Oxford University Press

This study of Jewish life in Germany from 1650 until 1945 investigates the details of daily living, the homes and neighbourhoods in which Jews lived, their families and friendships, religious practices and feelings, as well as their educations and occupations. In locating Jews at the grassroots, it also uncovers non-Jewish Germans and their...

State and local government fiscal systems have increasingly become vulnerable to        economic changes. Over the past three decades, state and local deficits during        economic recession have been larger and deeper each time. The impact of the Great        Recession and its aftermath of feeble growth and lingering high unemployment...

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This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families....

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Fundamentalists in the City is a story of religious controversy and division, set within turn of the century and early twentieth-century Boston. It offers a new perspective on the rise of fundamentalism, emphasizing the role of local events, both sacred and secular, in deepening the divide between liberal and conservative Protestants....