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Die offenere Haltung der Republik Südafrika gegenüber den afrikanischen Staaten und umgekehrt ist durch verschiedene wichtige Veränderungen außerhalb (Unabhängigkeit Namibias) und innerhalb Südafrikas bedingt. Der Autor untersucht sechs entscheidende politische und wirtschaftliche Faktoren, die den Wandel bewirkt haben, und zeigt deren Abhängigkeit von dem künftigen innenpolitischen Klima des Landes auf. (DÜI-Ott)

On one level, this article examines a delimited demographic crisis in the provincial Philippines : an apparently precipitous decline in the population of Batangas between 1887 and 1903. On another, it sub- jects to scrutiny two of the major sources of Philippine historical demography — parish records and the census of 1903.
This study finds that both the parish records and the census are seriously flawed. The chief deficiency of the former is under-registration of events, especially in the burial registers, which in one year alone failed to include at least 31 percent of the deceased. The latter, which has often been used by demographers as a baseline in population projections, undercounts the population of Batangas by no fewer than 10,000 people, approximately 4 percent of the total count.
Given tbe flaws of the sources, the author is unable to account for the observed population décline in Batangas with any précision, but it is able, all the same, to make an informed guess about the principal demographic trends of the period. Between 1887 and 1898, natural increase in the province appeared to be minimal, because of an abnormally high level of mortality due to epidemic disease. Conditions then seemed to improve slightly between 1899 and 1901, and the level of mortality decreased. Finally, in 1902, there were two successive epidemies — malaria and cholera — which together were responsible for most of the population decline ; all in all, during that single year alone, the natural decrease was close to 34,000.

Anthony Glenn Cross, Karamzin's Moskovskii zhurnal: voice of a writer, broadsheet of a movement.
Although it rarely receives the emphasis it deserves, Karamzin's activity as a journalist was of paramount importance for his development as a writer and for the influence he exerted on the contemporary reading public. He served his journalistic apprenticeship as co-editor of Novikov's Detskoe chtcnie, Russia's first journal for children. After his return from his European travels he published his first independent journal, Moskovskii zhurnal, and followed this, a decade later, by Vestnik Evropy, widely acknowledged as the first of the tolslye zhurnaly of the nineteenth century. It was on the pages of these journals that Karamzin published the majority of his stories, translations, essays, poems and much of Pis'ma russkogo puteshestvennika. Moskovskii zhurnal occupies a particular place in Karamzin's career: it was in this journal that the young writer First made his impact, finding an original voice and heralding the triumph of the "literature of feeling".

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