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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “craig koslofsky”
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  • Evening's Empire

    A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe

    by Craig Koslofsky ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Stigma

    Marking Skin in the Early Modern World

    Edited by Katherine Dauge-Roth, Craig Koslofsky ...
    Series series Perspectives on Sensory History
    The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas as they began to circulate and reshape one another in the early modern world.By ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Stannaki Forum. Kunst und Forschung im Gespräch

    Art and Research in Conversation

    by Doreen Mende, Dr. Marion Ackermann, Craig Koslofsky, Tuan Mami, Sojin Baik, Anna-Lisa Reith, Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Holger Birkholz0, Mabe Bethônico1, Paul Goodwin2, Jane Boddy3, Mailena Mallach4, Mareike Bernien5, Mahshid Mahboubifar6, Natalia Zaitseva7, Stefano Rinaldi8, Christine Müller-Radloff9, Fredrik Prost0, Silje Figenschou Thoresen1, Marita Andó2, Maria Lind3, Klimaite Klimaite, Berlin4 ...
    Stannaki Forum is a research format that enables discursive exchange across different knowledge horizons. The focus is on a specific object that serves as both witness and interlocutor. The objects reflect contexts such as colonialism, enslavement, dispossession, and cultural appropriation, but also diplomacy, exile, migration, economic relations, and education. The Stannaki Forum aims to ... Read more

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  • Slavery Hinterland

    Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850

    by Felix Brahm, Klaus Weber, Peter Haenger, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Roberto Zaugg, Sarah Lentz, Eve Rosenhaft, Alexandra Robinson, Anka Steffen0, Anne Sophie Overkamp1, Catherine M Hall2, Craig Koslofsky3, Daniel P. Hopkins4 ...
    Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic inAfricans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade

    The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger

    by Johann Peter Oettinger ...
    Translated by Craig Koslofsky, Roberto Zaugg ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666–1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig Koslofsky in a Berlin archive. Oettinger’s journal describes shipboard life, trade in Africa, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Empire of Cotton

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    by Sven Beckert ...
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    And Why it Still Matters

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  • Die Berühmtesten Philosophen

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  • Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits

    Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards ...
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  • Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung

    Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement

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    This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts, ... Read more

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  • The German Canadians 1750-1937

    Immigration, Settlement & Culture

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