Tocqueville, comparative history and immigration in two democracies
In: French politics, culture and society, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 1-15
ISSN: 1537-6370, 0882-1267
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In: French politics, culture and society, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 1-15
ISSN: 1537-6370, 0882-1267
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In: The Maghreb review: a quarterly journal on the Maghreb, the Middle East, Africa and Islamic studies, Band 19, Heft 1-2, S. 2-22
ISSN: 0309-457X
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 83-103
ISSN: 1086-3338
One of the sorest needs in the social sciences is for clear and concise conceptual equipment to give structure to disciplines and order to the range of hypotheses these disciplines purport to explore. Perhaps nowhere is this need for conceptual equipment more pressing, however, than in that amorphous area of study that examines the broad range of social processes gathered under the rubric of "modernization." Depending on one's perspective, the process of modernization is either primarily economic, or political, or psychological, or social, or technological, or all of the above. Like the elephant in the old tale, the beast is different depending on who touches it and where.
Alsace and Transylvania are two historical border provinces which have been intensely debated throughout history and which have always been interrelated with each other in discourses of politicians as well as of intellectuals and of historians. By our study we would like to set forth a plea for a comparative history of Alsace and Transylvania (as two border provinces) and to yield a first set of arguments in favour of such a scientific endeavour. Once established the advantages and the methods upon which an inquiry of comparative history rests, we could better understand the particular identity and the ways in which these two sideline provinces have related to their centres of power. Thus the monolithic and exclusive national history may be replaced by a fragmentary and/or peripheral standpoint which would bring to light different aspects concerning local or regional history, regionalism or the relationship between the centre and its periphery.
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In: European history quarterly, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 155-157
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Business history, Band 53, Heft 6, S. 900-916
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Review of Middle East studies, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 47-53
ISSN: 2329-3225
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"Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour-intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, storehouses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial to globalization but were also confronted with the process of globalization themselves. They were often migrants who worked, directly or indirectly, for trading companies, merchants and producers that tried to discipline and control their labour force. The contributors to this v. offer an integrated, thematic study of the global history of desertion in European, Atlantic and Asian contexts. By tracing and comparing acts and patterns of desertion across empires, economic systems, regions and types of workers, Desertion in the Early Modern World illuminates the crucial role of practices of desertion among workers in shaping the history of imperial and economic expansion in the early modern period."--Bloomsbury Publishing
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 153-156
ISSN: 1469-767X
In his comment on my article 'Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840–1898' (Journal of Latin American Studies, XV, no. 1, May 1983, pp. 83–100), Tom Brass is to be lauded for the comparative observations used to contest my conclusions on proletarianization in the coffee-producing regions of 19th-century Puerto Rico. By examining some of the literature on coffee expansion in Brazill and Colombia, and comparing these cases with Puerto Rico, Dr Brass concludes that the development of capitalist agriculture, when accompanied by labour scarcity, results in 'unfree labour' rather than the development of free wage labour as I have indicated to be the case for Puerto Rico' coffee sector.
In: A Comparative History of National Oil Companies
In: Blacks in the diaspora
In: Review of Middle East studies, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 47-53
ISSN: 2329-3225
There is something seriously flawed about models of social change that posit the dominant role of in-built civilizational motors. While "the rise of the West" makes great ideology, it is poor history. Like Jared Diamond, I believe that we need to situate the fate of nations in a long-term ecohistorical context. Unlike Diamond, I believe that the ways (and the sequences) in which things happened mattered deeply to what came next. The Mediterranean is a particularly useful case in this light. No longer a center of progress after the sixteenth century, the decline of the Mediterranean is usually ascribed to its inherent cultural deficiencies. While the specific cultural infirmity varies with the historian (amoral familism, patron/clientalism, and religion are some of the favorites) its civilizationalist presuppositions are clear. In this respect the search for "what went wrong" typifies national histories across the region and prefigures the fate of the Third World.
In: Review of Middle East studies, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 47-53
ISSN: 2151-3481
In: International affairs, Band 80, Heft 3, S. 429-446
ISSN: 1468-2346