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A Narrative History
The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.
- Written by two leading scholars and experienced teachers of the subject, assuming no prior knowledge of British history
- Provides student aids such as maps, illustrations, genealogies, and glossary
- This edition reflects recent scholarship on Henry VIII and the Civil War
- Extends coverage of the Reformations, the Rump and Barebone's Parliament, Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, and the European, Scottish, and Irish contexts of the Restoration and Revolution of 1688-9
- Includes a new section on women’s roles and the historiography of women and gender
- Accompanied by Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714
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This clear, readable introduction to the popular field of military history is now available in a refreshed and updated second edition. It shows that military history encompasses not just accounts of campaigns and battles but includes a wide range of perspectives on all aspects of past military organization and activity. In concise chapters it explains the fundamental features of the field, including:
The history of military history, showing how it has developed from ancient times to the present; The key ideas and concepts that shape analysis of military activity; it argues that military history is as methodologically and philosophically sophisticated as any field of history; The current controversies about which military historians argue, and why they are important; A survey of who does military history, where it is taught and published, and how it is practiced; A look at where military history is headed in the future.
The new edition of What is Military History? provides an up-to-date bibliography and cutting edge new case studies, including counterinsurgency, and as such continues to be ideal for classes in military history and in historiography generally, as well as for anyone interested in learning more about the dynamics of a rich and growing area of study.
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Introduction .............................................................................................. 3
1. Germany and its Turkish Migrants ..................................................................................4
2. Meaning of Collective Identity.............................................................................................7
3. Features of Collective Identity of Turkish Migrants .....................................................10
Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................13
Bibliography .............................................................................................15
Introduction
Over 50 years ago, the first so-called 'guest-workers' from Turkey arrived in Germany. Back then, it was neither expected that so many of them would stay and bring their families with them, nor what consequences the unprecedented influx of Turkish migrants would have. Meanwhile, Germany emerged from a guest-worker country in the 60s via a reluctant country of immigration in the 80s and 90s through to a country officially dedicated to immigration in the last decade. It was not until 2004, that Germany acknowledged its de-facto status as country of immigration and that political engagement to integrate migrants was emphasized. The importance of successful integration becomes self-evident when regarding the failures in the past, as highly considered former chancellor Helmut Schmidt criticized: 'For a long time, Germans have not grasped the problem of integration. [...]. We haven't done a good job.'
Integration is on daily debate now. Fierce violence at the Rütli School in Berlin-Neukölln, which marks the biggest Turkish district outside Turkey, discrimination and disadvantages in daily life testify the huge gap between requests towards immigrants to integrate and at the same time the conditions for them to do so. It further shows that the children of former guest-workers, their children's children have long become a part of our society and must be regarded as such. However, they still feel alien in their own country, it might not be as a foreigners but as strangers. These problems of identity count in particular for Turkish migrants in Germany or people with Turkish migratory background.
With almost 3 million people in 2011 , they form the biggest migrant group in Germany and are supposed to show the most obvious differences in contrast to a German 'Leitkultur'......
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A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations
The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries.
- Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government
- Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece
- Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world
- Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought
- Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science
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'architectonica ratio' in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe
The astrolabe - often quoted as 'the earliest computer' - is a mechanical instrument capable of performing astronomical computations. This study offers a new interpretation of its role in the Latin culture of the High Middle Ages, highlighting its epistemological significance. For Latin scholars around the year 1000, the astrolabe became the earliest, non-verbal channel to access and assimilate mathematical knowledge from the Arabic culture, and could be seen as representing a divine 'architectonical rationality' which humans could share in the mathematical experience.
The novel methodology of this work combines the results of historical and philological analyses of manuscripts and material sources with the most recent insights on different kinds of mathematical thinking. Focussing on drawings and text fragments, with a new, detailed analysis of ms. Paris BnF 7412 (11th c.), the study reconstructs the Latin high medieval mathematical experience, its non-verbal modes of communication and its relationship with both practice and philosophy.
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ACompanion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century.
- Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal history
- Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research
- Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field, the key questions, and future research ideas
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Synopsis: Sex and War
Captured during the bombing of Seoul and after weeks of suffering and enduring the cruel, icy death march north, two young friends finally reach the POW camp on the border of China in North Korea. His good friend Pete is interned with the rest of the prisoners, but Brad Stanton is thrust in solitary confinement. Without any proof of identification, the enemy is convinced that he must be a spy and after weeks of torture without breaking, he is to be executed tomorrow. Seeming to accept his fate, to avoid the thoughts of a cold barrel of a pistol being placed against his head, he reflects back on the happiest moments of his life during the summer of nineteen fifty at the tip of Cape Cod.
In a serene, almost idyllic setting, two young men coming of age, work together and enjoy the summer on a beach in Provincetown, Ma. Each one meets a girl and finds love. We see the typical trials and tribulations of young people confronted with new feelings and complexities between the stirrings of sexual desire and genuine love.
The naiveté and innocence of the fifties is reflected in the beginning as the thunder of the Korean War rumbles in the distance. The juice of young people flows subtly as the story unfolds and heats up later. Conflict between the contrasting relative innocence of youth and that of a devious and manipulative mother emerges as the story progresses. Faced with romantic disappointments and a traumatic loss of a close friend, in a hasty macho-moment the boys decide to join the Marines. The war in Korea is just beginning to heat up.
The story is then largely devoted to the young men enlisting in the US Marine Corps and experiencing the horrors of war, and a desperate young pregnant girl trying to come to terms with her situation.
The Korean War may be a distant memory, but with the current thunder being heard from the North Korean Peninsular is another storm brewing? Nearly fifteen percent of our population is now sixty-five or older. Many of them have experienced this period and would very easily relate to this novel. This story is not, however, limited to the senior citizen. It is timely in many respects and yet timeless in another with ingredients of love, sex, death, deception and the horrors of war. It is not a book for children!
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A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.
- Examines the origins, development and impact of the French Revolution
- Features original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.
- Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical debates on the revolution and future directions in scholarship
- Gives equally thorough treatment to both causes and outcomes of the French Revolution
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A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe features essays from leading academics that consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents.
- Provides historians and students of history with a wealth of new insights into the lives and achievements of two of America’s most accomplished statesmen, James Madison and James Monroe
- Features 32 state-of-the field historiographic essays from leading academics that consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents
- Synthesizes the latest findings, and offers new insights based on original research into primary sources
- Addresses topics that readers often want to learn more about, such as Madison and slavery
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In early modern Europe, there were arguably few other events of such far-reaching significance and with ultimately such cataclysmic and lasting consequences than the Reformation movement started by Martin Luther. With all the individual and idiosyncratic forms the different protestant denominations were to assume in the following years, they certainly often stood at the centre of events and developments which were to have profound political, religious and social repercussions upon the overall course of early European history, lasting for many decades while plunging large parts of the continent into a long period of internal unrest and cross-national conflicts . Beyond any doubt the reformation imprinted itself upon the lives and works of people throughout various countries and affected the decision-making of entire states in substantial ways, changing forever the face of not only Europe, but even of the entire world through movements eventually spreading all over the globe . In hindsight it may therefore be all too enticing to assume that there simply hadn't been any other possible scenario than for Protestantism to develop the viral power with which it ultimately was to sweep over societies at the time; and that in fact the mere promise and novel nature of its diverging spiritual teachings and religious views from established Catholic doctrines offered by its various proponents alone had sufficed to gain such permanent and widespread a foothold as it ultimately did. Yet toshow that it was as well a variety of additional factors - above all pertaining to the power- and geopolitical realm- that ultimately made possible for such irreversible an establishment and rapid diffusion of the Protestant movement will be the principal aim of this essay.
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