Kategoria BISAC: History >> Social History

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale's more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health in India, was top-down reform, notably in the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, this book documents concrete proposals for self-government, especially at the municipal level, and the encouragement of leading Indian nationals themselves. Famine and related epidemics continue to be issues, demonstrating the need for public works like irrigation and for...

Die Begrundung oder Legitimation des Rechts ist eine Aufgabe, welche die Menschen verschiedener Zeitalter in unterschiedlicher Weise zu losen versuchten. Das in diesem Band dokumentierte wissenschaftliche Kolloquium analysiert die Legitimierung von Recht in ihren geschichtlichen Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungsstufen. Die Beitrage decken den historischen Raum vom romischen Recht, dessen umfassende Wurdigung einen Schwerpunkt bildet, bis zum Neukantianismus ab.

Der Staat ist ein zentraler geschichts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Topos in Deutschland wie in Frankreich. In der vergleichenden Forschung zu beiden Landern taucht er hingegen so gut wie nicht auf. Der vorliegende Band zielt auf diese Lucke. Er vereint aktuelle Forschungen zur Geschichte des Staates in Deutschland und Frankreich von 1870 bis 1945, zu jener Phase, in der nicht nur der Staat als regulierender Faktor der Gesellschaft, sondern auch die Wissenschaft vom Staat ihre grote Entfaltung in der Moderne erfuhren. Neben vergleichenden stehen einander -kreuzende- Beitrage, die Texte...

In the second half of the 20^th century, the German automobile industry had to contend with boom, crisis, and change. Using case studies, this study examines the industry's vicissitudes, industrial relationships, and market culture. The scope of the book is extended internationally with focused studies on the United Kingdom, Spain, the US, Sweden, and former Eastern bloc nations.

Abt Suger nimmt einen einzigartigen Platz in der Geschichte seines Klosters ein. Um Sugers Leistung nuchterner und realistischer zu bewerten, werden im vorliegenden Band nicht nur zentrale Aspekte seines eigenen Wirkens in den Blick gefasst, sondern auch Vorganger und Zeitgenossen gewurdigt, die keine Schriften hinterliessen und deren Namen heute nur noch dem Spezialisten bekannt sind.

Based on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791, The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly dramatizes the genesis and outbreak of a slave revolt. When a representative of the French Assemblee nationale, Monsieur de Tendale, arrives at the Valombre family plantation to examine the condition of slaves in Saint-Domingue and to preach their liberation, he sparks a debate among the local cure and the Valombres -- Monsieur, Madame, son Leon, and daughter Celestine -- who disagree about how slaves should be treated and whether they should be freed. Meanwhile,...

The provocative interpretation of American political rhetoric

Americans like to use words of sentiment and sympathy, passion and power, to explain their democracy. In a provocative new work, Andrew Burstein examines the metaphorically rich language which Americans developed to express their guiding principle: that the New World would improve upon the Old. In journals, letters, speeches, and books, an impassioned rhetoric of "feeling" set the tone for American patriotism.

Burstein shows how the eighteenth century "culture of sensibility" encouraged optimism about a global...

With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives--The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator--demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention...

• The second in a two-volume anthology representing the best articles published in The Journal of Historical Sociology over the last twenty years.
• Includes essays, debates and responses written by internationally...