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Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.

History --- Energy --- Technology --- Consumption --- History --- Culture --- Science --- History of Technology --- History of the 20th Century --- Environmental History --- Sociology of Technology

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In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, punk, reggae, and hip-hop. This volume illuminates the interrelation of popular music and public diplomacy from a transnational and transdisciplinary angle. The contributions argue that, as popular music has been a crucial factor in international relations, its diplomatic use has substantially impacted the global musical landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Arts --- Music --- Politics --- Popular Culture --- Pop Music --- International Relations --- History of the 20th Century --- Cultural History --- Musicology

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This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.

History --- 1960s --- Europe --- American Studies --- Culture --- Transatlantic Relations --- America --- Cultural History --- American History --- Global History --- History of the 20th Century --- History

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By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, this functional approach allows to extend the analysis of communicative practices commonly associated with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, to other locations (France, United States of America and Great Britain in the 1930s) or historical contexts (post-Soviet developments in Russia or Kyrgyzstan). This, in turn, leads to the revaluation of the very term »totalitarian«: no longer an ideological label or a stock attribute of historical narration, it gets a life of its own, defining a specific constellation of hierarchies, codes and networks within a given society.

Sociology --- Totalitarianism --- Communication --- Discourse --- Media --- Europe 1900-1945 --- Society --- Sociology of Media --- History of the 20th Century --- Media Aesthetics --- European History --- Sociology

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How did the Swiss organ donation crisis come about? Despite reforms and advertising campaigns, from the late '80s, Swiss transplant medicine began to lament an increasing mistrust in organ donation and falling donor numbers. Simon Hofmann throws light on the role of doctors, nurses, family members and donees, but also of the media, politicians and the pharmaceutical industry. In doing so, he draws out the relations between hospital practices, public debates, and fictitious narratives about organ smuggling. He tells a complex and contradictory story of modern biomedicine at the edge of life and death, which is shaped as much by economic calculations as by utopian hope and traumatic fears.

bioethik --- medizin --- organ donation --- körpergeschichte --- history --- switzerland --- organ transplant --- schweiz --- cultural history --- discourse analysis --- diskursanalyse --- körper --- medicine --- bioethics --- history of the 20th century --- history of the body --- medizingeschichte --- geschichtswissenschaft --- organ trade --- organspende --- body --- history of medicine --- organtransplantation --- organhandel --- kulturgeschichte --- biomedizin --- geschichtes des 20. jahrhundert --- biomedicine