Tells the story of Heinz Hartmann's struggles, tragedies, and joys. This book offers stories about his medical practice, the similarities and differences he has discovered between various religions, and the 'missionaries' who have tried to convert him. It is the story of a doctor who has spent his life healing the scars left by the Nazis.
Provides an historical comparison of the major Romance languages with a reconstruction of their common source and a chronological account of their development through changes and splits.
Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.''Always fascinating . . . The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and moreauthentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture.''--Felix Gilbert, New York ......
Offers a survey of medieval European economy, and culture. This book demonstrates the diversity that the world of Middle Ages achieved, despite the fact that "the physical aspects of life were exceedingly difficult". It probes the problems faced by Jews in a predominantly Christian society, and contemplates as well the problems faced by women.
A collection of articles, reviews and speeches by Monthly Review founder, Paul Sweezy, about the development of societies, mainly within the former USSR, after Marxist revolution.
''Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline.''Speculum
CONTENTS: Introduction - Labour, Necessary product, Surplus Product - Exchange, Commodity, Value - Money, Capital, Surplus-value - The Development of Capital - The Contradictions of Capitalism - Trade - Credit - Money - Agriculture- Reproduction and the Growth of National Income - Periodical Crises - Monopoly Capitalism - Imperialism - The Epoch ......
CONTENTS: Introduction - Labour, Necessary product, Surplus Product - Exchange, Commodity, Value - Money, Capital, Surplus-value - The Development of Capital - The Contradictions of Capitalism - Trade - Credit - Money - Agriculture- Reproduction and the Growth of National Income - Periodical Crises - Monopoly Capitalism - Imperialism - The Epoch ......
