Jürgen Kocka

Geschichte des Kapitalismus

1848 - 1990

Wendepunkte deutscher Geschichte

What Does Capitalism Mean? The Emergence of a Controversial Concept -- Three Classics : Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter -- Other Voices and a Working Definition -- Merchant Capitalism. China and Arabia -- Europe : Dynamic Latecomer -- Interim Findings around 1500 -- Expansion. Business and Violence : Colonialism and World Trade -- Joint-Stock Company and Finance Capitalism -- Plantation Economy and Slavery -- Agrarian Capitalism, Mining, and Proto-Industrialization -- Capitalism, Culture, and Enlightenment : Adam Smith in Context -- The Capitalist Era. The Contours of Industrialization and Globalization since 1800 -- From Ownership to Managerial Capitalism -- Financialization -- Work in Capitalism -- Market and State -- Analysis and Critique

A Short History

Capitalism

Marcel van der Linden

"Leading scholars explore the resurgence of interest in the term capitalism and debates the term's usefulness and its limits in social and economic history"--

The Reemergence of a Historical Concept

Unterschichten um 1800

Weder Stand noch Klasse

Alfred Haverkamp

Wolfgang Reinhard

Bruno Gebhardt

Volker R. Berghahn

Die Neukonzeption des Gebhardt (vgl. zuletzt Band 15 "Industrielle Revolution und Nationalstaat", der dem vorliegenden zeitlich und inhaltlich vorausgeht, BA 5/03) bewährt sich auch hier wieder überzeugend. Das Kaiserreich 1871-1914 bildet in seiner wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Ausprägung in höherem Mass die Voraussetzung für die fatale deutsche Fehlentwicklung in der 1. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, als früher thematisiert worden ist. So ist es sinnvoll, der Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur der Zeit den gleichen Raum zu geben wie der Politik. Die politische Entwicklung wird nicht chronologisch, sondern nach Politikfeldern charakterisiert. Wiederum gibt der Band nicht nur eine Einführung in den Forschungsstand mit den entsprechenden Hinweisen und Apparaten, sondern auch eine zuverlässige Vermittlung von Basiswissen. Das ist wichtig für Oberstufenschüler und Studenten, die Orientierung suchen und Anregungen für weitere wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit dem Zeitabschnitt

Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte: Das Kaiserreich 1871-1914

Gerhard Schröder

Friedhelm Neidhardt

The topic of Progressive Governance which is the focus of this volume is today inconceivable without the global modernization process which has permeated our societies and our daily lives. The 14 reform-minded heads of State and government who discussed Progresssive Governance in Berlin in June 2000 have above all else embraced this modernization process as an opportunity. Governments are under great pressure to provide political responses to the visible and tangible process of globalization. Particularly in the face of ever faster merging economies, the information revolution, unrestricted capital mobility and global culture change, people expect globalization to be managed politically and given democratic form. Many innovative responses to the challenges of globalization, the knowledge society and demography are sketched out in the contributions in this book. The response of progressive governments to globalization is cooperation - a new international social covenant between markets, states and civil society. But, what it is about, in any case, is the best way towards development based on prosperity and justice. The contributions in this book could help to better define this best way.

Contributions to the Berlin Conference : Papers to the Experts' Conference

Progressive Governance for the XXI Century

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however, this approach has felt pressure from two sources: cultural historical approaches, which stress microhistory and the construction of cultural transfer on the one hand, global history and transnational approaches with emphasis on connected history on the other. This volume introduces the reader to some of the major methodological debates and to recent empirical research of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.

Central European Approaches and New Perspectives

Comparative and Transnational History

Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case studies in a broader European context. It thus offers an insight into social and cultural history as practiced by German-speaking scholars today but also introduces the reader to ongoing research in this field.

The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective

Work in a Modern Society

Jürgen Kocka

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