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The Hanoverian succession of 1714 brought about a 123-year union
between Britain and the German electorate of Hanover, ushering in a
distinct new period in British history. Under the four Georges and
William IV Britain became arguably the most powerful nation in the
world with a growing colonial Empire, a muscular economy and an
effervescent artistic, social and scientific culture. And yet
history has not tended to be kind to the Hanoverians, frequently
portraying them as petty-minded and boring monarchs presiding over
a dull and inconsequential court, merely the puppets of parliament
and powerful ministers. In order both to explain and to challenge
such a paradox, this collection looks afresh at the Georgian
monarchs and their role, influence and legacy within Britain,
Hanover and beyond. Concentrating on the self-representation and
the perception of the Hanoverians in their various dominions, each
chapter shines new light on important topics: from rivalling
concepts of monarchical legitimacy and court culture during the
eighteenth century to the multi-confessional set-up of the British
composite monarchy and the role of social groups such as the
military, the Anglican Church and the aristocracy in defining and
challenging the political order. As a result, the volume uncovers a
clearly defined new style of Hanoverian kingship, one that
emphasized the Protestantism of the dynasty, laid great store by
rational government in close collaboration with traditional
political powers, embraced army and navy to an unheard of extent
and projected this image to audiences on the British Isles, in the
German territories and in the colonies alike. Three hundred years
after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, an intriguing
new perspective of a dynasty emerges, challenging long held
assumptions and prejudices.
This collection presents research results of the Collaborative
Research Centre 600 'Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns
of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present
Day' at Trier University. It deals with central problems of social
inclusion in societies of Europe and the Mediterranean World since
Antiquity. The articles assembled here explore fundamental
dimensions of the self-concepts of societies and social groups.
From the perspectives of different disciplines, as History, History
of Law, Literature Studies and Social Sciences, they focus on five
main research areas: theoretical concepts of inclusion and
exclusion, rights of membership and the inclusion of strangers in
political spaces, religious dimensions of poor relief from the
Middle Ages up into the twentieth Century, poor law and politics of
poverty and the semantics of inclusion and exclusion.
This book brings together authors working on some of the most
significant poverty and welfare research projects on the European
stage. The contributions focus broadly on the experience of being
poor in England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany between 1800 and the
1940s, a theme that has received inadequate attention in the
European historiography thus far. The chapters are organised into
three thematic sections. The first deals with the experience of
being poor: networks, migration and survival strategies; the second
with confinement, discipline, surveillance and classification:
paths to the welfare state; and the third with the symbolism of
poverty.
Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they
make a jibe about a oetheir foreign rootsa . The Royalsa " as they
saya " are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German
relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs
or are they just an a oeimagined communitya, invented by
journalists and historians? The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the
authorsa " among others John RAhl, doyen of 19th century
monarchical history a " open access to Royal correspondences with
six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and
Battenberg.
Die 17 Studien des Bandes beschaftigen sich mit zwei Kernproblemen
der politischen Geschichte Deutschlands zwischen der Revolution von
1848 und dem demokratischen Neubeginn 1945: Neben Beitragen zur
historischen Friedensforschung uber die innen- und
aussenpolitischen Belastungen und Folgen der Kriege, die das
Deutsche Reich fuhrte, versammelt der Band Studien zu den liberalen
bzw. demokratischen Traditionen und ihren politischen Gegenkraften
in Deutschland. Beide Themen fliessen zusammen in sieben Beitragen,
die sich mit den Zusammenhangen beider Weltkriege und der
NS-Diktatur beschaftigen.
This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern
Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a
genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on
the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany,
Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives
for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and
sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in
which national and regional welfare systems operated. By
foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick
poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central
sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those
under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief
system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to
navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than
analysis of any other group.
This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern
Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a
genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on
the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany,
Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives
for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and
sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in
which national and regional welfare systems operated. By
foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick
poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central
sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those
under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief
system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to
navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than
analysis of any other group.
In times when Germany is the destination for immigration and flight
from all parts of the world, it makes sense to remember that this
country has primarily been an emigration area for centuries and the
history of many Germans until the recent past of emigration and
flight and exile. The essays in this volume describe how different
types of Protestant congregations abroad dealt with the political
and social crises and upheavals of the 20th century in their German
home countries and their host countries. The focus is on the years
after the First World War, National Socialism, the Second World War
and finally the period after 1945. It has been shown that
Protestant congregations abroad have repeatedly re-established
their relationship to the German country of origin and the
Protestant church in Germany over the course of the 20th century
had to define. With the topic of "foreign congregations", church
contemporary history research opens up an interesting field of
research that can be connected to current issues of migration and
global history.
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