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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Is War now Impossible? | Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch | Taschenbuch | 468 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783744646017 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. 664 pp., Limited edition. Green hardcover with gilt lettered spine. Boards are marked. Binding firm and internally clean. Number 669 of 1350, numbered copies. Translated into English by William Forsten, the work was written by Ivan Bloch who was a pioneer in the science of sexuality and often called the first sexologist. 8vo.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. . 1958, limited edition unnumbered, no dustjacket, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

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Zustand: BUONO. NOTA:Lievi tracce d'uso alle prima pagine, altrimenti ottimo esemplare. / Torino, S.T.E.N. cm.18x27, pp.654, (frontespizio e prima pag.restaurata). rilegatura in tutta tela, titoli n oro al dorso. Traduz.sulla decima ediz.tedesca di Mario Carrara.

H. Barsdorf Verlag und M. Lielienthal Verlag, Bln., 1901/1903. 445/481 S., Leinen mit Goldprägung--- - aus der Reihe Studien zur Geschichte des menschlichen Geschlechtslebens, Band III, Teil I: Die beiden Erscheinungsformen des Sexuallebens. Die Ehe und die Prostitution/Teil II: Der Einfluss äusserer Faktoren auf das Geschlechtsleben in England - 1500 Gramm.

A major publication, with impressive flow charts --- First edition of the first systematic study of railways in Russia - an extremely rare work and most probably the first to use the relatively recent flow-map technique in the Russian empire, which Bloch does on a large and impressive scale with 16 maps of about 70 cm2. Developed and refined by the French Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870), these cartographic charts provide visually clear renditions of complicated statistics, especially flows of people and, in our case, traded goods. While Minard's first such map seems to date from the mid 1840s, he published more important ones, and more similar to ours, in the 1860s; we couldn't find any such cartographic representation of statistics published in the Russian empire before our 1875 edition. Les Chemins de fer was the first systematic study of the railway in Russia, conducted by one of the men who had helped to build it. Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836-1901) was described in his obituary as "a Polish Jew, a [peddler] who was able to push himself out of poverty and become a successful banker, builder and administrator of railways" (Bauer). Wealthy, respectable and famous in his day, Bloch was often called the "King of Railroads" (Pieczewski). The years immediately preceding the book's publication had seen a massive boom in construction, after the tsarist government had realised that it did not have the capital required to build the railway itself, and had opened concessions to the zemstva as well as to private entrepreneurs (cf. Ames 10-11) -- this led to the construction of over 17,300 km of new track laid in 10 years from 1868-78, more than tripling what had been accomplished in the preceding three decades (barely 5,000 km in 1838-68; cf Ames). Bloch himself had earned his fortune by building a section of the Warsaw-Petersburg rail line and multiple connections between Polish cities. Thereafter he turned his attention to scholarly pursuits, particularly economics and statistics, and founded the first statistical bureau in Poland. Bloch's early and effective use of visual data representation has been ranked 'among the most striking examples [] of the Golden Age of Statistical Infographics' in Russia (Laptev p. 70). Our second volume in particular is noteworthy, comprising 16 large folding plates examining in chromolithography the internal flows of trade within the Empire. While books illustrating statistics had been published since 1869, they largely conformed to existing 'classic' cartographic models and merely showed the production of each type of good in each region. Here we see instead a superb use of Minard's novel form of visual data representation, combining geographical features with coloured lines of varying thickness to indicate the movement of inputs and outputs connecting different parts of the Empire -- thus we can see how the trade in minerals largely followed the flow of the Volga up from Astrakhan to Nizhny Novgorod and thence to Moscow, and how wheat was delivered from the black soil of Ukraine for processing into flour to feed the rest of the enormous Empire. The maps reveal much about the structure of the late Empire, which was still almost completely an agrarian economy dealing in raw products like meat, oats and barley, with a comparatively tiny industrial output of rope, paper and iron. One can also clearly see the predominance of Moscow and St Petersburg, with every province providing raw materials for processing in the two capitals -- a structural problem which has never quite been overcome. One notable exception is Bloch's own native Poland, which is depicted as extremely prominent in the trade and processing of almost all goods -- it has been suggested that through this book (which he published at his own initiative and expense), Bloch was attempting to encourage the construction of more lines to Poland. With the exception of the major Vienna-Warsaw line, Poland had largely been excluded from the railway system. Bloch's own statistical analysis shows that nearly twice as much railroad could have been built had the tsarist government not dismissed plans which were profitable mainly to Poland itself as 'of purely local importance' (Pieczewski). The text is in Russian and French, reflecting the need to attract international capital, French in particular. France had a vested interest in the Russians being able to rapidly mobilise close to the German border and by the end of the 1880s had become 'the overwhelming primary source for foreign loans to fuel Russian industrialization and railroad construction' (Starns p. 4). In the same year, a Russian, smaller edition was published in St Petersburg by the Ministry of Railways, containing only the text and the statistical tables; it was subsequently expanded into the award-winning, five-volume The Impact of Railways on the Economic Condition of Russia (1878), which contains a later state of the maps first presented here. Following the main phase of his railway work, Bloch continued writing in increasingly diverse fields. His most famous work, The War of the Future (1893), accurately predicted both the development of trench warfare and mass mobilisation in the First World War. His remarkable and equally rare final publication, Comparison of the Living Standards (1901) focused on statistics of the Jewish population in the Russian empire. It aimed to combat rising anti-Semitism by showing that Jews in the Pale of Settlement were objectively beneficial to the Russian economy and not exclusively engaged in money-lending, as was commonly believed. Very rare. Not mentioned in the standard bibliographies, with some scholars mentioning Bloch's 1878 5-volume set as his first. We couldn't trace any other example on the market in recent decades. Apparently 3 copies in libraries worldwide (Canada, BL and BSB in Munich; apparently none in Russia), with a further 4 copies of the smaller Russian edition (Bonn, Warsaw, RNB in St. Petersburg and RG.

First edition in German, first published in Russian the year previously with a French translation issued the same year. This copy inscribed by Bloch on the half-title of volume I; "Herr Oberst Rohr vom Verfasser", and subsequently by the state librarian recording the gift of the set from Rohr's widow just two months after the outbreak of World War I. Decidedly uncommon inscribed. Never fully translated into English, an "abridgement," actually a full translation of the final volume, the General Conclusions, was published in 1899 with an introduction by W. T. Stead under the title "Is War Impossible?" Uncommon, a lost classic of nineteenth-century analytical thought. In January 1916 The New York Times carried a lengthy article headlined "Prophet of Trench Deadlock Vindicated. Ivan S. Bloch, who wrote seventeen years ago, foresaw 'Stalemate' like that on Western Front today, and made many more excellent guesses," which, in trying to give credit, entirely misunderstands one of history's most original, but clearly unappreciated, thinkers. Bloch was a Polish-Jewish banker who was involved developing the railways of the Great Russian Company, his work on the scientific management of railways winning a medal at the Paris Geographical Exhibition on 1875. In 1878 he completed a massive five volume work analysing the economic condition of Russia with special reference to the impact of the railways, which he followed in 1882 with an apologia for government financial policies in the nineteenth century, and a monumental investigation into the conditions of life and industry in various regions across Russia, which also addressed the issue of origins of anti-Semitism, and the role of Jews in Russian life, Bloch had himself converted to Calvinism. Shortly before his death he retired from the business world and applying the same statistical methods that he had perfected in his analyses of industry and finance ". immersed himself in the study of modern war." (Gat - The Development of Military Thought. p.109) For eight years he collected and collated data from a wide variety of sources and consulted Russian military experts, filtering the results through his own peculiar intelligence, "He brought to the study of war an entirely new sort of mind, one in which the analytical skills of the engineer, the economist, and the sociologist were all combined. His book was in fact the first work of modern operational analysis." Bloch foresaw the domino-effect caused by the complex tracery of alliances; the creation of an "impassable zone of fire deadly in equal degree to both the foes" on the battlefield; and the disruption caused to the complex interdependencies of the world economy which would be ruinous to the participants, bringing ". even upon the victorious power, the destruction of its resources and the break up of society." The almost incomprehensible mechanism whereby the assassination of a minor aristocrat could lead the Great Powers to the verge of mutually assured destruction. As an avowed pacifist Bloch's rational analysis was certainly influential on the world "peace circuit", but the pre-Great War impact of his work in military and political circles was negligible, recognition coming late and generally grudgingly. Perhaps the most apt plaudit came from another eminent "forecaster", H.G. Wells, who at the time that the NY Times was congratulating Bloch on his "excellent guesses," described him as "the prophet who emerges with the most honour from this war." Wells also chastises the Allies for their failure to read him with profit, whereas; "His book was very carefully studied in Germany. As a humble disciple of Bloch I should have realised this, but I did not, and that failure led me into some unfortunate prophesying at the outbreak of the war. I judged Germany by the Kaiser, and by the Kaiser-worship which I saw in Berlin. I thought that he was a theatrical person who would dream of vast massed attacks and tremendous cavalry charges, and that he would lead Germany to be smashed against the Allied defensive in the West. I did not properly appreciate the more studious and more thorough Germany that was to fight behind the Kaiser and thrust him aside, the Germany we British fight now, the Ostwald-Krupp Germany of 1915. That Germany, one may now perceive, had read and thought over and thought out the Bloch problem" (What is coming?). 6 vols quarto ( 250 x 174 mm) contemporary black publisher's half skiver on marbled boards, title gilt to spines, red edge-stain, marbled endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with plates, plans and diagrams, many of them folding, illustrations and tables to the text, many full-page. Ex-library set with the ink stamps of the Stadtbibliothek of Thun in Berne to the title pages together with the discard stamps of the University of Bern, a little rubbed, spines variously sunned, minor repairs to heads and tails of the spines, some stripping from the endpapers, tape repair to the front hinge of volume I, but overall a very good set.