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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.

The strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social conformity in new ways: how were citizens who did not adhere to the rules to be dealt with? This edited collection opens new perspectives on the history of the emerging welfare state by focusing on its margins.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

Vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Berliner Republik – in diesem kompakten Überblick erzählt eine Gruppe von ausgewiesenen Experten, wie das entstand, was wir heute Deutschland nennen. Wer verstehen will, warum aus den deutschen Fürstentümern vergleichsweise spät ein Nationalstaat wurde, wie es zur Katastrophe des Holocaust kommen konnte und wie sich die beiden deutschen Staaten nach 1945 herausbildeten, findet Antworten in diesem für die Neuauflage umfassend aktualisierten und erweiterten Buch.- Mit einem neuen Kapitel zur Ära Merkel und zur »Zeitenwende«

"Familie" ist ein Gebiet, dem alle Richtungen und Schulen der sozialhistorisch orientierten Forschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten viel Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt haben: Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Alltagsgeschichte, Historische Anthropologie oder auch Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte sind gleichermaßen an der Institution der Familie und ihrem Wandel interessiert. Diese Fächer haben nicht nur wichtiges Quellenmaterial hervorgebracht, sondern für ihre Bereiche auch Modelle entwickelt, mit denen Familienhistoriker sich kritisch auseinandersetzen können und müssen. Andreas Gestrich trägt in seinem erfolgreichen Standardwerk diesen intensiven Diskussionen über die Fachgrenzen hinweg Rechnung, indem er Entwicklungen nachzeichnet und Perspektiven für weitere interdisziplinäre Forschungen aufzeigt.

"Familie" ist ein Gebiet, dem alle Richtungen und Schulen der sozialhistorisch orientierten Forschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten viel Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt haben: Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Alltagsgeschichte, Historische Anthropologie oder auch Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte sind gleichermaßen an der Institution der Familie und ihrem Wandel interessiert. Diese Fächer haben nicht nur wichtiges Quellenmaterial hervorgebracht, sondern für ihre Bereiche auch Modelle entwickelt, mit denen Familienhistoriker sich kritisch auseinandersetzen können und müssen. Andreas Gestrich trägt in seinem erfolgreichen Standardwerk diesen intensiven Diskussionen über die Fachgrenzen hinweg Rechnung, indem er Entwicklungen nachzeichnet und Perspektiven für weitere interdisziplinäre Forschungen aufzeigt.

In Zeiten, in denen Deutschland Ziel für Einwanderung und Flucht aus allen Teilen der Welt ist, erscheint es sinnvoll, sich daran zu erinnern, dass dieses Land über Jahrhunderte primär ein Auswanderungsgebiet war und die Geschichte vieler Deutscher bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit von Emigration, Flucht und Exil geprägt war.Die im vorliegenden Band gebotenen Aufsätze beschreiben den Umgang unterschiedlicher Typen evangelischer Auslandsgemeinden mit den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Krisen und Brüchen des 20. Jahrhunderts in ihrem deutschen Herkunftsland und ihren Gastländern. Im Fokus stehen die Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, der Nationalsozialismus, der Zweite Weltkrieg und schließlich die Zeit nach 1945. Es zeigt sich, dass evangelische Auslandsgemeinden im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr Verhältnis zum deutschen Herkunftsland und zur evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland immer wieder neu definieren mussten.Mit dem Thema „Auslandsgemeinden“ erschließt sich die kirchliche Zeitgeschichtsforschung ein interessantes, an aktuelle migrations- und globalgeschichtliche Fragestellungen anschlussfähiges Forschungsfeld.

Die 17 Studien des Bandes beschäftigen sich mit zwei Kernproblemen der politischen Geschichte Deutschlands zwischen der Revolution von 1848 und dem demokratischen Neubeginn 1945: Neben Beiträgen zur historischen Friedensforschung über die innen- und außenpolitischen Belastungen und Folgen der Kriege, die das Deutsche Reich führte, versammelt der Band Studien zu den liberalen bzw. demokratischen Traditionen und ihren politischen Gegenkräften in Deutschland. Beide Themen fließen zusammen in sieben Beiträgen, die sich mit den Zusammenhängen beider Weltkriege und der NS-Diktatur beschäftigen.

Das Betteln war bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein ein weitverbreitetes Phänomen in Europa, trotz aller Bemühungen um seine Unterbindung seit dem ausgehenden Mittelalter. Die Geschichtsschreibung hat das Fortleben der individuellen Gabenbitte im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung, der Urbanisierung und des entstehenden Sozialstaats bisher allerdings wenig beachtet. Wer waren die Bettler der Moderne, und wie reagierte die Gesellschaft auf sie? Dieser Band versammelt acht historische Fallstudien zu europäischen Städten des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts – Oxford, St. Petersburg, Athen, Rom, Wien, Berlin, Aachen und Düsseldorf. Eingerahmt werden sie durch einen Überblick über die Forschung zur Frühen Neuzeit sowie einen auf ethnologischer Feldforschung basierenden Beitrag zur Gegenwart.

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.

In Zeiten, in denen Deutschland Ziel für Einwanderung und Flucht aus allen Teilen der Welt ist, erscheint es sinnvoll, sich daran zu erinnern, dass dieses Land über Jahrhunderte primär ein Auswanderungsgebiet war und die Geschichte vieler Deutscher bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit von Emigration, Flucht und Exil geprägt war.Die im vorliegenden Band gebotenen Aufsätze beschreiben den Umgang unterschiedlicher Typen evangelischer Auslandsgemeinden mit den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Krisen und Brüchen des 20. Jahrhunderts in ihrem deutschen Herkunftsland und ihren Gastländern. Im Fokus stehen die Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, der Nationalsozialismus, der Zweite Weltkrieg und schließlich die Zeit nach 1945. Es zeigt sich, dass evangelische Auslandsgemeinden im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr Verhältnis zum deutschen Herkunftsland und zur evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland immer wieder neu definieren mussten.Mit dem Thema "Auslandsgemeinden" erschließt sich die kirchliche Zeitgeschichtsforschung ein interessantes, an aktuelle migrations- und globalgeschichtliche Fragestellungen anschlussfähiges Forschungsfeld.