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Browsing Department of History and Civilization (HEC) by Subject "Germany"
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Title:Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
Author(s):COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, EoinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:What was the recipe for the success of Raiffeisen’s banking model? What made it possible for imitations of this German rural cooperative microfinance institution to work well in some European countries, but fail in others? ...
Title:Concepts of Social Justice in the Welfare State. Great Britain and Germany since 1945
Author(s):TORP, CorneliusDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Concepts of social justice are at the very heart of the welfare state. From the perspective of the history
of institutions, the article reconstructs the principles of justice which underlie the architecture of the
social ...
Title:Decentring the German Spirit: The Weimar Republic’s cultural relations with Latin America
Author(s):GOEBEL, Thomas MichaelDate:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses the Weimar Republic's cultural relations with Latin America. Based on diplomatic correspondence and the writings of Latin American intellectuals who visited Weimar Germany, the article combines an ...
Title:German volunteers in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento 1834-70
Author(s):GÖHDE, Ferdinand NicolasDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Between 1834 and 1870, Germans participated in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento in the ranks of both Mazzini and Garibaldi and of the Pope and Francis II of Naples. While acknowledging the difficulty in ...
