Prinz-Albert-Studien
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Edited by:
Franz Bosbach
The “Prince Albert Society” aims to further Anglo-German relations in academic, cultural and political spheres. The annual conferences are held under this premise and centre around specific issues, although they concentrate mainly on historical themes. Contributions made at these conferences are published in the Prince Albert Studies and clarify many interesting aspects of Anglo-German relations.
The increased interest in religion as a phenomenon and its various cultural contexts is encouraging a focus on the relationship between religion and politics. However, the political relevance of the religious and the interdependence between political and religious spheres has always been a major area of medieval research. The articles in this volume consider not only the principle inseparability of both spheres as previously established by research, but also the beginnings of a differentiation and relative autonomy of religion and politics within the framework of a comparison between Germany and the United Kingdom. This allows the identification of restrictions within the research traditions that are due to national histories and points to ways of overcoming these restrictions.
In this volume eminent historians compare German and British statesmen in war, from the Seven Years' War to World War II. The subjects of the biographical essays range from Frederick the Great and William Pitt the Elder, William Pitt the Younger and Joseph II, William Gladstone and Bismarck, David George and Wilhelm II, as well as Churchill and Hitler. Differences and similarities in the conduct of warfare and references to the present-day political situation are impressively presented. This collection thus provides important results to stimulate further research.
Since the 19th century (at the latest), concern about the ability of ones own industry to compete was frequently the object of mournful glances at ones own weaknesses and the strengths of others. Using the examples of British and German debates from the recent past, this volume examines the success and failure of different strategies, from measures to increase individual motivation right up to the big reform projects such as "Thatcherism".
This richly illustrated volume is devoted to Anglo-German cultural transfer in 18th and 19th century landscape architecture, including articles on Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau and Humpry Repton, on Hermann Muthesius and the (re-)discovery of the geometric principles of gardens in England, on the birth of the English Garden in Gotha, on the park of Rosenau Castle, on the history of the Coburg Court Garden and on Prince Albert's gardens in England.
- nine articles on Anglo-German cultural transfer in garden culture
- with numerous illustrations
Volume 25 of the series documents the conference "Divided Estate -- Common Heritage. The Collections of a Dynasty in Windsor and Coburg", held in Coburg in 2006.
Within Europe Great Britain and Germany are leading the way when it comes to environmental-historical debates. This volume documents the first explicit exchange between German and British environmental historians concerning their respective topics and methods, which took place at the 24th meeting of the Prince Albert Society under the heading "Environment and History in Britain and Germany". Articles by one renowned German and one renowned British environmental historian are included in each case on each of the following subjects: "Environmental Historiography", "Resources and Sustainability", "The Challenges of Industrialization and Urbanization", as well as "Protecting the Environment". The book provides a fascinating insight into two scientific cultures and documents the central importance of environmental history for the understanding of modern societies.
Volume 23 of the series deals with the political memoirs from German and British perspectives. Among the individuals whose memoirs are considered here, in context of the tradition of the political memoir-literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, are Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill on the British side, and Bismarck, Adenauer and Heuss on the German.
