Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - General

Mit der GERMANIA SACRA werden Handbucher zur Geschichte der alten deutschen Reichskirche (bis 1803/6 ) geschaffen. Das gesamte verfugbare gedruckte und ungedruckte Quellenmaterial sowie die Literatur der deutschen Bistumer, Domkapitel, Kollegiat- und Pfarrkirchen, Kloster und sonstigen kirchlichen Institutionen wird hier aufgearbeitet. Die Gliederung erfolgt nach den Bistumern und Erzbistumern.

Die Handbucher sind im wesentlichen einheitlich angelegt und enthalten folgende Kapitel: 1. Quellen, Literatur und Denkmaler, 2. Archiv und Bibliothek, 3. Historische Ubersicht, 4....

Mit der GERMANIA SACRA werden Handbucher zur Geschichte der alten deutschen Reichskirche (bis 1803/6 ) geschaffen. Das gesamte verfugbare gedruckte und ungedruckte Quellenmaterial sowie die Literatur der deutschen Bistumer, Domkapitel, Kollegiat- und Pfarrkirchen, Kloster und sonstigen kirchlichen Institutionen wird hier aufgearbeitet. Die Gliederung erfolgt nach den Bistumern und Erzbistumern.

Die Handbucher sind im wesentlichen einheitlich angelegt und enthalten folgende Kapitel: 1. Quellen, Literatur und Denkmaler, 2. Archiv und Bibliothek, 3. Historische Ubersicht, 4....

The focus of this book is the role and impact of road transportation on the colonial economy of South Western Nigeria. Using an historical approach, it examines the root of economic (under)development in Nigeria, challenging the view that road transportation was designed to develop African resources for the benefit of the colonised people. It analyses how road transportation served the economy, arguing that contrary to the colonial thesis, road transportation was developed for the exploitation of the agricultural resources of the study area for the benefit of Britain. In so doing, road...

This research offers an attempt at retracing collective identities in economic discourse in the Balkans. It focuses on relatively reliable historical evidence from the last phase of the so called "long 19th century," a period of significant political and economic transformations in the region. Real and imaginary frontiers are seen from the viewpoint of outstanding representatives of the local elites. The core question is how economic realities, neighbours, foreigners, the Great Powers, "Europe" as a whole, and other geographical designations influenced the notion of being involved in or...

The first comprehensive theoretical framework on economic integration was formulated after the actual process of European integration had already begun. This remarkable observation was the primary impulse to investigate this seemingly reactionary process in economic science. Following a historical reconstruction of the making of theories on economic integration, this thesis will argue that in the case of European integration political motivations outweigh economic arguments. As economic theories on integration neglect these political motivations, they are unable to explain integration....

The book, Oil Exploitation in the Western Niger Delta, Nigeria since 1956: A Cost Benefit Analysis, examines the impact and reactions of the people to the exploitation of oil and gas and assesses the policy responses of the government and oil companies to these reactions. The aim of the book is to advance the history of the Niger Delta beyond trade and politics to an examination of the impact of the exploitation of oil and gas on the people. Oil exploitation causes significant harm to the environment and the economy of the host communities. In this region, the magnitude of this harm has not...

The book deals with socio-economic and political changes within the society over a number of years have also been treated in depth. The study attempts to explore Oromo settlement in the area and development of the kingdom of Iluu Abbaa Booraa. It discusses the process of the conquest and incorporation of Iluu Abbaa Booraa into the modern Ethiopian Empire and the crucial political, economic and social changes that followed the event. The conquests brought abut significant socio-economic and political transformations with far reaching consequences for the indigenous society. The book reveals...

Lessing nannte ihn einen "Schriftsteller," Herder bezeichnete ihn als "Litterator und Altertumskenner." Schon zu seinen Lebzeiten (geb. 1717 in Stendal, gest. 1768 in Triest) galt Johann Joachim Winckelmann als der bedeutendste Kenner der antiken Kunst in Europa. Nach einer langen Zeit in Rom als unabhAngiger Gelehrter und Bibliothekar, wAhrend der er engen Kontakt zur rOmischen Geisteswelt pflegte, bekleidete er in seinen letzten Jahren in Rom das Amt eines Oberaufsehers aller AltertUmer in und um Rom. 1768 wurde er auf der RUckreise von Deutschland in Triest ermordet. Er gilt als einer der...

In the months and years after the 9/11 attacks, America unveiled a new military doctrine that included the utilization of overwhelming preemptive military force against an enemy who existed in over 60 countries worldwide. At the dawn of the 21st century, American military capabilities far surpassed those of any nation or combination of nations on the planet and President George W. Bush and his administration were eager to display such capacity. At the heart of these new policies laid the strong belief that the 9/11 attacks had somehow transformed the nature of the world and made the enactment...

In the aftermath of Polands independence, integration of the nation represented a key task among projects facing a polity that inherited incompatible legal, administrative, and economic frameworks, as well as several ethnic minority groups. The study interprets models of identity propagated by public schools as a form of a narrative that embraced the goal of "retrospective mythology" and allowed the nation-builders to mold the collective memory of the citizenry. The existing scholarship differentiates between two models whose ideology closely followed the developments on the political scene....

As one drives south out of Amarillo along Interstate 27, on the right side of the road rests the rusting remains of abandoned drilling equipment. An enterprising, but not very prescient contractor, moved the equipment to the area in the in mid-1980s. The contractor hoped to profit on the construction of a planned high-level radioactive waste repository near Hereford, Texas. Unfortunately, now it stands as an eroding monument to the governments ill-fated attempt to make Deaf Smith County, Texas, home for the nations high-level nuclear waste. The rusting remnants symbolize, in general,...

Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-authored approach make it a valuable asset for every history student.

The Shaping of Western Civilization: From the Reformation to the Present begins with the Reformation and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation....

A new era of scholarship in campanological research and writing.' RINGING WORLD The beginnings of scientific changeringing now seem most likely, from the considerable body of evidence which has emerged, to have taken place in the eastern counties: and in this classic study Paul Cattermole examines the development of bell-ringing in one county, Norfolk, from the earliest records through to the present day. What he has to say is of general, rather than local, interest, but his information is necessarily drawn from local records. He explores bell-ringers' links with the church and with local...

A good social history of Europe has yet to be written though, given the developments over the last few decades, this seems more urgent than ever before. This volume presents an important step forward in that it brings together eight internationally known social historians from Europe and Israel, each of whom offer an overview of some key themes in European history during the last two centuries. While dealing with the great changes of this period, the authors reveal the commonalities that link European societies together but also important differences at a national level.

The protection of the public is the mission of all licensing and regulatory boards. The story of the chiropractic profession's journey to secure recognized status is captured in two volumes. Coauthored by noted historian Dr. Joseph C. Keating, Jr., and Donna M. Liewer, FCLB executive director, this work has many previously untold stories of the men and women who brought the profession to the legal status it enjoys today in many countries around the world.

The protection of the public is the mission of all licensing and regulatory boards. The story of the chiropractic profession's journey to secure recognized status is captured in two volumes. Coauthored by noted historian Dr. Joseph C. Keating, Jr., and Donna M. Liewer, FCLB executive director, this work has many previously untold stories of the men and women who brought the profession to the legal status it enjoys today in many countries around the world.

The context of research is Romanian state-socialism in 1970-1980, reconstructed in this book through its nationalism, centralisation, state control, censorship, economic shortage, surveillance and emigration phenomenon. Nevertheless, the focus of this book is not on reproducing a descriptive narrative of these variables, but on the ways in which the subjects received these characteristics and policies, and what they made out of them. To a lesser degree it discusses the policies per-se. The focus of this work is on the politics of memory, and moreover, on the tensions between an...

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as memory triggers to their deployment in the telling of life stories. The book's contributors include both oral historians and photography scholars and critics.

After two years of active neutrality (August 1914-August 1916) Romania entered in WW1 to fulfil her national State unity. The authors, two leading Romanian military historians, using the results of 20 years of archives and libraries research, provide an objective analyse of the events, a valuable reference to the general context and particularly to the Romanias diplomatic and military involvement, in relation with the Eastern and South-Eastern European fronts. Throughout the volume they put an accent on the military aspects, pointing on the arguments of strategic planning, the operations...

An insightful account of the recent histories of nearly two dozen states, Global Shift is a dynamic, nuanced study of what is sometimes referred to as the "Third World." Seeking to illuminate the deep economic chasm between the global East and West, Mike Mason presents a new perspective of decolonization, neocolonialism, and global capitalism in the context of the rise and decline of a hegemonic America. Global Shift begins with the end of the Second World War, telling the story of a ravaged, but still dominant West, as well as the emergence of the Third World - a zone of competition and...