Roland Wenzlhuemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Wenzlhuemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Wenzlhuemer |
| SIGNATURE | WENZLHUEMER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Roads to engagement
This roundtable discussion concluded the conference “Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800” that took place at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) in September 2022. The event was organised by the GHI and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect – Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and brought together scholars from four contin…
Roads to exclusion
Forum Global Dis
with the idea of dis:connectivity to provide fresh perspective on current phenomena of globalization.Tom Menger (Munich) traces the origins of Europe's current energy crisis back to a fossil fuel shift that occurred in the early 20th century.He shows that the decline of coal as the principal carrier of fossil energy had a direct impact on Europe's position in an increasingly global network of energy distribution, and this led to the emergence of …
Connections in Global History
The academic field of global history has recently started to enter into a phase of consolidation that necessitates us to rethink the scientific aims of the field, the questions it tackles as well as the instruments that it has at its disposal. In this regard, the article seeks to reconceptualize the notion of global connections that is so central to the field. It suggests to analytically focus on four aspects of global connections that have often…
Doing Global History
The field of Global History has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last two decades and carved itself deeply into the practice of historical research. Despite this, its conceptual foundations have rarely been explored. This introduction to what Global History is brings together theory and practice with 6 key concepts, delivered through 6 accessible case studies. Re-evaluating the central concerns and key approaches in the field, it offers a…
The role of infrastructure in transregional ventures
This chapter aims to exemplify the relation and, more generally, the role of structures in transregional studies by focusing on infrastructure. Infrastructure is still a relatively young term. The reason for the rapid expansion of the telegraph was that telegraphy had proved to be efficient and useful for several groups of actors. By the turn of the nineteenth century, a worldwide global telegraph network had come into existence that connected al…
Globalgeschichte schreiben
Mit dem schnell wachsenden Zuspruch, den die Globalgeschichte in der historischen Forschung findet, haben sich auch ihre Ansätze und methodischen Zugänge vervielfacht. Dieses Lehrbuch verbindet erstmals zentrale Begriffe der Geschichtswissenschaft mit konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis und zeigt in sechs unterhaltsam zu lesenden Episoden, was Globalgeschichte leistet
The Telegraph and the Control of Material Movements
Relatively recent historiographical approaches such as global or transnational history have attracted new attention to telegraphy and its role in processes of globalization. This renewed interest in submarine cables and overland wires has recently provided us with a reasonably good idea of how the global telegraph network developed in the nineteenth century, who its principal designers were, and where it was more and where it was less tight. Litt…
The ship, the media, and the world
The study of transregional connections is central to the field of global history. This article reflects on the idea of connections from a conceptual viewpoint and treats them as mediators. This will be exemplified by studying the spatial and temporal dimensions of transoceanic steamship passages. The lives of crew and passengers did not go on ‘stand-by’ during such a passage. The case of the flight and eventual capture of Hawley Harvey Crippen wi…
The Nation State and Beyond
This book show that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements allows its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes, and plays various and at times even contradictory roles
Nation State and Beyond
Introduction – Transcultural Turbulences
Transcultural Turbulences
Less Than No Time”
To many nineteenth-century observers it seemed that the telegraph would eventually accomplish what the advent of railways and steamships earlier in the century had begun: the so-called annihilation of space and time. Through the telegraph, both these factors would soon have no longer impact on human communication. This article focuses on one half of this contemporary notion: It examines the relation between telegraphy and time in detail and shows…
Metropolitan Telecommunication
Although the United Kingdom has long lost its position at the heart of a practically global empire, the British capital London still continues to stand at the very center of a global telecommunication and information network. Yet, global connectivity is not evenly distributed throughout the metropolis. As recent studies show, information-dependent businesses tend to concentrate in particular quarters in and around the City of London and the West …
From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900
In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the British crown colony and pushed the island into a severe economic crisis. When Ceylon re-emerged from this crisis only a decade later, its economy had …
The dematerialization of telecommunication
Interregional communication has been a key constituent of the process of globalization since its very origins. For most of its history, information has moved between world regions and along the routes according to the rationales established by interregional trade and migration. The dematerialization of telecommunication in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century eventually detached long-distance information transmission from transport and tran…
The Development of Telegraphy, 1870–1900
This article puts forward that the study of so‐called information societies and of the interplay of information technology and society in general needs to be amended from a historical perspective. Only by looking back further than the 1960s can the concept of an information revolution be critically evaluated. I argue that the study of information societies must at least go back until the invention and spread of electric telegraphy which has broug…
Indian Labour Immigration and British Labour Policy in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
During most of the nineteenth century, the economy of the British crown colony Ceylon depended almost exclusively on the export of plantation products. After modest beginnings in the 1820s and 1830s, coffee cultivation spread on the island in the 1840s. During the 1880s, the coffee plantations were superseded by plantations of a new crop-tea. Both cultivation systems were almost pure export monocultures, and both relied almost exclusively on impo…
The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881–1891
It has become a firmly established belief among economic and labour historians that Sri Lanka's plantation industry rested almost exclusively on imported Tamil labour during the 19th century. Although strong evidence countering this "dualistic" viewpoint has been produced since the late 1970s—especially by Éric Meyer—, the contribution of the local Sinhalese peasantry to estate wage labour remains underestimated or, indeed, largely ignored. This …
The ship, the media, and the world
The study of transregional connections is central to the field of global history. This article reflects on the idea of connections from a conceptual viewpoint and treats them as mediators. This will be exemplified by studying the spatial and temporal dimensions of transoceanic steamship passages. The lives of crew and passengers did not go on ‘stand-by’ during such a passage. The case of the flight and eventual capture of Hawley Harvey Crippen wi…
The dematerialization of telecommunication
Interregional communication has been a key constituent of the process of globalization since its very origins. For most of its history, information has moved between world regions and along the routes according to the rationales established by interregional trade and migration. The dematerialization of telecommunication in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century eventually detached long-distance information transmission from transport and tran…
Indian Labour Immigration and British Labour Policy in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
During most of the nineteenth century, the economy of the British crown colony Ceylon depended almost exclusively on the export of plantation products. After modest beginnings in the 1820s and 1830s, coffee cultivation spread on the island in the 1840s. During the 1880s, the coffee plantations were superseded by plantations of a new crop-tea. Both cultivation systems were almost pure export monocultures, and both relied almost exclusively on impo…
Roads to exclusion
The Telegraph and the Control of Material Movements
Relatively recent historiographical approaches such as global or transnational history have attracted new attention to telegraphy and its role in processes of globalization. This renewed interest in submarine cables and overland wires has recently provided us with a reasonably good idea of how the global telegraph network developed in the nineteenth century, who its principal designers were, and where it was more and where it was less tight. Litt…
The Development of Telegraphy, 1870–1900
This article puts forward that the study of so‐called information societies and of the interplay of information technology and society in general needs to be amended from a historical perspective. Only by looking back further than the 1960s can the concept of an information revolution be critically evaluated. I argue that the study of information societies must at least go back until the invention and spread of electric telegraphy which has broug…
The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881–1891
It has become a firmly established belief among economic and labour historians that Sri Lanka's plantation industry rested almost exclusively on imported Tamil labour during the 19th century. Although strong evidence countering this "dualistic" viewpoint has been produced since the late 1970s—especially by Éric Meyer—, the contribution of the local Sinhalese peasantry to estate wage labour remains underestimated or, indeed, largely ignored. This …
The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881–1891
It has become a firmly established belief among economic and labour historians that Sri Lanka's plantation industry rested almost exclusively on imported Tamil labour during the 19th century. Although strong evidence countering this "dualistic" viewpoint has been produced since the late 1970s—especially by Éric Meyer—, the contribution of the local Sinhalese peasantry to estate wage labour remains underestimated or, indeed, largely ignored. This …
The dematerialization of telecommunication
Interregional communication has been a key constituent of the process of globalization since its very origins. For most of its history, information has moved between world regions and along the routes according to the rationales established by interregional trade and migration. The dematerialization of telecommunication in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century eventually detached long-distance information transmission from transport and tran…
The Development of Telegraphy, 1870–1900
This article puts forward that the study of so‐called information societies and of the interplay of information technology and society in general needs to be amended from a historical perspective. Only by looking back further than the 1960s can the concept of an information revolution be critically evaluated. I argue that the study of information societies must at least go back until the invention and spread of electric telegraphy which has broug…
Indian Labour Immigration and British Labour Policy in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
During most of the nineteenth century, the economy of the British crown colony Ceylon depended almost exclusively on the export of plantation products. After modest beginnings in the 1820s and 1830s, coffee cultivation spread on the island in the 1840s. During the 1880s, the coffee plantations were superseded by plantations of a new crop-tea. Both cultivation systems were almost pure export monocultures, and both relied almost exclusively on impo…
From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900
In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the British crown colony and pushed the island into a severe economic crisis. When Ceylon re-emerged from this crisis only a decade later, its economy had …
Metropolitan Telecommunication
Although the United Kingdom has long lost its position at the heart of a practically global empire, the British capital London still continues to stand at the very center of a global telecommunication and information network. Yet, global connectivity is not evenly distributed throughout the metropolis. As recent studies show, information-dependent businesses tend to concentrate in particular quarters in and around the City of London and the West …
Transcultural Turbulences
Less Than No Time”
To many nineteenth-century observers it seemed that the telegraph would eventually accomplish what the advent of railways and steamships earlier in the century had begun: the so-called annihilation of space and time. Through the telegraph, both these factors would soon have no longer impact on human communication. This article focuses on one half of this contemporary notion: It examines the relation between telegraphy and time in detail and shows…
Nation State and Beyond
Introduction – Transcultural Turbulences
The Nation State and Beyond
This book show that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements allows its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes, and plays various and at times even contradictory roles
The ship, the media, and the world
The study of transregional connections is central to the field of global history. This article reflects on the idea of connections from a conceptual viewpoint and treats them as mediators. This will be exemplified by studying the spatial and temporal dimensions of transoceanic steamship passages. The lives of crew and passengers did not go on ‘stand-by’ during such a passage. The case of the flight and eventual capture of Hawley Harvey Crippen wi…
Globalgeschichte schreiben
Mit dem schnell wachsenden Zuspruch, den die Globalgeschichte in der historischen Forschung findet, haben sich auch ihre Ansätze und methodischen Zugänge vervielfacht. Dieses Lehrbuch verbindet erstmals zentrale Begriffe der Geschichtswissenschaft mit konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis und zeigt in sechs unterhaltsam zu lesenden Episoden, was Globalgeschichte leistet
The Telegraph and the Control of Material Movements
Relatively recent historiographical approaches such as global or transnational history have attracted new attention to telegraphy and its role in processes of globalization. This renewed interest in submarine cables and overland wires has recently provided us with a reasonably good idea of how the global telegraph network developed in the nineteenth century, who its principal designers were, and where it was more and where it was less tight. Litt…
The role of infrastructure in transregional ventures
This chapter aims to exemplify the relation and, more generally, the role of structures in transregional studies by focusing on infrastructure. Infrastructure is still a relatively young term. The reason for the rapid expansion of the telegraph was that telegraphy had proved to be efficient and useful for several groups of actors. By the turn of the nineteenth century, a worldwide global telegraph network had come into existence that connected al…
Doing Global History
The field of Global History has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last two decades and carved itself deeply into the practice of historical research. Despite this, its conceptual foundations have rarely been explored. This introduction to what Global History is brings together theory and practice with 6 key concepts, delivered through 6 accessible case studies. Re-evaluating the central concerns and key approaches in the field, it offers a…
Connections in Global History
The academic field of global history has recently started to enter into a phase of consolidation that necessitates us to rethink the scientific aims of the field, the questions it tackles as well as the instruments that it has at its disposal. In this regard, the article seeks to reconceptualize the notion of global connections that is so central to the field. It suggests to analytically focus on four aspects of global connections that have often…
Forum Global Dis
with the idea of dis:connectivity to provide fresh perspective on current phenomena of globalization.Tom Menger (Munich) traces the origins of Europe's current energy crisis back to a fossil fuel shift that occurred in the early 20th century.He shows that the decline of coal as the principal carrier of fossil energy had a direct impact on Europe's position in an increasingly global network of energy distribution, and this led to the emergence of …
Roads to engagement
This roundtable discussion concluded the conference “Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800” that took place at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) in September 2022. The event was organised by the GHI and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect – Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and brought together scholars from four contin…
Roads to exclusion
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