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Author:   Lutz Raphael
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   7
ISBN:  

9781789205152

ISBN 10:   1789205158
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   18 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History: Recent Trends and New Perspectives in Current Research Lutz Raphael Chapter 1. The Economy of Love: Welfare and Poor Relief in Catholic Territories of the Holy Roman Empire (1500 to 1800) Sebastian Schmidt Chapter 2. German Pauper Letters and Petitions for Relief: New Perspectives on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poor Relief Andreas Gestrich Chapter 3. Vagabonds in the German Empire: Mobility, Unemployment, and the Transformation of Social Policies (1870-1914) Beate Althammer Chapter 4. The Welfare State and Poverty in the Weimar Republic Wilfried Rudloff Chapter 5. Welfare, Mobilization, and the Nazi Society Nicole Kramer Chapter 6. Who Cares?: Gender, Poverty and Welfare in West Germany Christiane Kuller Chapter 7. A “New Social Question”?: Politics, Social Sciences and the Rediscovery of Poverty in Post-Boom Western Germany Winfried Süß Chapter 8. The New Poverty: Trends and Debates in Contemporary Germany Olaf Groh-Samberg

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This is a wonderful collection; the essays are uniformly well written and thought provoking and, taken together, they present a provocative and sophisticated introduction to a crucial yet underexplored topic. German History

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Lutz Raphael is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier. He has been a visiting professor at the EHESS, University of Paris VII-Denis Didérot, European Studies Center, St Antony’s College Oxford, and the London School of Economics. His recent books include Imperiale Gewalt und Mobilisierte Nation. Europa 1914-1945 (2011), Theorien und Experimente der Moderne. Europas Gesellschaften im 20. Jahrhundert (2012), and Nach dem Boom. Perspektiven der Zeitgeschichte seit 1970 (with Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, 2012).

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