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This book offers a pioneering, interdisciplinary analysis of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Through case studies of various Eastern European countries, the volume examines how empire, war, nationalism, socialism, and post-socialist transformation shaped legal, medical, and state responses to violence against women. It reveals how women's suffering was repeatedly silenced, normalized, or politicized, particularly in times of conflict and authoritarian rule. Challenging Western-centric perspectives, the book positions Eastern Europe as a vital site for understanding the historical roots of contemporary debates on gender, justice, and memory.

Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment in Self-Government revisits the most pressing question of the republic's past and present: Can a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality sustain itself through crisis? Leveraging an interdisciplinary group of senior and emerging scholars, this book offers a sweeping re-examination of Lincoln's political thought and statesmanship. Through probing analyses of his rhetoric, constitutionalism, moral philosophy, and wartime leadership, the collection reveals Lincoln's enduring insights into how free societies can preserve themselves. Together, these essays illuminate how Lincoln's example can guide Americans seeking to sustain self-government in the twenty-first century.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore the deep structure of complexity-from cosmic origins and planetary evolution to biological innovation, human development, civilizational dynamics, and possible future trajectories.

Notably, several chapters bridge multiple phases of Big History, providing valuable cross-disciplinary insights-such as comparisons between cosmic and terrestrial evolution and analyses of energy dissipation across physical and complex adaptive systems.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of complexity's manifestations and transformations across time and scale. By exploring these diverse topics, the book contributes to the broader field of Big History, deepening our understanding of complexity's interconnected nature across the cosmos, life, and human civilization.

This book brings together the scholarship on the topic of Friendship during the Medieval period. It offers an extensive review of the literature that covers discussions on friendship and sometimes love in the three Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as well as the Secular writings. Aimed at an academic readership, it assembles and analyses the literature that is scattered across various disciplines, approaches, and fields of studies into one volume so that scholars have a useful reference to the topic of friendship relevant to one historical period. This enables an appreciation of the inter-connected influences that ushered in the Renaissance period, rather than a narrow focus that deals with particular writers, religions or cultures in isolation from each other.

This book sheds light on American exceptionalism-the belief that the United States is unique and superior and is destined to lead the world. It argues that this idea is not exclusive to the United States, as many other nations, including China, India, France, and Germany, have also claimed uniqueness based on their history, culture, or power. Such claims often distort reality, ignore comparisons, and justify questionable actions.

The book examines the roots of American exceptionalism in doctrines such as Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery. It traces the impact of these doctrines on Native Americans, slavery, and U.S. identity. The book then follows America's rise from isolationism to global dominance, examining its triumphs and contradictions as well as the challenges of the 21st century.

By providing a critical, historical, and global perspective on this powerful idea-including its origins, evolution, and limits-this book will appeal to scholars, students, and anyone interested in U.S. history, global politics, and the myths that shape nations.

This book offers an alternative narrative of the global history of political economy. From ancient civilizations to modern times, zero-sum logic has been a fundamental, yet often ignored, driving force behind political and economic systems worldwide. The authors reveal the contradictions within various ideologies -particularly liberalism and neoliberalism- that claim win-win scenarios while in fact relying on zero-sum principles.

By examining systems from mercantilism to digital economies, the book shows how zero-sum logic underpins diverse economic and political doctrines, including authoritarianism, democracy, and policies like austerity. It combines economic history, political philosophy, historical sociology, and geopolitics in an interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive analysis. The book uncovers how zero-sum logic has historically informed both ideology and practice, challenging prevailing narratives and highlighting the paradoxes within our global economic system.

The book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers from these disciplines, interested in a better understanding of the economic dynamics that shape our world, and the need for a new, cooperative approach to global political economy.

This book uncovers the untold story behind one of the most significant episodes in the history of German-Israeli relations, revealing how Chancellor Helmut Kohl orchestrated Germany's approval and financing of the first Dolphin-class submarines for Israel. A process driven by security interests, alliance politics and Germany's lasting responsibility following the Shoah. Drawing on newly examined archival material, the book illustrates how the Gulf War, US pressure and Germany's own identity converged to produce a precedent-setting decision that reshaped bilateral ties for decades.

This book offers a global perspective on how Anglican ministry evolved throughout a century marked by radical upheavals and dramatic changes in theological, social, and political perspectives.
That history begins with the end of the Victorian era, when Anglicanism had spread around the world but was deeply enmeshed with colonialism and it was assumed that it was shaped and defined by its North Atlantic history. Kater explores how the Anglican Way became rooted in widely different contexts and identifies the many pressures and movements that challenged that history-including two world wars, a global Depression, anti-colonialism and the struggles against the many forms of oppression and discrimination that marked the century. This book is the story of how Anglican ministry has been broadened and deepened by its constantly growing diversity even as that diversity has brought new challenges.

Nach dem Deutsch-Franzoesischen Krieg verdecken die Millionen-Reparationen die Folgen der gewaltigen gesellschaftlichen Umgestaltung, die Preussen erfasst hat. Mit Zeitverzug treffen sie auf die Landwirtschaft. Das loest krisenhafte Erscheinungen auf dem vom Grossgrundbesitz dominierten platten Land aus. Landflucht, daraus resultierender Arbeitskraeftemangel und zunehmende soziale Spannungen verschaerfen die Lage. Besitzende und Herrschende sinnen auf Abhilfe. Sie finden zwei Auswege: Wiederherstellung eines kraeftigen und lebensfaehigen Bauernstandes und Ausstattung der auf dem Land Arbeitenden mit einem Flecken Land als ?Bindungsmittel". Die Idee des Rentengutes wird geboren und die Bodenreform scheint auf. Max Weber gibt die Parole aus: Das Land der Masse!

Wolfgang Bloess nimmt die Bestrebungen um die Aenderungen der Grundbesitzverteilung in den Blick und zeigt ferner, dass Absicht und Prognosen sich nicht sogleich erfuellten, sondern eine Entwicklung in Gang setzten, die ueber die Blut- und Bodenpolitik und den Generalplan Ost der Nationalsozialisten schliesslich zur Bodenreform in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone und zur Umformung des gesamten laendlichen Raums in diesem Gebiet fuehrte.