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Biografisk notat
David Meola is Fanny and Bert Meisler Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of South Alabama, USA. He is the author of German Jews and the Press: Interactions and Influence during the Nineteenth Century (forthcoming).The long 19th century, approximately 1750 to 1918, was one of significant existential change for peoples across the globe. The beginning of this period saw the expansion of empires, and shortly thereafter, the Euro-American Enlightenment brought about calls for revolutions and the “rights of man”. The events and ideas made way for empire and the creation of the nation-state. European states primarily concentrated their aggressive colonization in the Global South, bringing mostly white metropolitans and settlers into intimate contact with diverse African, Asian, and American populations. The inherent violence of imperialism eventually ushered in flashpoints of conflict, as well as indentured servitude, racial segregation, ecological destruction, and genocide throughout Europe’s overseas empires.
While communal destruction functioned as a central element of 19th-century genocides, colonial governments also used other methods to destroy indigenous life, such as forced assimilation, language adoption, religious instruction, and economic subjugation. Memories of these atrocities have since contributed both to systemic violence in subsequent decades, and to education about these events in the hope of genocide prevention. Yet for all of the violence, a spirit of humanitarianism developed alongside these vile actions that tried to reverse the policies of states and help the aggrieved.
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List of Tables
General Editor’s Preface, Paul R. Bartrop
Introduction, David A. Meola
1. Causes, Lauren Faulkner Rossi
2. Motivations and Justifications, Adam Jones
3. Perpetrators, Stefanie Kunze and Alex Alvarez
4. Victims, Ashley Riley Sousa
5. Responses, Dean Pavlakis
6. Consequences, Adam A. Blackler
7. Representations, Cathie Carmichael
8. Memory, Jermaine O. McCalpin
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
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A Cultural History of Hair
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A Cultural History of Law
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A Cultural History of Peace
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A Cultural History of Tragedy
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A Cultural History of Work
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