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This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of
wartime life and organization. Is the private ownership and control
of industry holding up production? Are the burdens of war being
shared equally by the whole community? How can individual liberty
be reconciled with maximum efficiency? Are women taking their
rightful share in the national effort? Does our literature and art
reflect the spirit of an aroused and determined people? Have we a
message which will win the oppressed peoples of Europe to our side?
These questions are frankly discussed and positive suggestions are
made.
This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of
wartime life and organization. Is the private ownership and control
of industry holding up production? Are the burdens of war being
shared equally by the whole community? How can individual liberty
be reconciled with maximum efficiency? Are women taking their
rightful share in the national effort? Does our literature and art
reflect the spirit of an aroused and determined people? Have we a
message which will win the oppressed peoples of Europe to our side?
These questions are frankly discussed and positive suggestions are
made.
First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis
William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for
independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of
interest to anyone interested in political and social history. This
title examines Soutter's background, his fight for labour
representation, and provides an extensive overview of his political
activity.
First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis
William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for
independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of
interest to anyone interested in political and social history. This
title examines Soutter's background, his fight for labour
representation, and provides an extensive overview of his political
activity.
Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed
by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the
Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the
aristocratic family? Considering three celebrated and
representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author
reconstructs the histories and activities of scores of their
households for the period circa 1420-1550. The author describes the
nuclear and extended households and the acknowledgement of kinship
among the men and separate households of each patrilineage. His
analysis indicates that the nuclear family and the clan cannot
justifiably be regarded as opposing forms of family organization,
each representative of a distinct historical era and social
ambience. Professor Kent's study places Renaissance individualism
in a wider, more corporate social context than that in which it has
been traditionally viewed by historians. Originally published in
1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local
government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I,
Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of
tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link
between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian
society. His broader objective, however, is to use the issue of
autocratic politics to probe the character and evolution of
bureaucratic mentalit in this period.
Wcislo links the social, psychological, ideological, and
institutional nexus of the bureaucracy with its social
underpinnings in rural society and lays bare the connections of the
bureaucratic world with its traditional social base among the
service nobility and the peasantry. Placing the conflicting views
of officials within the context of the two political cultures of
old regime society, he shows how bureaucratic reformers anxious to
promote civic culture were undermined by defenders of traditional
autocracy and the society of service estates (soslovie) with which
that autocracy had coexisted. This defense of tradition and the
resulting failure of reformist initiatives were fundamental to the
crisis of Russia in the early twentieth century.
Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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