Housing Capital

Resource and Representation

Simone Derix, Margareth Lanzinger, Simone Derix, Margareth Lanzinger

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783110529944
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110530025
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

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 specific 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.

List of Contributors

Uta Bretschneider, Director of the Open-air Museum Kloster Veßra. Research interests: everyday culture in the GDR, biographical research, history of rural areas and industrial culture. Recent publications: “Vom Ich zum Wir”? Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene als Neubauern in der LPG. Leipzig 2016; Um-Deutungen – Zeitgenössische und aktuelle Darstellungsmodi von Bodenreform und Kollektivierung, in: Markus Gloe et al. (eds.): Standortbestimmung Deutschlandforschung. Berlin 2016, 35–54.

Simone Derix, Senior Lecturer (Privatdozentin), University of Munich, currently Senior Lecturer (Akademische Oberrätin), University of Duisburg-Essen. Research interests: modern and contemporary European and international history, history of wealth, history of family and kinship in transnational perspective. Recent publications: Die Thyssens. Familie und Vermögen. Paderborn 2016; Der Wert der Dinge (= Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, H. 3/2016), ed. with Benno Gammerl, Christiane Reinecke, Nina Verheyen.

Alice Detjen, Member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Group No. 1608 “Self-Making: Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective”, University of Oldenburg. Research interests: the house and artistic self-conceptions in Victorian England.

Margareth Lanzinger, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, current research project: “The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces” (FWF Austrian Research Fund). Research interests: kinship, marriage, property and the power of disposal, legal and administrative practice, relations between norms and practice, the construction of heroes. Recent publications: Verwaltete Verwandtschaft. Eheverbote, kirchliche und staatliche Dispenspraxis im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Wien 2015; (ed.) The Power of the Fathers. Historical Perspectives from Ancient Rome to the Nineteenth Century. London 2015.

Janine Maegraith, Affiliated Lecturer and Director of Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, currently Research Associate, “The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces” (FWF Austrian Research Fund), University of Vienna. Research interests: early modern history of Central Europe, with focus on social and legal history, consumption, and gender studies; the history and development of female religious orders. Recent publications: Konkurrenz um Vermögen im südlichen Tirol des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: L’Homme 27, no. 1 (2016), 15–31, with Margareth Lanzinger; Consumption and Material Life, in: Hamish Scott (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History. Oxford 2015, vol. 1, 369–397, with Craig Muldrew.

Julia A. Schmidt-Funke, Research Coordinator, University of Erfurt. Research interests: early modern material culture and consumption, urban history, gender history, history of science. Recent publications: Neue Stadtgeschichte(n). Die Reichsstadt Frankfurt im Vergleich. Bielefeld 2017; Haben und Sein. Materielle Kultur und Konsum im frühneuzeitlichen Frankfurt am Main. Köln 2018 (forthcoming).

Monika Szczepaniak, Professor for German Studies, University of Bydgoszcz. Research interests: Austrian and German Literature of the 20^th century (with special emphasis on Elfriede Jelinek), Gender Studies (constructions and deconstructions of masculinities in German, Austrian and Polish Literature and Culture), Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Recent publications: Militärische Männlichkeiten in Deutschland und Österreich im Umfeld des Großen Krieges. Konstruktionen und Dekonstruktionen. Würzburg 2011; Temperaturen des Begehrens. Sinnliche Präsenz und kulturelle Repräsentationen. (= Studia Germanica Posnaniensia 36/2015), ed. with Joanna Drynda; Jelineks Räume. Wien 2017, ed. with Agnieszka Jezierska, Pia Janke.

Jonathan Voges, Research Associate, University of Hanover. Research interests: do-it-yourself and home improvement in Western Germany; intellectual cooperation under the roof of the League of nations in the 1920s and 1930s. Recent publications: ‘Selbst ist der Mann’. Do-it-yourself und Heimwerken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Göttingen 2017; Die Axt im Haus. Die ‘Verbürgerlichung’ des Selbermachens in den 1960er Jahren, in: Nikola Langreiter and Klara Löffler (eds.): Selber machen. Diskurse und Praktiken des “Do it yourself”. Essen 2017, 35–57.

Manfred Sing, Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Research interests: The history of Islam, secularism, and Arab Marxism in a transnational and transcultural perspective. Recent publications: Pharaonische Hochkultur und islamischer Niedergang: Der Kampf um kulturelle Souveränität im Ägypten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, in: Gregor Feindt, Bernhard Gißibl and Johannes Paulmann (eds.): Kulturelle Souveränität. Politische Deutungs- und Handlungsmacht jenseits des Staates im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen 2017, 133–164; Dis/Connecting Islam and Terror: The “Open Letter to Al-Baghdadi” and the Pitfalls of Condemning ISIS on Islamic Grounds, in: Journal of Religious and Political Practice 2, 3 (2016), 296–318.

Footnotes

1 For analysis of the period between 1870 and the present based on data from 17 countries, see Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor: The Great Mortgaging. Housing Finance, Crises and Business Cycles, in: Economic Policy 31, no. 85 (2016), 107–152.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Housing Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Multifaceted Resource
• Houses and the Range of Wealth in Early Modern Gender- and Intergenerational Relationships
• Haushaben: Houses as Resources in Early Modern Frankfurt
• Transforming the House: The Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron
• The Country House as a Transitory Locus for Soldiers in Polish Literature on the First World War
• New Farmsteads in the SOZ/GDR: Politicial Implications and Adaptation Processes
• Maintaining, Repairing, Refurbishing: The Western German Do-it-Yourselfers and their Homes
• Forum
• List of Contributors