Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement (eBook)

Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Robert E. Mitchell (Autor)

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2018
IX, 284 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-99145-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

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.

Inhalt

SECTION 1: IntroductionChapter 1: Orientation, Overview and OmissionsSECTION 2: Three Geographies of the Pale of SettlementChapter 2: The Physical Geography of the PaleChapter 3: The Human Geography of the PaleChapter 4: Individual Settlements are Members of Discrete Settlement SystemsSECTION 3: Order and Disorder in Everyday LivesChapter 5: Ordered Life in Individual Shtetlach, Towns and CitiesChapter 6: Ordered Life in the Immediate Built and Social EnvironmentsChapter 7: The Changing Order in the World of WorkChapter 8: Order and Disorder in Jewish Marriages, Families and KinshipSECTION 4: Tracking Responses to DisorderChapter 9: Nineteenth-Century Disorder in the Pale and ElsewhereSECTION 5:  New HistoriesChapter 10: A Research Agenda for New Historians

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 284 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Built Environment • Eastern Europe • Historical Geography • Human geography • Imperial Russia • Jewish Studies • Migration • Pale of Settlement • urban ecologies • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 3-319-99145-0 / 3319991450
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-99145-0 / 9783319991450