Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities and destabilizing...

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Die Zeit nach 1864, als die Marinestation Ostsee nach Kiel verlegt wurde und Schleswig und Holstein zur preußischen Provinz wurden, marktiert den Beginn gravierender Veränderungen. Verbunden mit dem Marinestandort und dem rasanten Aufstieg der modernen Industrie setzte ein schnelles...