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The history of travel has long been constructed and described almost exclusively as a history of'European', male mobility, without, however, explicitly making the gender and　whiteness　of the travellers a topic. The anthology takes this as an occasion to focus on journeys to Europe　that gave'non-Europeans'the opportunity to glance at'Europe'and to draw a picture of it by themselves. So far,　little attention has been paid to the questions with which attributes these travellers endowed'Europe'and its people, which similarities and differences they observed and which idea(s) of'Europe'they produced. The focus is once again on'Europe', but not as the starting point for conquests or journeys.　From a postcolonial and gender historical view, the anthology's contributions rather juxtapose (self-)representations of'Europe'with perspectives that move in a field of tension between agreement, contradiction and oscillation.

This book explores the why and the how of women's participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus.The volume is about women who have participated in armed conflict as members of an armed group, trained in military action, with different tasks within the conflict. The chapters endeavor to make women's own voices heard, to discover the untold stories of women as perpetrators and facilitators of military violence, and the authors do this through the use of personal interviews and the study of primary documents. The work widens the geographical perspective of feminist security studies to discover in what ways the historical, political, and social context has motivated the women to participate in military action, and presents new case study data from Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Cameroon, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Latin America. Temporally, the chapters cover almost two centuries, from the late 19th century to the present day, touching upon a wide variety of examples of armed conflict, from wars of independence to the Second World War. Bringing together approaches from politics, history, anthropology and area studies, the chapters are informed by the fundamental insights of feminist research and address such pivotal questions as hegemonic masculinity in the armed forces and the relation between women's armed violence and female agency. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers in gender and security studies, armed conflict and history.

The IJBF is the only regularly published, truly international, Festschrift bibliography. Since 1983, more than 880,000 articles from more than 39,000 Festschriften, published between 1977 and 2020, have been catalogued.

Gradually the historians of education have broken out of the traditional school museums — which are no longer the sole places to communicate research findings with the wider public — and gone beyond the traditional publication formats. Indeed, they started exploring how to work with the [educational] past in the present, experimenting with presenting the educational past in new ways, and reflecting on how these new forms of mediation and musealisation of sources impacts the research and the (hi)stories told. By zooming in on three themes, musealisation, new ways of exhibiting, and historical storytelling —, this edited volume illustrates the vitality of the history of education, as field of study, and demonstrates its adaptability to the “changing contexts” of its public function. So, rather than being an “endangered species”, the historians of education seem to get fit for the future by showing traditional craftsmanship as well as “engagement with” and “appropriation of” (interdisciplinary) approaches of thinking with the past in the present for wider audiences — stances which are richly illustrated in the various contributions.

Fragen zur Geschlechtergeschichte, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Kindheits- und Bildungsforschung, Kolonialgeschichte sowie Erzählforschung stehen im Zentrum des vorliegenden Bandes. Aus Perspektiven verschiedener kulturwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen spiegeln Autoren und Autorinnen aus afrikanischen und europäischen Ländern zentrale Themen aus dem Lebenswerk von Bea Lundt, der das Buch gewidmet ist. Questions on gender history, the Middle Ages and early modern times, childhood and educational research, colonial history and narrative research are the focus of the present volume. From the perspectives of various disciplines, authors from African and European countries reflect central themes from the life's work of Bea Lundt, to whom the book is dedicated.