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The promise of America Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18 The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between the fronts of the world powers. The surrounding struggle for global domination caused serious difficulties for the small state. Cut off from important food imports, resulting from the indiscriminate German submarine warfare, it turned for help to the USA. The pleas of a high-ranking “Swiss Mission” sent across the Atlantic were heeded: The USA supplied the landlocked country with grain thus averting famine. While America thus boosted its reputation, the German empire became more of a threat. Agitation increased when German agents were convicted in spy scandals and trials of bombers in Zurich. Despite German propaganda, the German empire was unable to maintain its influence in Switzerland. German diplomats, as representatives of the unpopular old order, were expelled from Switzerland when the Central Powers collapsed in the fall of 1918. The USA under President Woodrow Wilson was, in contrast, enthusiastically celebrated. This study, just barely one hundred years later, enables a new view of one of the most animated periods in Swiss history, offering an opportunity to reflect on the relation of this small country to the rest of the world.

World War (1914-1918) --- World War, 1914-1918 --- United States --- Switzerland --- Foreign relations --- Economic conditions --- usa --- world war i --- germany --- foreign policy --- Deutschland --- Schweiz --- Sulzer AG --- Vereinigte Staaten

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The promise of America Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18 The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between the fronts of the world powers. The surrounding struggle for global domination caused serious difficulties for the small state. Cut off from important food imports, resulting from the indiscriminate German submarine warfare, it turned for help to the USA. The pleas of a high-ranking “Swiss Mission” sent across the Atlantic were heeded: The USA supplied the landlocked country with grain thus averting famine. While America thus boosted its reputation, the German empire became more of a threat. Agitation increased when German agents were convicted in spy scandals and trials of bombers in Zurich. Despite German propaganda, the German empire was unable to maintain its influence in Switzerland. German diplomats, as representatives of the unpopular old order, were expelled from Switzerland when the Central Powers collapsed in the fall of 1918. The USA under President Woodrow Wilson was, in contrast, enthusiastically celebrated. This study, just barely one hundred years later, enables a new view of one of the most animated periods in Swiss history, offering an opportunity to reflect on the relation of this small country to the rest of the world.

World War (1914-1918) --- World War, 1914-1918 --- usa --- world war i --- germany --- foreign policy --- Deutschland --- Schweiz --- Sulzer AG --- Vereinigte Staaten --- United States --- Switzerland --- Foreign relations --- Economic conditions

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Der Sammelband rückt Prozesse der Devianz, Polarisierung und Hybridisierung in der Stadtentwicklung in den Mittelpunkt. Im Oktober und November 2005 erschüttern landesweite Unruhen in den banlieues, den Vorstädten, die französische Politik und Gesellschaft. In das mediale und auch wissenschaftliche Scheinwerferlicht rücken Fragen der Stadtentwicklung, der Devianz, sozialräumlicher Fragmentierung und Exklusion, gerade von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Zehn Jahre danach beleuchtet der Sammelband die Frage, wohin sich die französische Gesellschaft, die Großwohnsiedlungen und ,Problemgebiete‘ sowie die Stadtpolitik entwickelt haben. Grundlegender wird darüber hinaus über internationale Perspektiven aktuellen Fragen von Polarisierung und Hybridisierung sich zersplitternder Stadtentwicklung nachgespürt: fraktalen Metropolen. Der Inhalt · Fraktale Metropolen: Stadtentwicklung zwischen Devianz, Polarisierung und Hybridisierung · Frankreich im Brennpunkt · Theorieorientierte und internationale Perspektiven. Die Zielgruppen StadtforscherInnen, Sozial- und KulturgeographInnen Die Herausgeber Dr. Florian Weber ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektkoordinator an der Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf. Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne ist Professor für ,Ländliche Räume/Regionalmanagement‘ an der Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf und außerplanmäßiger Professor für Geographie an der Universität des Saarlandes.

Human geography. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- Culture. --- Architecture. --- Criminology. --- Human Geography. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Criminology and Criminal Justice, general. --- Equality.

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Die Energiewende verändert in Deutschland mit dem Ausstieg aus der Kernkraft und dem Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien in weitreichender Weise bisherige Strukturen der Energieversorgung und wirkt sich dabei räumlich stark aus. Biomasse-, Windkraft- und Photovoltaikanlagen stellen einige der physisch sichtbaren Manifestationen dar. Hinzukommen neue Stromtrassen. Diese Entwicklungsprozesse laufen allerdings keineswegs konfliktfrei ab. Das Buch gibt Einblicke in unterschiedliche Facetten, unterschiedliche Bausteine der Energiewende und ordnet diese ein. Der Inhalt Theoretische und konzeptionelle Perspektiven auf die Energiewende • Politische und strukturelle Herausforderungen im Zuge von Klimaschutz und Energiewende • Energiekonflikte: Ästhetik, Planung, Steuerung und praktischer Umgang • Unter Strom: praktische Herausforderungen • Der Ausbau der Windenergie: planerische Grundlagen, Herausforderungen und Potenziale Die Herausgeber Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne ist Professor für Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Dr. Florian Weber ist Akademischer Rat im Forschungsbereich Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Human geography. --- Environmental sociology. --- Sociology. --- Human Geography. --- Environmental Sociology. --- Knowledge - Discourse.

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This book addresses the highly differentiated spatial, social, cultural and demographic structure(s) of Germany, with a particular focus on the reciprocal relations between different levels of spatial development. The historical development of Germany serves as a background in order to provide context for the development of spatially relevant ideas and ideals (whether in relation to politics, landscape, or culture). In this regard, questions of divergence and convergence become highly salient. The book makes the complexity of spatial and social developments in Germany comprehensible. The neopragmatic approach adopted here allows bringing together different theoretical strands while providing a basis for independent regional geographic research at the same time. Beginning with an overview of the physical structures of Germany which provides the material point of departure for the societal development of Germany, key aspects of the German history are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the reciprocal influence between material substrate and notions of landscape. Here, specific ‘German’ trajectories of aesthetic and normative conceptions of landscape become clear. A common theme throughout the book are questions of divergence and of efforts towards convergence, which become evident when considering past and present economic, political, and demographic developments. Efforts to tackle current challenges, such as adapting to climate change and mitigating it, or securing raw materials, also become apparent. The complexity of spatial processes in Germany is illustrated in case study regions dealing with the challenges of structural change in traditional industrial regions (such as the Ruhr area), or e.g. efforts of Berlin to position and find itself as the capital of a unified Germany. Overall, the book shows how theory-driven regional geographic research can make spatiotemporal complexities tangible and comprehensible.

Geography. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Europe --- Environment. --- Economic development. --- Regional Geography. --- Regional and Spatial Economics. --- European Politics. --- Environmental Sciences. --- Development Studies. --- Politics and government. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Gay culture Europe --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Ecology