ABSTRACT
W. R. Lee is currently Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Liverpool, Director of the Institute for European Population Studies, and Assistant Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary German Studies. Rainer Fremdling studied economics and economic history at Muenster, and gained his Habilitation in 1983. Since 1981 he has been assistant professor at the Institute of Economic and Social History at the Free University of Berlin. Wilfried Feldenkirchen studied economics and history and gained his 'Habilitation' in 1980 at the University of Bonn, for which he won the Maier-Leibnitz Prize. Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich studied Economics and law at Muenster and Paris, and gained his Habilitation at the Free University of Berlin, Department of Economics. Mark Roseman is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Aston in Birmingham. He has published a number of articles and recently contributed a chapter to W. R. Lee and E. Rosenhaft, The State and Social Change in Germany 1880-1960, forthcoming.
