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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108669344 , 9781108483957 , 9781108705646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages) , Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Veevers, David, 1983 - The origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750
    DDC: 382.0941/05
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    Keywords: East India Company ; East India Company History ; 1600-1750 ; Großmacht ; Kolonialismus ; Handelskompanie ; Interkulturelle Beziehungen ; Großbritannien ; Corporations, British History ; British History ; East India Company ; History ; Corporations, British ; Asia ; History ; British ; Asia ; History ; Asia ; Foreign relations ; Great Britain ; Great Britain ; Foreign relations ; Asia ; Great Britain ; Commerce ; Asia ; History ; Asia ; Commerce ; Great Britain ; History ; Asia Foreign relations ; Great Britain Foreign relations ; Great Britain Commerce ; History ; Asia Commerce ; History ; Asien ; East India Company ; Kulturkontakt ; Soziale Integration
    Abstract: This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise. As their servants skilfully adapted to this rich and complex environment, the East India Company became enfranchised by the eighteenth century with a breadth of privileges and rights - from governing sprawling metropolises to trading customs-free. In emphasising the Asian genesis of the British Empire, this book sheds new light on the foreign frameworks of power which fuelled the expansion of Global Britain in the early modern world.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108863612 , 9781108495929 , 9781108811095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 374 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Haldén, Peter, 1977 - Family power
    DDC: 950
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    Keywords: Kings and rulers History ; Royal houses History ; Aristocracy (Social class) History ; Kinship Political aspects ; History ; Military history ; Kings and rulers ; History ; Royal houses ; History ; Aristocracy (Social class) ; History ; Kinship ; Political aspects ; History ; Military history ; Eurasien ; Dynastie ; Verwandtschaft ; Politisches System ; Militär ; Geschichte 500-2018
    Abstract: Since the seventeenth century, scholars have argued that kinship as an organizing principle and political order are antithetical. This book shows that this was simply not the case. Kinship, as a principle of legitimacy and in the shape of dynasties, was fundamental to political order. Throughout the last one and a half millennia of European and Middle Eastern history, elite families and polities evolved in symbiosis. By demonstrating this symbiosis as a basis for successful polities, Peter Haldén unravels long-standing theories of the state and of modernity. Most social scientists focus on coercion as a central facet of the state and indeed of power. Instead, Halden argues that much more attention must be given to collaboration, consent and common identity and institutions as elements of political order. He also demonstrates that democracy and individualism are not necessary features of modernity.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108666510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 189 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: The Wiles lectures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rubin, Miri, 1956 - Cities of strangers
    DDC: 307.76094/0902
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    Keywords: Cities and towns, Medieval ; City and town life History To 1500 ; Strangers History To 1500 ; Immigrants History To 1500 ; Cities and towns, Medieval ; Europe ; City and town life ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Strangers ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Immigrants ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe Emigration and immigration To 1500 ; History ; Europa ; Stadt ; Einwanderer ; Stadtleben ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and judges to settle and help produce good urban living. Dynastic rulers also shaped immigration, often inviting groups from afar to settle and help their cities flourish. All cities accommodated a great deal of difference - of language, religion, occupation - in shared spaces, regulated by law. But when, from around 1350, plague began regularly to occur within European cities, this benign cycle began to break down. High mortality rates led eventually to demographic crises and, as a result, less tolerant and more authoritarian attitudes emerged, resulting in violent expulsions of even long-settled groups. Tracing the development of urban institutions and using a wide range of sources from across Europe, Miri Rubin recreates a complex picture of urban life for settled and migrant communities over
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  • 4
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781644690864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People Series
    DDC: 305.892404209034
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; History
    Abstract: Between 1840 and 1880, a mature, increasingly comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The history of this community and the ways it developed are explored in this volume using archival and also contemporary advertising material that appeared in the Jewish Chronicle and other Anglo-Jewish newspapers in these years.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108556880
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 318 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.310955
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1789-1979 ; Sexualität ; Männlichkeit ; Geschlecht ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Iran ; Masculinity / Iran / History ; Men / Iran / Social conditions ; Sex role / Iran / History ; Iran / Social conditions ; Iran / Civilization / Western influences ; Civilization / Western influences ; Masculinity ; Men / Social conditions ; Sex role ; Social conditions ; Iran ; History ; Iran ; Geschlecht ; Männlichkeit ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sexualität ; Geschichte 1789-1979
    Abstract: The transition from Qajar rule in Iran (c.1789-1925) to that of rule by the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) set in motion a number of shifts in the political, social, and cultural realms. Focusing on masculinity in Iran, this book interweaves ideas and perceptions, laws, political movements, and men's practices to spotlight the role men as gendered subjects played in Iranian history. It shows how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from their late Qajar period counterparts. Furthermore, it highlights how the notion of being a "proper Iranian man" changed over these decades. Demonstrating how an emerging elite of western-educated men constructed and promoted a new model of masculinity as part of their struggle for political, social, and cultural hegemony, Balslev shows how this new model reflects wider developments in Iranian society at the time including the rise of Iranian nationalism and the country's modernisation process
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : changing masculinities in a changing Iran -- Ideals and practices of masculinity in Qajar society : Javanmard, Luti and Pahlavan -- Western knowledge and education and the emergence of a new Iranian masculinity in the late nineteenth-century -- Gendering the nation : patriotic men and endangered women in the constitutional revolution discourse -- Farangimaabs and fokolis : masculinities and westernization from the constitutional revolution to Reza Shah -- Marriage reform in interwar Iran : regulating male sexuality to maintain male hegemony -- Male dress reforms under Reza Shah -- "Strong spirits, strong arms, strong hearts" : sport, scouting and soldiering under Reza Shah
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108381710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 493 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heng, Geraldine, 1953 - The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Ethnicity History ; Race awareness History ; Europeans Race identity ; History ; Cultural pluralism History To 1500 ; Intercultural communication History To 1500 ; Racism History To 1500 ; Racism ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Intercultural communication ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Cultural pluralism ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe ; Ethnic relations ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe ; Race relations ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe Ethnic relations To 1500 ; History ; Europe Race relations To 1500 ; History ; Europa ; Rasse ; Mittelalter ; Europa ; Ethnische Identität ; Rasse ; Rassismus ; Antisemitismus ; Diskriminierung ; Rassentheorie ; Nationale Minderheit ; Geschichte 1200-1500
    Abstract: In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizable vocabulary of race emerged in the West. Analysing sources in a variety of media, including stories, maps, statuary, illustrations, architectural features, history, saints' lives, religious commentary, laws, political and social institutions, and literature, she argues that religion - so much in play again today - enabled the positing of fundamental differences among humans that created strategic essentialisms to mark off human groups and populations for racialized treatment. Her ground-breaking study also shows how race figured in the emergence of homo europaeus and the identity of Western Europe in this time
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781316691700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 533 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Wiesen, S. Jonathan Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell 2019
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beyond the racial state
    DDC: 943.086
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    Keywords: National socialism and science Congresses ; Minorities Congresses Government policy 20th century ; History ; Group identity Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Antisemitism Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Women Congresses Government policy 20th century ; History ; Racism Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Racism ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Ethnicity ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Antisemitism ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Group identity ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Minorities ; Government policy ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Women ; Government policy ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; National socialism and science ; Congresses ; Germany ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Germany ; Politics and government ; 1933-1945 ; Congresses ; Germany ; Social policy ; Congresses ; Germany Congresses Politics and government 1933-1945 ; Germany Congresses Social policy ; Germany Congresses Race relations 20th century ; Political aspects ; History ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Rassismus ; Rassenpolitik ; Antisemitismus ; Antijudaismus ; Minderheit ; Geschichte 1933-1945
    Abstract: The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal. Based on a wealth of new research, the contributors show that racial knowledge and racial discourse in Nazi Germany were far more contradictory and disparate than we have come to assume. They shed new light on the ways that racial policy worked and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis
    Abstract: Part I. Comparative and historical perspectives -- Racial discourse, Nazi violence, and the limits of the racial state model / Mark Roseman -- The murder of European Jewry : Nazi genocide in continental perspective / Donald Bloxham -- Meanings of race and biopolitics in historical perspective / Pascal Grosse -- Racial states in comparative perspective / Devin O. Pendas -- Part II. Race, science, and Nazi biopolitics -- Eugenics and racial science in Nazi Germany : was there a genesis of the "Final Solution" from the spirit of science? / Richard F. Wetzell -- Race science, race mysticism, and the racial state / Dan Stone -- Ideology's logic : the evolution of racial thought in Germany from the Volkisch movement to the Third Reich / Christian Geulen -- Nazi medical crimes, eugenics, and the limits of the racial state paradigm / Herwig Czech -- Part III. Anti-semitism beyond race -- "The axis around which national socialist ideology turns" : state bureaucracy, the Reich Ministry of the Interior and racial policy in the first years of the Third Reich / Jurgen Matthaus -- Neither Aryan nor Semite : reflections on the meanings of race in Nazi Germany / Richard Steigmann-Gall -- Racializing historiography : anti-Jewish scholarship in the Third Reich / Dirk Rupnow -- Part IV. Race and society -- Volksgemeinschaft : a controversy / Michael Wildt -- Mothers, whores, or sentimental dupes? : emotion and race in historiographical debates about women in the Third Reich / Annette F. Timm -- Nationalist mobilization : foreign diplomats' views on the Third Reich, 1933-1945 / Frank Bajohr -- Race and humor in Nazi Germany / Martina Kessel -- Legitimacy through war? / Nicholas Stargardt -- Part V. Race war? : Germans and non-Germans in wartime -- Negotiating Volkisch and racial identities : the Deutsche Volksliste in annexed Poland / Gerhard Wolf -- Sex, race, Volksgemeinschaft : German soldiers' sexual encounters with local women and men during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 / Regina Muhlhauser -- The disintegration of the racial basis of the concentration camp system / Stefan Hordler
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316946367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.40944
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1400-1870 ; Women History ; Women Social conditions ; Women Political activity ; History ; Sex role History ; Geschlechterrolle ; Politik ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Frankreich ; Frankreich ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Politik ; Geschichte 1400-1870
    Abstract: This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108327572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
    Series Statement: Asian Connections
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bishara, Fahad Ahmad A sea of debt
    DDC: 909.0982408
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    Keywords: Commerce ; Economic history ; Politics and government ; Indian Ocean Region ; History ; Hochschulschrift ; Indischer Ozean Region, West ; Handel ; Geschichte 1780-1950
    Abstract: An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781316026991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 279 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brindley, Erica, - 1971- Ancient China and the Yue
    DDC: 303.48/231059709014
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    Keywords: Cultural fusion History To 1500 ; Indigenous peoples History To 1500 ; Nomads History To 1500 ; Ethnicity History To 1500 ; Frontier and pioneer life ; Frontier and pioneer life ; China, Southeast ; Ethnicity ; China, Southeast ; History ; To 1500 ; Cultural fusion ; China, Southeast ; History ; To 1500 ; Indigenous peoples ; China, Southeast ; History ; To 1500 ; Nomads ; China, Southeast ; History ; To 1500 ; China, Southeast ; Ethnic relations ; History ; China, Southeast ; Relations ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Relations ; China, Southeast ; China ; History ; Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D ; China ; History ; Warring States, 403-221 B.C ; China, Southeast Ethnic relations ; History ; China, Southeast Relations ; Vietnam Relations ; China History Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D ; China History Warring States, 403-221 B.C
    Abstract: In this innovative study, Erica Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics concerning the peoples of the ancient southern frontier of China, the closest relations on the mainland to certain later Southeast Asian and Polynesian peoples. Through analysis of warring states and early Han textual sources, she shows how representations of Chinese and Yue identity invariably fed upon, and often grew out of, a two-way process of centering the self while de-centering the other. Examining rebellions, pivotal ruling figures from various Yue states, and key moments of Yue agency, Brindley demonstrates the complexities involved in identity formation and cultural hybridization in the ancient world and highlights the ancestry of cultures now associated with southern China and Vietnam
    Abstract: Part I. Orientations: Definitions and Disciplinary Discussions -- Introduction: Concepts and frameworks -- Who were the Yue? -- 2. Linguistic research on the Yue/Viet -- 3. The archaeological record -- Part II. Timelines and Political Histories of the Yue State and Han-Period Yue Kingdoms, 500 BCE-110 BCE -- 4. Political histories of the Yue state and Han-period Yue kingdoms, 500 BCE-110 BCE -- Part III. Performing Hua-Xia, Inscribing Yue : Rhetoric, Rites, and Tags -- 5. The rhetoric of cultural superiority and conceptualizations of ethnicity -- 6. Tropes of the savage : physical markers of Yue identity -- 7. Savage landscapes and magical objects -- Part IV. Performing Yue : Political Drama, Intrigue, and Armed Resistance -- 8. Yue identity as political masquerade and ritual modeling -- 9. Yue identity as armed resistance to the Han imperium -- Conclusion
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781139052498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 433 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1995
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als People in transit
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    Keywords: German Americans History ; Germans ; Germans History ; Germans ; United States ; History ; German Americans ; History ; Germans ; Foreign countries ; Germany ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States Emigration and immigration ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Auswanderung ; Binnenwanderung ; 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
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9781107010123 , 9781107460249 , 9780511845697 , 1139377078 , 1139379933 , 9781280647482 , 9781139378505 , 9781139377072 , 9781139379939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 634 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Italian renaissance state
    DDC: 306.094509
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    Keywords: State, The History ; City-states History ; Renaissance ; State, The ; History ; City-states ; Italy ; History ; Renaissance ; Italy ; Italy ; Politics and government ; 1268-1559 ; Italy Politics and government 1268-1559 ; State, The ; History ; City-states ; Italy ; History ; Renaissance ; Italy ; Italy ; Politics and government ; 1268-1559 ; Electronic books ; Italien ; Renaissance ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1268-1559
    Abstract: This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity.
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    ISBN: 9780521762441
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 362 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Environmental histories of the Cold War
    DDC: 304.28090
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    Keywords: Human ecology History ; 20th century ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; 20th century ; Cold War Environmental aspects ; Cold War Environmental aspects ; Human ecology History ; 20th century ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; 20th century ; Social Science ; Environmental Studies ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Kriegführung ; Umweltgefährdung ; Umweltbewusstsein ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Human ecology ; History ; 20th century ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; History ; 20th century ; Cold War ; Environmental aspects ; Electronic books ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Umweltschaden ; Sozialökologie
    Note: Ecological activism and the end of ranch hand
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    ISBN: 9780521194358 , 0521194350
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 238 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Heath, Deana Purifying empire
    DDC: 306.09
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    Keywords: Großbritannien ; Indien ; Australien ; Obszönität ; Kolonialismus ; Obscenity (Law) ; Great Britain ; Colonies ; History ; Great Britain ; Colonies ; Administration ; India ; History ; British occupation, 1765-1947 ; Australia ; History ; 1788-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Indien ; Australien ; Obszönität ; Kolonialismus
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    ISBN: 9780521195119 , 052119511X
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 319 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Fung, Edmund S. K., 1943 - The intellectual foundations of Chinese modernity
    DDC: 951.04
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    Keywords: Libéralisme Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Chine ; Conservatisme Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Chine ; Socialisme Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Chine ; Changement social Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Chine ; Chine Vie intellectuelle ; 20e siècle ; Chine Politique et gouvernement ; 20e siècle ; Liberalism ; China ; History ; 20th century ; Conservatism ; China ; History ; 20th century ; Socialism ; China ; History ; 20th century ; Social change ; China ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Intellectual life ; 1912-1949 ; China ; Politics and government ; 1912-1949 ; China ; Modernisierung ; Geschichte 1912-1949
    Abstract: Shows how Chinese intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions in the early twentieth century.--Résumé de l'éditeur
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521847568 , 9780521248969
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 439 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Humphries, Jane, 1948 - Childhood and child labour and the British industrial revolution
    DDC: 305.23094109033
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    Keywords: Industrialisierung ; Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Enfants Travail ; Histoire ; Grande-Bretagne ; Enfance Histoire ; Grande-Bretagne ; Révolution industrielle Grande-Bretagne ; Großbritannien ; Kinderarbeit ; Industrielle Revolution ; Geschichte 1790-1850 ; Children ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 18th century ; Children ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; Child labor ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century ; Child labor ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Working class ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century ; Working class ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Kinderarbeit ; Industrielle Revolution ; Geschichte 1790-1850
    Abstract: Unique account of childhood during the industrial revolution through the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.--Résumé de l'éditeur
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    ISBN: 0521898897 , 0521727588 , 9780521898898 , 9780521727587
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 291 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Empire and Globalisation : Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914
    DDC: 304.80941/09034
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    Keywords: British History ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration ; History ; Great Britain Commerce ; History
    Abstract: "Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Reconfiguring empire: the British World; 2 Networks and the British World; 3 Overseas migration; 4 Markets and consumer cultures; 5 Information and investment; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511551895
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 324 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Frankel, Jonathan, 1935 - 2008 Crisis, revolution, and Russian Jews
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    DDC: 305.892404709041
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    Keywords: Jewish socialists History ; 20th century ; Russia ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; History ; 19th century ; Europe, Eastern ; Jews Intellectual life ; Europe, Eastern ; Labor Zionism History ; 20th century ; Jews Politics and government ; 20th century ; Russia ; Jews Politics and government ; 19th century ; Europe, Eastern ; Jewish socialists History 20th century ; Jews Cultural assimilation 19th century ; History ; Jews Intellectual life ; Labor Zionism History 20th century ; Jews Politics and government 20th century ; Jews Politics and government 19th century ; Jews ; Europe, Eastern ; Politics and government ; 19th century ; Jews ; Russia ; Politics and government ; 20th century ; Jewish socialists ; Russia ; History ; 20th century ; Jews ; Cultural assimilation ; Europe, Eastern ; History ; 19th century ; Jews ; Europe, Eastern ; Intellectual life ; Labor Zionism ; History ; 20th century ; Russland ; Juden ; Politische Betätigung ; Geschichte 1840-1921 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Russland ; Juden ; Politische Betätigung ; Geschichte 1840-1921
    Abstract: This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists - committed to socialism, nationalism, or both - who would exert an extraordinary influence on Jewish history in the twentieth-century in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Palestine. Frankel describes the dynamics of 1905 and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers. But, elsewhere, he also looks backwards to the emergent stage of modern Jewish politics in both Russia and the West and forward to the part played by the veterans of 1905 in Palestine and the United States
    Abstract: This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists - committed to socialism, nationalism, or both - who would exert an extraordinary influence on Jewish history in the twentieth-century in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Palestine. Frankel describes the dynamics of 1905 and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers. But, elsewhere, he also looks backwards to the emergent stage of modern Jewish politics in both Russia and the West and forward to the part played by the veterans of 1905 in Palestine and the United States.
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    ISBN: 0521897009 , 0521721814 , 1281903922 , 9781281903921 , 9780511438011 , 9780521897006 , 9780521721813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 314 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Slavery in White and Black : Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
    DDC: 306.3/620775
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    Keywords: Capitalism History 19th century ; Slavery and the church History 19th century ; Industrialization Social aspects 19th century ; Labor History 19th century ; Slavery Justification ; Working class Social conditions 19th century ; Slavery Moral and ethical aspects 19th century ; History ; Southern States Intellectual life 19th century
    Abstract: This book asks to what extent Southern slaveholders believed the doctrine that enslavement was the best possible condition for all labor
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Manuscript Collections Cited; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Impending Collapse of Capitalism; 2 Hewers of Wood, Drawers of Water; 3 Travelers to the South, Southerners Abroad; 4 The Squaring of Circles; 5 The Appeal to Social Theory; 6 Perceptions and Realities; Afterword; Index
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    ISBN: 0511489099 , 0511424132 , 9780511489099 , 9780511424137
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 362 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Turmel, André, 1945- Historical sociology of childhood
    DDC: 305.23109182/1
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    Keywords: Children History ; Child development History ; Child Development ; Sociology history ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Child Development ; Child development ; Children ; Historische Soziologie ; Kind ; Sozialisation ; Psychosoziale Entwicklung ; Normalität ; Kategorisierung ; Standardisierung ; History
    Abstract: Children in the collective -- Graphs, charts and tabulations : the textual inscription of children -- Social technologies: regulation and resistance -- The normal child : translation and circulation -- Developmental thinking as a cognitive form.
    Abstract: What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology had moved to the forefront, transforming our thinking and understanding. Andre Turmel investigates these transformations both from the perspective of the scientific observation of children (public hygiene, paediatrics, psychology and education) and from a public policy standpoint (child welfare, health policy, education and compulsory schooling). Using detailed historical accounts from Britain, the USA and France, Turmel studies how historical sequential development and statistical reasoning have led to a concept of what constitutes a 'normal' child and resulted in a form of standardization by which we monitor children. He shows how western society has become a child-centred culture and asks whether we continue to base parenting and teaching on a view of children that is no longer appropriate
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511622168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 112 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 33
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    DDC: 306.4/83/0941
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    Keywords: Sports Economic aspects 19th century ; History ; Sports Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Sports Economic aspects 20th century ; History ; Sports Social aspects 19th century ; History ; Sports Economic aspects 18th century ; History ; Sports Social aspects 18th century ; History ; Sports ; Social aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century ; Sports ; Economic aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century ; Sports ; Social aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Sports ; Economic aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Sports ; Social aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; 20th century ; Sports ; Economic aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; 20th century
    Abstract: This book provides a concise, up-to-date survey of one of the most dramatic changes in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, the radical transformation which occurred in the extent and nature of its participation in sport. Neil Tranter focuses on the issues which have attracted most interest from historians of sport and poses a number of important questions: did levels of involvement in sport increase or decrease during the initial stages of urban-industrialisation? When did the new sporting culture first emerge, and what were its principal features and the mechanisms through which it spread? What were the main aims of the participants and supporters, and to what extent were these aims achieved? The author also discusses the economic consequences of this cultural change and the examines the role of women in this sporting 'revolution' and asks why their participation was so much more restricted than that of men
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511470738
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 198 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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    DDC: 305.5/2
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    Keywords: Qazdağlı family Political activity ; Power (Social sciences) History 18th century ; Households Political activity 18th century ; History ; Patron and client History 18th century ; Social networks History 18th century ; Elite (Social sciences) History 18th century ; Qazdağlı family ; Political activity ; Elite (Social sciences) ; Egypt ; History ; 18th century ; Power (Social sciences) ; Egypt ; History ; 18th century ; Households ; Political activity ; Egypt ; History ; 18th century ; Patron and client ; Egypt ; History ; 18th century ; Social networks ; Egypt ; History ; 18th century ; Egypt ; History ; 1517-1882 ; Egypt History 1517-1882
    Abstract: In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial variation on an empire-wide, household-based political culture. The study focuses on the Qazdagli household. Originally, a largely Anatolian contingent within Egypt's Janissary regiment, the Qazdaglis dominated Egypt by the late eighteenth century. Using Turkish and Arabic archival sources, Jane Hathaway sheds light on the manner in which the Qazdaglis exploited the Janissary rank hierarchy, while forming strategic alliances through marriage, commercial partnerships and the patronage of palace eunuchs
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 84 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 11
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    DDC: 304.8/094/09034
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    Keywords: Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; Europe Emigration and immigration ; History
    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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    ISBN: 9780511563560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 201 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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    DDC: 305.5/633/09569442
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    Keywords: Military government History 16th century ; Court records History 16th century ; Peasants Taxation 16th century ; History ; Peasants History 16th century ; Peasants ; Jerusalem Region ; History ; 16th century ; Peasants ; Taxation ; Jerusalem Region ; History ; 16th century ; Military government ; Jerusalem Region ; History ; 16th century ; Court records ; Jerusalem Region ; History ; 16th century
    Abstract: In a unique study of rural administration in the Ottoman Empire, Amy Singer explores the relationship between Palestinian peasants and Ottoman provincial officials around Jerusalem in the mid-sixteenth century. With the use of court records, the author provides a detailed account of local conditions of production, the mechanisms for assessing and collecting taxes, and the strategies that were evolved in evading them. The book emphasises the complex, colourful and interactive nature of Ottoman provincial administration, which, while obliged to extract revenues from the peasants and impress them with the power of imperial authority, was nevertheless profoundly influenced by local conditions and traditional practices in its dealings with the populace
    Abstract: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Note on transliteration -- Note on money, weights and measures -- Peasants, Palestine, and the Ottoman Empire -- Aspects of authority -- The rules of local administration -- Real accounts and accounting -- Between rebellion and oppression -- Realities and routines -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400961197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Comparative Studies in Overseas History 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Colonial cities
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    Keywords: History ; Kolonie ; Stadtentwicklung ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kolonialstadt
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change -- II: Case Studies -- 3. Central America’s Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600–1800) -- 4. Zeelandia, A Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624–1662) -- 5. An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799) -- 6. Eighteenth-Century Calcutta -- 7. Cape Town (1750–1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents -- 8. Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808–1850) -- 9. A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692–1938) -- 10. Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830–1961) -- 11. Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858–1945) -- 12. Dakar, Ville impériale (1857–1960) -- 13. Bombay: From Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662–1947) -- III: Epilogue -- 14. The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World -- Notes on the Contributors.
    Abstract: by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter­ mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in­ convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
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