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Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a
dynamic force in Central European history for centuries.
Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on
historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the
experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and
other migrants during the last five hundred years of German
history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern
martyrdom to post-Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume
identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while
also placing the German case within the broader contexts of
European and global migration.
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has
nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last
five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take
on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral
phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing
specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and
health-each of which sought to study and channel the power of
financial desire-Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed
became formative elements of the modern experience.
Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time
and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and
social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking
Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth
century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with
multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here
collectively demonstrate money's vast symbolic and practical
significance, from its place in debates about religion and the
natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation
of national identity.
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has
nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last
five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take
on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral
phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing
specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and
health-each of which sought to study and channel the power of
financial desire-Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed
became formative elements of the modern experience.
Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time
and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and
social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking
Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth
century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with
multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here
collectively demonstrate money's vast symbolic and practical
significance, from its place in debates about religion and the
natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation
of national identity.
Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a
dynamic force in Central European history for centuries.
Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on
historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the
experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and
other migrants during the last five hundred years of German
history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern
martyrdom to post-Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume
identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while
also placing the German case within the broader contexts of
European and global migration.
David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological
study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and
modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of
history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students and
his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects
wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean's work has
on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving
around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship,
community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean's
scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former
students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating
Sabean's impact on the discipline of history.
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of
conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion
as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel
meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights
into the historicity of the very concept of "conversion." One
widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses
denominational change. Yet this concept had no bearing at the
outset of the Reformation. Instead, a variety of processes, such as
the consolidation of territories along confessional lines, attempts
to ensure civic concord, and diplomatic quarrels helped to usher in
new ideas about the nature of religious boundaries and, therefore,
conversion. However conceptualized, religious change-
conversion-had deep social and political implications for early
modern German states and societies.
Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual
history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of
gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino,
this book reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their
changing world. The development of resorts and the architectural
qualities of casinos demonstrate how new leisure practices,
combined with revolutions in transportation and communication,
fashioned resort gambling in the Rhineland and Riviera. Jared Poley
explores the importance of casino gambling in people's lives,
probing how gambling and fate intersected. The casino impacted
understandings of the body, excited emotions, and drove the
'psychology' of the gambler, as well as affecting ideas about
probability, chance, and luck. Ultimately, this book addresses the
fundamental question of what gambling was for, and how it opened up
opportunities to understand theories about aggression, play, and
human development.
When Germany lost its colonial empire after the Great War, many
Germans were unsure how to understand this transition. They were
the first Europeans to experience complete colonial loss, an event
which came as Germany also wrestled with wartime collapse and
foreign occupation. In this book the author considers how Germans
experienced this change from imperial power to postcolonial nation.
This work examines what the loss of the colonies meant to Germans,
and it analyzes how colonialist categories took on new meanings in
Germany's « post-colonial period. Poley explores a varied
collection of materials that ranges from the stories of popular
writer Hanns Heinz Ewers to the novels, essays, speeches,
pamphlets, posters, and archival materials of nationalist groups in
the occupied Rhineland to show how decolonization affected Germans.
When the relationships between metropole and colony were suddenly
severed, Germans were required to reassess many things: nation and
empire, race and power, sexuality and gender, economics and
culture.
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