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Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States
In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result of political, economic, and social changes. Just as Europe was a leader in the development of the welfare state and the supportive structures of corporatist politics from the 1920s onward, Europe in particular has experienced stresses from globalization and striking innovation in welfare policies. While debates in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France often attract wide international attention, smaller European countries—Belgium, Denmark, Austria, or Finland—are often overlooked. This volume seeks to correct this unfortunate oversight as these smaller countries serve as models for reform, undertaking experiments that only later gain the attention of stymied reformers in the larger countries.
The Zabriskie Family
Albert Zaborowskij (d.1711), of German or Polish ancestry, emigrated in 1662 from The Netherlands to New Amsterdam, New York, and married Machtelt Vanderlinde in 1677. They later moved to Pemmerpogh (later Bayonne), New Jersey. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Zabriskie) and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Calif0ornia and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons, and lived in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, California and elsewhere.
Organic Farming
Consumers are more and more concerned with the health of the food they eat. While great public anxiety about genetically engineered foodstuffs and BSE in cattle has developed in Europe, on the positive side there has been a rapidly rising demand for organic produce. Food retailers, including supermarkets, have responded, and the organic sector has moved from a being marginal production fad to a serious subject of policy concern for politicians and public servants involved in European agricultural policy. In this book, three leading authorities on organic farming have for the first time produced a serious and scientific overview for the lay person of the state of organic farming and policy to...
A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800
Traces the history of the Haring family: descendants of John Pietersen Haring (fl.17th c.) and Grietje Cosyns (b.1641) who were married in 1662 in the Out-ward of Manhattan. Their descendants lived in New York and New Jersey. John and Grietje were not immigrants, but were the children of immigrants from the Netherlands. The history is prim arily description of how and under what conditions the family would have lived; includes a great deal of sociological, cultural, religiou s, and other detailed information.
