By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers two major insights into the history of military heroism. First, it reveals a precarious ambiguity in the efforts of minorities such as African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans...

Nach einem geflügelten Wort wird die »Geschichte von den Siegern geschrieben«. Demgegenüber steht die These Reinhart Kosellecks, dass Niederlagen und ihre Verarbeitung die Entstehung von Erklärungs- und Kompensationsmustern bedingen: Die Erfahrung des Besiegtwerdens könne einen »Erfahrungsgewinn« ermöglichen; Sieger hingegen müssten ihre Denkmodelle nicht hinterfragen, da sie gerade durch kurzfristige Erfolge bestätigt wurden. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen ein breites Spektrum an ...

Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century). The contributors to this volume examine how national solidarity and identity—with their vast array of ideological, political, intellectual, social, and ethno-racial qualities—crossed juridical, territorial, and cultural boundaries to becom...

Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the USA, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of healthcare systems.

Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. WigginsBlack intellectualism has been misunderstood by the American public and by scholars for generations. Historically maligned by their peers and by the lay public as inauthentic or illegitimate, black intellectuals have found their work misused, ignored, or discarded. Black intellectuals have also been reductively placed into one or two main categori...

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Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were racial beliefs of Western origin? Did simil...

Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. I feel the same about beer.George Wendt and beer have shared a lot over the years: good times, great stories, useless trivia, and a successful show business career. In Drinking with George, Wendt invites readers to crack open a cold one and pull up a seat at the bar as he celebrates the indelible, intoxicating beverage and all its irresistible peculiarities. Spinning hilarious and frank tales of his ...

Fem unge politikere fortæller åbenhjertigt om deres opvækst, hvad der vækkede dem politisk og om deres vej til Folketinget.Hver især har de fem allerede gjort sig eftertrykkeligt bemærket i det politiske spil:Ida AukenMorten MesserschmidtJohanne Schmidt-NielsenSimon Emil AmmitzbøllSophie LøhdePortrætterne er skrevet af journalisterne Lea Klæstrup Andersen, Anders Wendt Jensen, Poul Bonke Justesen og Annika Yderstræde.

Für ihr Buch "ALTERSLOS – GRENZENLOS. Portraits und Gespräche über das Leben" hat sich Simone Rethel-Heesters mit Kamera und Mikrofon auf den Weg gemacht und mit Menschen gesprochen, die unabhängig von ihrem biologischen Alter ihr Leben weiterhin beruflich aktiv und sinnhaft gestalten: Handwerker, Künstler, Forscher oder Politiker, bekannte und unbekannte Persönlichkeiten. Diese Zeitzeugen berichten über Vergangenes und über die Zukunft: Nicole Heesters, Gerhard Kämpfe, Prof. Dr. Dietrich ...

Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and ad...