1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458295603321

Titolo

Beyond Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : twelve German cities confront the Nazi past / / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Paul B. Jaskot, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-55588-X

9786612555886

0-472-02588-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenfeldGavriel David <1967->

JaskotPaul B. <1963->

Disciplina

940.53/1

Soggetti

Memorialization - Germany - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Germany

Historic preservation - Germany - History - 20th century

War memorials - Germany

Holocaust memorials - Germany

Collective memory - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Urban Space and the Nazi Past in Postwar Germany / Paul B. Jaskot and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld; Part 1: Sites of Reconstruction: Between Reclaiming and Evading the Past; The Politics of New Beginnings: The Continued Exclusion of the Nazi Past in Dresden's Cityscape / Susanne Vees-Gulani; Reconciling Competing Pasts in Postwar Cologne / Jeffry M. Diefendorf; Evading What the Nazis Left Behind: An Ethnographic and Phenomenological Examination of Historic Preservation in Postwar Rostock / Susan Mazur-Stommen

Part 2: Sites of New Construction: Industrial Cities and the Embrace of ModernismMemento Machinae: Engineering the Past in Wolfsburg / Jan Otakar Fischer; Inventing Industrial Culture in Essen / Kathleen James-



Chakraborty; Part 3: Perpetrator Sites: Representing Nazi Criminality; The Reich Party Rally Grounds Revisited: The Nazi Past in Postwar Nuremberg / Paul B. Jaskot; Memory and the Museum: Munich's Struggle to Create a Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Concrete Memory: The Struggle over Air-Raid and Submarine Shelters in Bremen after 1945 / Marc Buggeln and Inge MarszolekRestored, Reassessed, Redeemed: The SS Past at the Collegiate Church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg / Annah Kellogg-Krieg; Part 4: Jewish Sites: Commemorating the Holocaust; The Politics of Antifascism: Historic Preservation, Jewish Sites, and the Rebuilding of Potsdam's Altstadt / Michael Meng; Marking Absence: Remembrance and Hamburg's Holocaust Memorials / Natasha Goldman; The New Börneplatz Memorial and the Nazi Past in Frankfurt am Main / Susanne Schönborn

Epilogue: The View from Berlin / Brian LaddContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394989503316

Autore

W. P

Titolo

The use of a mathematical instrument, called a quadrant [[electronic resource] ] : Shewing very plainly and easily to know the exact height or distance of any steeple, tree, or house, &c. Also to know the hour of the day by it: the height of the sun, moon, or stars: and to know the time of sun-rising, and setting; and the length of every day in the year: the place of the sun in the ecliptick: the azimuth, right ascension, and declination of the sun. With many other necessary and delightful conclusions. Performed very readily. Written by [W.P.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : The quadrants and these books, are to be sold by Joseph Moxon, at his shop in Corn-hill at the sign of Atlas, in London, 1655

Descrizione fisica

[4], 38 p. : ill. (woodcut)

Soggetti

Quadrant

Astronomy

Astronomical instruments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

To the reader signed: W.P.

The author's initials on title page have faded or failed to print.

Imperfect; title page faded; tightly bound with some loss of text.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967361303321

Titolo

Immigration / / edited by Ilan Stavans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2008

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

9798400668661

9786612341083

9781282341081

1282341081

9780313348037

0313348030

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization

Altri autori (Persone)

StavansIlan

Disciplina

973/.0468

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans

Hispanic Americans - Social conditions

Immigrants - United States

Latin America Emigration and immigration

United States Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; I: CONSIDERATIONS; II: VOICES; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In



2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well. However, it is essential to approach it in an informed, balanced fashion, and the material presented in this volume is designed to accomplish the task. To what extent are immigrants from Mexico and Central America different from their predecessors from say Italy, Poland, and Finland? Is the process of assimilation expected to be as successful today as it was a