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"Aha, im Heim gewesen, so so. Da warst Du bestimmt nicht artig!". so die Meinung vieler. Nur als ich ins Heim kam war ich gerade 5 Monate. Und schon höre ich das nächste Vorurteil: "Was ist das nur für eine Mutter?" Nun, dann will ich Sie mal aufklären. Ich wurde im März 1955, keine 10 Jahre nach Kriegsende, in dem Teil Deutschlands, welches 1949 die DDR wurde, geboren. Das allein ist vielleicht nichtssagend. Wenn man betrachtet, dass meine Mutter noch minderjährig war bekommt das alles schon Konturen. Mein Erzeuger war damals 19 Jahre, als ich zur Welt kam. Fakt ist, eine Frau hatte damals noch nicht den Status den sie heute haben. Und obwohl die Frau in der DDR vor 1970 allein entsch...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
This volume examines the antagonism between tradition and innovation in the Middle Ages. There were lines of thought which presume adherence to authoritative examples, but also believe in the purposefulness of history, in that, starting from an original state, there is a succession of redemptive actions, threats of danger and promises of happiness, and at times even the expectation of an ideal final state. New processes, new skills, new knowledge, new ethical attitudes and new forms of co-existence are seen as representing progressive steps which do not cease in the present and are directed towards the promise of future happiness. This view was, however, confronted with those which bemoaned ...
The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, kings, lords, and central states) is a recurrent feature of European history over time, from Antiquity to the contemporary period. This volume explores the political, social, and cultural aspects of this feature in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Roman Empire to today's city partnerships. To this end, it uses the concept of polycentric governance. Originally developed by political economist Vincent Ostrom in the 1960s and then expanded by the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, political scientist Elinor Ostrom, this concept charac...