History: Theory & Methods

Terence FitzSimons Bravo Brown!

The Correspondence of Charles Henry Brown - Aeronaut

Oxford, 2020 . X, 322 pp .

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These are the letters received and sent by Charles Henry Brown between the years 1847 and 1864 . As an aeronaut, Brown’s lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia . While his aeronautical endeavours met with only limited success he was, however, determined to record his contribution to the science, and from an early stage established a vital correspondence with a number of leading figures in the world of ballooning . The letters provide insights into the developing field of aeronautics, and reveal the tensions, rivalries and downright underhand conduct of some of the pioneers of aviation . Brown’s intention was to publish his collected correspondence, but his failure to fully realise his own lifelong ambition as an aeronaut of note led him in despair to take his life before he achieved his objective of bringing the compiled correspondence to print . The manuscript was later recovered by a relative and deposited at the State Library of Victoria where it sat receiving but scant attention until now .

Damian Markowski Zwei Aufstände

Die Schlacht um Lemberg 1918

Berlin, 2021 . 456 S ., 28 s/w Abb . Studies in History, Memory and Politics. Bd. 44

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Das Buch ist dem polnisch-ukrainischen Konflikt um Lemberg gewidmet . Im Herbst 1918 wurde klar, dass es in den ethnisch gemischten polnisch-ukrainischen Gebieten zu einer Konfrontation zwischen den beiden Bevölkerungsgruppen kommen würde . Beide Nationen wollten die strittigen Territorien in ihre eigenen Staaten eingliedern . Am 1 . November 1918 unternahmen ukrainische Aufständische eine erfolgreiche militärische und politische Erhebung . Lemberg wurde fast ohne Blutvergießen besetzt . Einige Stunden nach dem ukrainischen Staatsstreich machten sich polnische Untergrundorganisationen zu einem Gegenangriff auf . Bereits nach einigen Tagen war die Stadt durch eine reguläre Frontlinie geteilt . Die Kämpfe endeten am Morgen des 22 . November mit dem Rückzug der ukrainischen Truppen und einem Pogrom an der jüdischen Bevölkerung .

Michela Minesso (ed.) Welfare Policies in Switzerland and Italy

Institutions, Motherhood, Family and Work in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Berlin, 2021 . 170 pp ., 1 fig . b/w, 1 table . Studies in Contemporary History. Vol. 9

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This book provides two main contributions to the existing literature on the history of welfare institutions and social rights in the 20th century . First, it is, to the best of our knowledge, the first research to analyze the crosscountry comparison of welfare policies between the two countries from a historical prospective . The comparison is particularly interesting as we focus on two nations with very different institutional settings . On one side Switzerland, a federal state . On the other Italy, a centralized state until only very recently . The second important contribution of this book is the specific set of policies analyzed: policies aimed at protecting motherhood, childhood and women workers’ rights during the 20th century, a period in which European society changed drastically .