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Luxury in Global Perspective
Machine generated contents note: Luxury and global history Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester; 1. Precious things in motion: luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India Kim Siebenhuner; 2. Diamonds as a global luxury commodity Karin Hofmeester; 3. Gold in twentieth-century India - a luxury? Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 4. Chinese porcelain local and global context: the imperial connection Anne Gerritsen; 5. Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age Giorgio Riello; 6. The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: a local luxury good with global roots Silvia Ruschak; 7. From Venice to East Africa: history, uses and meanings of glass beads Karin Pallaver; 8. Imports and autarky: tortoiseshell in early modern Japan Martha Chaiklin; 9. Tickling and klicking the ivories - the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century Jonas Kranzer; 10. The conservation of luxury: safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa Bernhard Gissibl; 11. Luxury as a global phenomenon: concluding remarks Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester
Gold
"Am Golde hängt, zum Golde drängt doch alles" - als Grabbeigabe findet es sich in frühen Kulturen, in Form von Kronjuwelen symbolisiert es Herrschermacht, während des Goldrausches zog es tausende Abenteurer in seinen Bann, in den Goldminen der Welt floriert bis heute das Geschäft der Ausbeuter auf Kosten der Arbeiter und noch bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert diente es als Garant für Währungsstabilität. Bernd-Stefan Grewe erläutert in seiner ebenso spannenden wie informativen Globalgeschichte dieses ganz besonderen Elements die politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Bedeutung des Goldes für die Menschheit.
Der versperrte Wald
Wie reagiert eine stark wachsende Gesellschaft auf Ressourcenknappheit? Im vorindustriellen Wirtschaftsleben spielten Waldressourcen eine Schlusselrolle: Holz war wichtigster Brennstoff, absolut unverzichtbar als Baumaterial und Werkstoff; ohne Holzkohle konnte kein Eisen verhuttet, ohne Pottasche kein Glas und keine Seife hergestellt werden. In der bayerischen Rheinpfalz spitzte sich die Lage im 19. Jahrhundert auf dramatische Weise zu. Ein unubersehbares Problem waren die massenhaften Forstdelikte, an denen sich statistisch jedes Jahr mehr als 21 % der Bevolkerung beteiligte. Gegen die Ubernutzung und drohende Zerstorung der Walder fuhrte die Forstverwaltung einen verzweifelten Kampf. Doch wie ernst war diese Bedrohung tatsachlich? Wie stark verbreitet waren Holznot und Dungermangel? Und wie stand es um den Zustand der Walder? Antworten auf diese umwelthistorischen Kernfragen bietet die Studie von Bernd-Stefan Grewe. Dabei wird auch die landwirtschaftliche Nutzung einbezogen und das in der Literatur verbreitete Bild der Waldwirtschaft in Frage gestellt.
Modern Germany
"A higher education history textbook on Modern Germany"--
Forest History
This book presents edited and revised versions of more than 30 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on History and Forest Resources, held in Florence in 1998. The conference was organised by the Italian Academy of Forestry Science and working group on Forest History of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO). As a whole the papers present detailed analyses of the interrelationships between forest ecosystems and socioeconomic development from thirteen different countries of the world. Main economic and social factors, techniques and local practices, as well as legal and political aspects related to forest changes are discussed, according to the latest achievements in forest history research. The book is a companion volume to Methods and Approaches in Forest History.
Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human societies, and world systems. Focusing primarily on the period 1500-1900, they explore how animals and their products shaped the relationships between populations in the IOW and Europeans arriving by maritime routes. By elucidating this fundamental yet under-explored aspect of encounters and exchanges in the IOW, these interdisciplinary essays further our understanding of the region, the environment, and the material, political and economic history of the world.
The Vortex
Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure...
Trading Environments
This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been ...
The Invention of Sustainability
A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.
