Title:Forum: Intellectual history in and of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark ...
Title:Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice
Author(s):CATTANEO, AngeloDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining ...
Title:Free trade nation. Commerce, consumption, and civil society in modern Britain
Author(s):TRENTMANN, FrankDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:One of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to ...
Title:Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Author(s):SKINNER, Quentin; VAN GELDEREN, MartinDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity ...
Title:Friedensdialoge im Kalten Krieg: Eine Geschichte der Katholiken in der Bundesrepublik 1957-1983
Author(s):GERSTER, DanielDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Das atomare Wettrüsten des Kalten Krieges veränderte das Denken und Sprechen über Krieg und Frieden. Daniel Gerster untersucht, welche Beiträge die Katholiken der Bundesrepublik in diesen öffentlichen Debatten geleistet ...
Title:From Caporetto to Garibaldiland: interventionist war culture as a culture of defeat
Author(s):JONES, Mark WilliamDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of interventionist war culture during the period beginning with the defeat of Caporetto and ending with the occupation of Fiume. As a result of the invasion of Italy, interventionists were ...
Title:From Centre to Province: Changing images of Europe in the writings of Jerzy Stempowski
Author(s):MIKOLAJEWSKI, LukaszDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Residing after World War II in Berne, Jerzy Stempowski was one of the key essayists associated with the influential Polish émigré periodical Kultura. The chapter offers a brief overview of the way his writing on Europe ...