Economic History

ISBN: 9783515096454
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Blickwechsel. Schriftenreihe des Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft der TU Berlin
Volume: 9
English summary: For the management of demographic change, trades are a model industry. On the one hand they integrate young people and provide essential training, while on the other hand they provide opportunities for older people, such as... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515098397
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Beihefte (VSWG-B)
Volume: 213
Interlopers played a significant role in Early Modern world trade. The eighteenth century was a case in point; re-exports of colonial goods such as tobacco, sugar, tea and coffee increased dramatically after 1740. Originally dominated by the Dutch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805343206
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
German description: Zwischen Piraten und Moguln Die Ostindienkompanien prägten mehr als zwei Jahrhunderte lang das Bild Asiens in Europa. Die mutigen Händler und Seeleute tauschten nicht nur Waren, sondern auch kulturelle Gepflogenheiten au... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515096942
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Transatlantische Historische Studien (THS)
Volume: 43
English summary: U.S. motorists still consider a diesel car as absurd and preposterous and clearly favor petrol cars, whereas German consumers more frequently favor diesel engines when buying a new car. Previous explanations assumed cost as... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700166801
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: VERöFFENTLICHUNGEN ZUR BYZANZFORSCHUNG
Volume: 18
The intensive exchange of letters between 1912 and 1946 between the physicist Lise Meiner, born in Vienna in 1878, and the botanist Elisabeth Schiemann, born in 1881 and raised in Berlin, cannot be seen merely as the documentation of a friendsh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515098205
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Mainzer Vorträge (MV)
Volume: 14
English summary: All throughout history, from Roman to modern times, geographical, political and social conditions determined economic development along the Rhine and Moselle. The narrow river valleys of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers with... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782600013314
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: PUBLICATIONS D'HISTOIRE éCONOMIQUE ET SOCIALE INTERNATIONALE
Volume: 25
This study crosses numerous sources, including company archives and interviews, to shed new light on the Suez Canal and its managing firm. This controversial subject has provoked much debate in political, ideological and historical circles, re... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805342650
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
English summary: This volume is devoted to the monuments to industrial and economic history in the Rhineland-Palatinate. The richness of the cultural landscape of Germany is not exhausted by palaces, castles and half-timbered houses. Re... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515096935
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Beihefte (VSWG-B)
Volume: 211
English summary: Transportation policy has long been seen as a stepchild of European integration, though the Contracting States of the European Economic Community did ascribe a vital role to transportation for the internal market in 1957. H... .... Learn More