Missed Chances, 1949–1959

After a sketch of Leipzig’s immediate postwar reconstruction efforts before the founding of the DDR in 1949, this chapter features ten years of public enthusiasm for the young Communist State’s early planning initiatives. Press publications and planning exhibitions stimulated optimistic public participation and proposals, because most plans generally adhered to a platform of moderate reconstruction of the historic core alongside startling modern feats that the people desired, such as an underground rail tunnel and an array of new trade fair (Messe) palaces. Such remarkable goodwill from the populace only waned by the end of the 1950s amid increasing impatience that so little of what was planned had actually been realized.

Vom Push zum Pull – Der Perspektivewechsel in der Wertschöpfungskette von Forst- und Holzwirtschaft | From push to pull: a shift in the perspective of the value chain of forestry and wood management

Forestry management – contrary to general public awareness of the matter – is a branch in the process of undergoing dynamic changes. Impulses for these changes come in part from actors and others involved in the «timber value chain» and in part from outside influences. Today, in addition to numerous other effects, these dynamics have led to a situation where«timber chain» supply flows are no longer initiated and mobilised exclusively by what the forest owner fells and offers to customers, but above all by more specialised wood customers with an increasing appetite for wood who articulate their increasing impatience by the means of market forces. Over the years the traditional push effect has thus given way to a pull effect. Forest owners are obliged to react to this development and to seek, together with others-for instance with universities and their faculties-out suitable future strategies. In turn and without a doubt this will impact on the education and training of forest academics, as well as on the self-understanding of forestry employers.

A killing in Tripoli (1843): principle and contingency and personal diplomacy

This article examines the trial in 1843 and 1844 of Giovanni Battista Caruana, a Maltese, for the murder of a Jew in Tripoli. He was found guilty but was not executed because the victim's impoverished wife agreed to accept compensation. The case took place against the background of the British government's increasing impatience with what they saw as uncontrolled Maltese and Ionian communities, leading to the enactment of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act of 1844. It also demonstrated the importance of the individual authority of the Consul, Hanmer Warrington, and the extent to which consuls' personal objectives and opinions weighed on the development of British policy, and the extent to which Warrington's concern to uphold the law coincided with that of the Pasha of Tripoli, so that the case led to a close identification between the local government and the British consular representative.

Insurrection and Accommodation: Indigenous Leadership in Eastern Algeria, 1840–1900

‘If one seriously wanted to prepare the tribes for assimilation with France instead of reconstituting the government of Arabs by Arabs, would it not be wise to disorganize them, to multiply the little sheikhs and to replace the big leaders with French officers…?’ This candid question was asked by a French colon in 1847 shortly before the surrender of ‘Abd al-Qadir Ibn Mahi ad-Din, the most formidable Arab leader opposing the French establishment in Algeria. The question reflects the increasing impatience, self-confidence, and, one is forced to add, arrogance of the French colonialists. After many years of struggling against a largely indifferent French Chamber the colons had finally become a sizable and vociferous minority which could command a hearing in the halls of the Monarchie du Juillet.