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Roman infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain : the adaptations of the past in text and stone
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.


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The city as anthology
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ISBN: 1503627837 9781503627833 9781503613386 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California

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Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan centre of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents - from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat - who anthologised their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan.


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Authority and trust in US culture and society : interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives
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ISBN: 3839451892 3837651894 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production. Exploring the nexus between authority and trust is crucial to understand the loss of legitimacy experienced by political, social, and cultural institutions not only in the United States but in Western democracies at large.


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Lebenswelten jenseits der Parallelgesellschaft : Postmigrantische Perspektiven auf Integrationskurse in Deutschland und Belgien
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ISBN: 3839457270 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Das Ruhrgebiet und die Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt sind durch Migration entstandene kosmopolitische Ballungszentren, in denen Integrationsprozesse besondere Bedeutung haben. Severin Frenzel hat acht Integrationskursteilnehmende aus diesen Regionen zu ihrem herausfordernden Alltag zwischen Integrationspflicht und Zukunftsoffenheit befragt. Zusätzlich zur Reflexion ihrer Lernprozesse und des Kursgeschehens berichten sie von ihren Zielen und Träumen und davon, was sie selbst unter Integration verstehen. Dabei widersprechen sie klassischen Deutungsmustern von Kulturkonflikt und Parallelgesellschaft, sodass die Analyse ihrer Erzählungen lesenswerte neue Sichtweisen auf Integration und Integrationskurse sowie auf Sprache, Bildung und Urbanität bietet.

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