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Climbing Up the Social Ladder?
Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position. But how does this work for those already atop or very close to it? Climbing up the Social Ladder? explores instances of social mobility among different types of positional, decisional and status-defined elites in East-Central Europe during the long 19th century, at individual or group level.
Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918–1923
This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new geopolitics emerging from the Versailles order, and at the same time ongoing fights for borders, considerable war damage, social and economic problems and replacement of administrative staff as well as leaders, all contributed to the fact that unlike Western Europe, Central Europe faced challenges and dilemmas on an unprecedented scale. The editors of this book have invited authors from over a dozen academic institutions to answer the question of to what extent the solutions applied in the Habsburg Monarchy were still practiced in the newly created nation ...
Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918
Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918 focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism. By looking at a wide range of sources and employing rich historiography, this collection investigates the currents of women’s emancipatory efforts in a climate of conflicting assumptions relating to nationhood and nationalization. This book sheds light on a time when both women and nations were working to assert themselves, and how women promoted the national cause in an attempt to assume stronger roles in the public sphere. The volume studies areas that were na...
The Making of Mămăligă
Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First World War, and also the image of mămăligă in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mămăligă has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade. The story of maize and mămăligă provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.
Empires and Nations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project “Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century”, during which scholars from all over the world – academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates – confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. In this way, the reality of the historical empires and national states was represented, and concepts such as identity, nationality, and sovereignty analyzed. The second volume is dedicated to...
Liberale Öffentlichkeit, Kultur und säkularisiertes Judentum nach 1848
Pablo H. Vivanco zeichnet in dieser Publikation die Entwicklung des Liberalismus in der Habsburger-Monarchie über einen Zeitraum von zwei Dekaden aus politischer, kultureller und journalistischer Perspektive nach. Der berühmten These des „Versagens“ des Wiener und europäischen Liberalismus und seiner Sublimierung in Kunst und Kultur der Jahrhundertwendezeit hält der Verfasser eine Differenzierung der politischen liberalen Öffentlichkeit in Wien entgegen, die sich frühzeitig und aus Anlass prägender Ereignissen von 1861 (Februar-Verfassung), 1867 („Ausgleich“) und 1873 (Börsenkrach) herausbildete und sich mit der ursprünglich breiten gesellschaftlichen Repräsentationskraft d...
Istoria mamaligii
Traducere de Anca Bărbulescu Alex Drace-Francis ne oferă o analiză a cultivării, consumului și comercializării porumbului în ţările române din perioada otomană până în ajunul Primului Război Mondial, precum și a semnificației culturale a mămăligii în literatură, artă, film, folclor și bucătărie, într-o ediție revăzută și completată special pentru publicul românesc. „Cine s-ar fi gândit că mămăliga ar putea să aibă o istorie? Că păpuşoiul poate fi vedetă? Că mălaiul are o poveste de spus? Scotocind prin arhive, prin documente vechi şi cronici mai noi, printre reţete şi leacuri, Alex Drace-Francis ne propune o analiză savuroasă şi erudită a ...
The Carpathians
In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist destinations they are today. It is a story of the encounter of Polish and Ukrainian lowlanders with the wild, sublime highlands and with the indigenous highlanders—Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos—and how these peoples were incorporated into a national narrative as the territories were transformed into a native/national landscape. The set of microh...
Staatlichkeit und Politik in Südosteuropa nach 1800
Südosteuropa bei aller Spezifik besser als bisher historisch zugänglich zu machen, ist das Ziel dieses Handbuchs. In steter Bezugnahme auf gesamteuropäische und weitere Zusammenhänge werden hier die Ereignisgeschichte und die Strukturen von Staatlichkeit und Herrschaftsweisen im Zeitalter beschleunigten Wandels ab ca. 1800 behandelt. Die Diskussion von Quellen und Sekundärliteratur bezieht die Forschung in den südosteuropäischen Ländern in aller sprachlichen Vielfalt ein und vermeidet „westliche“ Perspektivverengung. Der Darstellungszeitraum ist zunächst gekennzeichnet durch ein starkes Fortbestehen der imperialen Ordnungsrahmen durch Habsburgermonarchie und Osmanisches Reich, n...
HISCO
Building on ILO's International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), presents a scheme of occupational titles of use for comparative research on the history of work. Gives data sources from eight countries, partly going back to the 19th century. Includes, where available, corresponding occupational designations in Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.
