1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461461903321

Autore

Engelen Th (Theo)

Titolo

Two cities, one life : marriage and fertility in Lugang and Nijmegen / / Theo Engele & Hsieh Ying-Hui [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Aksant, , 2007

ISBN

1-283-25945-1

9786613259455

90-485-2101-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Life at the extremes ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

304.60951249

Soggetti

Lugang Zhen (Taiwan) Population

Nijmegen (Netherlands) Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

East is east and west is west? : population checks in Europe and China -- Nuptiality : one concept, two realities -- Illegitimate births and bridal pregnancy : deviations from societal rules -- Infant mortality : "the massacre of the innocents" -- Fertility : Malthusian reality or proactive behavior?

Sommario/riassunto

Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on nuptiality, fertility and mortality are calculated to test the Malthusian predictions on a so called 'positive' and a 'preventive' demographic regime. Next, the authors try to disentangle the individual rationality behind aggregated measures in order to find out how the inhabitants of the two towns used the one life they had. Unaware of each others existence, the people living in Nijmegen and Lu-kang had more in common than one would expect given the huge cultural differences.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824516303321

Autore

Schönemann-Behrens Petra <1962->

Titolo

Alfred Hermann Fried : peace activist and Nobel Prize Laureate / / Petra Schönemann-Behrens ; translated by Edward T. Larkin and Thomas B. Ahrens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9789004470378

9789004470156

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages)

Collana

Brill's specials in modern history ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

327.172092

Soggetti

Peace movements - Europe - History

Pacifists - Austria

Nobel Prize winners - Austria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Petra Schönemann-Behrens provides an informative review of the life and times of Alfred Fried, a significant if underappreciated German pacifist of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. In response to the militarism and international anarchy of the European states, Fried developed his unique notion of "revolutionary" or "scientific" pacifism, differentiating it from reform pacifism, in order to address the material causes of war. As theorist, practitioner, and journalist, Fried advanced radical concepts at the time: the formation of a pan-European union, the establishment of an effective international court of arbitration, the elimination of a secretive diplomatic class, and the expansion of international economic and cultural cooperation. This work is translated after the German work Alfred H. Fried: Friedensaktivist - Nobelpreisträger published by Römerhof Verlag, in 2011.