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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit Globalisierungsprozessen, den sie treibenden Dynamiken und ihren Widersprüchen. Es sucht diese empirisch zu fassen und stellt so gängige Periodisierungen "der Globalisierung" auf den Prüfstand. Dazu untersucht die Studie die Genese der infrastrukturellen, konzeptionellen und methodischen Grundlagen internationaler Wirtschaftsstatistik zwischen 1850 und 1950 und fragt nach den Folgen, die deren Rezeption für die Wahrnehmung globaler Zusammenhänge hatte. Analysiert werden maßgebende Akteure, deren Motive und die von ihnen verwendeten Mittel, grenz- und kontinentüberschreitende ökonomische Beziehungen zähl- und so die "Weltwirtschaft" sichtbar zu machen. Deutlich wird, dass es ab dem Ersten Weltkrieg beschleunigte Globalisierungsprozesse im materiellen Sinne brauchte, um jene "De-Globalisierungsprozesse" sicht- und verhandelbar zu machen, die die 1920er und 1930er Jahre für Zeitgenossen und spätere Beobachter prägten. Zugleich zeigt das Buch, wie wirtschaftsstatistische Ländervergleiche einer Weltwahrnehmung den Weg ebneten, die den Globus als Summe formal gleichartiger Länder imaginierte, welche sich in erster Linie hinsichtlich ihres sozioökonomischen Entwicklungsstandes voneinander unterschieden.

Now It Can Be Told, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Thomas is born out of wedlock to a wartime nurse, and left in the care of a black woman. His mother, married, returns at the end of the war and takes him to live with her. A Marine veteran, Stosh is an abusive alcoholic with PTSD. Thomas is surrounded by poverty, and anger. His mother's health declines. Joins the Navy at seventeen, flies as an aircrewman during Vietnam, experiences death of shipmates, boozes. Transferred to the boredom of Shore Duty, drinking worsens, he is sent to a navy alcohol ward. Later, he becomes friends with a screenwriter who encourages him to write, he becomes deeply introspective. His stepfather dies, returning home, finds he has been left property and a substantial insurance policy. He writes, meets a painter who encourages him to turn it into art. Moving to the Philippines, he marries, but is never able to put aside his endless mourning.

In 'Sergei and Hans' by Dennis Santaniello, brace yourself for a suspenseful journey through the trenches of World War I. This isn't just historical fiction; it's a thrilling ride that captures the essence of a time rife with conflict and intrigue. The story follows Sergei, a Russian soldier, and Hans, a German officer, whose paths intertwine in a gripping narrative filled with tension and unexpected turns. Set against the backdrop of war's chaos, this novel masterfully crafts a tale of suspense and clandestine empathy. As Sergei and Hans navigate a landscape marked by danger and betrayal, their silent understanding becomes a subtle game of survival and strategy. With each chapter, the stakes get higher, and the suspense tightens, pulling you into the heart of their perilous journey. 'Sergei and Hans' is a heart-pounding historical fiction thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's a story of resilience, cunning, and the unspoken bonds that defy the ravages of war. Prepare for a read that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, where every page crackles with suspense and historical depth.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Note: 2,7, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Descartes hat, als ein Intellektueller, der am Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts lebte, die scholastische Philosophie durch den kartesianischen Rationalismus, der seinen Namen gemäß der latinisierten Form des Namens Descartes¿, Renatus Cartesius, angenommen hat, auf eine neue Ebene geholt, und den Weg zur modernen Philosophie eingeschlagen. Die Bedeutung von Descartes Position innerhalb der Philosophiegeschichte besteht darin, dass sie den im Schatten der scholastischen Philosophie stehenden Verstand in die Mitte seiner Philosophie gestellt hat. Die Fragestellung, inwiefern das aus dem Glauben heraus gesicherte Wissen, dass Gott existiert, sich in einem solchen System positionieren und behaupten kann, indem der Vernunft mehr Kraft und Initiative zugesprochen wird als je zuvor, war einer der wesentlichen Aspekte seiner im Jahr 1641 veröffentlichte Werk ¿Meditationes de prima philosophiä.Das Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung, die in drei Hauptanschnitten unterteilt ist, ist es, die Standpunkte der Gottesbeweise, die Descartes in der dritten und fünften Meditation formuliert hat, herauszuarbeiten und ihre Argumentationsstruktur systematisch zu erarbeiten. Im ersten Teil wird erläutert, was man im logischen Sinne unter einem Beweis verstehen soll und inwiefern Gott bzw. die Existenz Gottes in Bezug darauf zu beweisen ist. Warum die bewiesene Gottesexistenz Descartes Ansicht nach wichtig und untersuchungswürdig war, welche notwendigen epistemischen Voraussetzungen, die in der ersten und zweiten Meditation erfüllt wurden, zum Tragen kommen, wird im zweiten Teil verdeutlicht. Schließlich lässt sich Descartes ideentheoretischer Gottesbeweis, der in der dritten Meditation vorkommt, und der von ihm in der fünften Meditation betrachtete ontologische Gottesbeweis mit den dagegen formulierten Einwänden der damaligen Intellektuellen und Descartes Erwiderungen systematisch untersuchen.

Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front , has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

'Utterly compelling' Heidi Swain'Evocatively written, poignant and compulsive' Emma Curtis'Brilliant, twisty' Sara SheridanThree women. A long-buried secret. One voice will free them all...London, 1915: Amid the wartime chaos, Katerina is hailed as a beacon of hope for her bakery, which offers divination alongside sweet treats. But the dark truth she's hiding could cost her everything.Germany, 1918: Miriam secretly vows to help a mute British soldier in the prisoner-of-war camp she's stationed at. Soon she must make an impossible choice: will she save the one she loves, or herself?Cornwall, Present Day: Edie is astonished to discover a mysterious box hidden in the wall of her newly renovated cottage. As Edie starts to investigate, she uncovers a secret that has lain hidden for over a century...Sweeping through the cobbled streets of war-time London, a German WWI camp, and the sea-swept cliffs of Cornwall, The Story Collector is a thrilling, richly woven story about three women, bound by a long-held secret.-----PRAISE FOR IRIS COSTELLO'A rich and tender story' Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things'The perfect winter read' Amanda Prowse, To Love and Be Loved'Spellbinding, addictive, and beautifully written' Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting'Richly atmospheric, evocative and moving' Abbie Greaves, The Ends of the Earth'Makes for a spellbinding read' Rhiannon Ward, The Shadowing'Beautifully written with a story that draws you in' Jane Corry, I Died on a Tuesday

Cockington's beautiful thatched roof village in the heart of Devonshire, blessed with picture perfect postcard countryside, is in turmoil. Inspector Findlay and Cockington's only other policeman, the bumbling Sargent Allan Todd, are called to a murder scene at Chelston Manor. It's the home ofLord and Lady Preston.But who could have committed such a heinous crime?With six possible murderers, Inspector Findlay could be out of his depth. Just when you think you know who did it, this mystery takes another turn. From murder to Nazi conspirators to hidden fifteenth century treasure, this story has it all.Ken Mackenzie's first murder mystery novella, Murder at Cockington Court, rocketed up the charts. This sequel sees the return of many beloved locations and characters, but you'll never predict where the story is heading.

Otherwise, he fears he will be stuck in Fiji for ever. When an indentured Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation and Fiji's newspapers scream 'kidnapping', the inspector-general reluctantly assigns Akal the case, giving him strict instructions to view this investigation as nothing more than cursory.

This broad survey of modernism—the most scintillating creative era in Paris—spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography. The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassai, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

A major reassessment of Germaine Richier's work and impact on 20th-century sculpture. Germaine Richier (1902-59) occupies a central position in the history of modern sculpture. Predominantly working in bronze, her art revitalized the form of the figure, forging radical new images of men and women in the post-war period which blended the human body and natural forms in a hybrid of abstraction and figuration. As the first woman artist to have a solo exhibition in her own lifetime at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, she held a unique position in the 1940s and 50s as a successful female career artist, exhibiting internationally and developing a style that has been largely overshadowed by the predominant male canon. This major reassessment of Richier's complete oeuvre establishes her key position within the artistic context of her time and, more broadly, her influential impact on 20th-century sculpture. Writers including Mika Biermann, Marie Darrieussecq, Maryline Desbiolles and Philippe Lancon, the philosopher Genevieve Fraisse, the anthropologist Charles Stepanoff and the artist ORLAN, evaluate the contemporary resonance of Richier's creations, where her themes of identity, existence and our relationship with nature are increasingly relevant today. An anthology of the artist's own writings, plus extracts from previously unpublished letters, complete this definitive volume, marking a long overdue appreciation of Germaine Richier's distinct artistic originality.

The Routledge International Handbook of Perspectives on Second and Third Generation Holocaust Survivors offers a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge studies from the wide range of fields dealing with new research about descendants of Holocaust survivors

This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and understand the material and cultural impacts of the Pacific War.

Bonnier's biography reads like an absorbing novel, with its twists and turns, reconstructed dialogue and author's acute observations. As well as being a tragic human story, It is an illuminating study of the convoluted political context of the affair, which will be unfamiliar to some Anglophone readers.

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.In the early twentieth century, the picture postcard was a revolutionary way of combining short messages with an image, making use of technologies in a way impossible in the decades since, until the advent of the digital revolution. This book offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the Edwardian picture postcard emerged and became a craze. It also expands the field of Literacy Studies by illustrating the combined use of posthuman, multimodal, historic and linguistic methodologies to conduct an in-depth analysis of the communicative, sociolinguistic and relational functions of the postcard. Particular attention is paid to how study of the picture postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population, such as working-class women. The Edwardian era in the United Kingdom was one of extreme inequalities and rapid social change, and picture postcards embodied the dynamism of the times. Grounded in an analysis of a unique, open access, digitized collection of 3,000 picture postcards, this monograph will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, history of communications and UK social history.

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fiction-nuclear holocaust and climate change alike-allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.

It is primarily about World War II in Europe. It deals withthe French Revolution and the building of Eastern EuropeanSocialism. His life and Reagan years. The only text of the computerpoem is presented.Stephen Sweigart wrote this poem as his first computerpoem in BASIC. In the late 1980s. After one semesterat graduate school at Temple University, he studiedComputer programming at a county Community college.He is now retired working part-time after 40 years full-time.He plays classical piano, and is an audiophile and gardener.

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die rechtsgeschichtliche Untersuchung der historischen Entstehung und Entwicklung der Gründungsvoraussetzungen des GmbH-Gesetzes und der damit einhergehenden Diskussion im Zeitraum von 1876 bis 1939. Nach der Analyse der Entstehungsgeschichte der initialen Gründungsvorschriften der GmbH wird die hierzu geäußerte Kritik seitens Vertretern der Rechtswissenschaften, der Rechtspolitik sowie der Wirtschaft untersucht. Im Anschluss hieran werden die seit dem Jahre 1909 viel diskutierten Reformdebatten über das GmbH-Gesetz mit einem Blick auf das Gründungsrecht beleuchtet.

?A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the midst of the horrors of war. The ending had me in tears.??Malinda Lo, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award?winning author of Last Night at the Telegraph ClubFor fans of Ruta Sepetys and Malinda Lo, a heart-wrenching queer historical YA romance set in the Swing Youth movement of World War II BerlinCharlotte Kraus would follow Angelika Haas anywhere. Which is how she finds herself in an underground club one Friday night the summer before World War II, dancing to contraband American jazz and swing music, suddenly feeling that anything might be possible.Unable to resist the allure of sharing this secret with Geli, Charlie returns to the club again and again, despite the dangers of breaking the Nazi Party's rules. Soon, terrified by the tightening vise of Hitler's power, Charlie and the other Swingjugend are drawn to larger and larger acts of rebellion. But the war will test how much they are willing to risk?and to lose.From the critically acclaimed author of Who I Was with Her, this beautifully told story of hope, love, and resistance will captivate readers of Girl in the Blue Coat and Last Night at the Telegraph Club.

A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection?Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the origins of U.S. intelligence.? ?Michael Morell, former Deputy Director and Acting Director, CIAHistorian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory and its astonishing growth from practically nothing at the start of the war. The entire vast, modern American intelligence system?the amalgam of three-letter spy services of many stripes?can be traced back to the dire straits the world faced at the dawn of World War II. Prior to 1940, the United States had no organization to recruit spies and steal secrets or launch covert campaigns against enemies overseas and just a few codebreakers, isolated in windowless vaults. It was only through Winston Churchill's determination to mobilize the US in the fight against Hitler that the first American spy service was born, built from scratch against the background of the Second World War.In Need to Know, Nicholas Reynolds explores the birth, infancy, and adolescence of modern American intelligence. In this first-ever look across the entirety of the war effort, Reynolds combines little-known history and gripping spy stories to analyze the origins of American codebreakers and spies as well as their contributions to Allied victory, revealing how they laid the foundation for the Cold War?and beyond.

Investigates an incident of holy relic theft in Rome, the lengthy legal case that followed it, and the larger questions that surrounded saints' remains in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe.

Investigates the links between religion, empire, and the study of nature across the Spanish world during a period of Iberian global expansion, showing how geographies, cosmographies, and natural history were used to advance multiple Catholic goals.

"Explores cubism and interwar modernism, focusing on the career of art dealer Lâeonce Rosenberg and his Parisian gallery, L'Effort Moderne"--

"Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan, she knows the rumor-that her father is none other than the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, where royals, rulers, and the wealthy live, they even called her "The Princess." But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen. Sent to London under the chaperonage of her very proper aunt, she's told it's time to learn manners and make her debut. But Cleo's life can't be confined to a ballroom. She longs for independence and a career as a jewelry designer for Cartier, but she cannot move forward until she finds out about her past. Determined to unlock the truth, Cleo travels from London, back to Cairo, and then Paris, where her investigations take a shocking turn into the world of the Parisian demi-monde, and a high-class courtesan whose scandalous affair with the young Prince of Wales threatened to bring down the British monarchy long before anyone had heard of Wallis Simpson"--

In late 1943, small packages bound in sturdy brown paper began to arrive at American military outposts, each containing a set of ingenious pocket-sized books called the Armed Services Editions. Titled the Victory Book Campaign, this initiative was led by librarians, who garnered the support of individuals, businesses, civic organizations, and Eleanor Roosevelt. For war-weary, homesick men, these books--fiction, biographies, classics, sports tales, history books, poetry, compilations of short stories, books of humor--represented the greatest gift the military could give them. This ann+BD11otated catalogue includes posters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other contemporary documents that provide valuable context for how the written word not only increased morale during wartime but ultimately transformed American education and changed the book industry forever.