This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during th

Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar

The welfare state was one of the pillars of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare system's abilit

Weimar Cities explores Germans' efforts after the First World War to come to grips with their great cities and, by extension, measures the feasibility of the po