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Prof. Dr. Margrit Grabas
Economic and Social History
(including Technical and Environmental History)

       








                           
                           








 
     
   


     Subjects and Main Focus

 

   
 
     
 
Subject:

     Socio-economic processes, phenomena and structures in their
     micro-historical and macro-historical dimensions

   
 
 

   
 
Focus:
  • Disclosing the forces of socio-economic processes; subject is the interrelation between continuities and discontinuities, especially the economic situations of imbalances and shortages with their stimulating effects for business and state

  • Disclosing the transformative dynamics of socio-economic correlations, as for example in the inconstant pattern made up by economic situation and economic growth

  • Disclosing the importance of historically unique factors for the course of scientific development

  • Analyzing the history of economics
   
 
 

   
 
Course and Subjects:
     We offer lectures, seminars, and exercise seminars. Lectures
     and the
accompanying exercise seminars are built around a
     lecture circle of 5 semesters.
   
 
 

   
 
Focus of Lecture Circle:
  • The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and Germany in the 18th and 19th century

  • Economic and Social History of Germany 1871/73-1914

  • Economic and Social History of Germany 1914-1933/1939

  • Economic and Social History of the Federal Republic of Germany

  • Economic and Social History of the GDR

  • Economic and Social History of Europe after 1945
   
 
 

   
 
Focus of Seminars:
     Selected problems of Economic and Social History in the context
     of recent scholarly debates are analyzed on the basis of seminar
     papers, e.g.:
  • shortages of resources in history

  • econo-political changes of paradigms in the 19th and 20th century

  • structural cycles vs. long waves

  • dynamics of theories of economic thought

  • business history


   
 
   
 
 
 



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