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A new and revisionary account of how the nobility grew and developed in late medieval and early modern Germany.
This groundbreaking book explains the widely accepted practice of feuding amongst noblemen and princes in its social context.
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With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more mundane dangers. In Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany, Joy Wiltenburg explores the beginnings of crime sensationalism from the early sixteenth century into the seventeenth century and beyond. Comparing the depictions of crime in popular publications with those in archival records, legal dis...
"In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!"—Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century A sweeping narrative that shows how the rich historically justified themselves by helping their societies in times of crisis, why they no longer do, and what that may mean for social stability The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods among men’; much more recently Thomas Piketty made wealth central to discussions of inequality. In this book, Guido Alfani offers a history of the rich and super-rich in the West, exam...
The fifth edition of this directory supplies data on over 1000 financial institutions in Western Europe, principally banks, investment companies, insurance companies and leasing companies. Among the details given are names of chairman and board members and positions of senior management.
Obwohl die föderale Verfasstheit in der CDU einen weit größeren Stellenwert einnimmt als in anderen deutschen Parteien, hat sich die These, dass es sich bei der CDU über weite Strecken ihrer Entwicklung um einen zentralisierten „Kanzlerwahlverein“ handelt, bislang behauptet. Arijana Neumann untersucht den föderalen Charakter der CDU und stellt die unterschiedlichen Strategien ausgewählter Landesverbände beim Übergang von der Opposition in die Regierung sowie im Hinblick auf den Regierungsstil gegenüber.
Guide to the Volumes 1 & 2 MAJOR COMPANIES OF EUROPE 1993/94, Volume 1, arrangement of the book contains useful information on over 4000 of the top companies in the European Community, excluding the UK, over 1100 This book has been arranged in order to allow the reader to companies of which are covered in Volume 2. Volume 3 covers find any entry rapidly and accurately. over 1300 of the top companies within Western Europe but outside the European Community. Altogether the three Company entries are listed alphabetically within each country volumes of MAJOR COMPANIES OF EUROPE now provide in section; in addition three indexes are provided in Volumes 1 authoritative detail, vital information on ...