Suchergebnisse

1. A Social History of Cattle Trading in Weimar Germany -- 2. Trust and Cattle Trading -- 3. Constituting Trust through Official Authority -- 4. Destroying Trust by Force under Nazism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Note on Primary Sources Cited in Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects -- About the Author.

Cover -- Contents -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction: Flight and Refugees in Historical Perspective -- Refugees as a field of research -- Flight and migration -- Reflections on space: A larger Europe -- 1. The Roots of Intolerance: Religious Conflicts and Religious Refugees -- 1.1 The Spanish Muslims and Jews -- 1.2 The refuge of the Huguenots -- 1.3 The Reconquista of Southeastern Europe -- 1.4 Flight from pogroms -- 1.5 Victims and perpetrators: The late Ottoman Empire -- 1.6 The long legacy of religious violence -- 2. The Two Faces of Nationalism: Ethnic Cleansing and National Solidarity -- 2.1 The rise of modern nationalism and the"long" First World War -- 2.2 The "clean sweep": Mass flight and population removal in the1940s -- 2.3 The case of Palestine -- 2.4. Postcolonial flight and remigration -- 2.5 Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia -- 2.6 The (ir)responsibility to protect -- 3. Political Refugees and the Emergence of an International Refugee Policy -- 3.1 The making of the modern refugee in the "long" nineteenth century -- 3.2 The Russian Civil War and the nascent international refugee regime -- 3.3 Flight from fascism -- 3.4 The early Cold War and displaced persons -- 3.5 Open doors to the West: 1956, 1968, and the "boat people -- 3.6 Flight from Poland and the first turn against refugees -- 4. Refugee Politics after the Cold War -- 4.1 Humanitarianism after 1989 and "Fortress Europe -- 4.2 The Syrian and the European "refugee crisis -- 4.3 The limits of humanitarianism -- 4.4 Experiences of flight: A summary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Archival Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized financial capitalism, Jürgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history. Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. EARLY ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- 2. CLASSICAL ECONOMICS -- 3. MARX AND THE SOCIALISTS -- 4. THE RISE OF MARGINALISM -- 5. MARSHALL AND THE THEORY OF PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM -- 6. UTILITARIANISM, WELFARE THEORY, AND SYSTEMS DEBATE -- 7. IMPERFECT COMPETITION -- 8. SCHUMPETER AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION -- 9. KEYNES AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EFFECTIVE DEMAND -- 10. REACTIONS TO KEYNES -- 11. GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY AND WELFARE THEORY -- 12. DEVELOPMENTS IN SELECTED FIELDS -- A FINAL WORD -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history.Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike.Concise and authoritative, Decolonization is the essential introduction to this momentous chapter in history, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today

Germany's institutional anatomy, its norms, and the spirits that animate it can only be properly understood if one takes into account such factors as its economic power and central position within Europe. This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity, offering new perspectives on the "German question," largely characterized by the absence of key ideological underpinnings of democracy in the early modern period and a constitutional exceptionalism on the eve of the 20th century. The essays describe the organizational infrastructure and behavioral norms that account for the success of Germany's postwar economy and polity, but also register the tensions between the increasingly individualist outlook of post-1968 Germans and the country's highly organized and ritualistic decision-making structures, which often severely test the democratic foundations of the republic. However, Germany is not unique in its efforts to find a balance between traditional and modern forces that have shaped its history. This volume demonstrates that Germany's experience, past and present, teaches broader lessons that speak to the central concerns of our time: what are the historical precursors of and vital attitudes towards democracy? How much structural variation will be feasible in political economies embedded in Europe after the introduction of the Euro and in the context of economic and other globalization? The considerable insights into these questions provided by this volume celebrate the inspiration given to colleagues and students who have worked with Andrei S. Markovits, to whom it is dedicated