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The World's First Full Press Freedom
The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of th...
Validation of Exceptional Longevity
While not quite on a par with Mel Brooks' 2,000 Year-Old Man, this volume reports on some folks who've been around for a long time. Contributors to 15 papers indicate that such longevity rarely existed prior to the 19th century. Appends statistical data on predicting age distribution, and documentation of a family's exceptional longevity. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900
This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices, experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling, the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing, examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private, and commercial and ...
Icons of Longevity
Bolle Willum Luxdorph, who lived from 1716-1788, was the first Dane known to have studied the phenomenon of old age. Luxdorph was a high-ranking Danish civil servant, a leader of the Danish Chancellery, as well as a scholar and poet. In the last years of his life, Luxdorph created an art collection of paintings of older people ("long-livers"). The exact date at which Luxdorph began taking an interest in the phenomenon of old age is not known, but it must have happened sometime in the late 1770s. At this point, Luxdorph began systematically collecting data concerning very old people (i.e. persons who had reached the age of 80 and over). This book examines Luxdorph's collection, which has a tr...
Grov Konfækt
"GROV KONFÆKT - Tre vilde år med trykkefrihed 1770-73" I selvsamme år, som Søren Gyldendal grundlagde sit forlag, afskaffede den egentlige magthaver i Danmark på det tidspunkt, den fra Tyskland indvandrede læge J.F. Struensee, censuren og indførte trykkefriheden. Det kom ikke til at gå stille af: Der begyndte at udkomme et væld af pamfletter, hvori alverdens aktuelle emner blev taget op, politik, lavsforhold, sædelighed, kongen, dronningen forholdene ved hoffet, alt kunne skrives, alt kunne gøres til gengæld for en pamflet. Det gav på meget, meget kort tid anledning til en helt ny og ukendt offentlighed. Her blev der ikke lagt fingre imellem: Der blev skrevet med store bogstaver, der blev hånet og injurieret, skældsord, krænkelser og fornærmelser stod på siderne og fløj gennem luften på en måde, som ikke giver internettet noget efter: Titlens ”grov Konfækt” er taget ud af denne sammenhæng: ”Grove Folk skal have grov Konfækt”, og det er der dækning for: Det fik de. Det er disse pamfletter, der er emnet for dette kæmpeværk, som dækker en spændende periode i danmarkshistorien.
Land og by på tværs 1000-1800
Middelalderhistorikeren Bjørn Poulsen har gennem fire årtier været blandt de mest produktive danske historikere. Et af de mange forskningsområder, hvor han har været med til at sætte dagsordenen, er studiet af forholdet mellem land og by. De to områder har traditionelt været meget opdelt – med en klar arbejdsdeling mellem for eksempel landbrugs- og byhistorikerne. I dette festskrift viser en række historikere, hvordan studiet af land og by med fokus på forbindelser og lighedstræk kan være mere frugtbart end at insistere på forskelle og særtræk. Tilsammen tegner bogens bidrag et billede af land- og bysamfundene i tiden 1000-1800, som er langt mere sammenhængende end hidtil antaget.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?
Academic experts review the impact of neoliberal politics and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries.
