The current Festschrift serves a twin function: first of all, to honour Professor Joyce Hallamore for her contribution to German stories in Canada, rather on the collage of British Columbia; secondly, to rfile the flourishing kingdom of German reports during this nation. Former and current scholars of Professor Hallamore have been requested to give a contribution essays from their diversified fields of curiosity which she has prompted and fostered; additionally, colleagues throughout Canada have been invited to give a contribution the result of their learn: the wide subject matter of this moment workforce of essays is the complicated dating among 19th and 20th century literature which has been the centre of Professor Hallamore’s personal scholarly work.

This quantity commemorates Professor Hallamore’s 40 years of scholarship and teaching—the time given by way of her to the collage of British Columbia, not just to the formation and progress of the dep. of German (which she has headed for a few two decades) yet to the growth of the college as an entire. It demonstrates even as via breadth and diversity the arrival of age of German experiences in Canada, which Professor Hallamore has fostered.

Although the essays during this quantity range in technique, the outcome exhibits a awesome concord of outlook, which provides proof of the authors’ wakeful attempt to re-examine seriously conventional different types and attitudes in literary feedback. This concord of outlook—found within the entire diversity of papers from the youngest to the main mature scholar—reflects the spirit and paintings of the individual whom the quantity is honouring.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Gesch. Europa - Deutschland - I. Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, word: 1,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Geo- und Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: PS.: Einführung in die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte: Deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1914 - 1945/48, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Der erste Weltkrieg (1914-1918) stellte in militärischer Hinsicht einen Wendepunkt in der Geschichte dar. Durch den immensen technischen Fortschritt wurde das Kriegsgebiet über die Schützengräben hinaus ausgedehnt. Erstmals hatte so auch die Zivilbevölkerung der am Krieg beteiligten Staaten unter den Kampfhandlungen zu leiden. Dies waren jedoch nicht die einzigen Auswirkungen des „totalen Krieges“.

Vielmehr stellte die Finanzierung des Ersten Weltkrieges mit all seinen technischen Neuerungen eine bis dahin nicht gekannte Belastung für die gesamte deutsche Volkswirtschaft dar. Um die Mobilmachung finanzieren zu können, wurden im Jahr 1914 die bestehenden Finanzgesetze reformiert. Damit wurde bereits der Grundstein für die Inflation in der Zeit von 1918 bis 1923 gelegt. Die Annahme der deutschen Reichsregierung, der Krieg würde kurz und siegreich sein, hatte zur Folge, dass kein langfristiger Kosten- und Finanzierungsplan für diesen Krieg erarbeitet wurde. Vielmehr wurden durch weitere Änderungen der Finanz- und Steuergesetze sowie durch die Gründung von Darlehenskassen die bestehenden Vorschriften zur Deckung des Geldumlaufs langsam ausgehöhlt. Allein die Ausgabe von insgesamt neun Kriegsanleihen kann als erfolgreiche Finanzierungsmaßnahme gewertet werden. Den wachsenden Finanzbedarf des Reiches (Kriegsproduktion, Tilgung und Verzinsung der Schulden) jedoch konnte keine der genannten Maßnahmen nachhaltig stillen.

Auch Matthias’ Erzbergers grundlegende, nach Kriegsende auf den Weg gebrachte Steuerreform konnte die finanzielle Misere nicht mehr verhindern. Diese Steuerreform führte jedoch dazu, dass sich erstmalig das Abhängigkeitsverhältnis von Bund und Ländern umkehrte. Zusammen mit den horrenden Reparations- zahlungen, den Gebietsverlusten und der Demontage der Industrieanlagen bedeutete der uneingeschränkte Rückgriff auf die Notenpresse während der Kriegszeit, eine desaströse Finanzsituation nach Kriegsende. Der unaufhaltsame Geldwertverfall, der 1923 in der Hyperinflation gipfelte, konnte nur durch eine grundlegende Erneuerung des gesamten Währungssystems erreicht werden. Mit der 1923 gegründeten Rentenbank gelang schließlich das „Wunder der Rentenmark“.

In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the situations of a couple of hundred thousand humans accused of helping and abetting the enemy through the moment global conflict. during this interesting e-book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden heritage of collaboration within the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the Béarnais in southwestern France via 9 tales of human folly, uncertainty, ambiguity, ambivalence, wish, vengeance, duplicity, greed, self-interest, opportunism and betrayal. overlaying either the career and liberation sessions, she finds how the book's characters grew to become concerned with the occupiers for quite a few purposes, starting from a wish to settle rankings and to realize entry to energy, cash and fabric rewards, to like, friendship, worry and desperation. those wartime lives and next postwar reckonings supply us with a brand new lens in which to appreciate human habit less than the tough stipulations of career, and the next look for retribution and justice.

whilst he without notice got here to energy in Italy in 1537, the younger Duke Cosimo I de' Medici surprised pals and foes alike along with his skill to extricate himself from mortal threat, confirm his authority and revive a demise country. He doubled the dimensions of his duchy and verified a dynasty that governed unchallenged for 2 hundred years. This quantity is the 1st book-length learn in any language to procedure the determine of Duke Cosimo I from the perspective of his cultural time table. The participants research the political, financial, cultural and linguistic thoughts that made Cosimo a profitable chief, and within the strategy remove darkness from the cultural international of mid-sixteenth-century Tuscany.

A exotic staff of historians and political theorists study the advanced dating among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying especial realization to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. a tremendous contribution of the ebook is to think about not just the momentous episodes of coup d'etat, revolution, and imperial beginning which the Napoleonic period heralded, but in addition the contested political language with which those occasions have been defined and assessed. Political thinkers have been confronted with a battery of latest phrases - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' between them - with which to make feel in their period. in addition to documenting the political background of a innovative age, the ebook examines a sequence of thinkers - Tocqueville, Marx, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt - who articulated and helped to reshare our feel of the political.

Drawing at the services of 26 wonderful students, this significant quantity covers the most important concerns within the learn of medieval Europe, highlighting the numerous influence the period of time had on cultural types and associations principal to ecu identification.

• Examines altering ways to the examine of medieval Europe, its periodization, and principal themes
• Includes insurance of significant questions reminiscent of id and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, in addition to extra conventional themes similar to fiscal and demographic growth; kingship; and the increase of the West
• Explores Europe’s knowing of the broader global to put the research of the medieval society in an international context

towns, Texts and Social Networks examines the reports of city existence from overdue antiquity during the shut of the 15th century, in areas starting from past due Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low nations, Italy and Germany. jointly, the volume's individuals circulation past makes an attempt to outline 'the urban' in only felony, fiscal or spiritual phrases. as a substitute, they specialise in modes of supplier, illustration and identification formation that formed the methods city areas have been known as into being, used and perceived. Their interdisciplinary analyses position narrative and archival assets in communique with topography, the outfitted setting and facts of sensory stimuli so one can catch points of interest, sounds, actual proximities and gear buildings. Paying shut awareness to the delineation of private and non-private areas, and secular and sacred precincts, each one bankruptcy explores the workings of strength and concrete discourse and their results at the making of which means. the quantity as an entire engages theoretical discussions of city house - its creation, intake, reminiscence and which means - which too usually misrepresent the facts of the center a long time. It argues that the development and use of medieval city areas may foster the emergence of medieval 'public spheres' that have been primary parts and by-products of pre-modern city existence. The ensuing assortment contributes to longstanding debates between historians whereas tackling basic questions relating to medieval society and the methods it's understood at the present time. a lot of those questions will resonate with students of postcolonial or 'non-Western' cultures whose resources and towns were equally marginalized in discussions of city house and adventure. and since those essays replicate a substantial geographical, temporal and methodological scope, they version ways to the examine of city historical past that would curiosity a variety of readers.

the wealthy cultural and political lifetime of Spain has emerged from its complicated background, from the variety of its peoples, and from continuous touch with outdoors affects. This booklet lines that background from prehistoric occasions to the current, focusing rather on tradition, society, politics, and personalities. Written in an enticing variety, it introduces readers to the major subject matters that experience formed Spain's historical past and tradition. those comprise its different landscapes and climates; the effect of waves of various human migrations; the significance of its position as a bridge among the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and Europe and Africa; and faith, relatively militant Catholic Christianity and its centuries of clash with Islam and Protestantism, in addition to debates over where of the Church in smooth Spain. Illustrations, maps, and a consultant to additional examining, significant cultural figures, and areas to work out, make the heritage of this interesting nation come alive.

within the final twenty years, examine on spatial paradigms and practices has won momentum throughout disciplines and significantly diverse sessions, together with the sector of medieval reports. Responding to this ’spatial flip’ within the humanities, the essays accrued the following generate new principles approximately how medieval house used to be outlined, built, and practiced in Europe, relatively in France. Essays are grouped thematically and in 3 components, from particular websites, during the broader shaping of territory via socially developed networks, to the bigger geographical realm. The ensuing assortment builds on present scholarship yet brings new perception, situating medieval buildings of house with regards to modern conceptions of the subject.