Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State
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Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State by Young-Sun Hong
Offers a study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. This book examines the conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the religious and humanitarian welfare organizations.
Hong, Young-Sun: - Young-sun Hong is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the author of Welfare, Modernity and the Weimar State, 1919-1933 (1998). She has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Harvard Center for European Studies, and New York University's International Center for Advanced Studies. She has also received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund, the Max-Planck Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Social Science Research Council. Hong has contributed to debates on modernity and transnationalism at the H-German Forum on Transnationalism (2006) and the German History Forum on Asia, Germany and the Transnational Turn (2010). In 2008, she organized a session on Asian-German studies at the German Studies Association meeting. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of Social History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691057934 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691057931 |
| Title | Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State |
| Author | Young-Sun Hong |
| Series | Princeton Studies In Culture Power History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1998-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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