The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and ......
New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage examines foreign immigration to Mexico as and the significance of Mexican transnationalism and pluriculturalism. Contributors explore the roles of entrepreneurs, consuls, doctors, railroad workers, cowboys, divas, puppeteers, missionaries, and women soccer players.
Grey journeys through modern Islamic countries, and back to times when the differences between West and East were laid down. His mission is to combat cultural misunderstanding and seek alternatives to the materialism of our own society.
Outing the Past looks at some of the ways in which contested or hidden histories come into public view. Drawing on topics from gay and lesbian history to the review of the Australian National Museum, it looks at the public reception of different pasts on display.
The final volume in Hugh Gilchrist's award-winning survey of all the connections between Greece and Australia. It covers the Greeks and Australians in World War II, and the post-War era of migration and diplomacy.
Reports through articles, interviews and reviews from the front lines of the history wars that currently and controversially rage over selective ways of remembering our past. Graeme Davison examines the embattled position of the National Museum; Christine Olsen explains her account of the Stolen Generation; and more.
Comprised of riveting and readable stories from along the path of scientific discovery in the fields of Astronomy, The Earth, Matter, Forces and Energy, Chemistry, Life, Genetics & DNA, The Human Body, Disease, and Science in the 21st Century, author James D. Stein showcases the most noteworthy achievements of our species in a compelling and ......
Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier
This book analyzes the social, economic, and political impact of Han Chinese migration into the borderlands that became Inner Mongolia during the Qing period. Linking local history to global movements, Yi Wang traces Inner Mongolia's integration into what would become the nation-state of China and from there into a global capitalist economy.
