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Irgendwann ist jede Revolution zu Ende. An die Stelle revolutionärer Unordnung tritt eine neue Ordnung. Wann das genau passiert, ist nicht einfach festzustellen. Das liegt nicht nur daran, dass die Forschung sich viel mehr für die Ursachen und Anlässe von Revolutionen interessiert. Es liegt auch daran, wie Revolutionen enden.
This article discusses the potential of a historical approach to sustainability transformations. Using environmental issues and governance structures as case studies, it first describes how historical “sustainability transformations” can be conceptualized. It then suggests that 19th-century constitutional reforms can be read as attempts at reaching fiscal sustainability, whereas some social reforms can be interpreted as attempts to render the capitalist economy sustainable. In conclusion, the article highlights that the primary value of historical approaches to sustainability transformations will not lie in models, but in encouraging more creative questions.
Mike Rapport is one of the few scholars who write European history not as the history of a few select countries, but of the entire continent. Rapport is at home in the history of the Balkans as well as France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Scandinavia, and well versed in the historiography published in English, French, and Italian. Rapport's well-rounded viewpoint is one excellent argument for anyone suffering from "1848 fatigue" after the sesquicentennial celebrations and their aftermath in conference volumes and historiographical reviews to put aside any skepticism regarding the possibility of anyone presenting a novel perspective; the book itself is another. In it, Rapport offers a narrative history of the events of 1848 in those European countries and regions affected directly by the revolution--France, Italy, the German states, Denmark, and Rumania--with some remarks on areas where the impact was more indirect (Britain, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Scandinavia). This book is less obviously an academic textbook than Jonathan Sperber's excellent survey of the revolutions of 1848, and less encyclopedic than the survey of national events and overarching themes edited by Dieter Dowe and others for the 1998 anniversary. ...
Stéphane Dufoix schreibt im Vorwort, das vorliegende Buch (das in etwas kürzerer Fassung 2003 auf französisch in der Reihe "Que sais je" erschien) habe "a somewhat schizophrenic character". Es handele von "Diaspora", sei aber von einem Autor verfasst, der an die Nützlichkeit von Diaspora als Forschungsbegriff nicht glaube. Nach der Lektüre von rund 100 Seiten luzidem und konzisem Text weiß man garantiert etwas über Diaspora, was man vorher nicht gewusst hat, und man wird vermutlich die Skepsis des Autors im doppelten Sinne teilen: gegenüber der Nützlichkeit des Begriffs als analytischem Instrument, und gegenüber der Annahme, dass der Begriff bald durch andere ersetzt werden wird. ...
Jonathan Wagner has written a monograph on a migration movement that was in many ways a peripheral one. From a Canadian perspective, Germans accounted for a relatively minor share of immigrants, compared to former residents of the British Isles, of eastern or southern Europe. Seen from Germany, Canada was one of many destinations for migrants who wished to leave the country and were prepared to travel over long distances, but were, for whatever reason, not attracted by the United States, the destination for the overwhelming majority of transcontinental emigrants. Nevertheless, the movement from Germany to Canada was significant in absolute and often symbolic terms. The way Wagner tells it, the story of German-Canadian migration was a tale of parallel experiences: both Germany and Canada experienced federation and increasing international autonomy from the 1860s; both were ruled by domineering conservative figures presiding over de facto liberalization in the 1870s; both participated in the First World War, and both went through traumatic economic crises in the interwar period. ...