects and imperial officials communicated and what kind of agency they had. They operated in a continuum between a discourse of civilisation and complete [...]
more informationenglischThe First World War, a historical turning point of destruction and new beginning, has changed strategies of world politics along with military technologies, but also the field of culture and media. The literature of the Great War, shaped mostly by combatant writers, recognised authenticity [...]
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