Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This book has been written to give guidance to histopathologists who are dealing with pathological specimens submitted by ophthalmologists, whether in a general pathology laboratory or in a specialist ophthalmic pathology laboratory...read more

Product Description: The economic framework of political change is increasingly seen as a crucial factor in determining the recent pattern of German history. However, the core area of economic history has been strangely neglected in terms of recent English language publications on Germany...read more

Product Description: A collection of papers intended to provide a temporal and geographical perspective to the issue of women's work and the family economy. The papers raise a spectrum of interrelated issues about economic development, personal life and ideological structures...read more

Product Description: This volume contains articles by historians and social scientists from a wide range of areas of expertise, in which aspects of the interplay between state policy and social change are examined. The authors present both new ideas and fresh empirical material on a wide range of important topics...read more