Localizing the internet: an anthropological account
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The participants: the men of the Wannsee Conference
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The participants: the men of the Wannsee Conference
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Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history. On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to…
The participants - the men of the Wannsee Conference
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Zusammenfassung: On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal …
The participants: the men of the Wannsee Conference
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On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the hi…
List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Global parks : national parks, globalization, and western modernism -- Chapter 2. National natures : the Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale -- Chapter 3. Local lands…
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss pa…
Tourism imaginaries: anthropological approaches
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Tourism imaginaries: anthropological approaches
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It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social prac…
Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states …
