Author: Zef M. Segal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783030198299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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This book analyses the development of German territorial states in the nineteenth century through the prism of five Mittelstaaten: Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Württemberg, and Baden. It asks how a state becomes a place, and argues that it involves a contested and multi-faceted process, one of slow and uneven progress. The study approaches this question from a new and crucial angle, that of spatiality and public mobility. The issues covered range from the geography of state apparatus, the aesthetics of German cartography and the trajectories of public movement. Challenging the belief that territorial delimitation is primarily a matter of policy and diplomacy, this book reveals that political territories are constructed through daily practices and imagination.
Author: William Evans Darby
Publisher:
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Author: Quintin Barry
Publisher: From Musket to Maxim
ISBN: 9781914059926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Each of the innovations inspired by the Industrial Revolution encountered considerable resistance from conservative thinkers opposed to change, on technical, financial and political grounds; these included many well respected figures in the Navy, as well as leading politicians.
Author: Yair Mintzker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110857775X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined 'city' as a coherent social body in a protected place, the urban environment had to be physically separate from the surrounding countryside. This separation was crucial to guaranteeing the city's commercial, political and legal privileges. Fortifications were therefore essential for any settlement to be termed a city. This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to de-fortified places between 1689 and 1866. Using a wealth of original sources, The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866 discusses one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city's centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city.
Author: Daniel M Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135171967X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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This edited volume presents a new, grand and global narrative for international relations (IR) history in the pivotal nineteenth century. Typically considered by IR scholars to be a long century of relative peace after 1815, the contributors offer a reconceptualization of IR in this century, arguing that it is temporally bifurcated, with very different patterns of behavior in the first and second halves. A mid-century discontinuity – a "pivot period" – marks the transition phase in Europe and globally when, in the space of a few years, a shift occurred from a comparatively calm, politically disconnected world under loose British free trade hegemony to one of scrambles for territory and keen interest in imperial possessions and conquest. All the book’s chapters deal with characterizing patterns of relations in the first half of the century or the second, with two addressing the discontinuity in the middle. In the first half aspects of regional orders are described (in Latin America, East Asia and Europe) alongside crucial developmental processes (missionaries and colonial expansion, the agency of regionally localized actors, of leading elites). In the second half, there is again discussion of regional developments (East Asia, Europe), but now under the onslaught and pressures of the latter half of the century, and spotlighting industrialization’s impact and the role of status competition and international law. In presenting this new narrative for the nineteenth century, it becomes clear that an era long considered uninteresting on Eurocentric grounds is in fact crucial and pivotal in global terms. This work will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history of international relations.
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
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Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Author: Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
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Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
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Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
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