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Das Deutsche Historische Institut in London wurde 1976 eröffnet und unterstützt Forschungen zur Neueren Geschichte, besonders zur vergleichenden Geschichte von Großbritannien und Deutschland, zur Geschichte des Britischen Empires und zu den deutsch-englischen Beziehungen. Die "Veröffentlichungen" publizieren entsprechend maßgebliche Forschungen zu diesen Themengebieten. Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.ghil.ac.uk
Protestants shaped the history of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By examining previously unknown sources, this book asks how people of different faiths managed to share everyday life – thus preventing the outbreak of brutal religious conflicts. The example of Ireland paints a new picture of religious and confessional coexistence in the early modern period.
During the reign of Edward I (1272–1307), administrative recordkeeping underwent profound transitions, including the first extensive use of codices alongside rolls in the Exchequer and Wardrobe. This book focuses on the relationship between rolls and codices, with regard to both their content and their contexts of production and use. Furthermore, it investigates possible models for the diffusion of the codex during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. As a result, the study offers a new perspective on the workings of a late medieval administration.
Using the example of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), this book shows how military force was legitimized in the early modern period. Both sides justified their military campaigns as defensive interventions for the benefit of the opponent’s subjects. This volume sheds light on central norms of European political culture and power relations, making an important contribution to our understanding of international politics in the confessional age.
Directories – printed lists of a town’s tradespeople, often combined with travel guide elements – advanced to the status of popular media from the eighteenth century onward. However, they have so far received only limited attention in historical research. This book examines their specific functions of providing orientation and facilitating communication in the urban space as well as their cultural significance within the context of urbanization.
The work examines the lives, works, and impact of emigrated historians in Great Britain in the form of a collective biography. It investigates four major thematic areas: the historians’ emigration and integration, their university careers, their research interests and methods, and their status among British and German historians.
Why is a meter the same length everywhere? While this may seem to be a banal question, standardized measures and weight are hardly self-evident. This history of measurement standards concentrates on Western Europe between 1660 and 1914 while taking political, administrative, economic, and scientific aspects into consideration.
The English occupiers of France in the late phase of the Hundred Years War based their claims to the French crown not only on military conquest but also took great pains to depict it visually. The study examines the media for the visual depiction of political ideas and shows the major motivations and traditions in this effort and their intended audience.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet blockade, a well-sourced study of British crisis policy is being published for the first time, and it yields surprising new insights. Victor Mauer’s work revises our notions of British (and thus Western) policy during the Berlin blockade. It also suggests the need to re-evaluate the history of Britain’s German policy, without which we cannot understand the crisis policy.
This study focuses on the 1688–89 "Glorious Revolution" to examine the commemoration of revolution in 18th century Great Britain. A key emphasis is placed on how the Revolution impacted and informed sociopolitical debate. The study illuminates the struggle over the accepted interpretation of the Revolution, and reveals how this struggle reconfigured historical narratives.
What does conservative mean? This question preoccupied intellectuals and politicians in post-1945 Great Britain and West Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, as conservatives sensed they were losing their linguistic authority to the Left, they reinvented the political language of conservatism. This book shows the far-reaching political consequences of this national and trans-national struggle over definitions.
The collaboration between the military and the media that we know today was developed in the first half of the 20th century. This study shows that military leaders were primarily interested in the media because they hoped to achieve objectives that would otherwise be beyond their capacities: they wanted to influence populations, parliaments, and governments – in times of war and peace.
This book gets to the heart of discussions on big data and the digital age. It presents the 200-year history of the idea that people and societies are nothing more than the sum total of the data collected by quantitative methodology. It describes this history in the context of censuses and survey research in Great Britain, focusing on the actors involved, methodology, social classifications, and questions about race, ethnicity and disabilities.
Nursery of Capitalism examines the relationship between children and money in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the modern era, money came to symbolize both a resource for rationalization and a morally dangerous object. The author reveals that this ambivalence surfaced particularly in educating children to become economic citizens, and thus extends the history of economic subjectivity to include the perspective of children.
Modern popular culture came to the world from the stage. Even before film and radio had established themselves, popular theater had developed into a commercial and boundary-crossing entertainment industry that reached a mass audience. Tobias Becker compares the theater landscapes of London and Berlin and points out the cultural exchanges that took place between these metropolises during the “long turn of the century” (1880–1930).
Why do people become criminals? What causes delinquent behavior? Such questions occupy experts as well as the general public – and there is more reciprocal exchange of ideas between them than one might at first imagine. Sabine Freitag examines both the sites of knowledge production and the spaces in civil society where expert hypotheses are debated.
Die Londoner City hat zwei Gesichter: das des modernen Finanzplatzes und das der pittoresk-archaischen Lokalverwaltung. Die Beziehungen zwischen diesen beiden wurden in der Forschung lange vernachlässigt - Andreas Fahrmeir geht ihnen nach. Zugleich legt er die erste zusammenhängende Verfassungsgeschichte der City Corporation für die Zeit des Übergangs von der Handelsstadt zur funktional spezialisierten Bürostadt vor. Fahrmeir untersucht die Herkunft und wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit der führenden Amtsträger und er fragt nach Inhalt und Bedeutung der städtischen Rituale. Deutlich wird, dass der wirtschaftliche Erfolg der City zwar dazu beitrug, die Verfassungskontinuität der City zu bewahren, dass aber gleichzeitig die politische Ordnung der City und die Wert- und Zielvorstellungen ihrer Amtsträger die Entwicklung zum Finanzplatz in entscheidender Weise bestimmten.
Andreas Fahrmeir ist Heisenberg-Stipendiat am Historischen Seminar der Universität Frankfurt.
Poverty and inequality have pervaded British society to this day, but this has not always been self-evident to contemporaries – popular understandings have depended on existing knowledge. Inequality Knowledge provides the first detailed history of the numbers about the gap between rich and poor. It shows how they were produced, used, and suppressed at times, and how activists, scientists, and journalists eventually wrestled control over the figures from the state.
The book traces the making and the politics of statistical knowledge about economic inequality in the United Kingdom from the post-war era to the 1990s. What kind of knowledge was available to contemporaries about socio-economic disparities in Britain and how they evolved over time? How was this knowledge produced and by whom? What did policy makers and civil servants know about the extent of poverty and inequality in British society and to what extent did they take the distributional impact of their social and fiscal policies into account?
Far from just a technical matter, inequality knowledge had far-reaching implications for key debates and the wider political culture in contemporary Britain. Historicizing inequality knowledge speaks to a long tradition of historical research about social class divisions and cultural representations of economic disparities in twentieth-century Britain.