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The German Peasantry (Routledge Revivals): Conflict and Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard J Evans, W. R. Lee
May 13, 2016
This book, first published in 1986, surveys the history of rural society in Germany from the eighteenth century to the present day. The contributions include studies of Junker estates and small farming communities, serfs and landless labourers, maidservants and worker-peasants. They demonstrate the...
The German Underworld (Routledge Revivals): Deviants and Outcasts in German History
1st Edition
By Richard J. Evans
May 13, 2016
This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth ...
The German Unemployed (Routledge Revivals): Experiences and Consequences of Mass Unemployment from the Weimar Republic of the Third Reich
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard J. Evans, Dick Geary
May 13, 2016
Unemployment was perhaps the major problem confronting European society at the time in which this book was first published in 1987, and is arguably still the case today. This collection of essays by British and German historians contributes to the debate by taking a close look at unemployment in ...
The Land Problem in the Developed Economy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Andrew H. Dawson
May 13, 2016
Land is an important finite commodity in the modern world. In the past wars have been fought over it and land shortage has been the cause of many famines. In modern times debates rage over just how land should be controlled by government and over whether land should be publicly or privately owned....
The Mabinogi (Routledge Revivals): A Book of Essays
1st Edition
By C. W. Sullivan III
May 13, 2016
The purpose of this collection, which was first published in 1996, is to provide both an overview of the major critical approaches to the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and a selection of the best essays dealing with them. The essays examine the origins of the Mabinogion, comparative analyses, and ...
The Taming of the Shrew (Routledge Revivals): A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions
1st Edition
By Jan Harold Brunvand
May 13, 2016
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most modern media of mass communications. This book, first published in 1991, examines some of the different literary and oral versions of The Taming of the ...
Towards Full Employment (Routledge Revivals): A Policy Appraisal
1st Edition
By Ciaran Driver
May 13, 2016
At the time in which this book was first published in 1987, mass unemployment had emerged as the dominant, most visible, problem of the West European economies. In this challenging discussion of ways to overcome unemployment Ciaran Driver stresses the importance of managed restructuring. This book ...
Unequal Treatment (Routledge Revivals): A Study in the Neo-Classical Theory of Discrimination
1st Edition
By Mats Lundahl, Eskil Wadensjo
May 13, 2016
This book, written by two leading Swedish economists and first published in 1984, constitutes a threefold contribution to the expanding field of economic discrimination. In the first place, it summarizes different approaches to the economics of discrimination, from the beginning of the British ...
Wage Differentials and Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Pasquale Sgro
May 13, 2016
This book, which was first published in 1980, is concerned with one particular branch of growth theory, namely descriptive growth theory. It is typically assumed in growth theory that both the factors and goods market are perfectly competitive. In particular this implies amongst other things that ...
William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By George P. Landow
May 13, 2016
In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt’s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on ...
An Economic History of Liberal Italy (Routledge Revivals): 1850-1918
1st Edition
By Gianni Toniolo
April 08, 2016
This book, first published in 1990, examines Italy’s economic history from its Unification in 1850 to the end of the First World War. Particular attention is paid to the extent to which Italy exhibits the features of Kaznets’s model of ‘modern economic growth’. An Economic History of Liberal Italy...
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Mark Seltzer
April 07, 2016
Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power...