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Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area. Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy accessibility for the non-specialist reader Brings together the very latest research in this highly topical subject from leading scholars Contributions cover a broad range of areas within this subject The latest publication in the highly successful Surveys of Recent Research in Economics Book Series.

Introduction : Beyond the coffeehouse : Vienna as a cultural center between the World Wars / Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman -- Cultural parameters between the wars : a reassessment of the Vienna Circles / Edward Timms -- "wei€e Strüpfe oder neue Kutten" : cultural decline in Vienna in the 1930s / John Warren -- "Wiener Kreise" : Jewishness, politics, and culture in interwar Vienna / Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lisa Silverman -- A city regenerated : eugenics, race, and welfare in interwar Vienna / Paul Weindling -- Free dance in interwar Vienna / Andrea Amort -- Hollywood on the Danube? Vienna and Austrian silent film of the 1920s / Alys X. George -- Between tradition and a longing for the modern : theater in interwar Vienna / Birgit Peter -- The hegemony of German music : Schoenberg's Vienna as the musical center of the German-speaking world / Therese Muxeneder -- Anticipating Freud's pleasure principle? A reading of Ernst Weiss's war story "Franta Zlin" (1919) / Andrew Barker -- Facts and fiction : Rudolf Brunngraber, Otto Neurath, and Viennese Neue Sachlichkeit / Jon Hughes -- The VIennese legacy of Casanova : the late erotic writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei / Birgit Lang -- An Englishman abroad : literature, politics, and sex in John Lehmann's writings on Vienna in the 1930s / Robert Vilain

"Essays that critically engage with and build upon previous contributions made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history. Cutting-edge research on the social changes leading up to the spread of divine kinship across the lowlands in the first part of the Early Classic"--Provided by publisher.