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Semantiken und Narrative des Entscheidens vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Entscheiden stellt einen Grundbegriff moderner Gesellschaften und ihrer Selbstbeschreibung dar. Allerdings ist sowohl die Art und Weise als auch das Ausmaß, wie über Entscheiden geredet, wie es begrifflich gefasst und wie darüber erzählt werden kann, historisch bedingt. Semantiken und Narrative des Entscheidens unterscheiden sich daher je nach sozialem und kulturellem Kontext. Der Band verfolgt das Ziel, in einer epochen- und disziplinübergreifenden Perspektive sowohl dem Wortfeld ›Entscheiden‹ wie auch den Narrativen, mit denen Entscheiden als eine Form des sozialen Handelns dargestellt wird, in ihrem historischen Wandel nachzugehen. Mithilfe historisch-semantischer und narratologischer Methoden untersuchen die Beiträge unterschiedliche Fallbeispiele, die vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart und von Europa bis Indien reichen.
Die Krise in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Auffassung, dass gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen maßgeblich durch Krisen geprägt werden und dass die Wiederkehr von Krisen eine konstitutive Dimension von Geschichte ist, ist kennzeichnend für die Selbstwahrnehmung moderner Gesellschaften. Diese in hohem Maße kontingente Entwicklung zeichnen die Beiträge dieses Bandes nach. Sie situieren die ›Erfindung der Krise‹ als Form der gesellschaftlichen Selbstwahrnehmung innerhalb unterschiedlicher historischer Kontexte und spüren der Anwendung und Verbreitung von Krisendispositiven in unterschiedlichen sozialen und kulturellen Konstellationen innerhalb von West-, Mittel-, Süd- und Osteuropa nach. Hierdurch trägt der Band bei zu einer konsequenten Historisierung von Krise bei.
Shadow Economies and Irregular Work in Urban Europe
The origin of this volume is a workshop on 'Shadow economies and non-regular work practices in urban Europe (16th to early 20th centuries)', which took palce at the University of Salzburg in 2006, as well as a session at the International Economy History Congress in Helsinki in the same year.
Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century
This book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling administration and the market. In this book, on the contrary, the term ‘victualling system’ (sistema annonario) is employed according to its historical meaning, designating an organised set of public and private channels, evolved typically in urban contexts, for the procurement and distribution of the goods essential for the daily life of common people. According to this definition, specifically, a victualling system included also the mar...
Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures
Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.
The Rag Race
Argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, Mendelsohn demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting. --From publisher description.
Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.
Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
Explains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin's grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I – a shift which contributed directly to Hitler's rise to power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe
This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe. Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area—approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle—located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products—salt, cotton and silk—all of which fuelled the black market between the last decades of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. This volume offers an original contribution to wider studies of smuggling, illicit markets and women’s economic roles by taking into account the economic life of remo...
The Idea of Work in Europe from Antiquity to Modern Times
This volume takes a fresh and innovative approach to the history of ideas of work, concerning perceptions, attitudes, cultures and representations of work throughout Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Focusing on developments in Europe, the contributors approach the subject from a variety of angles, considering aspects of work as described in literature, visual culture, and as perceived in economic theory. As well as external views of workers the volume also looks at the meaning of work for the self-perception of various social groups, including labourers, artisans, merchants, and noblemen, and the effects of this on their self-esteem and social identity. Taking a broad chronological approach to the subject provides readers with a cutting-edge overview of research into the varying attitudes to work and its place in pre-industrial society.
