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Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851.
Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-quality footwear. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally's fortunes in the US, the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the rise of strategic product display. The research focuses on the 1930s and 1940s: years of economic crisis and war, characterized by a wide diversity of designs and increasing variety in product range. Shortages also led to experiments with materials and technical innovations. Featuring numerous points of contact with adjacent fields of historical study, this publication marks a contribution to the history of fashion as the history of industrially manufactured products.

Wie kann Afrika zu nachhaltigem und gerechtem Frieden finden? Sind die UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziele dafür ein geeigneter Kompass?

Der Grundriss einer Theorie und Empirie religiöser Evolution begreift Religion als Kommunikationsform zur Bearbeitung unbestimmbarer Kontingenz.

Der Louvre – die Mutter aller Museen – spiegelt seit seiner Eröffnung inmitten der Frz. Revolution die Geschichte des Museums als Ort der Selbstsymbolisierung der Demokratie.

Neue Medien - neue Formen der Rezeption? Der Sammelband stellt diese Frage nach der Veränderung von Rezipientenrollen nach der Einführung neuer Medientechniken.

The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled »Silk Road«, the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road-trade. This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries – including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China – but also India, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. A far-flung network of trading connections has been established and, at the time of the fieldwork, thousands of petty traders were carrying their goods with them in trucks, buses, and planes, traveling once more along the routes of the old Silk Road, largely unrecognized by governments and unnoticed by foreign economic advisors. The traders, however, transport patterns of consumerism, lifestyles, knowledge, beliefs, political visions, and so on with their material goods, and in this way transsocietation along the trading networks transforms local societies.
Like the old »Silk Road,« the modern version is an agglomeration of different routes with different starting points, running through Central Asia and connecting Asia and Europe; manifest evidence of the continuity in trading patterns on the Eurasian continent.

Religions are contested by fundamentalists who seem to understand Covid-19 as a supernatural »sign« that might be useful for triggering a religious revolution. In this book, internationally renowned scholars discuss the term »Religious Fundamentalism« as well as the practical impact of Covid-19 on the religions.

Über die Bewegung von Menschen und Dingen: Das deutschsprachige Einführungsbuch zum sozialwissenschaftlichen »Mobilities Paradigm«.

Raum erleben und verstehen. Ein interdisziplinäres Methoden-Handbuch zur Untersuchung von Räumen durch Erzählung und Visualisierung.

Eine techniksoziologische Einführung vor dem Hintergrund der »digitalen Transformation«. Grundlagen, Kerndynamiken und Ambivalenzen von Technik und Gesellschaft.