Strategies of Distinction

Strategies of DistinctionBetween the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of

as well as the entrenched male leadership

This book reinserts travellers back into ancient dramatic space

This text offers a unique balance of theory and a variety of standard and new applications along with solved technology-aided problems

Fernsehse-rien oder Computerspiel sagen viel über die Verfassung der japanischen Gesellschaft aus und sind deshalb zum Gegenstand ernsthafter Forschung geworden

die Sklaverei

Leif Svensson sheds new light on Ritschl’s thought by relating it to contemporaneous social and cultural developments

These overwhelming cultural constructions have strongly influenced the subsequent historical developments of their great cultural outposts in North and South America

cocaine but in gaining a monopoly over its production

Contributors: Susan Abram

die zur Fundierung und Erklärung personaler Entscheidungszusammenhänge beitragen sollen

You Are Not Like Other Mothers is the story of Else Krischner

narrative sequences