Laughing Matters

Laughing MattersPart 2 of Volume 3 addresses in detail the conflicts between humor and cruelty, i. e., how cruelty can be unleashed against humor and, conversely, humor can be utilized against cruelty. Potent enmities to mirth and jollity are retrieved from a variety of socio historical contexts, ranging from Europes medieval monasteries to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre. Special attention is paid to the cruel humor and humorous cruelty arising thereof, insofar as

For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century

The problem with raising and killing animals for food isn't just that it's "bad for the environment

presenting a balanced account that is both accessible to general readers and valuable for specialists

Danish women organizing against the European Community's Maastricht treaty

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Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico

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and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender—terms such as "conversation" and "intercourse

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The book inspired a generation of research in the history of American immigration

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