This monograph makes a contribution to a longstanding debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work investigates key aspects of this transformation: the changes on the land, the origins of the industrial revolution, the modern rise of population and the gro…
Preliminary Material /Christian Kassung and Thomas Macho -- Einleitung /Christian Kassung and Thomas Macho -- Tabellarische Zeit. Formen und Effekte der Zeitr echnung in Johann David Köhlers »Chronologia« (1736) /Anna Echterhölter -- Befehlen. Kulturtechniken der sozialen Synchr…
"Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the metho…
"Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the metho…
"Using the challenge of staying warm in the industrializing North as a window into the complex world of energy transitions, economic change, and emerging consumerism, Sean Patrick Adams presents the development of new home heating methods in order to trace connections between st…
"Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the metho…
This text explores gender, labour and class in Korea and Japan, both during the 20th century and today. It shows how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities, demonstrating that sexual and labor relations have been crucial factors in shaping the cultures of industriali…