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Professor Edmund Todd's Full Bibliography, Edmund Todd Ph.D.
Professor Edmund Todd's Full Bibliography, Edmund Todd Ph.D.
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Рождение Mногонациональной Бюрократии. Прибалтика В Эпоху Александра Iii [The Genesis Of A Multiethnic Bureaucracy. The Baltic Region In The Era Of Alexander Iii], Bradley D. Woodworth
Рождение Mногонациональной Бюрократии. Прибалтика В Эпоху Александра Iii [The Genesis Of A Multiethnic Bureaucracy. The Baltic Region In The Era Of Alexander Iii], Bradley D. Woodworth
History Faculty Publications
This article examines the changes in the ethnic composition of the tsarist bureaucracy in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, focusing on Reval (Est. Tallinn) and Riga.
Ulrich Pfeffel's Library: Parish Priests, Preachers, And Books In The Fifteenth Century, Matthew Wranovix
Ulrich Pfeffel's Library: Parish Priests, Preachers, And Books In The Fifteenth Century, Matthew Wranovix
History Faculty Publications
Ulrich Pfeffel, a priest, preacher, and avid book collector in the dioceses of Eichstätt and Bamberg in the second half of the fifteenth century, has long been known and celebrated in the local historiography of the diocese of Eichstätt, but has not received any sustained treatment. Thirty-two manuscripts and three printed books once owned by Pfeffel, in all containing well over 200 texts, have survived. The books themselves are of a remarkably even quality, of both moderate size and length. All appear to have their original fifteenth-century binding, usually leather, and three of the bindings can be identified as the …
Patterns Of Civil Society In A Modernizing Multiethnic City: A German Town In The Russian Empire Becomes Estonian, Bradley Woodworth
Patterns Of Civil Society In A Modernizing Multiethnic City: A German Town In The Russian Empire Becomes Estonian, Bradley Woodworth
History Faculty Publications
In his article Bradley Woodworth examines the nationalization of a multiethnic provincial town in the Russian Empire -- Tallinn (Ger. Reval, Rus. Revel') -- in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, seeing it as part of the process of territorialization of national communities. At the center of this study is the development of civil society, the activities of professional and associational groups and local city government. The author argues that unlike earlier histories of the region, all three major ethnic groups (Baltic Germans, Estonians, and Russians) developed socially in similar ways. Overall, during this the dominance of social …
Industry, State, And Electrical Technology In The Ruhr Circa 1900, Edmund Todd
Industry, State, And Electrical Technology In The Ruhr Circa 1900, Edmund Todd
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Constructing electric power and light systems early in the twentieth century challenged existing institutional boundaries. Large-scale technological systems had a wide variety of internal components, the development of which provided new opportunities to serve more customers and wider areas. Such was the case with electricity. Deployment of electric power systems required renegotiation of institutional boundaries, as leaders of various organized bodies used new technology to promote their own interests… Around 1900 there were at least four different kinds of institutions that competed to build regional power systems in Germany: electrical manufacturers, municipal governments, county administrations, and heavy industrialists… The Ruhr …