Durch die immensen Fortschritte bei der Digitaltechnik sind nahezu beliebig hohe Specherkapazitäten und weltumspannende Netzwerke selbstverständlich geworden. Der weitere Ausbau der Netzwerke zu Hochgeschwindigkeits-Grids ermöglicht neue Formen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, die unter...

Betriebsräte sind täglich gefordert viele Dokumente, Informationen oder Daten zu verarbeiten. In der modernen Bürokommunikation bedeutet dies vor allem der ständige Umgang mit Dateien aller Art. Der Gesamtbetriebsrat Mahle versendet zusammen mit seinen Fachausschüssen etwa 800 Dateien pro...

The development of the Tunisian transport infrastructure in the period following the establishment of the French Protectorate has been little studied. The history of the Tunisian railways and ports is profoundly influenced by developments in the financial situation of the Regency during the last...

Between 1829 and 1853, the Lower Danube region became one of the strategic grain supply points for the Mediterranean entrepôts and a source for supplementing Britain's food requirements. The Crimean War ended in 1856 with Russia's removal from the Mouths of the Danube. In this context, in...

The paper aims to analyze the economic interests of some of the Balkan countries and Great Powers in Albania's resources above and below ground with a focus on hydrocarbons. It covers the pe- riod 1920-1926, specifically after the end of World War I when some of the Balkan states and Great...

I explore the fact that the Mongol Empire invaded most of Eurasia but left Western Europe untouched. I hypothesize that differences in exposure to the Mongols resulted in divergent institutional paths. Where the Mongols invaded, they set up highly centralized autocratic institutions. Meanwhile,...

The Italian credit and financial system was the result of progressive developments that accelerated during the process of Italian unification. Our essay analyses the role of local private bankers in modernizing the economic and financial system of the country and the way in which the gradual...