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Dieser 10. Band der chronologisch aufgebauten "Mundartbibliothek" für das südliche Westfalen erschließt sehr unterschiedliche Werke dreier Autoren aus dem Kreis Soest und dem märkischen Sauerland: Ludwig Schröder (1863-1934) aus Soest hat als Stadtkind bei Freunden der Eltern in der Nähe von Anröchte Platt gelernt und lebte später als Lehrer in Iserlohn. Sein letztes Mundartbuch "Pückelken" (1925) enthält vor allem Kalendergeschichten, wobei die ernsteren Stücke z.T. sehr "vaterländisch" und rückwärtsgewandt ausfallen. - Der Lüdenscheider Friedrich Wilhelm Haase (1874-1920) macht uns in seinem Werk "Buer un Reimester" (Bauer und Reidemeister) bekannt mit lutherischen Bauern un...
The history of artificial cold has been a rather intriguing interdisciplinary subject (physics, chemistry, technology, sociology, economics, anthropology, consumer studies) which despite some excellent monographs and research papers, has not been systematically exploited. It is a subject with all kinds of scientific, technological as well as cultural dimensions. For example, the common home refrigerator has brought about unimaginably deep changes to our everyday lives changing drastically eating habits and shopping mentalities. From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st, issues related to the production and exploitation of artificial cold have never stopped to provide us w...
In 1877, university Professor Carl von Linde obtained a patent for his refrigerator from the Imperial Patent Office - a patent for something that was not merely an invention, but the result of serious research in the basic laws of physics. Linde went on to found the Linde Company, one of the biggest German Gas and Engineering companies which became one of the models for science based industries. Today, the Linde Group, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, is a global technology company dedicated to gas and engineering, material handling and refrigeration. This book examines the history of this company in the context of the history of technology in industry.
This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.
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Newman's Life of Wagner, published between 1933 and 1947, the culmination of forty years' research, is a classic biography.
This is an exhaustive guide to family history sources in German archives at every level of jurisdiction, public and private. Anyone searching for data about people who lived in Germany in the past need only determine which archives today have jurisdiction over the records that were created by church or state institutions.