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Published October 1995 Women of Prague
Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Iggers, W.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published October 2006
Two Lives in Uncertain Times
Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens
Iggers, W., & Iggers, G.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2022
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined
A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State
Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)
Understanding the dynamics between nationalisms and internationalisms allows evaluating ongoing processes and intervening in current debates. Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since the eighteenth century to assess how spaces of politics have been debated and redefined in different European political cultures.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2016
Parliament and Parliamentarism
A Comparative History of a European Concept
Ihalainen, P., Ilie, C., & Palonen, K. (eds)
This tightly organized collection locates the essence of European parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in various states and regions, including familiar western European formations alongside those from central, eastern, and southern Europe.
Subject: History (General)
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Forthcoming December 2025
The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe
Ihalainen, P., Lopez, R., Palonen, K., & te Velde, H. (eds)
In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in modern and contemporary Europe, Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde re-examine the trajectory of terms like ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’, in order to spotlight how profoundly the concept of representative democracy is shifting.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published May 2017
Conflict, Domination, and Violence
Episodes in Mexican Social History
Illades, C.
This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published July 2016
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)
In this wide-ranging volume’s twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies
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Published February 2003
Switzerland: National Socialism and the Second World War
Final Report of the Independent Commission of Experts
Independent Commission of Experts
Subject: History: World War II
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Published December 1998
Engendering Forced Migration
Theory and Practice
Indra, D. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published January 2023
The Marseille Mosaic
A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures
Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)
Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Urban Studies
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Published October 2007
Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Inhorn, M. C. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2018
Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)
Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published December 2020
Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)
The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published July 2012
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Sunni and Shia Perspectives
Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published June 2021
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)
Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence and bears witness to their struggles.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2014
Globalized Fatherhood
Inhorn, M. C., Chavkin, W. & Navarro, J.-A. (eds)
Looking through a twenty-first century lens, anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers consider fatherhood from Peru to India to Vietnam. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2009
Reconceiving the Second Sex
Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Forthcoming March 2026
Forced Labor for Siemens in the Women’s Concentration Camp Ravensbrück
Reports from Contemporary Witnesses
International Friends Association of the Ravensbrück Memorial (Eds)
In 1942-1945, Siemens & Halske AG maintained an armaments factory adjacent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, where up to 2,300 female prisoners were deployed in forced labor. This volume contains the testimonies of Ravensbrück survivors, shedding light on the system of forced labor in the context of the concentration camp
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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Published January 2025
Through the Water and the Storm
Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700
Iodice, A.
Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Travel and Tourism
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Published June 2018
Travelling with the Argonauts
Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens
Irek, M.
Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, it considers informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies
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Forthcoming January 2026
An Anthropology of Global Immunization
Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective
Irons, R., Gibbon, S., Cook, J. & Parkhurst, A. (eds)
This edited collection develops a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics. Presented through original research, An Anthropology of Global Immunization explore some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from HPV to COVID-19, HIV and beyond.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Forthcoming March 2026
Migration and Welfare Austerity
Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan
Ismailbekova, A.
Migration is destructive to the nuclear family and wider village life, but it provides an opportunity for lineages to be mobilized for collective social action that is both local and translocal. This book aims to share experiences of people in Alma, a village in Kyrgyzstan, and how they created a ‘moral economy of migration’ that became territorialised as kinship was de-territorialised.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published October 2019
Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M.
Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state cinema of the newly created East Germany, that emerged as one of the primary sites where these practices persisted.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2024
Science on Screen and Paper
Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)
Scientific discovery and discourse were central in the making of Cold War. Spanning various media, Science on Screen and Paper seeks to embrace the medial differences during the Cold War period through intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science’s central role.
Subject: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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