Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Note: 2,0, Universitat Mannheim, Veranstaltung: Einfuhrung in die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, 11 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Gegenstand dieser Proseminararbeit ist der Auf- und Abbau der Sozialstaates der Weimarer Republik ab Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges bis zum Beginn der nationalsozialistischen Regierung und den damals herrschenden okonomischen Problemen, deren Grunde in erster Linie im Krieg zu finden waren. Es soll ein allgemeiner Uberblick uber die...

Marks a key entry in Hemingway studies, bringing the questions from the rapidly evolving field of environmental literary studies to bear on Hemingway's places, animals, and life. It not only advances scholarship on Hemingway's relationship to the natural world, but it also facilitates bringing this understanding to the classroom.

For millennia, -the North- has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions--empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history--it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change.
This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we've conceived it--and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region's human and nonhuman life....