Colors 1800/1900/2000

Colors 1800/1900/2000By recasting instances of German cultural production around the turns of centuries 1800, 1900, 2000 the essays in this volume examine the role that color has played in perceiving and representing ethnic difference. In innovative essays, literary scholars, historians, anthropologists and art historians support an overarching thesis: that the origins of a modern, ethnic imagination, inscribe patterns of seeing, whereas more recent developments involve

daily displays of racial injustice

Jahrhundert und fragen

Ranging deeply and widely over a huge body of legal and literary materials

the effect of violence

public anxieties over major shifts in the U

World War I

This was the Great Drought -- three years of failed rains enshrined in Brazilian memory as the worst drought ever to hit Brazil's northeast

1375 during the reign of Robert's grandson

Auch die Debatte um den Quietismus

present-day translation and interpreting studies offer only a limited amount of research specifically dedicated to knowledge systematization and other knowledge-related issues

Who "counts" as a citizen in today's world

In the decades after the Civil War