Danish Welfare Reform and Lutheran Background in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

The Icelandic welfare state in the twentieth century.

Providing economic and social security has been one of the fundamental features of state activity in Iceland during the 20th century. The rise of modern social politics occurred at about the same time as in the other Nordic countries, towards the end of the 19th century, in response to upheavals associated with industrialization, urbanization and labour-force differentiation. The impulses behin...

Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England

Love and Courtship in Mid-twentieth-century England

The Historical Journal / Volume 50 / Issue 01 / March 2007, pp 173 196 DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X06005966, Published online: 13 February 2007 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0018246X06005966 How to cite this article: CLAIRE LANGHAMER (2007). LOVE AND COURTSHIP IN MID-TWENTIETHCENTURY ENGLAND. The Historical Journal, 50, pp 173-196 doi:10.1017/ S0018246X06005966 Request...

Medicine in the twentieth century

Forty-six chapters plus a substantial introduction, fifty-one contributors, 745 pages of packed text (with surprisingly little repetition)-Medicine in the twentieth century is indeed a formidably determined attempt to encompass a very complex period in medical history. Its editors have been, furthermore, ambitious in more than mere scale. The book is divided into three long sections whose title...