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Connecting Territories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Connecting Territories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-29
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories. Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Gänger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.

Il ciclo dei mesi nella regione alpina e prealpina durante il Medioevo (Italia, Svizzera, Germania)
  • Language: it
Essor et fonctions des images religieuses dans les Alpes
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 708

Essor et fonctions des images religieuses dans les Alpes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Ce livre se concentre sur un corpus d'environ 200 peintures murales religieuses réalisées entre 1150 et 1530 env. et situées à l'intérieur d'un ancien diocèse alpin, le diocèse de Coire (Suisse orientale, Vorarlberg, Haut Adige). Il s'agit d'une étude pionnière sur les décors des parois externes des églises, un phénomène artistique fréquent dans les Alpes. Grâce à cet emplacement, ces peintures deviennent des images-interlocuteurs fondamentales pour les habitants de ces villages de montagne. La disposition des décors peints montre que les commanditaires, tout particulièrement les communautés paroissiales et les élites religieuses et laïques locales, recherchaient leur vi...

Wer das Gras wachsen hört
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 243

Wer das Gras wachsen hört

In der Frühen Neuzeit entwickelte sich ein technisch-ökonomischer Blick auf die Natur. Seit dem späten 17. Jahrhundert begannen sich naturhistorische Beschreibungen mit kameralistischen Ideen zu verbinden. In weiterer Folge intensivierte die Bewegung der Ökonomischen Aufklärung den nutzenorientierten Umgang mit der Natur und machte diesen zum Gegenstand der öffentlichen Debatte. Diese spezifische Innovationskultur war von entscheidender Bedeutung für die folgenreiche Neuordnung agrarischen Wissens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Die einzelnen Beiträge stellen je eine unterschiedliche Pflanzengruppe - Gemüse, Obst, Tabak, Futter-, Heil- oder Textilpflanzen - ins Zentrum. Im Fokus stehen Fragen nach der Interaktion zwischen den verschiedenen Akteuren wie Bauern, Gelehrte, Gutsbesitzer, Magistrate oder Pfarrherren. Besonders interessiert das Verhältnis der unterschiedlichen (praktischen, administrativen, gelehrten usw.) Wissensbestände. Gerade in der Perspektive der longue durée lösen sich dabei die einfachen Dichotomien auf, vielmehr erscheinen vielfältige Wechselbeziehungen, etwa zwischen agrarwissenschaftlicher Theorie und agrarischer Praxis.

An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 105

An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period

The environmental history of early modern times is a seminal and lively field of historical research. This volume offers ten concise essays that provide an overview of current research debates on a broad span of topics, such as historical climatology and climate reconstruction, coping with disaster, land use and agricultural knowledge, forest history, urbanization, the perceptions of (alpine) nature, and societal dealings with water and rivers. Taken together, the contributions establish early modern studies as a promising laboratory for new avenues in environmental history. (Series: Austria: Research and Science - History / Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Geschichte - Vol. 10) [Subject: History, Environmental Studies]

Mountains and the German Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Mountains and the German Mind

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.

Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic. The farther they venture, the more unique the cultures they gaze upon, the greater the prestige accrued; cross-cultural contact is commonplace. Yet despite the obviously transnational character of the tourist experience, national borders define existing studies of tourism. Spanish, French, or German tourism is treated almost in isolation and there are only hints of a larger transnational impetus behind the creation of national tourism products. This volume tells a different story. Although modern tourism first evolved in Europe changes were never confined to national borders. The Grand Tour, the birthplace of modern tourism, was consummately ...

Scholars in Action (2 vols)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 962

Scholars in Action (2 vols)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.

Physico-theology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Physico-theology

Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Harrison, Barbara Hunfeld, Eric Jorink, Scott Mandelbrote, Brian W. Ogilvie, Martine Pécharman, Jonathan Sheehan, Anne-Charlott Trepp, Rienk Vermij, Kaspar von Greyerz