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Die Londoner City hat zwei Gesichter: das des modernen Finanzplatzes und das der pittoresk-archaischen Lokalverwaltung. Die Beziehungen zwischen diesen beiden wurden in der Forschung lange vernachlassigt - Andreas Fahrmeir geht ihnen nach. Zugleich legt er die erste zusammenhangende Verfassungsgeschichte der City Corporation fur die Zeit des Ubergangs von der Handelsstadt zur funktional spezialisierten Burostadt vor. Fahrmeir untersucht die Herkunft und wirtschaftliche Tatigkeit der fuhrenden Amtstrager und er fragt nach Inhalt und Bedeutung der stadtischen Rituale. Deutlich wird, dass der...

Die Beihefte der Historische Zeitschrift werden in Neuer Folge von Andreas Fahrmeir und Hartmut Leppin herausgegeben. Die Beihefte enthalten Essays und Monographien zu Themen der deutschen und europaischen Geschichte sowie Sammelbande zu herausragenden Themenbereichen. In ihnen auern sich die ausgewiesenen Sachkenner ihres Fachgebiets.

"Fahrmeir's lucid and valuable study thus establishes not only that German conceptions and systems of citizenship predate the victory of German nationalist (and nativist) thought, but also that, despite the greater liberality of the British system in most respects, the German regime had many attributes more liberal than the British...Fahrmeir strikes a telling and persuasive blow for the "modernit" account of nationalism against the "primordialists.."" - Central European History

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..".we still know surprisingly little about the enforcement of national migration control laws] and their effects on migration...This book significantly reduces our ignorance...astonishingly, most of the papers...manage to thread a path through the formidable tangle of law, jurisdictions and complexities while maintaining a clear narrative voice and not losing sight of the larger issues." Comparativ

In general, this set of essays, in its breadth of contributions and range of topics, is a major value to specialists and advanced students. The essays are argued tightly, et rest on a...

The migration movements of the 20th century have led to an increased interest in similarly dramatic population changes in the preceding century. The contributors to this volume - legal scholars, sociologists, political scientist and historians - focus on migration control in the 19th century, concentrating on three areas in particular: the impact of the French Revolution on the development of modern citizenship laws and on the development of new forms of migration control in France and elsewhere; the theory and practice of migration control in various European states is examined, focusing...

Since the 19th century (at the latest), concern about the ability of ones own industry to compete was frequently the object of mournful glances at ones own weaknesses and the strengths of others. Using the examples of British and German debates from the recent past, this volume examines the success and failure of different strategies, from measures to increase individual motivation right up to the big reform projects such as "Thatcherism."