The opposite of Dante's hell? The transfer of ideas for social housing at international congresses in the 1850s–1860s

With the advent of industrialization, the question of developing adequate housing for the emergent working classes became more pressing than before. Moreover, the problem of unhygienic houses in industrial cities did not stop at the borders of a particular nation-state; sometimes literally as pandemic diseases spread out 'transnationally'. It is not a coincidence that in the nineteenth century the number of international congresses on hygiene and social topics expanded substantially. However, the historiography about social policy in general and social housing in particular, has often focused on individual cases because of the different pace of industrial and urban development and is thus dominated by national perspectives. In this paper, I elaborate on transnational exchange processes and local adaptations and transformations. I focus on the transfer of the housing model of SOMCO in Mulhouse, (a French house building association) during social international congresses. I examine whether cross-national networking enabled and facilitated the implementation of ideas on the local scale. I will elaborate on the transmission and the local adaptation of the Mulhouse-model in Belgium. Convergences, divergences, and different factors that influenced the local transformations (personal choice, political situation, socioeconomic circumstances) will be taken into accoun

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Hein (Dieter), Hildebrand (Klaus) en Schulz (Andréas), eds. Historie und Leben. Der Historiker als Wissenschaftler und Zeitgenosse. Festschrift für Lothar Gall zum 70. Geburtstag

Tollebeek Jo. Hein (Dieter), Hildebrand (Klaus) en Schulz (Andréas), eds. Historie und Leben. Der Historiker als Wissenschaftler und Zeitgenosse. Festschrift für Lothar Gall zum 70. Geburtstag. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 86, fasc. 2, 2008. pp. 509-511

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Tollebeek Jo. J.-P. Hendrickx, Répertoire des mémoires de licence et des thèses de doctorat présentés dans les départements d'histoire contemporaine des universités belges, dl. I : 1945-1975, 1986 R. Dumoulin, Cent cahiers - Honderd bijdragen, (Centre Interuniversitaire d'histoire Contemporaine, Cahiers, nr. 101), 1987. In: Revue du Nord, tome 70, n°277, Avril-juin 1988. pp. 446-448