Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice
In: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Ser.
In: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Ser.
In: Monographs in German History
The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived plight of unwed women. Case studies of reformers, including Lily Braun, Ruth Bré, Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne, Helene Lange, Alice Salomon, Helene Stöcker, and Clara Zetkin, demonstrate the expansive influence of the discourse surrounding a female surfeit. By combining cultural, social, and gender history, The Surplus Woman provides the first sustained analysis of imperial Germans' anxiety over female marital status as both a product and a reflection of changing times.
In: European history quarterly, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 43-63
ISSN: 1461-7110
The article discusses how the process and timing of urbanization as well as the consequent social cleavages related to the cultural division of labour affected the local politics of Greek and Bulgarian nationalism in the Ottoman provincial town of Monastir (now Bitola) at the turn of the century. It maintains the view that nationalism extensively exploited social divisions and individual aspirations, but could neither ignore the laws of the free-market economy nor hastily forge ethnic cohesion. The argument is supported by a presentation of the Macedonian economy, an examination of the labour market in particular, and an investigation of living conditions in the suburbs of Monastir. The basic source are three personal notebooks with family expenses which belonged to a wealthy Vlach merchant. They are most detailed, comprising some 7,000 entries, and cover day by day the period from September 1897 until October 1911.
In: Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 227
Those of us who work on the Indian princely states sometimes seem to share a certain marginalization, a certain distance from the debates shaping the writing of South Asian history today. We also share, more positively, views of that history that do not focus on British colonial rule and are not based on colonial sources, views that arguably offer more continuity with pre-British history and alternative visions of the South Asian past, present, and future.
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In: EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures 4
As the largest class action suit in Canadian history, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (2007-2015) had a great impact on the lives of Aboriginal survivors across Canada. In a rare account exploring survivor perspectives, Anne-Marie Reynaud considers the settlement's reconciliatory aspiration in conjunction with the local reality for the Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nations in Quebec. Drawing from anthropological fieldwork, this carefully crafted book weaves survivor experiences of the financial compensations and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission together with current theorizing on emotions, memory, trauma and transitional justice.
In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 49-72
ISSN: 1744-0521
In: History of European ideas, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 139-161
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: The Northern World volume 96
This volume explores constitutional reform, and in particular expansions in the franchise. It presents evidence covering the origins of these transitions and the subsequent development of demands for reform.The volume also presents evidence of the limits of change and the persistence of certain traditional aspects of the constitution
This volume covers the interaction of society - the people, groups and organisations that made it up - with the constitution. It includes documents generated by working class and middle-class reform campaigners; advocates of votes for women; and people of diverse outlooks on matters of religious faith
This volume considers the UK as a state that was both internally differentiated and placed a premium on its external relations and world power. It contains documents dealing with the implications of the multinational status of the UK. It contains material relevant to the constitutional impact of the UK on the outside world
In: Middle East quarterly, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 31-42
ISSN: 1073-9467
In: Religion in transforming Africa 2
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria, Muslims, Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance. But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK- and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives. It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the deity Sàngó, its old Islamic compounds and its Christian institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an alternative approach to religious difference.BR> Insa Nolte is Reader in African Studies at the University of Birmingham, and Visiting Research Professor at Osun State University, Osogbo. She is President of the African Studies Association of the UK (2016-18) and Principal Investigator of the ERC project "Knowing Each Other: Everyday Religious Encounters, Social Identities and Tolerance in Southwest Nigeria". Olukoya Ogen is Provost of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo; Professor of History at Osun State University, Osogbo; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is the Nigerian coordinator of the "Knowing Each Other" project. Rebecca Jones is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the "Knowing Each Other" project. Her book, A Cultural History of Nigerian Travel Writing, will be published by James Currey in 2017. Nigeria: Adeyemi College Academic Press (paperback)
Die archäologische Erschließung von bislang über 1000 Relikten ehemaliger Holzkohlemeiler im Vorfeld des Braunkohletagebaues Jänschwalde in der Niederlausitz führte zu einer umfassenden Untersuchung des örtlichen vorindustriellen Kulturlandschaftswandels. In diesem Kontext sollte der Hauptabnehmer der hier produzierten Holzkohle, das Peitzer Eisenhüttenwerk, auch aus historiographischer Perspektive eingehender untersucht werden. Ziel der vorliegenden Dissertation ist demnach die Bewertung des Einflusses, den der Betrieb des Werkes auf die Kulturlandschaft im Untersuchungsgebiet ausübte. Neben der quellenbasierten Aufarbeitung der Werksgeschichte wurde hierbei vor allem die Organisation der Rohstoffnutzung hinsichtlich Erschließung, Transport und Verbrauch aller für die Eisenproduktion benötigten Ressourcen, wie auch der zugehörigen Abbaugebiete und Forstreviere analysiert. Die angewandte Methodik folgte der gängigen historiographischen Arbeitspraxis der Quellenkritik einschlägiger archivalischer Dokumente und der Literaturanalyse. Dabei zeigte sich unter anderem, dass der Einfluss des Hüttenwerkes nicht isoliert vom Geflecht staatlicher Wirtschaftsinteressen betrachtet werden kann, sondern nur ein in zeitlicher Perspektive veränderlich gewichteter Aspekt in den Erwägungen zur wirtschaftlichen Inwertsetzung der Landschaft darstellte. Die durch äußere und innere Faktoren eingeschränkte Eisenproduktion, die sich nahezu durch die gesamte Betriebszeit des Hüttenwerkes zog sowie die gleichzeitige stetig angestiegene Konkurrenz in- und ausländischer Eisenproduzenten führte im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts zu einem zunehmenden Bedeutungsverlust des Werkes innerhalb der wirtschaftlichen Erwägungen Preußens. In gleichem Maße nahm die potentielle Einflussnahme des Werkes auf die Kulturlandschaft ab, da auch der Zugriff auf das Holz immer stärker reglementiert wurde. Dennoch stellte das Peitzer Eisenhüttenwerk ein Symbol für den vorindustriellen Wandel einer Kulturlandschaft dar, die vornehmlich mit der industriellen Braunkohleförderung in Verbindung gebracht wird. ; The archaeological excavation of more than 1000 relicts of former charcoal hearths in the lignite mine Jänschwalde (Niederlausitz, Brandenburg, Germany) was the starting point to extensively study the local change of the cultural landscape during preindustrial times. In this context the main consumer of the produced charcoal, which was the ironwork Peitz, should be studied in detail using a historiographical approach. The dissertation aims to evaluate the influence of the ironwork on the cultural landscape development. In addition to the theoretical review of the ironwork history, based upon sources particularly the organisation of using raw materials concerning coverage, transport and consumption of resources needed for the iron production as well as corresponding excavation areas and forest territories have been analysed. The applied methods follow the common historiographical practice of source criticism of relevant archival documents and the synthesis of literature. In doing so, among other things, it became apparent that the influence of the ironwork cannot be considered separately from the network of governmental business interests but represented an in temporal perspective variably weighted aspect in the considerations about the economic development of landscape. The production of iron – restricted by external and internal criteria almost the entire working period of the ironwork – and the simultaneous steadily increasing rivalry of domestic and foreign producers of iron resulted in an incremental loss of significance of the ironwork within Prussian economic contemplations in the course of the 18th century. To the same degree the potential exertion of influence of the ironwork on the cultural landscape decreased since the access to wood had been regulated more and more as well. Nevertheless the ironwork Peitz represented a symbol of the preindustrial change of a cultural landscape which in particular is associated with the industrial extraction of lignite.
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