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Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement

Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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Authors:
  1. Robert E. Mitchell

    1. Brookline, USA

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  • Is organized around the theme of what gave order to life within the Pale and also how forces of disorder can be quantified and tracked

  • Introduces readers to a feature seldom covered in history books: the physical geography of the Pale and how that geography influenced life there

  • Explores the limited information on urban ecology within the Pale

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. About This Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Orientation, Overview, and Omissions

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 3-29

  3. Three Geographies of the Pale of Settlement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. The Physical Geography of the Pale

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 33-45

    3. The Human Geography of the Pale

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 47-69

    4. Individual Settlements Are Members of Larger Settlement Systems

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 71-91

  4. Order and Disorder in Everyday Lives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Ordered Life in Individual Shtetlach, Towns and Cities

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 95-148

    3. The Changing Order in the World of Work

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 149-154

    4. Order and Disorder in Jewish Marriages, Families, Kinship Systems and the Immediate Built and Social Environments

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 155-189

  5. Tracking Responses to Disorder

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Nineteenth-Century Disorder in the Pale and Elsewhere

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 193-225

  6. New Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. A Research Agenda for New Historians

      • Robert E. Mitchell
      Pages 229-261

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 263-284
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About this book

This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded to multiple disruptions during the nineteenth century. Moving from the ecological level of systems of settlements and variations among individual ones down to the immediate built environment, the book explores how both physical and human space influenced responses to everyday lives and emigration to America. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brookline, USA

    Robert E. Mitchell

About the author

Before his US Foreign Service career, Robert E. Mitchell directed social science research centers and was a professor of urban and regional planning. In addition to his two recent books on the history of economic thought, he published articles on a wide range of development-related topics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement

  • Book Subtitle: Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

  • Authors: Robert E. Mitchell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99145-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99144-3Published: 01 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07569-9Published: 11 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99145-0Published: 15 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Historical Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Migration

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