Throughout history, houses have been an economic resource as much as a means of social, political and cultural agency. From the early modern period to the 20th century, the multifaceted capital of houses linked individuals, families and societies in specifi c ways. The essays collected here probe the material texture of past societies concerning the inheritance, value, sale or maintenance of houses as well as the symbolic meanings that houses conveyed.
Volume 18 of the European History Yearbook is edited by Simone Derix (Duisburg-Essen/München) and Margareth Lanzinger (Wien).
Contents
Simone Derix and Margareth LanzingerHousing Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Multifaceted Resource
Margareth Lanzinger and Janine MaegraithHouses and the Range of Wealth in Early Modern Gender- and Intergenerational Relationships
Julia A. Schmidt-FunkeHaushaben: Houses as Resources in Early Modern Frankfurt
Alice DetjenTransforming the House: The Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron
Monika SzczepaniakThe Country House as a Transitory Locus for Soldiers in Polish Literature on the First World War
Uta BretschneiderNew Farmsteads in the SOZ/GDR: Politicial Implications and Adaptation Processes
Jonathan VogesMaintaining, Repairing, Refurbishing: The Western German Do-it-Yourselfers and their Homes
Forum
Manfred SingAgainst All Odds: How to Re-Inscribe Islam into European History
List of Contributors