Franciszek Bieliński, Grand Marshal of the Crown, was a typical Saxon-era magnate who played an important role in 18th-century Poland. He was most famous for his efforts to modernise Warsaw. His activities significantly ...

The article concerns the beginnings of the development of factory production of the first artificial fibers. Attention is focused on the factory of the inventor of artificial silk Hilary de Chardonnet in Besançon, France. ...

The authors are interested in Old Polish wills, i.e. those dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. It is beyond dispute that wills belong to a specific group of historical sources. They are usually prepared at the end of ...

The paper conceptualises the process of transition from a centrally planned to a market-based housing system focusing on processes of change in the emerging home ownership markets. The Bulgarian housing situation, given ...

The Gdańsk metropolitan area, made up of a closely interrelated group of cities: Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia, is undergoing a process of rapid transformation. The role and importance of the Gdańsk conurbation in the network ...

The region has now widely been recognised as a principal setting for knowledge creation and use. The paper sets out an integrated framework of activities thai underlie knowledge-based economic growth in a regional setting, ...

The paper presents the dynamically changing economic situation of the second largest city of Poland and its metropolitan area whose traditional prosperity relied on the textile industry and accessibility of the Soviet Union ...

In Germany business promotion is pursued within vertical and horizontal nets of regional competition. The main competitors are business promotion agencies and business promotion offices, including Treuhand (Treuhandanstalt) ...