Eisenhüttenstadt, das ehemalige ehrgeizige sozialistische Vorzeigeprojekt, hat einen umfassenden Strukturwandel hinter sich, der die dort lebenden Menschen in allen Bereichen ihres Lebens betrifft. Das Buch stellt die Geschichte Eisnhüttenstadts im Gesamtzusammenhang zwischen Staat, Industrie...

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have...

"The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is...

Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos -- Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues -- Alternative uses of land and...