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This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusse...

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This volume examines the process of German unification from the perspective of the political parties, their voters and the parliamentary system. Leading specialists offer a first-class analysis of the attempts by the established German parties to ...

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Second revised edition- Thoroughly updated and includes a new chapter on the implications of the events in 1989 for women in both East and West Germany.Having emerged in 1945 from the shackles of Nazi ideology, German women have played a major par...

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Based on extensive research in Polish and German archives this book documents the major developments within the labor movement in the Ruhr, including the mass strikes of 1889, 1905 and 1912 and the so-called 'Polish Revolt' of 1899. The ...

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Winner of the Pierlot Prize in Contemporary History This political biography of Emile Vandervelde traces the path of European socialism at the turn of the century. Vandervelde defined democratic socialism as a compromise between orthodox and revis...

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This many-sided study of the wealthy business elite of Wilhelmine Germany is based on comprehensive quantitative data on the 502 wealthiest businessmen of the time, material from public and private papers and 200 autobiographies. Not only business...

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This book analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. The author argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices...

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Ever since the late 18th century, European society has been undergoing a transformation in which the most dynamic element has been the middle class. This provocative book contains the first comprehensive study of 18th and early 19th century bourge...

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This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form an...

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Edited by Klaus J. BadeThis volume summarises the debate about the causes of population changes, labour and migration in Germany. The authors show that the large influx of foreign workers during the last twenty-five years is only the latest manife...

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The only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the most fateful period in modern German history between 1929-1933.

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The only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the most fateful period in modern German history between 1929-1933.

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This short and updated introduction by one of Europe's leading specialists in Russian and Soviet history presents a broad survey combined with a penetrating analysis of the key issues of the Russian Revolution, such as the nature of pre-Revol...

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This book is concerned with the unprecedented involvement of the French state in the industrial sector of the country's economy during the First World War. That war was a great forcing-house for change, and one of the traditional relationshps...

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Analyzes the rich body of contemporary German novels and provides fresh insights into a number of particularly controversial works.

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This volume provides an excellent introduction to the modern and contemporary novel in German-speaking countries and the work of novelists such as Gunter Grass, Heinrich Boll, Martin Walser and Christa Wolf.

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This book examines Celine's entire oeuvre of the interwar years and the Occupation, and places it in the literary and intellectual context of contemporary France.

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This is the first in-depth study of the complete work of Heinrich Bll, one of the best known writers of postwar Germany. Bll became passionately invloved in the political upheavals and debates of his time, and all the major issues are reflected in...

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Compiled by Claudie Cox This handy dictionary helps students acquire the specific vocabulary they encounter in covering current affairs in France -- particularly in the areas of politics, economics, social studies and media studies. It has been de...

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George Sand was admired by Dostoevsky, Whitman, Flaubert, Thackeray and Elizabeth Barret Browning as on of the greatest writers of her time. Her sixty novels received critical acclaim and earned her enough money to donate over a million pounds to ...

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This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire surviving philosophical notes, from his university years until his death in 1860. Translated here into English for the first time, it pro...

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This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire surviving philosophical notes, from his university years until his death in 1860. Translated here into English for the first time, it pro...

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This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire surviving philosophical notes, from his university years until his death in 1860. Translated here into English for the first time, it pro...

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This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire suviving philosophical notes, from his university years until his death in 1860. Translated here into English for the first time, it prov...

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Jill Lewis.

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In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural...

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Written by some of the foremost commentators on modern Europe who address a diverse range of problems: the continued blockage in historical and intellectual understanding between the two cultures; the conservative retrenchment in Western European ...

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This study focuses on a sample of occupational groups representative of the Mittelstand in the city of Hamburg - white-collar workers, artisans, retailers, civil servants and house owners - and examines the strains imposed by the infaltionary cond...

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A work which discusses Storm's significance and artistic stature as a champion of democratic humanitarian traditions and aspirations in 19th century Germany. It highlights his critique of Christianity, his vision of capitalism and his analysi...

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This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions is added a historical dimensi...

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