This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a syste…
Carl Patsch (*1865 in Kovač/Böhmen, †1945 in Wien) ist einer der Begründer der balkanrömischen Provinzialarchäologie. Im von der k.u.k. Monarchie besetzten und verwalteten Bosnien-Herzegowina diente er der Forschung und Wissenschaftspolitik als Kustos am Bosnisch-Herzegowinischen Landesmuseum (Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine) und als Gründungsdirektor des Bosnisch-Herzegowinischen I…
Die Edition des Briefwechsels von Guberniumspräsident Ludwig Folliot von Crenneville und Hofkanzler Franz von Nádasdy umfasst die Jahre 1861 bis 1863. Beide prägten die Politik ihrer Zeit. Ihre Korrespondenz ist eine bemerkenswerte Quelle zu den inneren Mechanismen von Verwaltung und Machtausübung im Habsburgerreich in der Endphase des gesamtstaatlichen Kaisertums Österreich. Mit dem Oktob…
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This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic…
This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has signific…
This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or…
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the ‘developmental state’ concept. The nature of the ‘emerging state’ is characterized by its attitude t…
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public librarie…