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Introduction: The Uses and Abuses of History: Why Bother With It? -- Journalism and Democracy: A Sibling Rivalry? -- Technology, Work, and Business: Is Journalism More Than Just a Job? -- Ethics: A Matter of Judgment? -- Audience: Citizen Consumer or Consumer Citizen? -- Conclusion: A Future History

"The Establishment History Panel (BHP) consists of person-related data from the registration for social security contributions which were aggregated on the establishment level. In contrast to the Establishment Panel and the Linked-Employer-Employee Data (LIAB), the BHP is not a random sample but covers the total population. Each year, the BHP includes between 1.5 and 2.5 million establishments. The data are available for the years 1975 up to 2005. In comparison, Establishment Panel and LIAB data start in 1993 only. The BHP's yearly cross-sections can be merged to form a panel data set because the BHP includes the necessary identifiers. Comprehensive empirical studies concerning workplace dynamics are possible with this data set. A further considerable advantage of the BHP is that questions based on regional characteristics can be analysed and that the founding or closing date of an establishment can be identified. The possibility to combine the annual data sets into a single panel data set opens up a wide range of research questions. This article is intended to provide an outline of the data content, data access and possible research questions. The main topic of the following text is a description of the BHP base file. I will also sketch some of the future steps we will take to extend the data set by means of so-called extension files. Finally, I will describe a new FDZ project which uses BHP data." (author's abstract)

THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times------From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time. In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history - and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.-----'This is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland'All Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event' Tom HollandA 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS _ SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE _ FINANCIAL TIMES _ NEW EUROPEAN _ GUARDIAN _ NEW STATESMAN _ THE TIMES _ THE WEEK _ WATERSTONES _ BLACKWELL'S

1. Introduction: Game history and the local; Melanie Swalwell -- 2. Adventures in Everyday Spaces: Hyperlocal computer games in 1980-1990s Czechoslovakia; Jaroslav Švelch -- 3. 'The Last Cassette' and the Local Chronology of 8-bit Video Games in Poland; Maria B. Garda and Paweł Grabarczyk -- 4. Swedish Game Development History: The Founders and the social structure; Ulf Sandqvist -- 5. A Place for a Nintendo? Discourse on locale and players' topobiographical identity in the late 1980s and the early 1990s; Jaakko Suominen, Anna Sivula -- 6. On Footwork: Finding the local in American video game history; Laine Nooney -- 7. Bon Voyage: A global tour of local user groups with the Sorcerer of Exidy; Michael Borthwick and Melanie Swalwell -- 8. Cracking Technocultural Memory: Scenes and stories of origin in the PlayStation Portable forensic imaginary; David Murphy -- 9. Indie Games of No Nation: The transnational indie imaginary and the occlusion of national markers; John Vanderhoef -- 10. Video Games Have Never Been Global: Resituating video game localization history; Stephen Mandiberg -- 11. "Welcoming all gods and embracing all places": Computer games as constitutively transcendent of the local; Graeme Kirkpatrick -- 12. Heterodoxy in Game History: Toward more 'connected histories'; Melanie Swalwell.

Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called "scientific revolution" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizations

Prelude to revolution -- A land of contrasts -- Revolutionary politics -- The Revolution of 1905 -- The eve of war and revolution -- 1917 : the year of revolution -- The radicalization of society -- The Bolshevik rise to power -- Views of the Revolution -- The consolidation of Bolshevik rule, 1918-1921 -- The fate of the royal family -- Opposition and criticism -- The embrace of dictatorship -- Peasant resistance and the crisis of Kronstadt -- The road to socialism -- The transformation of culture and society -- Celebrating revolution -- The debate about NEP -- Stalin's revolution from above, 1928-1932 -- Beating Russia into the 20th century -- The war against the peasantry and church -- The world of five-year plans -- Picture essay: Women's liberation in the Soviet Union -- Soviet society and culture in the 1930s -- The cult of Stalin -- The Stalinist revolution -- The Great Terror -- The Gulag -- Three views of the purges -- The trial of Bukharin -- Literature and the purges -- Epilogue -- Assessments of Stalinism -- Reflection on the Soviet experience -- Timeline

"Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David W. Kling examines the dynamic of individuals, families, and people groups who turn to the Christian faith. Global in reach, this book progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Although conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming), it is, when examined over two millennia, a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion, and no easily demonstrable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples. It also engages current theories and models to explain conversion and examines recurring themes in the converting process: gender, agency, motivation, testimony, coercion, self-identity, "true" conversion, music, communication, the body, and divine presence. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is, to date, the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies"--

This article looks at early proposals for an international archive, at the different respects in which archives are international or transnational, and at the development since 1946 of the archives of international organizations. It suggests that the history of the UN's involvement with archives is itself a development of historical and even political interest.

Village Life and Labour edited by Raphael SamuelMiners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers edited by Raphael SamuelEast End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Hardin edited by Raphael SamuelPoor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1872-1923 Alun HowkinsTheatres of the Left, 1883-1935: Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and the US edited by Raphael Samuel, Ewan McColl and Stuart CosgroveLanguage, Gender and Childhood edited by Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin and Valerie WalkerdineThe Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction edited by Jean RadfordThe Enemy Within: Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984-5 edited by Raphael Samuel, Barbara Bloomfield and Guy BoanasNew Views of Co-operation edited by Stephen YeoMetropolis: London; Histories and Representations since 1900 edited by David Feldman and Gareth Stedman JonesPatriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, Vol. I: History and Politics edited by Raphael SamuelPatriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, Vol. II: Minorities and Outsiders edited by Raphael SamuelPatriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, Vol. III: National Fictions edited by Raphael Samuel

"Through case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history resources. After an overview of ethnic oral history material in general, the book gives an introduction to the oral history material of the Bai, Hani, Lisu, Wa, Zhuang, and Qiang ethnic groups; discusses theoretical research and work practices related to ethnic oral history; elaborates upon the methods for managing and integrating ethnic oral history archives; reviews the history, current state and existing issues of work related to ethnic oral materials; summarizes experiences gained from international collaboration in the conservation of ethnic oral materials; and reflects upon issues such as the development of ethnic oral history resources and the establishment of oral history resource systems in multi-ethnic border regions. As the result of research on the management of specialized archives and work related to oral archives, this book contributes towards the establishment of ethnic oral archival science as an academic discipline and enriching the knowledge structure of oral history and the science of managing oral archives"--