In Rethinking German History, first published in 1987, Richard J. Evans argues for a social-historical approach to the German past that pays equal attention to objective social structures and subjective values and experiences. If German history has been seen as an exception to the 'normal' development of Western society, this is not least because historians have until recently largely failed to look beyond the world of high politics, institutions, organizations and ideologies to broader historical problems of German society and German mentalities. By applying and adapting approaches learned...
In Rethinking German History, first published in 1987, Richard J. Evans argues for a social-historical approach to the German past that pays equal att...
This book surveys the history of the German family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions deal with the influence of industrialisation on family life in town and country, with rural families and communities under the impact of social and economic change, and with the role and influence of the family in the lives of men and women in the newly-emerged working class. Research on the history of the family had so far, at the point of this book's publication in 1981, concentrated on England and France; this book adds an important comparative dimension by extending the...
This book surveys the history of the German family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions deal with the influence of industriali...
In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and reunification. This book provides a study of how and why historians - mainly German, American, British and French - have provided a series of differing and often conflicting readings of the German past. It also presents a reconsideration of German history in the light of the recent decline of the German Democratic Republic, collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Rereading German...
In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural a...
Technical innovation in industry is regarded by many people as the best way of making industry more profitable. A great deal of energy and time is being expended by businessmen and by governments discussing how best to bring about technical innovation. This book, which was first published in 1987, argues that all concerned with technical innovation should bear in mind the importance of networks . Networks are defined as the web of contacts which exist between suppliers, customers, and producers in industry. Drawing on extensive original research, the book discusses the need for...
Technical innovation in industry is regarded by many people as the best way of making industry more profitable. A great deal of energy and time is ...
This study, first published in 1986, examines the evolution and application of the policies of wartime governments designed to deal with the danger to national security thought to be posed by enemy alien residents, and considers the social and political forces which helped shape these policies.
This study, first published in 1986, examines the evolution and application of the policies of wartime governments designed to deal with the danger to...
In 'The State, The Family and Education', first published in 1980, Miriam David provides an entirely new analysis of the relationship of the state to the family and education. David explains how the state, through its educational policies, regulates family relationships with, and within, schools. This book provides a welcome analysis of educational policy from a socialist-feminist perspective, re-examining the ways in which women as parents, teachers and pupils are involved in the education system.
In 'The State, The Family and Education', first published in 1980, Miriam David provides an entirely new analysis of the relationship of the state to ...
'Culture and Consensus' explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the arts, architecture, landscape and other emblems of national significance.
'Culture and Consensus' explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a s...
'Essays in Economic Theory' combines two essays on game theory and its applications in economics. The first, 'Learning Behavior and the Noncooperative Equilibrium', considers whether an adaptive justification, like those commonly available for the optimization models frequently employed elsewhere in economics, can be found for the Nash noncooperative equilibrium. The second essay, 'A Game of Fair Division', was motivated by the desire to find attractive methods for solving allocation problems and bargaining disputes that are simple enough to provide useful alternatives to existing methods.
'Essays in Economic Theory' combines two essays on game theory and its applications in economics. The first, 'Learning Behavior and the Noncooperative...
The idea of the 'enterprise culture' has been much vaunted over the last few decades: the growth of self-employment and small business ownership has been an important feature of the restructuring of the British economy. Because it is a concept that is difficult to evaluate, controversial and politically sensitive, social scientists were slow to analyse it. Consequently, it had been caricatured and many questions about its impact on society and the economy had been left unanswered.
This collection, which was first published in 1991, presents a critical analysis of the various...
The idea of the 'enterprise culture' has been much vaunted over the last few decades: the growth of self-employment and small business ownership ha...
In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents. He discusses its modern structuralist descendants, recalling the importance of Roland Barthes and the invigorating effect of his fertile and surprising mind. He considers also the work of Foucault, Laca and Levi-Strauss, as well as that of Jacques Derrida, which uses a novel and...
In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of lite...