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Was 1897 auf einer kleinen Ostseeinsel seinen Anfang nahm, ist heute allgegenwärtig: als wogende gelbe Felder, als Biosprit und als gesundes Speiseöl. Raps -kaum eine andere Pflanze ist so sehr mit der deutschen Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert verwoben. Der Weg der Kulturpflanze führt von der Liebhaberei eines Pflanzenzüchters über die Ersatzstoffkultur in der Zeit der Weltkriege und die Agrarrevolution der Nachkriegszeit bis zum Rapsboom im Zeichen der Energiewende. Zugleich war Raps Teil der deutsch-deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte. Den modernen Raps gab es als Diskursprodukt, bevor er als pflanzliche Realität existierte. Züchterische Leistungen verbanden sich mit einem Wechselspiel in einem breiten Kreis von Akteuren, der Landwirte und Konsumenten ebenso umfasste wie Wissenschaftler und Agrarpolitiker. Damit zeigt das Buch zugleich Perspektiven einer Stoffgeschichte, die nicht nur an der Oberfläche des Materiellen verharrt.
Rapeseed. --- Agriculture. --- History, Modern.
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Warum bildete sich im Deutschen Kaiserreich die Vorstellung einer "Mitteleuropäischen Zeit" (MEZ) heraus? Wieso kam es hier 1916 erstmals zur Verordnung einer "Sommerzeit"? Welche Erfahrungen wurden mit dem "Achtstundentag" gemacht? Und bis zu welchem Grad orientierten sich die Menschen überhaupt an offiziellen Vorgaben abstrakter Zeit? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht Caroline Rothauge auf einer breiten Quellenbasis sowie unter Berücksichtigung transnationaler Wechselbeziehungen und technisch-materieller Aspekte nach. Ihre Studie zeigt, dass temporale Aushandlungsprozesse in Deutschland zwischen 1879 und 1919 höchst dynamisch und konfliktreich waren. Sie mündeten nicht in einer standardisierten Form der Zeitordnung, sondern führten – paradoxerweise – zu einer weiteren Pluralisierung von Zeiten. So bietet Rothauges Buch einen nuancierten Blick auf das Deutsche Kaiserreich, ein 'langes' 19. Jahrhundert und die '(Hoch-)Moderne'.
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This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation and imperial expansion, the industrializing powers of the world helped to create inter-connected global space that left few regions untouched. In ten concise chapters, this book relays the major shifts in global power, economics and society, outlining the interconnections of global industrial, imperial and economic change for local and regional experiences, identities and politics. It finishes with an exposé on the catastrophic impact of the First World War on this global system. The First Age of Industrial Globalization weaves together the histories of industrialization, world economy, imperialism, international law, diplomacy and war, which historians usually treat as separate developments, and integrates them to offer a new analysis of an era of fundamental historical change. It shows that the revolutionary changes in politics, society and international affairs experienced in the 19th century were inter-connected developments. It is essential reading for any student of modern global history. --
History, Modern --- Globalization --- Industrialization --- History
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The Balkans provided the escape route for tens of thousands of German Jews, and remained a place of refuge until the Nazis brutally shut it off with the mass murder of Jewish refugees on the so-called Kladovo transport starting in September 1941, which can be considered as the beginning of the Holocaust in Europe. Responding to publications about the Western European and American exile experience of the Jews after 1933, this book offers comparative insights into the less trodden paths of the persecuted, illuminating the cultural and political context of the Balkan host countries, the response of local Jewish communities, and the reactions of common people and assorted criminals. The Balkans, often marginalised and loathed, emerges in hundreds of personal accounts of survivors gathered here, supplemented by extensive archival research, as a welcoming getaway, where thousands survived thanks to the Italian occupiers, illiterate peasants, and Communist-led Partisan resisters.
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An examination of global politics, emphasizing American hegemony and the rise of Asian economies.
Capitalism --- History, Modern --- History --- E-books
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This book provides a crosscutting interdisciplinary account of how the disintegrated, global subsistence economy circa 1800 has transformed into a global complex delivering unprecedented levels of material production and consumption. Applying major findings from economics, history/historiography, and sociology (as well as from anthropology, psychology, politics, and environmental studies), the analysis tracks the ways in which changes in 'society' (including social structures, values, and forces) have changed 'individuals' (including conceptions of race, gender, and identity) and vice versa. These changes have simultaneously homogenised and diversified societies and individuals in distinct but sometimes contradictory ways, opening up many possible worlds from an individual and group perspective. Yet, the scale and pace of change has also led to increasing existential challenges.The narrative consists of 30 chapters organized into 10 subsets of 3: one chapter on a relevant core idea; one chapter focused on historical narrative and titled after a representative year; and one chapter on a relevant associated crosscutting theme. Major regional and topical discussions are provided, with special attention paid to business and organisational change and developing world scholarship. Small discussion 'boxes' focusing on illustrative cases and details are presented throughout the book. The last chapter contains over-arching conclusions.
Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Economic history. --- History, Modern.
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This edited collection brings together thirteen inaugural lectures given at the 'old' philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna. It presents the voices of important representatives of humanities, cultural and natural sciences through programmatic texts from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Some published for the first time, the lectures have been annotated by renowned scholars in terms of disciplinary, scientific and academic history as well as socio-political context. Hence, this volume contributes substantially to the so far under-researched history of the inaugural lecture as a university ritual, academic practice and text-genre. With inaugural lectures by Alexander Conze, Erich Schmidt, Ernst Mach, Elise Richter, Ludwig Boltzmann, Moritz Schlick, Erwin Schrödinger and others.
History, Modern --- Study and teaching. --- Universität Wien.
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Die Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte (FzbG) ist eine seit 2006 erscheinende Publikationsreihe der estnischen Akademischen Historischen Gesellschaft (Akadeemiline ajalooselts). Sie verstehen sich als ein akademisches Journal im Bereich der historischen area studies. Über den jeweils engen sprachlichen Rahmen der einzelnen Staaten Estland, Lettland und Litauen hinaus soll nicht zuletzt die innerbaltische fachliche Kommunikation gefördert werden. Die FzbG pflegen einen regionalen Schwerpunkt auf dem "historischen" Baltikum (Estland, Livland und Kurland, d.h. ungefähr die heutigen Republiken Estland und Lettland), doch sind auch Beiträge zur litauischen Geschichte willkommen. Der zeitliche Rahmen der Artikel reicht aber von der Frühzeit bis zur post-sowjetischen Periode. Darüber hinaus sind insbesondere Beiträgen willkommen, die sich mit den überregionalen Zusammenhängen in Nordosteuropa auseinandersetzen.
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In this book Peer Vries is the first scholar to provide an extensive test of the claim that industrialization in East Asia, in particular in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and World War Two, would have been much more labour intensive than industrialization in the West. He does this by systematically comparing the role and importance of labour and capital in Japan and in a number of Western countries at a similar stage of their industrial development. He uses macro-economic data as well as specific observations by people at the time. It turns out that there is no reason to distinguish a specific labour-intensive Japanese route of industrialization. His comparative analysis provides us with a better understanding of the logic of industrialization in both West and East.
History, Modern. --- Economics. --- Economic history. --- East Asia --- Japan --- Economic conditions
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