"The accounting systems of all levels of government in Europe have undergone substantial changes during the last twenty years, which have not always been communicated outside country boundaries in a timely manner. This book answers that shortcoming. With contributions by 25 lead…
Institutions of confinement: hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe…
by Finzsch, Norbert, Jütte, Robert, Conference "The Prerogatives of Confinement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Administrative Aspects of the History of Hospitals, Carceral and Penal Institutions in Western Europe and North America", Washington, DC)
fromPublications of the German Historical Institute, Washington…
"Membership of political parties is diverse. Not everyone participates and those who do, do not participate in the same way. This book engages with the debate over the significance and future of political parties as membership organisations and presents the first broad comparati…
"Membership of political parties is diverse. Not everyone participates and those who do, do not participate in the same way. This book engages with the debate over the significance and future of political parties as membership organisations and presents the first broad comparati…
A perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe between the Middle Ages and the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Medical history is analyzed in terms of social history and for the insight it offers into relations between various aspe…
Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing chari…
