Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Göttingen, 1967. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 3-8).

Texte remanié de: Th.--Droit--Montpellier I, 1981. / Bibliogr. p. 251-269. Index.

Thesis--Paris. / At head of title: Université de Paris, Faculté de droit. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xvi).

Habilitationsschrift--Frankfurt am Main. / Bibliography: p. [257]-272.

Thesis--Paris. / At head of title: Université de Paris, Faculté de droit. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xvi).

Habilitationsschrift--Frankfurt am Main. / Bibliography: p. [257]-272.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (M.A.), Jāmiʻat Baghdād. / On cover: Dirāsah fiqhīyah muqāranah bi-al-qānūn. Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-391).

This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. The set-up and marketing strategies of the Book-of-the-Month-Club are considered in relation to the role of advertising as a discourse teaching social and personal values in a developing consumer culture where identity and personality were represented as never-ending, imperative projects.  The consuming self is an individual freed from the restraints of tradition and communal values, making her free choice of whom to be on an increasingly diverse market, endlessly reinventing her identity. But this self is also a commodity on an increasingly complex and impersonal market where appearance is destiny. A historically contextualized reading of Seven Gothic Tales makes it possible to use the term marketability to refer to the work itself as a literary investigation of the conditions of identity-construction in a culture dominated by market-mediated relationships. In this reading, the Great Depression figures as a moment that reveals the degree to which consumerist ideology and logic had come to determine the possibilities of imagining being and identity, a condition that Seven Gothic Tales both reflects and resists. The effect of globalized transformation of production and consumption were felt in the two places that went into the making of Seven Gothic Tales: the US where it was first published and colonial Kenya where the author lived between 1914 and 1931 and where the book was begun. This study argues that the success of Seven Gothic Tales in the US depended on the way in which Blixen/Dinesen's experience of colonial Kenya was an experience of commercial modernity that reverberated with the experience of the American readers. Central to this argument is the ideal of feudalism as an explicit and decisive element in the creation of colonial Kenya. The aristocratic theme that permeates Seven Gothic Tales must be understood in relation to a colonial socioeconomic context that reinvented the feudal ideal as a marketable commodity at a time when social status and identity had become negotiable on a consumer market.

Ve své diplomové práci zpracovávám urbář táborského panství. Urbář byl sepsán kolem roku 1510. údaje z urbáře porovnávám ještě s dalším účetním materiálem, který se pro panství dochoval z 15. a 16. století. jedná se o nejstarší urbář z let 1469-1486 a výběrčí rejstříky z let 1498 (svatohavelský), 1502 (svatohavelský), 1503 (svatojiřský) a 1530 (svatojiřský a svatohavelský). Jelikož bylo táborské panství rozsáhlé, vybrala jsem si 24 vesnic, které budu zpracovávat podle údajů v pramenech. V pramenech sleduji vývoj počtu usedlých (držitelů gruntů či hospodářství), výměry polností zapsaných k vesnicím a jednotlivým usedlým, úroční dávky a formu dávek a změny držitelů gruntů. Annotation I adept the urbar Tabor's manor in my diploma's work. The urbar was writen around year 1510. I compare dates od the urbar with another accounting materiál, which it preserved from 15th ant 16th of century for manor. It is the oldist the urbar between 1469 and 1486 and tax collector index form year 1498 (sainthavel's), 1502 (sainthavel's), 1503 (saintgeorge's) and 1530(sainthavel's and saintgeorge). The Tabor's manor was extensive, I chaose 24 vilages, which I will adept accord dates in historical source. In historial source I monitor process numer of rezidents (farm's tenants and homestead's tenants), areas of fields,...

This thesis investigates how the inhabitants formed the coastal landscape of northwest Estonia through both internal change and external impact by estate owners, provincial government and imperial decrees. Two villages on the largely Swedish populated Noarootsi peninsula, Einbi (Enby) and Kudani (Gutanäs), are examined in detail. The aim was to answer questions about how the local livelihoods and farming systems of coastal inhabitants changed from the late 1600s to 1940. The background of a gradual weakening of the manorial estate system from 1800 onwards and a rapid development of freehold family farming from the 1860s is important to the analysis. To examine the complex variety of factors and interactions that shape the landscape, an interdisciplinary approach to change has been used. This approach included a conceptual model for the local production unit, such as the individual farm. Information from historical maps, diverse population registers and agricultural censuses were used. The soil cover was examined with samples taken during fieldwork in the studied villages. The study shows how the development of two villages in fairly similar geographic settings differed largely due to socio-political restrictions. During feudal times, the primary changes were related to the fact that local nobility could maintain their land ownership rights and regulations for manorial deliveries and corvée duties. Changes to natural conditions, such as soil quality and land uplift, had no substantial effect on land productivity. From the 19th century, the most important factor was the legalized opportunity to purchase farms as freeholds from estates, as well as through land reforms in an independent Estonia. The traditional niche of coastal Swedish peasants, who depended on a variety of productive activities, remained in practice. As all manor land was nationalized, many new smallholdings and crofts were created based on external activities by inhabitants, such as farm day labor. Farm productivity was now increased primarily by improvement to land quality (use of artificial fertilizers and meadow drainage), and by the introduction of new implements and crops on farms consolidated from open fields.