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Shortlisted for the Anne Bloomfield Prize 2010 Across the ninety years of its history, the University of New Zealand (1871-1961) appointed four women professors to the academic staff. From the outset, while the 'woman professor' was an insider to the Academy based on her qualifications and professional credentials, on the basis of her gender she was a relative outsider to this deeply patriarchal institution. Accordingly, academic women, and in particular this first generation of women professor...

Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt sich die Berucksichtigung kindlicher Eigenarten auch in der Musikpadagogik zum dominierenden Lehrprinzip. Dass das Prinzip des musikalisch Kindgemassen eine Vorgeschichte hat, ist bisher kaum systematisch dargestellt worden. Die Arbeit zeigt anhand von Quellen, wie sich Vorstellungen zu dem Kind angemessenen Methoden, Inhalten und Umgangsweisen mit Musik im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert entwickeln. Viele dieser Auffassungen bleiben zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunder...

Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more. For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic form, introducing philosophies like Confucianism and Daoism, the story of the Silk Road, famous emperors like Han Wudi, and the process of China's unification. Includes a handy timeline. This is volume on...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the German artist Gunter Demnig has been installing his Stolpersteine [Stumbling Stones] all over Europe - including Russia - to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Today, the Stolpersteine constitute the world's second largest Holocaust monument. In this book the author addresses some of the most crucial issues raised by these memorial stones. Taking as his point of departure the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger, th...

The South has long stood as one of the more absorbing areas of the American experience. What sets the South apart, and what has it meant to be a 'southerner'? How have the commonalities of southern life weighed against persisting divisions of gender, race, class, and locality? How has the telling of the region's history reflected, or at times affected, the course of contemporary southern society? For generations, students of the nation's past have been drawn to the region's distinctive, often pa...

This is a new edition of the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present. This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to portray the social turmoil behind the "march of progress". Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the wor...

In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the American engagement in Laos evolved from a small cold war skirmish into a superpower confrontation near the end of President Eisenhower's second term. Ultimately, the American experience in Laos fore...

Die vorliegende Arbeit schliesst eine Lucke in der erst unvollstandig aufgearbeiteten Geschichte der Padagogik in der Schweiz. Wenn heute von Landerziehungsheimen die Rede ist, beschranken sich die Texte auf die Darstellung der deutschen, englischen und franzosischen Institutionen. Ein als fur die Geschichte der Padagogik in der Schweiz besonders aufschlussreich beurteilter Blickwinkel steht am Ausgangspunkt: Inwiefern ist die Erziehungs- und Bildungsstatte -Schweizer Landerziehungsheim- zwisch...