The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health...

The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the exsisting literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence. Our reading of the literature suggests that formal...