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Youth Politics in East Germany
In communist East Germany young people constituted the social group for whom the ruling authorities had the highest hopes - and in whom they were most frequently and bitterly …
Youth and the Welfare State in Weimar Germany
This is a detailed and scholarly study of social policy in Weimar Germany. The Weimar Republic gave German youth new social rights and a pledge of generous educational and welfare …
Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars
This book presents an important episode in the twentieth-century history of the United Kingdom: the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain (and at the time of its …
Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England
An exploration of how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory and in practice. It examines the extent to which …
Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750
This text studies the significance of witchcraft in English public life (1650-1750), and deals with contemporary opinion regarding its theological, philosophical, and legal …
Windows of the Soul
In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'. …
War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State
This book examines a period of particular importance in the formation of the modern French state. The revolutionary strife and international war of the 1790s had important and …
Violence and Social Order
This challenging study sets out to explore the nature and meaning of violence in fifteenth-century England. Philippa Maddern examines violence on each side of the law - both in …
Victorian Insolvency
This is the first legal and financial history of bankruptcy in nineteenth-century England. V. Markham Lester offers a full statistical analysis and detailed account of bankruptcy, …
Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany
Debates about Liberalism in imperial Germany have focused almost exclusively on the national level. This book investigates liberal politics in local government; the only sphere in …
Tudor York
Tudor York
Translating the Enlightenment
This is a study of the transmission of political ideas across languages and cultures, and in particular of a notably fruitful encounter between two distinct branches of …