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The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, kings, lords, and central states) is a recurrent feature of European history over time, from Antiquity to the contemporary period. This volume explores the political, social, and cultural aspects of this feature in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Roman Empire to today's city partnerships. To this end, it uses the concept of polycentric governance. Originally developed by political economist Vincent Ostrom in the 1960s and then expanded by the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, political scientist Elinor Ostrom, this concept characterises the interdependent system of relations between different actors involved in a process and, for that reason, it is frequently used in policy studies. This volume applies the concept of polycentric governance to historical studies as a heuristic device to analyse the multilayer systems into which cities were integrated at various points in European history, as well as the implications of the coexistence of different political structures. Fourteen chapters examine the structures, the dynamics, and the discourse of polycentric governance through various case studies from the Roman Empire, from medieval towns, from early modern Europe, and from contemporary cities. The volume suggests that for extended periods of time throughout European history, polycentric governance has played a pivotal role in the organisation and distribution of political power

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Einleitung / Przyrembel, Alexandra / Scheel, Claudia -- I. ,Meistererzählungen': Europa und Erinnerung -- Wyld's Great Globe / Scheel, Claudia -- Die Bastille / Kruse, Wolfgang -- Vom Hochverräter zum Leitbild / Schlegelmilch, Arthur -- August 1914 / Kruse, Wolfgang -- Fremdenlegion postkolonial / Hardt, Lucas -- II. Gewalterzählungen: Zivilisationsbruch und Erinnerung -- Armenien und die visuelle 'Erfindung' der Überlebenden im frühen 20. Jahrhundert / Przyrembel, Alexandra -- Das sandige Gelände von Babij Jar / Przyrembel, Alexandra -- Der kleine Junge aus dem Warschauer Ghetto / Gregor, Florian -- Adolf Eichmann hinter Glas / Davies, Catherine -- III. Nachkriegserzählungen: Verarbeitung und Erinnerung -- Die Rote Flagge auf dem Reichstag / Geisler, Saskia -- Gegendenkmäler / Neumann, Arndt -- Atombombe / Marti, Sibylle -- Auswahlbibliografie -- Danksagung

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