The Anti-Patent Movement Revisited: Institutional Change and Cognitive Frames in Nineteenth-Century Germany

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Lang
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Cognitive Frames

Property Rights and Empire Building: Britain's Annexation of Lagos, 1861

1980 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony G. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
African History ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Century Development

Britain's acquisiton of Lagos has already attracted considerable historical research, but it is examined here from a new perspective and with the help of unused sources. Three conclusions are drawn. First, the episode itself is reinterpreted to give prominence to changing property rights as both a cause and a consequence of annexation. Second, it is argued that the Lagos case can be placed in a broader framework of imperial expansion in which institutional change formed the centerpiece of a nineteenth-century development drive. Third, it is suggested that the study of African history might benefit from assigning higher priority to the analysis of property rights other than those embodied in slave-holding.

The Municipal Council of Tunis, 1858–1870: A Study in Urban Institutional Change

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Institutional Transition ◽  
Municipal Council ◽  
The Mediterranean

Throughout the nineteenth century, the cities on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, Tunis, Alexandria, Beirut, Smyrna, and Istanbul among them, experienced an influx of foreign communities which, combined with an increase in the indigenous populations and new urban policies on the part of certain rulers, tended to disrupt customary patterns of urban relationships. Although the scholarship of recent years has provided a new awareness of the network of interrelationships which held together the segments of medieval Islamic urban society, studies on the nineteenth-century changes in those relationships as represented by the policies of Muhammad ῾Alī, Aḥmad Bey, and the Ottoman Tanzimat reformers, have tended to focus more on aspects of state and government than on cities as such. Yet cities, especially capital cities, reflect most intensely periods of social and institutional transition.

The long intervention: continuity in the Balkan theatre

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1169-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSAN L. WOODWARD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Nearly Continuous

AbstractGreat Power intervention in the Balkans since the late nineteenth century shows a striking continuity in motivations, methods, and consequences. The article proposes that current intervention practices are largely a response to the Balkan theatre in the 1990s and thus institutionalise this continuity more than arguments about normative and institutional change since 1990 suggest. Three continuities are emphasised: the concept of a ‘turbulent frontier’ to explain an unintended dynamic of nearly continuous intervention, the importance of local actors' interests (the pull of intervention) alongside those of major power interests (the push), and the primary influence on domestic orders and cause of the ‘turbulence’ of economic relations.

Government Policy and Economic Development in Germany and Japan: A Skeptical Reevaluation

1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank B. Tipton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
Question Development

Recent studies, when taken together, suggest that the bureaucratic elites of nineteenth-century Germany and Japan were much less successful in stimulating economic development than has been traditionally asserted. Direct government investment was neither extensive nor successful. Government-sponsored institutional change, notably in financial structures, had little if any beneficial impact. Development in both nations resulted from the gradual emergence of a commercial culture, and on world factors exogenous to government policy. The bureaucratic elites failed to adjust to changed circumstances, instead leading both nations into disastrous wars. These results call into question development strategies based on central government control.

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