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Tracts of Action
This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for a effective remedy? How can one find and mine mineral resources, how does one make pewter cups or a good meal? Practical information of this kind, on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and many other subjects, flooded the book market in the first centuries of printing. As varied as these subjects are the research questions that we might ask: How do you learn practical skills from a book? Why were these books so popular, who used them and how, and can they even be considered to be a clearly defined genre...
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Historical Social Research
International journal for the application of formal methods to history.
Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe
Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval.
Hungerkrisen
For the people in the Early Modern Age, famines were regularly recurring phenomena. So not less than eight of these crises happened in the areas of Lower Saxony between 1690 and 1750, which had a lasting impact on various aspects of life for the contemporaries. Therefore topics of different historical subdisciplines like economic, social, cultural and environmental history are dealt with in this dissertation. Thus, this thesis aims to bridge the gap between climatically and socially determined patterns of hunger. With the help of the concept of vulnerability it is shown that hunger crises can neither be ascribed to natural processes nor human operations exclusively. In fact they were the out...
Balancing the Commons in Switzerland
Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland. The book focuses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners’ organisations (corporations of citizens and corporations) which have managed common property for several centuries and have shaped the cultural landscapes of Switzerland. At the core of the book are five case studies from the German, French and Italian speaking regions of Switzerland. Beginning in the Late Middle Ages and focusing on the transformative periods in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it trace...
A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, Update 2004
This first update to the Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology (Brill, 2002) includes additional entries for the period before 2000 and new entries for the period 2000-2002.
Genealogische Geschichte der Familie Gritti von St. Antönien
Das Buch beschreibt die Entwicklung der Familie Gritti vom ersten Auftreten in einem Kirchenbuch, die Einbürgerung in St. Antönien. Von der armen Familie als Müller und der weitere Aufstieg bis zum Hoteldirektor. Es beleuchtet auch kurz die Einwanderung ins Engadin, deren Herkunft und die Berufe der eingewanderten Personen, sowie das Verhältnis der Anzahl eingewanderten- zu, der ortsansässigen Bevölkerung, für einige Gemeinden des Engadins.
Berliner Jahre: Schriften und Briefwechsel
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein During the period covered by this volume, Einstein aims to discover whether one can derive the electron’s equations of motion directly from the field equations of general relativity, and he embarks on a new approach to unified field theory founded on teleparallel geometry. On these topics, he engages in exchanges with J. Grommer, C. Lanczos, and particularly with C. H. Müntz, and corresponds with mathematicians like R. Weitzenböck and É. Cartan. Einstein attends what will be considered a historic 1927 Solvay Conference where the new quantum mechanics is discussed, but in fact he makes very few remarks. In...
Die Macht der Behörden
Alfred Götz unternimmt es, am Beispiel seiner eigenen Familie zu erforschen, wie die Schweizer Behörden es rechtfertigten, den Eltern ihre Kinder zu entziehen und fremd unterzubringen, als Verdingkinder. Mit der Aufarbeitung des Schicksals dieser Kinder wurde bereits begonnen, nach dem Leid der Mütter fragt jedoch weiterhin niemand. Der Autor beruft sich dabei nicht nur auf die eigenen Erinnerungen, sondern er recherchierte in Archiven. Anhand von Zitaten aus Akten kann er zeigen, wie oberflächlich und vorurteilsbehaftet die Behörden die Situation im Haushalt der Mutter beurteilten, wie die Gerichte die Protokolle einfach übernahmen oder ohne Grundlage ergänzten. Es bleibt die Hoffnung, dass den Betroffenen zumindest postum eine Entschuldigung zuteil wird.
