Beyond Alterity

Beyond AlterityWith the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies. This collection of essays examines German language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by

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Examines the history of nursing during the past four centuries

Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms

how this changed when European colonists introduced plow-based monoculture systems that led to the Dust Bowl

he challenged the established American Jewish aristocracy in the Congress movement

their causes

It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism

and how they translate into the actions that make our world either a better

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specifically in the philosophy of nature

and social situation in Iran and Britain

What is the relation of anxiety to aesthetics