This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.
This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.
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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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
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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