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This book questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France - with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural, media and gender studies - to elaborate a "social history of representations" and depict the major questions underlying the historical debate in the 21st century.

The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use.

By studying the development of Italy's penal system, Pires Marques provides valuable insights into the wider political culture of European society. Focusing on the rise of fascism in Spain and Portugal as well as Italy, he examines the role of religious, economic and political factors in the making of penal laws.

The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.

Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.

Multiculturalism is a global phenomenon with a long history. The essays in this collection cover both historical perspectives, taking in the work of Hobbes, Tocqueville, Nietzsche and Arendt among others, and contemporary Eastern and Western approaches, including Marxism, anarchism, Islam, Daoism, Indian and African philosophies.

The original studies presented in this book show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and what is non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

The volume examines the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" and offers a global analysis of the processes of cultural translation and knowledge transfer affecting culture, and sciences, but also everyday life.

Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland - a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state - with comparative case studies of silent post-war memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural demobilisation, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational experiences of cultural reconstruction.Exploration of the less conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms of post-war silence and silencing which have halted or hindered different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather than focusing on the "executive level" of material reconstruction, the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members of ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities, women, and children.The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal memories, autobiographical interpretations, and academic debate. The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the fields of cultural history, art history, and cultural studies.

The original studies presented in this book show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and what is non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.