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Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession. By Todd H. Weir. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 304. Cloth $95.00. ISBN 978-1107041561
In: Central European history, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 574-575
ISSN: 1569-1616
Hakoah Vienna and the International Nature of Interwar Austrian Sports
In: Central European history, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 642-668
ISSN: 1569-1616
Hakoah Vienna was the most important Jewish sports organization in interwar Austria. Indeed, Hakoah, which means strength or power in Hebrew, was one of the most significant sports clubs on the continent of Europe during that period. This article examines the early history of Hakoah, its rise to international fame, and its demise in 1938 at the hands of the Nazis and their sympathizers in Austria.
The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848–1916. By Daniel L. Unowsky. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.2005. Pp. xiii+263. Paper $29.95. ISBN 1-55753-400-4
In: Central European history, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 516-518
ISSN: 1569-1616
The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany
In: Central European history, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 141-142
ISSN: 1569-1616
In the 1970s and'80s, scholars of religion in Central Europe would habitually claim that this topic was overlooked in histories of the modern era. On the one hand, prevailing paradigms of secularization and modernization seemed to squeeze out religion as a serious topic for analysis. On the other, old-fashioned institutional church histories, often apologetic in character, did not make religion seem like a very promising or exciting area for social and cultural historians. How things have changed. Now, confessional identity and religious culture are at the very heart of our understanding of modern Germany (and Austria). The work of Thomas Nipperdey, Margaret Lavinia Anderson, David Blackbourn, Helmut Walser Smith, Wolfgang Altgeld, and Jonathan Sperber, among many others, has revolutionized scholarship on Germany in particular and Central Europe in general. At present, it is hard to imagine serious discussions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries without some treatment of confessional issues. Many scholars would go much further and place religion and religious issues at the heart of political and intellectual developments in the modern era. Róisín Healy clearly falls into this latter camp. Her recent study, The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany, builds upon some of the perspectives and conclusions offered by recent scholarship and mines new ground in its portrayal of "Anti-Jesuitism" as a political and intellectual movement in Imperial Germany.
Mutter ledig — Vater Staat: Das Gebär- und Findelhaus in Wien, 1784–1910. By Verena Pawlowsky. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag. 2001. Pp. 340. Eur 33.00. ISBN 3–7065–1548–2
In: Central European history, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 296-298
ISSN: 1569-1616
Reviews: Helmut Walser Smith, ed., Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800—1914, Oxford and New York, Berg, 2001; xiii + 336 pp.; £14.99
In: European history quarterly, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 599-603
ISSN: 1461-7110
Francis Joseph. By Steven Beller. New York: Addison Wesley Longman. 1996. Pp. viii + 272. Cloth 47.95. ISBN 0-582-06090-7. Paper 16.95. ISBN 0-582-06089-3
In: Central European history, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 110-112
ISSN: 1569-1616
Ungleiche Partner? Österreich und Deutschland in ihrer gegenseitigen Wahrnehmung: Historische Analysen und Vergleiche aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Edited by Michael Gehler, Rainer F. Schmidt, Harm-Hinrich Brandt, and Rolf Steininger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 1996. Pp. 668. DM 198.00. 3-5...
In: Central European history, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 107-109
ISSN: 1569-1616
Die Protokolle des österreichischen Ministerrates, 1848-1867. Ed. with an introduction by Stefan Malfèr. Series 5, vol. 8 (25 May 1864 to 26 November 1864). Vienna: ÖBV Pädagogischer Verlag, 1994. xlvi, 330 pp. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Paper
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 450-451
ISSN: 2325-7784
The Counter-Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720. By Marc Forster. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1992. Pp. 288. $37.50. ISBN 0-8014-2566-2
In: Central European history, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 232-234
ISSN: 1569-1616
Ecology
"This sixth edition of Ecology, written for undergraduate students taking their first course in ecology, provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of fundamental ecological principles, with attention to relevant issues including climate change, spread of invasive species, and pollution. The text utilizes a variety of learning tools-such as Case Studies, Connections in Nature, Climate Change Connection vignettes, Ecological Toolkit boxes, and Learning Objectives-to engage students, highlight critical information, and make real-world connections to the source material. The text is complemented by an enhanced ebook and an updated, user-friendly digital suite full of interactive activities, quizzes, videos, and layered figures to reinforce key concepts"
Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado
In: Long-Term Ecological Research Network series
In: Oxford scholarship online
The alpine ecosystem features conditions near the limits of biological existence, and is a useful laboratory for asking more general ecological questions. This book provides an overview of an alpine ecosystem, based on research at Niwot Ridge, Colorado.
Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities
Temporal stability of ecosystem functioning increases the predictability and reliability of ecosystem services, and understanding the drivers of stability across spatial scales is important for land management and policy decisions. We used species-level abundance data from 62 plant communities across five continents to assess mechanisms of temporal stability across spatial scales. We assessed how asynchrony (i.e. different units responding dissimilarly through time) of species and local communities stabilised metacommunity ecosystem function. Asynchrony of species increased stability of local communities, and asynchrony among local communities enhanced metacommunity stability by a wide range of magnitudes (1–315%); this range was positively correlated with the size of the metacommunity. Additionally, asynchronous responses among local communities were linked with species' populations fluctuating asynchronously across space, perhaps stemming from physical and/or competitive differences among local communities. Accordingly, we suggest spatial heterogeneity should be a major focus for maintaining the stability of ecosystem services at larger spatial scales. ; Fil: Wilcox, Kevin R. Oklahoma State University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Tredennick, Andrew T. State University of Utah; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Koerner, Sally E. University of North Carolina; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Grman, Emily. Eastern Michigan University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Hallett, Lauren M. University of Oregon; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Avolio, Meghan L. University Johns Hopkins; Estados Unidos ; Fil: La Pierre, Kimberly J. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Houseman, Gregory R. Wichita State University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Forest, Isbell. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Johnson, David Samuel. Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Alatalo, Juha M. Qatar University; Qatar ; Fil: Baldwin, Andrew H. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Bork, Edward W. University of Alberta; Canadá ; Fil: Boughton, Elizabeth H. MacArthur Agroecology Research Center; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Bowman, William D. University of Colorado; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Britton, Andrea J. James Hutton Institute; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Cahill, James F. University of Alberta; Canadá ; Fil: Collins, Scott L. University of New Mexico; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Du, Guozhen. Lanzhou University; China ; Fil: Eskelinen, Anu. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Alemania. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Alemania. University of Oulu; Finlandia ; Fil: Gough, Laura. Towson University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Jentsch, Anke. University of Bayreuth; Alemania ; Fil: Kern, Christel. United States Forest Service; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Klanderud, Kari. Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Noruega ; Fil: Knapp, Alan K. Colorado State University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Kreyling, Juergen. Greifswald University; Alemania ; Fil: Luo, Yiqi. Oklahoma State University; Estados Unidos. Northern Arizona University; Estados Unidos. Tsinghua University; China ; Fil: McLaren, James E. University of Texas at El Paso; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Megonigal, Patrick. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Onipchenko, Vladimir. Moscow State Lomonosov University; Rusia ; Fil: Prevéy, Janet. Pacific Northwest Research Station; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Price, Jodi N. Charles Sturt University; Australia ; Fil: Robinson, Clare H. University of Manchester; Reino Unido ; Fil: Sala, Osvaldo Esteban. Arizona State University; Estados Unidos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina ; Fil: Smith, Melinda D. Colorado State University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. Leiden University; Países Bajos ; Fil: Souza, Lara. Oklahoma State University; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Tilman, David. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos ; Fil: White, Shannon R. Government of Alberta; Canadá ; Fil: Xu, Zhuwen. Chinese Academy of Sciences; República de China ; Fil: Yahdjian, María Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina ; Fil: Yu, Qiang. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; China ; Fil: Zhang, Pengfei. Lanzhou University; China ; Fil: Zhang, Yunhai. Chinese Academy of Sciences; República de China. University Aarhus; Dinamarca
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