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The Rhine River is Europe’s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815. He examines the engineering and administrative decisions of the next century and a half that resulted in rapid industrial growth as well as profound environmental degradation, and highlights the partially successful restoration efforts undertaken from the 1970s to the present. The Rhine is a classic example of a “mu...
One of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity. In the late nineteenth century, anxieties about national character infused ecological concerns about industrialization, spurring landscape preservationists to protect the natural environment. In the Rhineland's scenic rivers, forests, and natural landmarks, they saw Germany as a timeles...
Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster.Rivers in History presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impac...
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Strategie und Leadership sind zentrale Faktoren für den nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg. In diesem Sammelband, der Hans H. Hinterhuber gewidmet ist, beleuchten die Autoren unterschiedliche Facetten dieser Themen. Der Bogen der Beiträge spannt sich von Überlegungen zur unternehmerischen Portfoliogestaltung und Diversifizierung, strategischem Controlling und Ansätzen der Open Strategy über Herausforderungen an Führungskräfte im Wissenszeitalter, der Rolle von Vertrauen, differenzierte Führungsstrategien bis zur Strategie zur Steigerung der Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen.