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  • Making Food Empires

    German Technology and Global Mass Production, 1870–1914

    The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale. The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up until today. This book analyses the industrialization and globalization of foodways through the prism of three commodities: sugar, rum, and beer. ... Read more

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  • Constructing a German Diaspora

    The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914

    by Stefan Manz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for their own and the fatherland’s benefits. Did these ideas fall on fertile ground ... Read more

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  • At the Periphery of a World War?

    Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe

    Series Book 43 - Eigene und Fremde Welten
    The First World War and its aftermath were significant events with widespread consequences that impacted everyday people. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which the Great War affected urban life, extending beyond the typically recognized regions such as the European Great powers, the USA, and its colonies and spheres of influence. It explores the impacts on ... Read more

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  • Enemies in the Empire

    Civilian Internment in the British Empire during the First World War

    During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and were classified as 'enemy aliens'. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed ... Read more

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  • Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim

    Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The ... Read more

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  • Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim

    Cultural Identities in Public Discourse

    Series Book 143 - Multilingual Matters
    Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The ... Read more

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  • Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain

    Edited by Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi ...
    This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their way to Britain, beginning with exiles from the failed European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and ending with refugees who have increasingly come from beyond Europe. The book addresses four ... Read more

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  • Internment during the First World War

    A Mass Global Phenomenon

    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of ‘security’ in a situation of total war, the internment of ‘enemy aliens’ became part of state policy for the belligerent states, resulting in the incarceration, displacement and, in ... Read more

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