Der kranke Rand des Reiches : Sozialhygiene und nationale Räume in der Provinz Posen um 1900
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 118264520
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Verlag Herder-Institut
- ISBN
- 9783879694365
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 200,000 word monograph is the product of five years of intensive research. The sources on which it was based were in German and Polish and comprised multiple manuscript collections in 8 archives in Poland (in Posen, Gnesen, Bydgoszcz, and Warsaw) and 2 in Germany. The majority of the German documents were composed in Kurrent and so the analysis of their content was time-consuming and required the acquisition of palaeographic skills. In addition, the work involved an intensive day-by-day evaluation of 5 daily newspapers published in Posen between 1887 and 1920.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This monograph examines how the German Empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries used the introduction of medical institutions and public health measures to reshape and pursue the homogenisation of its eastern peripheries, in particular the province of Posen. It examines both the hegemonic and national claims to power underpinning these efforts at medical mastery and their side effects as well as how a discourse of social hygiene was used to create a (medical) space of national belonging.<br/>