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Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History /

For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation's postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, however, the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throug...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Althammer, Beate (Contribuidor), Gestrich, Andreas (Contribuidor), Groh-Samberg, Olaf (Contribuidor), Kramer, Nicole (Contribuidor), Kuller, Christiane (Contribuidor), Raphael, Lutz (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rudloff, Wilfried (Contribuidor), Schmidt, Sebastian (Contribuidor), Süß, Winfried (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Colección:New German Historical Perspectives ; 7
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History - Recent Trends and New Perspectives in Current Research
  • Chapter 1 The Economy of Love: Welfare and Poor Relief in Catholic Territories of the Holy Roman Empire (1500 to 1800)
  • Chapter 2 German Pauper Letters and Petitions for Relief: New Perspectives on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poor Relief
  • Chapter 3 Vagabonds in the German Empire: Mobility, Unemployment and the Transformation of Social Policies (1870-1914)
  • Chapter 4 The Welfare State and Poverty in the Weimar Republic
  • Chapter 5 Welfare, Mobilization and the Nazi Society
  • Chapter 6 Who Cares? Gender, Poverty and Welfare in West Germany
  • Chapter 7 A 'New Social Question'? Politics, Social Sciences and the Rediscovery of Poverty in Post-boom Western Germany
  • Chapter 8 The New Poverty: Trends and Debates in Contemporary Germany
  • Index