Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950

Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950
Author: Eszter Gantner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 100020765X

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona, Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health, they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume will appeal to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational connections.

Genealogies of Barbados Families

Genealogies of Barbados Families
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 775
Release: 1983
Genre: Barbados
ISBN: 0806310049

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a continuous flow of settlers from Barbados to virtually every point on the Atlantic seaboard, with the result that many families in America today trace their origins in the New World first to Barbados. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal Caribbeana and The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.This present work contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals.The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index.

The Foreign Office List

The Foreign Office List
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1866
Genre: Diplomatic and consular service, British
ISBN:

A Sower Went Forth

A Sower Went Forth
Author: Martha Palmer Weaver
Publisher: Rod & Staff Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1978
Genre: Evangelists
ISBN: 9780739901618