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Die Arbeit ist eine Fallstudie zur Geschichte des neuzeitlichen Fürstenhofs und nimmt den Tatbestand zum Ausgangspunkt, daß der russische Zarenhof in der modernen Hof- und Absolutismusforschung kaum eine Rolle spielt. Gegenstand ist die Hofgesellschaft unter Katharina II. Anhand funktionaler und quantitativer Kriterien werden die Personenkreise, die sich für die Konstituierung der Hofgesellschaft als relevant erwiesen, sowohl differenziert als auch in ihren politischen wie sozialen Beziehungen hierarchisiert und analysiert: von eher repräsentativen Ämtern bis zu dem engen Kreis einflußreicher Administratoren um die Monarchin. Auf dieser Grundlage werden einzelne Themenfelder abgesteckt zur Untersuchung der herrschaftspolitischen Strukturen des Hofes und seiner Funktionen in einem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Kontext, insbesondere im Spannungsfeld von aufgeklärter Reformprogrammatik und autokratisch-absolutistischer Herrschaftsordnung. Dazu gehören die ökonomischen Voraussetzungen höfischer Existenz; die Traditionen politischer und kultureller Deutungsmuster in der Hofgesellschaft und die unter anderem daraus resultierenden Erwartungshaltungen; die zeremonialen und rituellen Strukturen des Hoflebens sowie die Wirkmächtigkeit der Repräsentationsstrategien und die Wahrnehmung durch die Betroffenen; das Bild des Höflings und die Hofkritik; das Verhältnis von Festkultur, Hofgesellschaft und Öffentlichkeit. Dabei wird der Versuch unternommen, anschlußfähige Fragestellungen für vergleichende Studien zu entwickeln. ; As a case-study, this doctoral thesis explores the Russian court society in the time of Catherine II, a topic, which in general has been ignored in most discussions concerning the court in the Age of Absolutism. The separate groups constituting the court society are determined by functional and quantitative categories as well as systematized and analysed in their political and social relationship: from positions with more representative functions up to the close inner circle of influential administrators around the monarch. On this basis the political structures of the court and its functions in a broader social context are researched, particularly its position in the conflict situation between enlightened reform objectives and autocratic-absolutist political system. Among the different subjects are the economic prerequisits of life at court; the traditions of political and cultural thinking in the court society and the attitudes and expectations of its members; the ceremonial and ritual structuring of life at court as well as the effectiveness of the strategies of representation and the perception by the persons affected; the imagery of a courtier and the criticism of court; the relationship between the different kinds of festivities and the court society and the public sphere. At the same time, the study offers further questions for comparative research.

"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world." Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle East, Cook returns a sense of wonder to how Muhammad could not only become a prophet of a new monotheistic religion but also unite the Arab tribes behind it and create a state that would conquer much of the territory that belonged to the Byzantines and the Sasanians, the two empires that had balanced power in the region for hundreds of years. Exploring the high culture of the Abbasids, Cook then charts the disintegration of the Caliphate and the brief rise of the Fatimids and the Mongols of the Steppe. He covers the Ottomans (Turkish), Safavids (Iranian), Mughals (India), and ventures to East Africa, Madagascar, Somalia, Southeast Asia, and many places between. An epilogue gestures to major themes in the post-1800 world"--

Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion. This book explores anti-Catholicism in Britain and its Dominions, and forms part of a notable revival over the last decade in the critical historical analysis of anti-Catholicism. It employs transnational and comparative historical approaches throughout, thanks to the exploration of relevant original sources both in the United Kingdom and in Australia and Canada, several of them untapped by other scholars. It applies a 'four nations' approach to British history, thus avoiding an Anglocentric viewpoint

Providing a historical overview of healthcare in Italy from its unification in 1861 to the present COVID-19 pandemic, this book analyses the political, social and cultural impact of Italian healthcare policy and medicine. The author examines the development of public health, hospitals, and primary care, and the building of healthcare systems across three political regimes in Italy: the liberal period (1861-1914), Fascism (1922-43), and the Italian Republic (1948 to the present day). By emphasising the embeddedness of health-related legislation in Italy's political and social background, this book offers a comparative account of Italian health policy, and contrasts this with developments in neighbouring European countries, Canada and the United States. The book focuses on the Italian government's reaction to the social and political impact of several diseases: pellagra; cholera; malaria; and tuberculosis, and explores the present-day response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. A timely and comprehensive read, this book will appeal to those teaching and researching Italian history and the history of medicine and healthcare more widely

Die Vorstellung, über die Lektüre des Volkes dessen Denken zu beeinflussen, ist eine Frucht des 19. Jahrhunderts. Volkserziehung durch Volksbibliotheken ist somit ein alter Topos in der deutschen Volksbildungsdebatte. Das "Wie" war allerdings seit dem "Richtungsstreit" der Volksbibliothekare heftig umstritten zwischen den mehr autoritativ orientierten "Hofmannianern" einerseits und den mehr liberal-aufklärerisch orientierten "Ackerknechtianern" andererseits. Das vorliegende Buch handelt von der Wirkungsgeschichte und Bandbreite dieser Kontroverse seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zu beiden folgenden Diktaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland.

This article analyses the relationship between history and the social sciences. Historians and social scientists were long regarded as separate or even opposite in their methodological and analytical approaches. The opening of the historians' ranks towards the social sciences became strongly apparent between the two world wars when the group of historians associated with the journal «Les Annales» set out to replace the «traditionally oriented narrative of events» by a «problem-oriented analytical history». The 1980s were also the time when the «linguistic turn» spread to the historical studies, paving the way for cooperation with other subjects, but also complicating relations with some sectors of the social sciences. Social and political phenomena have a historical dimension which needs to be reckoned with. Collaboration presupposes recognising the respective scientific premises, and not falling into methodological monism.

Philipp Graf ; Inhaltsverzeichnis ; Inhaltsverzeichnis ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 2008.55534