Modern Times to 1918

The production of urban space in scarcely studied by scholars in historical and urban studies, the city being still predominantly seen as a frame in which activities and social relationship develop, …

Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719–20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending …

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers’ gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Muc …

In scholarship, classical (Renaissance) humanism is usually strictly distinguished from ‘neo-humanism’, which, especially in Germany, flourished at the beginning of the 19th century. While most class …

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images serie …

Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938 traces the rise of Budapest Jewry from a marginal Ashkenazic community at the beginning of the eighteenth century into …

In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eas …

Finding Order in Diversity: Religious Toleration in the Habsburg Empire, 1792–1848 covers the tumultuous period in the Habsburg Empire from Joseph II’s failed reforms through the Revolutions of …

The word ‘West’ is omnipresent and often unquestioned. The goal of this volume is to elaborate a critical reflection on this concept and make these implicit processes explicit. The articles focus on …

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria – especially Vienna – and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often co …