Lutz Raphael is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier. He has been a visiting professor at the EHESS, University of Paris VII-Denis Didérot, European Studies Center, St Antony's College Oxford, and the London School of Economics. His recent books include Imperiale Gewalt und Mobilisierte Nation. Europa 1914-1945 (2011), Theorien und Experimente der Moderne. Europas Gesellschaften im 20. Jahrhundert (2012), and Nach dem Boom. Perspektiven der Zeitgeschichte seit 1970 (with Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, 2012).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History: Recent Trends and New Perspectives in Current Research
Lutz Raphael

Chapter 1. The Economy of Love: Welfare and Poor Relief in Catholic Territories of the Holy Roman Empire (1500 to 1800)
Sebastian Schmidt

Chapter 2. German Pauper Letters and Petitions for Relief: New Perspectives on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poor Relief
Andreas Gestrich

Chapter 3. Vagabonds in the German Empire: Mobility, Unemployment, and the Transformation of Social Policies (1870-1914)
Beate Althammer

Chapter 4. The Welfare State and Poverty in the Weimar Republic

Wilfried Rudloff

Chapter 5. Welfare, Mobilization, and the Nazi Society
Nicole Kramer

Chapter 6. Who Cares?: Gender, Poverty and Welfare in West Germany
Christiane Kuller

Chapter 7. A "New Social Question"?: Politics, Social Sciences and the Rediscovery of Poverty in Post-Boom Western Germany
Winfried Süß

Chapter 8. The New Poverty: Trends and Debates in Contemporary Germany
Olaf Groh-Samberg