Browsing by Author "Frank Johnson, Alison"
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The Air Cure Town: Commodifying Mountain Air in Alpine Central Europe
Frank, Alison (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)Does air have value? In the first volume of Capital, Marx suggested it did not: “A thing can be a use-value, without having value,” he explained. “This is the case whenever its utility to man is not due to labour. Such are ... -
Between the Arctic & the Adriatic: Polar Exploration, Science & Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy
Walsh, Stephen Anthony (2014-10-21)Exploration was a defining aspect of how European societies encountered and established relations with the wider world. It set the stage for worldwide empires and laid the foundations for understandings of planetary ... -
The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea: Austria, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mediterranean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
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Continental and Maritime Empires in an Age of Global Commerce
Frank, Alison (SAGE Publications, 2011)This article calls for the incorporation of Central Europe into the European and even the global history of the late imperial period through the investigation of the Habsburg Monarchy’s participation in global commerce. ... -
Environmental, Economic, and Moral Dimensions of Sustainability in the Petroleum Industry in Austrian Galicia
Frank, Alison (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011)Fears about the sustainability of oil-rich communities and hopes that petroleum would fuel financial, social, and moral renewal have accompanied the oil industry since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century. With each ... -
The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of the Multinational Corporation
Frank, Alison (American Historical Association and University of Chicago Press, 2009) -
The Pleasant and the Useful: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Habsburg Mariazell
Frank, Alison (Cambridge University Press, 2009)