The Crisis of the 14th Century

The Crisis of the 14th CenturyPre modern critical interactions of nature and society can best be studied during the so called "Crisis of the 14th Century". While historiography has long ignored the environmental framing of historcial processes and scientists have over emphasized nature's impact on the course of human history, this volume tries to describe the at times complex modes of the late medieval relationship of man and nature. The idea of 'teleconnection', borrowed from the

Sonia Cardenas offers a sweeping historical and global account of the emergence of NHRIs

A defensive

but Cornwallis's army had suffered casualties too heavy to pursue the Continentals and instead fell back to the port city of Wilmington

institutional history

Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst

who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades

Rechtsprechung und Literatur

the contributors explain why those differences should matter for the administration of justice

(teils lange) vor der Romantik Lieven D’Hulst: La culture allemande en France au début du XIXe siècle: analyse statistique des livres traduits entre 1810 et 1840 Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink: "Lost in Translation" – Übersetzung und Exilerfahrung bei Eva Hoffman (Polen/Kanada/USA) und Jacques Poulain (Québec/Kanada) III

In Graceful Simplicity

These essays are not lectures about what you should eat

A sophisticated assimilation of perspectives from experts in anthropology