Overview

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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Author:   Robert E. Mitchell
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9783319991443

ISBN 10:   3319991442
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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