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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2010Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system
by Eve Hepburn
This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to pursue their strategies across multiple territorial levels. This book constitutes the first attempt to unravel the complexities of how nationalist and statewide parties manoeuvre around the twin issues of European integration and decentralization, and exploit the shifting linkages within multi-level political systems. In a detailed comparative examination of three cases - Scotland, Bavaria and Sardinia - over a thirty-year period, the book explores how integration has altered the nature of territorial party competition and identifies the limits of Europe for territorial projects. In addressing these issues, this work moves beyond present scholarship on multi-level governance to explain the diversity of regional responses to Europe. By providing important new insights and empirical research on the conduct of territorial party politics, and an innovative model of territorial mobilization in Europe, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, European studies, regionalism and federalism, political parties and devolution. ;
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Politics & governmentJuly 2013Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system
by Eve Hepburn
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September 1993Herr Paul
Ein Stück
by Tankred Dorst, Ursula Ehler
Soviel Anfang war noch nie! - Oder doch? - Oder ist endgültig Schluß mit den Anfängen? Niemand jedenfalls scheint mit Anfängen noch viel anfangen zu können, und am Ende vielleicht sollte man von Anfang an die ›Stunde Null‹ grundsätzlich nur als Endpunkt einer Katastrophenzeit verstehen. So würde unter allen Neubeginn sogleich ein Schlußstrich gezogen. - Zunächst aber beginnt die Sache ganz harmlos: Herr Paul verkörpert Kontinuität, Standhaftigkeit und Konsequenz. Herr Paul lebt seit Jahrzehnten in einer zerfallenden Fabrik, geht niemals auf die Straße und verweigert jede Arbeit. Herr Paul kennt das Leben, ohne die Welt je gesehen zu haben. Herr Paul leistet nichts, Herr Paul leidet nicht, Herr Paul scheint recht zufrieden.Herr Helm dagegen lechzt nach Veränderung. Leistung ist sein Credo, Dynamik seine Passion. Helm hat geerbt und strebt nun danach, sein Glück zu machen: Die alte Seifenfabrik soll zur Großwäscherei umgebaut werden. Voll Aufbruchstimmung will Helm ins satte Menschenleben greifen, wo sich so viel tut, da muß auch er noch tätig sein. Aber: Herr Helm hat kein Geld, statt dessen hat er ein Problem: Herrn Paul.
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The ArtsDecember 2007J. M. W. Turner
The making of a modern artist
by Sam Smiles, Alan Rutter
Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. On Turner's death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling, painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a wholescale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work. It documents how Turner was interpreted and how his work was displayed in Britain, in Europe and in North America, concentrating on the ways in which his artistic identity was manipulated by art writers, by curators at the Tate and by designers of exhibitions for the British Council and other bodies. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition
by Andrew Monaghan, Richard Connolly
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.
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September 2021Tolerating Democracy!
About arguing in a society of indignation
by Karoline M. Preisler
Are we all still only moving around in our bubbles, unwilling and unprepared to engage in the positions of "the others"? Will only someone be heard who polarises and defames loudly enough, who ignores facts, denies them, twists them, who even calls for violence? The debate over the corona measures has given a new urgency as we address the question of how democracy can be lived and protected in times of an erosion of the centre and social cohesion. Karoline M. Preisler asks herself these questions and, as a passionate democrat, advocates creating new tools and meeting places for the necessary dialogue on controversial topics such as the limits of freedom, religion, climate crisis, immigration and the family.
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January 1990Das hoffnungslose Leben der Anna M.
Bericht über eine Schizophrenie. (Persönliche Erfahrungen mit Krisen)
by Schulz, Bernd J
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