1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794903503321

Titolo

Hurricane Katrina and the lessons of disaster relief / / edited by Michael Powelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5275-0078-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Disciplina

976.044

Soggetti

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Disaster relief

New Orleans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910978372603321

Autore

Brauner Christina <1989->

Titolo

Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany : Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9781805398745

1805398741

9781805398752

180539875X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 pages)

Collana

Studies in German History Series ; ; v.30

Altri autori (Persone)

DürrRenate <1961->

HahnPhilip

OverkampAnne Sophie <1981->

Disciplina

943/.05

Soggetti

Globalization - Germany - History

Germany Civilization Foreign influences

Germany Colonial influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Moving and Belonging -- Chapter 1. Their Last Days in Europe -- Chapter 2 Between Beutelsbach and Batavia -- Chapter 3 Encountering Opportunities -- Chapter 4 Between Slavery and Exoticism -- Part II Globality: The World of the Hometown -- Chapter 5. Bringing the World to German Home Towns -- Chapter 6 Two Inventories—Two Braunschweigs -- Chapter 7 Encountering the Middle East in Early Modern Germany -- Chapter 8 A Small Town in Germany and Its Global Dis:connections -- Chapter 9 Putting the Hanse on the Map -- Part III Materiality: Local Tastes for the Global -- Chapter 10. Global Goods, Familiar Strangers, and Some Local Knowledge of the World: A View from the German-Dutch Borderlands, ca. 1700 -- Chapter 11 Global Food in Southwestern Germany around 1770 -- Chapter 12 Reading Materials -- Chapter 13 Global Itineraries, Curative Effects, and Sacred Scents -- Chapter 14 Colonial Objects in the



Cabinet of Curiosities? -- Part IV Going Beyond: Perspectives and Agendas -- Conclusion. German Global Microhistory, or -- Appendix 6.1 -- Appendix 6.2 -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home towns, labor migration, material culture, and religious communities, the microhistories presented here reveal the myriad ways in which connections and disconnections underpinned early modern Germany. The authors engage with contemporary debates about global history in general, taking its lacunae as a cue for substantial methodological revisions"--