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EDITOR INTERVIEW: Representing 21st-Century Migration In Europe
ANA BELÉN MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA is Associate Professor at ISSA School of Applied Management, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). She teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and World Literatures in English.
Spring Paperbacks!
Unique studies at budget-friendly prices, these March and April paperbacks are great for adoptions and reading lists. If you want to evaluate their usefulness on a course you teach, please request a digital examination copy: just click through and look for the green ‘Request a review or examination copy’ button. Open Access titles are, of course, freely available to download any time.
Continue reading “Spring Paperbacks!”Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!
Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For information on this year’s theme please visit ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) webpage www.icomos.org.
In joining the celebration, Berghahn is excited to present relevant Heritage Studies titles and Journals, as well as highlight our Explorations in Heritage Studies series.
Continue reading “Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!”BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY
To mark this year’s Australia Day we present a selection of our latest titles on aspects of in Australia. Here are paperbacks, eBooks, and hardbacks on everything from health care for the elderly to film and song, the lives and struggles of the indigenous population, and how the nation has faced its colonial legacies.
Continue reading “BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY”EXCERPT: THE BEST WE SHARE
In connection with the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, celebrated November 16th, Berghahn is excited to feature an excerpt from The Best We Share: Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena by Christoph Brumann. The paperback edition is forthcoming April 2023!
Take advantage of the 25% discount on eBook and related paperbacks. Use code WHC22 at checkout, valid through end of November 2022.
Continue reading “EXCERPT: THE BEST WE SHARE”Neriko Musha Doerr discusses “Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus”
Neriko Musha Doerr is Assistant Professor at Ramapo College. Her publications include Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook (Berghahn, 2020), The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020), The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad (Berghahn, 2017, with Hannah Taïeb), and Meaningful Inconsistencies (Berghahn 2009).
Spotlight: Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975), German-American philosopher and political theorist, was the first to argue that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe. In her pivotal work The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), she established that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe.
Continue reading “Spotlight: Hannah Arendt”Excerpt: EXTINCT MONSTERS TO DEEP TIME
Following up on Smithsonian Day last week, an event hosted by ‘Smithsonian’ magazine where participating museums and various cultural centers across the US provide free entry, Berghahn is excited to feature an excerpt from Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian’s Fossil Halls by Diana E. Marsh.
Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time, the author provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.
What the Berghahn team recommends
September 6th marks National Read a Book Day in the United States with International Literacy Day following closely on September 8th. To celebrate, we want to share what the Berghahn staff is currently reading and a scholarly reading from Berghahn Books we recommend for you.
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