Social History

Die Bedeutung des betrieblichen Rechnungswesens für unternehmerische Entscheidungen ist heute unbestritten. Doch galt dieser Zusammenhang auch für Unternehmen des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts? Das Buch beantwortet diese Frage am Beispiel der deutschen Chemieindustrie und bietet neue Einsichten in die Entwicklung betriebswirtschaftlichen und bilanziellen Wissens zwischen den 1860er Jahren und dem Ersten Weltkrieg.

Aktualisierung 2026: Die vollständig überarbeitete und stark erweiterte 2. Auflage mit 704 Seiten und über 200 Abbildungen wurde am 3. Juni 2026 bei BoD veröffentlicht und kann mit Softcover-Einband (ISBN 978-3-7693-6296-1) oder Hardcover-Einband 978-3-6963-9767-8) bestellt werden.Verheiratet, verschwägert, verschwippschwägert. Der Titel deutet es an: in diesem Band geht es vor allem um ein familiäres Netzwerk. Sechs Geschwister der um 1800 in Berlin ansässigen Familien Gilly, Hainchelin und Gentz, darunter der Baumeister und Architekt Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800) und seine Frau Marie Ulrike Hainchelin (1771-1849), finden zwischen 1793 und 1800 zu drei Ehepaaren zusammen. Sie sind auf so ungewöhnliche Weise untereinander verbunden, dass diese Familienkonstellation im vorliegenden Band ausführlich untersucht wird. Den äußeren Anlass für eine vertiefte Beschäftigung mit den Familien Gilly, Hainchelin und Gentz bot der 250. Geburtstag Friedrich Gillys im Jahr 2022. Neu ermittelte oder korrigierte Lebensdaten zu den drei Familien finden sich im ausführlichen genealogischen Anhang. Bisher ungedruckte Briefe und Dokumente sowie zahlreiche unbekannte Umstände aus dem näheren Umfeld Friedrich Gillys werden hier zum ersten Mal präsentiert.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Prelude: Price Deflation, 1865-1897.- Chapter 3. Prices Begin a Slow Rise, 1897-1909.- Chapter 4. Concern Intensifies in 1910: What or Whom to Blame?.- Chapter 5. Reform in Detail: Attempted Remedies for Rising Prices, 1910-1914.- Chapter 6. Food Prices, Democratic Political Gains, and Legislation, 1911-1914.- Chapter 7. The High Cost of Living: Respite and Upsurge, 1915 toEarly 1917.- Chapter 8. The Inflation Muddle, 1915 to June 1917.- Chapter 9. War Finance and Prices.- Chapter 10. One Commodity at a Time: Wartime Attempts to Restrain Prices and Profiteering.- Chapter 11. Getting By: Earners Confront Changing Real Incomes.- Chapter 12. Postwar: Brief Respite and Resurgent High Cost of Living, 1919-1920.- Chapter 13. Confronting High Prices: Pursuing Profiteering and Systemic Causes, 1919-1920.- Chapter 14. Inflation vs. Deflation, 1920: Anxiety, Indecision, Reversal, and Electoral Upheaval.- Chapter 15. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Cost-of-Living Index.- Chapter 16. Deflation's Consequences: Winners, Losers, and a Brief New Normalcy.- Chapter 17. Epilogue: 1920s to Present.- Chapter 18. Conclusion.

Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were recorded in the 1851 census as practising a profession in eight British provincial towns with distinctive economic and social profiles: Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Winchester, and the twin county town of Northumberland, Alnwick/Morpeth. The book provides a collective account of the cohort's lives and the lives of their families across four generations, starting with their parents and ending with their grandchildren. It touches on the history of 16,000 individuals. The book aims to throw light on the extent to which nineteenth-century professionals had a distinctive socio-cultural profile, as sociologists and some historians have claimed, or were largely indistinguishable from other members of propertied society, as most historians today assume without further investigation. In exploring this question, particular attention is paid to the cohort families' wealth, household size, education, occupational history, geographical mobility, and broader involvement in society measured by their members' choice of marriage partner, their kinship and friendship circles, their political allegiance and their leisure activities. The book demonstrates that male professionals in the Victorian era were far from being a homogenous group, but were divided in many ways. The most important was wealth which played a key role in the social and occupational fortunes of their descendants. These divisions largely explain why some professionals and some individual professions were much more likely to display endogenous characteristics than others. The book also demonstrates that even the most successful professional families got poorer over time, and reveals how easily in the age of industrialisation branches of families and sometimes complete families could drop out of the elite.

'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times<BR>'Enthralling' - The Sunday Telegraph<BR><BR>'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence - and the words of all four gospels - is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.<BR><BR>Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. There were many different Jesuses, among them the aggressive Jesus who scorned his parents and crippled those who opposed him, the Jesus who sold his twin into slavery and the Jesus who had someone crucified in his stead.<BR><BR>Moreover, in the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviours, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. But as Christianity spread, they were pronounced unacceptable - even heretical - and they faded from view.<BR><BR>Now, in Heresy, Catherine Nixey tells their extraordinary story, one of contingency, chance and plurality. It is a story about what might have been.

This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer's point of view. Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet and disease meet, the book contributes to the history of medicine and science, the history of psychiatry, economic and social history, agrarian history, and food and nutrition history. Additionally, the authors aim to transnationalise Italian history by making comparisons with related issues, such as tertiary syphilis in the UK. Drawing from a wide range of printed and archival sources, including the writings of Italian medical investigators, the book examines how medical and scientificresearch was carried out during the long nineteenth century and the uncertainties that this engendered, in terms of classification, explanation, diagnosis and treatment. Offering a unique perspective on an endemic illness which came to be known as the disease of the four ds: dermatitis; diarrhea; dementia; and death, this book provides an engaging account of one of the most perplexing causes of mental illness.

A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.Characteristically, Schama's message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories of medical history set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope - in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums - are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs in public health happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as "the saviour of mankind" for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world's first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.Foreign Bodies crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, "there are no foreigners, only familiars." This sweeping history of medicine reveals:- The Birth of Vaccines: Follow the gripping story of inoculation, from its controversial beginnings with smallpox in the eighteenth century to the breakthroughs that saved millions.- Unsung Heroes of Science: Meet the unforgettable cast of characters at the heart of medical history, including Waldemar Haffkine, the microbiologist who developed the first mass-produced vaccines against cholera and plague.- Global Pandemics: Travel from the slums of London to the palaces of Paris and the stricken streets of India as Schama traces the epic history of humanity's fight against contagion.- Narrative Nonfiction at its Finest: Discover a page-turning story, rich with detail, that connects the worlds of politics, poverty, and pioneering science across centuries.

This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.¿

Le sujet que nous traitons dans cet ouvrage est disparate et s'étend sur une aire immense : nous devons entraîner le lecteur éperdu, des extrémités occidentales de l'Europe, de l'Espagne, jusqu'aux abords de la Sibérie ; il devra, à la suite des pirates Scandinaves entrer dans les fleuves et les villes riveraines des Pays-Bas, de la Grande Bretagne, de l'Irlande, de la France, de l'Espagne, visitées par les terribles pirates. Il aura le spectacle de la marée slave inondant l'Europe centrale et la péninsule des Balkans au VIIe siècle. Il se fatiguera à compter les morceaux cassés du mystérieux monde finnois. Du centre de l'Asie, des confins de la grande muraille de Chine, il verra accourir, de siècle en siècle, vague après vague, les hordes invincibles des populations turques et mongoles.Cette histoire des invasions barbares sur le territoire européen est ici divisée en trois grandes parties : - Les Arabes et les Maures- Les Scandinaves- Les Slaves Publiée en 1937 par Ferdinand Lot, historien médiéviste membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, cette oeuvre était destinée au grand public cultivé. English description: This classic historical study examines the population movements and invasions that shaped medieval Europe.From Arab expansion to Viking raids and Slavic migrations, the book traces the major movements of peoples that transformed the European continent. Covering a vast geographical area from Spain to the frontiers of Asia, it describes how migrations and invasions contributed to the formation of medieval European societies.Based on extensive historical research, this work provides a clear and engaging overview of the major invasions that influenced European history.First published in 1937, this study by medieval historian Ferdinand Lot remains an important introduction to the settlement and formation of Europe.

Wie wird die deutsche Sprache in Frankreich gefördert? Matthias Lahr-Kurten geht der Vielzahl von Praktiken nach, in deren Rahmen Fremdsprachenförderung stattfindet - von der Politik bis zum Unterricht. Durch konsequente und intelligente Anwendung der Theorie sozialer Praktiken nach Theodore Schatzki auf den Forschungsgegenstand gelingt eine beispielhafte Verbindung von theoretischer Reflexion und Empirie. Die ertragreiche Studie leistet einen konzeptionell innovativen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung der neueren Kultur- und Sozialgeographie.