Emergency Money: Notgeld in The Image Economy of The German Inflation, 1914 1923 by Tom Wilkinson (mit Press)

by John Donoghue (Hi (Contributor), Evelyn P Jennings (Contributor)

This congressionally requested report by a pre-eminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal policy-makers should take to create high-quality jobs and focus new science and technology efforts on meeting the nation's needs, especially in the area of clean, affordable energy

This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the curious status of most knights as at once noble and unfree. These unfree knights, argues Arnold, were above all professional warriors in an empire where violence for political ends prevailed–a harsh reality that dictated the structure and development of their class.

This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday.