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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...
Cette publication réunit des travaux de chercheurs et chercheuses francophones et Anglophones travaillant sur les productions de missionnaires chrétiens entre 1830 et 1970 en diverses régions du monde (Asie, Afrique et Océanie). Dans une perspective d’anthropologie...
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, rooted in an unarticulated patriarchy in the Supreme Court’s historical narrative, represents an untimely expression of deeply religious and conservative hostility towards women. Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic...
Historians argue that the years following the Emancipation Proclamation and those immediately after the Civil War were formative years in the trajectory of the United States as a country. So, why then, does this era of history not get the proper attention it deserves in...
This book is strongly related to two essential features of human life: migratory movements and metaphors. Migratory movements can be undoubtedly defined as an enduring characteristic of our global history. As history and literature, from the Homeric poems to the Bible,...
This study explores Kondakarnoie Pienie, a musical phenomenon that flourished in Kievan Rus’ from the 11th-13th centuries and is preserved in only five manuscripts. Stimulated by the global digitization initiatives undertaken by the major holdings East and West,...
Ethnic classification is the process of establishing standards, such as shared ancestry, language, religious practices, cultural traditions, and geographical distributions, for categorizing ethnic groups. Tracing the history of China to its tribal origins, the book...
This is a book about an online community of the Second Generation (2g), childrenof Holocaust survivors. Created in 1995, “ e List” was the brainchild of Paul Foldes,a 2g electrical engineer and consumer attorney turned businessman. Knowing thatonline communities were an...
The book Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Auto-biographies is composed of over 30 essays written by prominent researchers worldwide belonging to the “Second Generation” and “...
The Book Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women’s Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017), is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the...
The book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule.The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to...
Cet ouvrage réunit une série de travaux portant sur la préhistoire et la protohis-toire de la Grèce et des régions avoisinantes. Présentés le temps d’une journée à l’Université de Genève, ils ont pour but d’illustrer toute la diversité des études égéennes, que ce soit...
Adonis, the beautiful youth, born of the myrrh tree, loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone, hardly needs any introduction. His legend, of Oriental origin, spread early and rapidly to Greece and Italy. In Athens, his cult is attested as early as the 5th century, though...
In 2011 Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger (two Italians and two Swiss, two archaeologists and two historians of antiquity) met in Geneva at the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquite classique and decided to...
This is the story of Shirley Rosalyn Kraus Tydor, the American-born daughter of early 20th-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Her father was an atheist\communist and her mother a traditional Jew. Shirley, the rebel, became a career woman and married her...
The book "Her Story, My Story? Writing about Women and the Holocaust, is composed of 27 biographical-academic essays written by prominent women scholars worldwide. All have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to writing about aspects of Jewish women's...
The tenacious belief in a disjunction of genocide and art has risen a persisting polemic in literary cricism. Narrating Itsembabwoko challenges this dichotomous thinking by assuming that a narrative about genocide is both a work and a testimony because the sense-making...
Esito del 2° convegno della serie «E pluribus unum? L’Italia dalla frammentazione preromana all’unità augustea», tenutosi a Roma nel 2014, il libro tratta la «romanizzazione» dell’Italia preromana, affrontando le dinamiche socio-politiche e linguistico-epigrafiche, le...
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ –...
The Great War did not only mark the history of the twentieth century: to a large extent, the conflict also affected culture and literature in Europe and the rest of the world. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a broad and transdisciplinary...
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