History and Culture: Essays on the European Past
Edited by Nicholas C.J. Pappas
ISBN: 978-960-9549-40-0, 400 pages
First published in 2012 by ATINER
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Table of Contents
Preface Gregory T. Papanikos |
1 |
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Introduction
and Acknowledgements Nicholas C.J.
Pappas |
3 |
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Part I: Medieval
and Early Modern Legacies |
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1. |
Contemplating the Stars and Comprehending Humanitas:
Thomas Aquinas on Astrology and the Essence of what it is to be Human Scott
E. Hendrix |
11 |
2. |
From Military Skills to Honourable Games; Crossbow Competitions in Audenarde (Flanders) in the Later Middle Ages Laura Crombie |
23 |
3. |
The Scientific Contribution of the Holistic Concepts of Benedikt Kotruljević to
European and Global Economic Thought Ljerka Cerović, Đurđica Jurić and
Sanja Mudrić |
33 |
4. |
Rubens and Early Modern Painted Political Philosophy Katerina Georgoulia |
45 |
Part II: 18th and 19th
Century Culture |
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5. |
The Transnational Dimensions of Jesuit Theological Enlightenment:
Father Claude G. Buffier in the Scottish and French
Enlightenments Jeffrey D. Burson |
61 |
6. |
Thomas Hope's Use of Engravings from Books in his Library Frances Van Keuren |
73 |
7. |
Classical
Fantasies and Modern Realities: Nineteenth-Century European Views of Race,
Fat, and Desire Christopher E. Forth |
93 |
8. |
The Dramatic and Anxious Anticipation of a Unique Building in
Istanbul: The Greek Orphanage in Prinkipo Eva Aleksandru Şarlak |
103 |
Part III: The Evolution of Croatian Nationalism |
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9. |
Nation and National Identity
Formation/Construction: The Case of Croatia Martina Topić |
121 |
10. |
A ‘Fair Union’ Between Croatia
and Hungary: A Critical Overview of a Croatian Policy in the 19th Century Željko Holjevac |
141 |
Part IV: Britain
and Ireland in the 19th Century |
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11. |
Fighting over a Grave: Funeral Fights in Nineteenth Century
Ireland Diego Albano |
157 |
12. |
The Introduction of
Physical Recreations into the British Young Men’s Christian Associations Geoff Spurr |
169 |
13. |
‘What Hath God Wrought?’ Ireland – The Hub of the Nineteenth-Century
World? Christine Kinealy, Barry Quest and Wilson
Gunn |
185 |
14. |
1845-1914: A Fine
Time to Have Been Mad and Poor in England Diane Carpenter |
197 |
Part V: Issues in European Historiography |
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15. |
Who Owns the Middle
Ages? Competing Versions of National Identity in France and England in the
Late Nineteenth Century Martha Vicinus |
213 |
16. |
Carl Schmitt, Erik Peterson,
and Ernst Kantorowicz: On the Historical Origins
and Emergence of ‘Political Theology’ as a Historiographical
Category Lester L. Field |
223 |
Part VI: Aspects
of Culture in the Last Hundred Years |
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17. |
The Modern Dance History in Germany from Rudolf Von Laban to Pina Bausch: German
Modern Dance Creates Modernist Tanztheater
in the World Selçuk Göldere |
239 |
18. |
When Antiquity
Becomes Sacred: Italian Fascist Romanità as Biopolitics
and Myth in the Making Jan Nelis |
247 |
19. |
Protection of
Historical and Artistic Heritage in the ‘Estado Novo’ Regime: The Impact of
Law in the Preservation of the Architectural Heritage Helena Marques da Silva Pedreirinho |
261 |
20. |
C.P.
Snow’s Mythical British Atomic Bomb Terrance
L. Lewis |
269 |
21. |
Obscenity Not Only Sexual: The Trial of Cain’s
Book Francine
A. Becker |
279 |
22. |
Berlin
Wall Culture Petermichal von Bawey |
287 |
23. |
A‘Liberating Effect’? Remarks on the Film,
The Downfall, and Recent Manifestations of Collective Memory in
Germany Jürgen Pelzer |
307 |
Part VII: War and Peace in the Twentieth Century |
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24. |
From
the Ethnikos Dikhasmos
to the Ethnike Katastrophe
(1916-1923): Eleftherios
Venizelos and King Constantine I George
Kaloudis |
317 |
25. |
The
Effects of Organization Memory: British Diplomacy in Bulgaria, 1935-1938 R.
Glenn Leonard |
329 |
26. |
American
Quakers and Refugees from Nazism Haim
Genizi |
341 |
27. |
The
Influence of World War Two on Child Psychology in Britain: Susan Isaacs, Anna
Freud, John Bowlby and Donald Winnicott Angela
Davis |
351 |
28. |
The
West European Latecomer: Human Rights in Danish Development Aid, 1970-2008 Kristine
Midtgaard |
363 |
29. |
When
West Meets the Balkans: Viewing the Swedish NGO Kvinna
Till Kvinna’s Aid Practice in Post-War
Bosnia-Herzegovina through a Post-Colonial Lens? Sanela Bajramović Jusufbegović |
375 |