The Italian executioners: revisiting the role of Italians in the Holocaust
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Archiv für September 2016
Indian Messiah: The Attraction of Meher Baba to British Audiences in the 1930s
This article considers the British reception of Meher Baba, an Indian religious figure, who first travelled to Britain in 1931. Following a tradition of Indian religious figures who toured Britain and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,…
Tokyo and Beyond: Space and Place in Urban Japan
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Opposing Forces: The „Open Housing“ Debate among Citizens, the Daily Press, and the Mayor in Milwaukee, 1967-1968
This article tells a story about the dynamic discourse of opposing forces regarding the „open housing“ debate in Milwaukee in the late 1960s. Letters written by citizens, editorials published by daily newspapers, and statements made by Mayor Henry Mai…
The Road (Becoming) Less Traveled: The History of Highways in America
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Trouble on the Docks: Strikes, Scabs, and the Colonial Question in Marseilles Port Neighborhoods
This essay explores the colonial context in which manly labor—particularly dock work—was performed, experienced and embodied in Marseille from the late 1940s through early 1960s. It takes seriously the spatial milieu in which masculinity w…
About the Ideal Layout of the City Street in the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries: The Myth of the Renaissance in Town Building
In the historiography of town planning, one still finds the old idea that the straight street is typical for the Renaissance, whereas medieval streets would typically be curved or crooked and irregular. In this article, this idea will be contested wit…