Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History

ISSN: 2629-3730

e-ISSN 2629-3749

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Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History is published under the auspices of the Italian-German Historical Institute of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento. On the one hand, it consists of the institute’s conference proceedings. On the other hand, the series includes collections of essays and monographs from external authors working in those fields of historical research which are central to the institute. The primary focus is on European history with a special accent on the history of German-Italian relations. One of the series’ virtues is the cross-epochal perspective of many of its publications, which has become one of the trademarks of the institute in Trento.

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Buch 2022

Migration and the European City

Social and Cultural Perspectives from Early Modernity to the Present

Christoph Cornelißen, Beat Kümin, Massimo Rospocher

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Looking back over the centuries, migration has always formed an important part of human existence. Spatial mobility emerges as a key driver of urban evolution, characterized by situation-specific combinations of opportunities, restrictions, and fears. This collection of essays investigates interactions between European cities and migration between the early modern period and the present. Building on conceptual approaches from history, sociology, and cultural studies, twelve contributions　focus on policies, representations, and the impact on local communities more generally.

Combining case-studies and theoretical reflections, the volume’s contributions engage with a variety of topics and disciplinary perspectives yet also with several common themes. One revolves around problems of definition, both in terms of demarcating cities from their surroundings and of distinguishing migration in a narrower sense from other forms of short- and long-distance mobility. Further shared concerns include the integration of multiple analytical scales, contextual factors, and diachronic variables (such as urbanization, industrialization, and the digital revolution).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778687
ISBN:: 9783110778687
ISBN:: 9783110778731
ISBN:: 9783110778229
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine europäische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

Rethinking Fascism

The Italian and German Dictatorships

Di Michele Andrea, Filippo Focardi

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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This book takes up the stimuli of new international historiography, albeit focusing mainly on the two regimes that undoubtedly provided the model for Fascist movements in Europe, namely the Italian and the German. Starting with a historiographical assessment of the international situation, vis-à-vis studies on Fascism and National Socialism, and then concentrate on certain aspects that are essential to any study of the two dictatorships, namely the complex relationships with their respective societies, the figures of the two dictators and the role of violence. This volume reaches beyond the time-frame encompassing Fascism and National Socialism experiences, directing the attention also toward the period subsequent to their demise. This is done in two ways. On the one hand, examining the uncomfortable architectural legacy left by dictatorships to the democratic societies that came after the war. On the other hand, the book addresses an issue that is very much alive both in the strictly historiographical and political science debate, that is to say, to what extent can the label of Fascism be used to identify political phenomena of these current times, such as movements and parties of the so-called populist and souverainist right.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619
ISBN:: 9783110768619
ISBN:: 9783110768633
ISBN:: 9783110766455
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte bis 1945
Fachgebiet:: Andere Themen
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine europäische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Ideologien und politische Ideen
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2021

Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Perspectives from Europe and Japan

Fernanda Alfieri, Takashi Jinno

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643978
ISBN:: 9783110643978
ISBN:: 9783110639988
ISBN:: 9783110640182
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Religionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2021

The Mediatization of War and Peace

The Role of the Media in Political Communication, Narratives, and Public Memory (1914–1939)

Christoph Cornelissen, Marco Mondini

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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During the First World War, mass media achieved an enormous and continuously growing importance in all belligerent countries. Newspaper, illustrated magazines, comics, pamphlets, and instant books, fi ctional works, photography, and the new-born “theater of imagery”, the cinema, were crucial in order to create a heroic vision of the events, to mobilize and maintain the consensus on the war. But their role was pivotal also in creating the image of the war’s end and fi nally, together with a widespread, new literary genre, the war memoirs, to shape the collective memory of the confl ict for the next generations. Even before November 1918, the media raised high expectations for a multifaceted peace: a new global order, the beginning of a peaceful era, the occasion for a regenerating apocalypse. Likewise, in the following decades, particularly war literature and cinema were pivotal to reverse the icon of the Great War as an epic crusade and a glorious chapter of the national history and to create the hegemonic image of a senseless carnage. The Mediatization of War and Peace focalizes on the central role played by mass media in the tortuous transition to the post-war period as well as on the profound disenchantment generated by their prophesies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707373
ISBN:: 9783110707373
ISBN:: 9783110707397
ISBN:: 9783110707366
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte bis 1945
Fachgebiet:: Erster Weltkrieg
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine europäische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2019

Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures

Popular Print in Europe (1450–1900)

Massimo Rospocher, Jeroen Salman, Hannu Salmi

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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This volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the European dimensions of popular print culture.
Popular print culture has traditionally been studied with a national focus. Recent research has revealed, however, that popular print culture has many European dimensions and shared features. A group of specialists in the field has started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research on a wide, European scale. This volume contains the first overview and analysis of the different approaches, methodologies and sources that will stimulate and facilitate future comparative research.
This volume first addresses the benefits of a media-driven approach, focussing on processes of content recycling, interactions between text and image, processes of production and consumption. A second perspective illuminates the distribution and markets for popular print, discussing audiences, prices and collections. A third dimension refers to the transnational dimensions of genres, stories, and narratives. A last perspective unravels the communicative strategies and dynamics behind European bestsellers.
This book is a source of inspiration for everyone who is interested in research into transnational cultural exchange and in the fascinating history of popular print culture in Europe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643541
ISBN:: 9783110643541
ISBN:: 9783110639896
ISBN:: 9783110639513
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Buch
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

News from the Epicentre

The Flow of Information about Earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy (XVI–XVII Centuries)

Gennaro Varriale

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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For decades historians argued for the downfall of communication, when early modern societies were hit by a natural disaster. After all, earthquakes caused the destruction of infrastructure, which hindered the spread of news. Instead, the last investigations opened a new point of view about the political communication: every crisis was a catalyst for news. The book widens this reading through a comparative analysis of several earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy territories, from Asia to America.

However, the examination of communications provided in this volume is not an end in itself but is offered as a basis for reflection and to propose the notion that earthquakes trigger change in social and political dynamics. Earthquake-related crises exposed the underlying contradictions that the court of Madrid needed to address in the most effective way, and, if possible, swiftly.

Earthquakes not only destroyed buildings and infrastructure but also social norms. Urgency reduced the distance between interlocutors, to some extent blurring the boundaries of self-censorship. Tremors therefore offer a rare opportunity to observe the political and military crises faced by the Hispanic Monarchy, the global empire of the time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111454801
ISBN:: 9783111454801
ISBN:: 9783111452609
ISBN:: 9783111455204
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Südeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Umweltgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2023

Environment and Infrastructure

Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present

Giacomo Bonan, Katia Occhi

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources.

These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111112756
ISBN:: 9783111112756
ISBN:: 9783111114132
ISBN:: 9783111100647
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Epochenübergreifende Darstellungen
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Umweltgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg