Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement
Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Published on 1. October 2018
Book
Hardback
IX, 284 pages
978-3-319-99144-3 (ISBN)
Description
This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded to multiple disruptions during the nineteenth century. Moving from the ecological level of systems of settlements and variations among individual ones down to the immediate built environment, the book explores how both physical and human space influenced responses to everyday lives and emigration to America.
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Edition
2019 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 farbige Abbildungen, 5 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 284 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-99144-3 (9783319991443)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-99145-0
Schweitzer Classification
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Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement
Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement
Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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Person
Before his US Foreign Service career, Robert E. Mitchell directed social science research centers and was a professor of urban and regional planning. In addition to his two recent books on the history of economic thought, he published articles on a wide range of development-related topics.
Content
1. Orientation, Overview and Omissions.- 2. The Physical Geography of the Pale.- 3. The Human Geography of the Pale.- 4. Individual Settlements are Members of Discrete Settlement Systems.- 5. Ordered Life in Individual Shtetlach, Towns and Cities.- 6. Ordered Life in the Immediate Built and Social Environments.- 7. The Changing Order in the World of Work.- 8. Order and Disorder in Jewish Marriages, Families and Kinship.- 9. Nineteenth-Century Disorder in the Pale and Elsewhere.- 10. A Research Agenda for New Historians.