Archiv für Mai 2012

The Wall in the time of the Wall, the Wall in the time of the Wende, the Wall today. Events, memories, fictions, myths.

Camilla PoesioThis article focuses on the different identities „produced“ by the Berlin Wall in the time of the construction, of the so-called Wende, of the German reunification. The interest of the subject lies in the different readings of the relatio…

Borders of identities, obstacoles against the "enemy", protection of comunity: the walls in contemporary age

Marco De NicolòFortifications, walls, high technology: until today the presence of walls among nations and among communities, is very thick. If the fallen of Berlin’s wall, in 1989, had been welcomed from the world public opinion, this way of divis…

In the Shadow of the Berlin Wall: (De) constructing the Memory of a Divided City in Gorizia and Nova Gorica

Katja SkrljPaper focuses on two small provincial cities on Slovenian – Italian border, Italian Gorizia and Slovenian Nova Gorica. It examines the construction of collective memory in the 20th century up to the year 2007, when the Schengen border has be…

"That barbarian music". Traditional langauges in general strike of 1914 in Romagna

Enrico BaronciniDuring the general strike of 1914 in Romagna the mobilization of the members of the progressive parties and trade unions was large and unexpected, taking in some cases a revolutionary character. The actions of the protesters, among whic…

Imaginary sceneries of the Maginot line, 1930-1940

Joelle BeurierMost of the studies on the Maginot Line focuse on the military aspects of its history. By means of images, novels, scientific articles, written and illustrated press of the time, this article aim to comprehend the mental representations …

The End of the Civilized World

Ruth EasingwoodResponses to the bombing of Germany 1945-1949 Personal testimonies constitute an unexplored dimension in the debate on bombing. As these testimonies were organized around a particular moment, or moments, they reflect the intense feeling …

The Wall Within: On the Borderless-Boundaries of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Alon Confino, Meir WigoderWe met, a historian and a photographer who grew up in Jerusalem, to reflect on the character of the Wall that divides Israelis from Palestinians without actually separating between them. The Wall seeks to limit and contain but…

Rezensionen/Reviews

Rezensionen/Reviews
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Rezensionen/ReviewsPages 107-122DOI 10.1007/s00048-012-0070-0

Journal NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und MedizinOnline ISSN 1420-9144Print ISSN 0036-6978

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Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808–1848

Social History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 214-216, May 2012.

Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

Social History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 251-253, May 2012.