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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 473 pages)
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    DDC: 307.76/09
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1990 ; Geschichte ; Stadt ; Cities and towns / History ; Verstädterung ; Geschichte ; Metropole ; Kulturanthropologie ; Stadt ; Stadt ; Verstädterung ; Kulturanthropologie ; Metropole ; Geschichte ; Stadt ; Geschichte Anfänge-1990 ; Verstädterung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This ambitious book treats urbanisation and urbanism all over the world, and from the earliest times to the present. Aidan Southall, a pioneer in the study of African cities, discusses the urban centres of ancient Sumeria, Greece and Rome, as well as medieval European cities, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indic cities, colonial cities, and the great metropolises of the twentieth century. Drawing on this historical and comparative perspective, he offers a fresh analysis of world urbanisation in the contemporary period of globalisation. The study emphasises the enduring paradox of the city, which juxtaposes splendid cultural productions with the poverty and deprivation of the majority
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Studies in comparative world history
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    DDC: 306.3/62/0973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / America / History ; Plantation life / America / History ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Schwarze ; Plantage ; Sklave ; Amerika ; America / Social conditions ; USA ; Atlantikküste ; Atlantischer Raum ; USA ; Atlantikküste ; Plantage ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Plantage ; Schwarze ; Sklave ; Geschichte ; Atlantischer Raum ; Sklaverei ; Plantage ; Geschichte ; Atlantischer Raum ; Sklaverei ; Plantage ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511660344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxii, 657 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 32
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    DDC: 304.6/0942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1580-1837 ; Geschichte ; Mortality / England / History ; Fertility, Human / England / History ; Family reconstitution / England / History ; Bevölkerung ; England / Population / History ; England ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; England ; Bevölkerung ; Geschichte 1580-1837
    Abstract: English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837 is the most important single contribution to English historical demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many aspects of English demography in the parish register period than about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected and published information. Using data from 26 parishes, the authors show clearly that their results are representative not only of the demographic situation of the parishes from which the data were drawn, but also of the country as a whole. Some very surprising features of the behaviour of past populations are brought to light for the first time
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The reconstitution parishes -- 3. Representativeness -- 4. Reliability -- 5. Nuptiality -- 6. Mortality -- 7. Fertility -- 8. Reconstitution and inverse projection -- 9. Conclusion -- App. 1. A list of the reconstituted parishes from which data were drawn and of the names of those who carried out the reconstitutions -- App. 2. Examples of the slips and forms used in reconstitution and a description of the system of weights and flags employed -- App. 3. Truncation bias and similar problems -- App. 4. Tests for logical errors in reconstitution data -- App. 5. Correcting for a 'missing' parish in making tabulations of marriage age -- App. 6. The estimation of adult mortality -- App. 7. Adjusting mortality rates taken from the four groups to form a single series -- App. 8. The calculation of the proportion of women still fecund at any given age
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780511558481
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 344 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-1945 ; Geschichte ; Social Darwinism / History ; Geschichte ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1860-1945
    Abstract: This wide-ranging study focuses upon the controversies surrounding the meaning and significance of Social Darwinism. It clarifies the nature of Social Darwinism and its relationship to the ideas of Darwin, Lamarck and Herbert Spencer. After examining the development of Social Darwinist theories by a number of European and American thinkers, Mike Hawkins explores the use of these theories in a number of ideological debates and movements of the period 1860–1945. These include socio-political reform, national and racial conflict, eugenics, the position of women and Nazism/Fascism. The aim is to illuminate, through detailed comparative analyses, both the flexibility and the limits of Social Darwinism - limits which derive from the view of nature which lies at the very heart of Social Darwinism. The study concludes with a discussion of modern sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511628344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)
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    DDC: 947/.430854
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Latvia / History / 1991- ; Lettland ; Lettland ; Politischer Wandel ; Lettland ; Sozialer Wandel ; Lettland ; Wirtschaftsreform
    Abstract: Latvia in Transition provides the material necessary to understand present-day Latvia. The author examines the main events, processes and problems of the transitional period of this country from a dependent and Moscow-dominated Soviet Republic to an independent and also interdependent state. The book presents the most relevant and essential aspects of Latvia's history, politics, economics and society. The historical analysis highlights the formative events which are still recalled in Latvian political discourse. The period of awakening is discussed in detail to reflect its world-wide resonance and impact on similar processes in other Soviet Republics. The creation of a new state and the establishment of democracy have forced the elite to cope with a multitude of problems simultaneously. This book describes the approach to politics, market economics, ethnic relations and the environment, and also reasserted impact of religion
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Historical residues and impact on present-day politics -- 2. The Latvian national rebirth -- 3. Regaining independence -- establishing democracy -- 4. Economics and reform -- 5. Demography, language and ethnic relations
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558764
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages)
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    DDC: 320.5/4/0947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1989-1998 ; Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Europe, Eastern ; Nationalism / Soviet Union / Republics ; Nationalism / Europe ; Politik ; Postkommunismus ; Nationalstaat ; Nationalismus ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Europa ; Sowjetunion ; Europe, Eastern / Politics and government / 1989- ; Former Soviet republics / Politics and government ; Europe / Politics and government / 20th century ; Osteuropa ; Europa ; Osteuropa ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1989-1998 ; Europa ; Nationalismus ; Nationalstaat ; Osteuropa ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Nationalstaat ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Postkommunismus
    Abstract: The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event -- 2. Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states: an institutionalist account -- 3. National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe -- 4. Nationalizing states in the old "New Europe" -- and the new -- 5. Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and "Weimar Russia" -- 6. Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511581878
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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    Keywords: Böhme, Jakob / 1575-1624 / Influence ; Böhme, Jakob ; Christentum ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Religion ; Sex / Religious aspects / Christianity / History of doctrines ; Women / Religious aspects / Christianity / History of doctrines ; Sex / England / History ; Women / England / History ; Mysticism / England / History ; Occultism / England / History ; Rezeption ; Philosophie ; Geschlecht ; England ; Böhme, Jakob 1575-1624 ; Geschlecht ; Philosophie ; Rezeption ; England
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of the development of the ideas on gender of Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) among his English followers, tracing the changes in gender and sexuality in such esoteric traditions as alchemy, hermeticism and the Cabala. The book argues that Behmenist thought in these areas is a neglected aspect of the revision in the moral status of women during the early modern period, contributing significantly to the rise of the Romantic notion of womanhood and 'Victorian' sexual ideology. It deals with English Behmenism from its reception during the Interregnum through to its impact upon William Blake and the Swedenborgians in the eighteenth century. The book also strongly challenges received opinions on the relationship of Behmenism to the English radical tradition
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511584732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in historical geography 24
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    Keywords: Bloch, Marc / 1886-1944 ; Bloch, Marc ; Social sciences and history ; Historical geography ; Geografie ; Historische Geografie ; Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Bloch, Marc 1886-1944 ; Soziologie ; Geografie ; Geschichte ; Bloch, Marc 1886-1944 ; Historische Geografie
    Abstract: Marc Bloch has been very influential in the development of both history and social science. Comparative historians, historical geographers, and historical sociologists have all pointed to his work as a model. This book is the first detailed examination of the relationship of his work to both Durkheimian sociology and Vidalian geography. Through a careful examination of the debates in which he was involved and the institutional circumstances in which he worked, it places Bloch's work within its intellectual context, and assesses the nature of his contribution. Professor Friedman argues that, despite the frequent claims of scholars in history, sociology and geography, Bloch did not adopt either the Durkheimian or Vidalian approach. Both disciplines were central to his intellectual development, but Bloch's relationships to the two disciplines were interdependent, and the result was his own highly acclaimed and unique approach
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Marc Bloch and the "Universite" -- 2. Marc Bloch's training as a normalien -- 3. History under attack -- 4. The quest for identity in Vidalian geography -- 5. From the Fondation Thiers to the doctorate: Marc Bloch's emerging perspective -- 6. The University of Strasbourg as a center of disciplinary change -- 7. Kings, serfs, and the sociological method -- 8. Reflections on the geographical approach and on the agrarian regime -- 9. An expanding view: Marc Bloch's later projects -- 10. Towards a reworking of the historiography of Marc Bloch
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170963
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 88 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1914 ; Geschichte ; Families / History ; Familie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Familie ; Geschichte 1500-1914
    Abstract: Over the past thirty years family history has been one of the most important and controversial growth areas in the development of social history. In this guide to the burgeoning literature on the Western family Professor Anderson reviews the main findings of historians and considers them in the light of the problems inherent in the interpretation of family history. He focuses particularly on the strengths and limitations of the different approaches that have been adopted, showing that although this variety of method has complicated matters, it has also produced a more rounded understanding of the history of the family. Updated to include work published between 1980 and 1994, this book will be invaluable to students of family history, and to scholars who are non-specialist in the field
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 84 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 11
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Geschichte 1815 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Soziale Probleme ; Auswanderung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Europa ; Europe / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; Europa ; Europa ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Soziale Probleme ; Geschichte 1815 ; USA ; Wirtschaftliche Lage
    Abstract: Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139052498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 433 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1820-1930 ; Geschichte 1820-1945 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Germans / United States / History ; German Americans / History ; Germans / Foreign countries ; Auswanderung ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Deutschland ; USA ; Germany / Emigration and immigration / History ; United States / Emigration and immigration / History ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Deutschland ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1930 ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Geschichte ; Deutschland ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1930 ; Deutschland ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1945 ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Geschichte 1820-1930
    Abstract: The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to connect the various European migratory streams during this period with transcontinental migration to North America. This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration. By looking specifically at postwar Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay
    Description / Table of Contents: German emigration research, north, south, and east : findings, methods, and open questions / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Colonist traditions and nineteenth-century emigration from East Elbian Prussia / Rainer Mühle -- Overseas emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz : the geographic and social contexts / Axel Lubinski -- Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893 / Uwe Reich -- Preserving or transforming role? Migrants and Polish territories in the era of mass migrations / Adam Walaszek -- Traveling workers and the German labor movement / Horst Rössler --Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914 / James H. Jackson, Jr. -- In-migration and out-migration in an area of heavy industry : the case of Georgsmarienhütte, 1956-1870 / Susanne Meyer -- Foreign workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918 / Karl Marten Barfuss -- The international marriage market : theoretical and historical perspectives / Suzanne M. Sinke -- Making service serve themselves : immigrant women and doemstic service in North America, 1850-1920 / Joy K. Lintelmann -- German domestic servants in America, 1850-1914 : a new look at German immigrant women's experiences / Silke Wehner --Acculturation of immigrant women in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century / Deirdre M. Mageean -- Communicating the old and the new : German immigrant women and their press in comparative perspective around 1900 / Monika Blaschke -- Return migration to an urban center : the example of Bremen, 1850-1914 / Karen Schniedewind -- Migration, ethnicity, and working-class formation : Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926 / Sven Beckert -- Changing gender roles and emigration : the example of German Jewish women and their emigration to the United States, 1933-1945 / Sibylle Quack -- Conclusion : migration past and present : the German experience / Klaus J. Bade -- Research on the German migrations, 1820s to 1930s : a report on the state of German scholarship / Dirk Hoerder
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 80 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1846-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 1837-1900 ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 〈1837-1900 ; Geschichte 1845-1849 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Hungersnot ; Irland ; Ireland / History / Famine, 1845-1852 ; Ireland / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Irland ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1846-1850 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1849 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Irland ; Sozialgeschichte 1837-1900 ; Irland ; Sozialgeschichte 〈1837-1900
    Abstract: The Irish Famine of 1846–50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Population and potatoes : the pre-famine context -- 2. The Great Hunger 1845-1850 -- 3. Aftermath : Ireland after 1850 -- 4. Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Bibliographical update and commentary -- Glossary -- Index
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