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Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behin

The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the c

History reveals a fascinating chapter where there were simply more women than men. "The Surplus Women" explores the social and economic consequences of this phe

A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and t