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This is a comparative study of the origins, course and consequences of the deepest economic crisis in modern European history. Written with the non-economist in mind, the book explores recent research into the causes of the depression, notably the gold standard system, which helped to turn recession into profound depression and to transmit its effects around the world. The book gives equal weight to the political and historical context of economic policy - political attitudes and expectations, institutional opinions, strategic considerations, the legacies and lessons of history - to explain why European countries chose nationalist routes to recovery. International co-operation offered the best chance for recovery, and the book also contains a lively account of why this failed, and its consequences for international relations in the 1930s.

This volume, which aims to bring to the attention of a wider academic audience studies by Dutch and other European scholars, presents nine essays that examine the role of medieval women in the urban, politically fragmented world of the southern Low Countries. Although society for many women was constricted, sometimes in Beguine communities, these studies show that some were able to move about and enjoy a certain level of freedom. The contributors discuss the different treatment that Flemish justice meted out to men and women, examples of female travellers, heiresses, Beguine literature, artists and Margaret of Austria's role as patron.

Queen Isabel of Castile (1451-1504) is one of the most famous female figures of the Middle Ages yet most of what we know about her character is the result of Isabel's own manipulation of history. This volume presents eleven specially commissioned essays which aim to discover the truth about this woman who wielded power authoritatively, went to war enthusiastically and hoped to be judged kindly by the future'. The contributions, all published in English, consider Isabel's family, her place in myth, her role in contact with America, her zenophobia, her patronage of literature and religious art, her interference in medicine and law, her relationship with Jews and Moors and her presentation of herself as the Catholic Monarch'.

This text examines an important area in the field of inorganic chemistry that is only briefly explored in the available general textbooks. The work is intended for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students, and covers the preparation, handling, and structure of lanthanides and actinides, along with interesting new applications of these elements. Because of the useful nature of these materials, the book will also serve as a valuable reference for industrial chemists.