OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)During the final years of the war, two Wehrmacht courts were housed in the former bank building at Hohenstaufengasse 3 in Vienna. 69 people were sentenced to death there. This book examines the role of Nazi military ...
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(2025)This study examines the interactions between literature and occultism in Vienna around 1900. For the first time, it examines a comprehensive and disparate corpus of texts and asks how philological work relates to a worldview ...
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(2024)Estates-based state parliaments were a long-standing phenomenon of the Habsburg Monarchy. Using seven examples from the Austrian and Bohemian lands and with multiple comparative perspectives, this monograph examines in ...
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(2024)The “anthropological turn” in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam’s “Anthropology of music” (1964). The present volume intends to correct this picture from a European perspective, presenting insights ...
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(2024)This book examines musical careers in the 20th century, focusing on the Hollywood composer Franz Waxman (1906–1967). The perspective "between film music and the concert hall" illuminates both the composer's diverse ...
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(2024)What was a thrilling pleasure for some was strenuous work for others: musicians often had a difficult lot (even) in the late Habsburg Monarchy. The Austro-Hungarian Musicians' Association, founded in 1896, set out to improve ...
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(2010)De wetenschappelijke beoefening van de neerlandistiek heeft ook buiten het Nederlandse taalgebied een lange geschiedenis. In sommige landen waren er al in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw taal- en letterkundigen die ...
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(2022)Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent ...
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(2023)The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to ...
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(2012)The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF’s intervention, there are influential ...
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(2020)Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on ...
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(2020)Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a ...
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(2013)Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" ...
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(2007)Die Devotio moderna als semireligiose wie monastische Kirchenreformbewegung breitete sich seit dem späten vierzehnten Jahrhundert über ganz Mitteleuropa aus. Aber wie funktionierte sie in ihrem Nukleus Deventer en détail? ...
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(2011)The Netherlands housed a number of widely known, envied and emulated centres of accumulation during the early-modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles ...
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(2024)The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class ...
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(2023)The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By ...
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(2020)Research on multi-agent systems is enlarging our future technical capabilities as humans and as an intelligent society. During recent years many effective applications have been implemented and are part of our daily life. ...
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(2018)Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, ...
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(2025)This volume explores the refiguration of space as a theoretical framework, presenting empirical studies on spatial conflicts and emerging conflictual spaces across different regions and scales. It contains contributions ...
