Stadtgeschichten

Stadtgeschichten
Author: Claudia Schnurmann
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825892548

Tales of Two Cities compares both metropolises and soon discovers differences as well as similarities. American and German experts from different fields (for example historians, geographers, architects, journalists or Americanists) join our 'guided tours' through Chicago and Hamburg. They introduce the reader to the sister cities as migration magnets and spaces of different interests. They discuss challenges and chances of urban life, city planning, safety measures or media cities within an Atlantic context. The volume includes contributions in German as well as English. Claudia Schnurmann is a researcher at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Iris Wigger is a researcher at the School of Sociology at University College in Dublin (Ireland).

Geschichte erzählen. Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit im Mittelalter

Geschichte erzählen. Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit im Mittelalter
Author: Sarah Bowden
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 377200122X

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen auf eine internationale Tagung zurück, die 2017 in Manchester stattgefunden hat. Sie untersuchen die Darstellung von Geschichte in der mittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur auf der Basis von aktuellen erzähltheoretischen Forschungsansätzen. Dabei wird ein breites Spektrum an Texten, Gattungen und Diskursen in den Blick genommen; als Angelpunkt für zahlreiche relevante Fragestellungen erweist sich die im 12. Jahrhundert entstandene ›Kaiserchronik‹. Geleitet von der Erkenntnis, dass Vergangenheit erst im Erzählen zu Geschichte wird, analysieren die Beiträge einschlägige narrative Strategien.

Blackness and Sexualities

Blackness and Sexualities
Author: Michelle M. Wright
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783825896935

With contributions from leading scholars from various disciplines, this title offers analyses and critiques that span three continents and looks at topics such as the secret marketing of black female pornography to white American men and the eroticization of colonial legacies in contemporary German media.

Modern Urban History in Europe, USA and Japan

Modern Urban History in Europe, USA and Japan
Author: Christian Engeli
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1989-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN:

An excellent survey of research on urban history offering an introduction to the development and methods used in various countries with a list of resources and facilities available to urban historians.