This carefully edited proceedings volume provides an extensive review and analysis of the work carried out over the past 20 years at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). This research centered around the application of Quantum Chromodynamics in the strictly nonperturbative regime at hadronic scales of about 1 fm. Due to the many degrees of freedom in hadrons at this scale the leitmotiv of this research is "Many body structure of strongly interacting systems". Further, an outlook on the research with the forthcoming upgrade of MAMI is given.

This volume is an authoritative source of reference for everyone interested in the field of the electro-weak probing of the structure of hadrons.

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Many Body Structure of Strongly Interacting Systems.- The beauty of the electromagnetic probe.- Physics at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.- Few-nucleon systems at MAMI and beyond.- Experiments with polarized 3He at MAMI.- Few-nucleon systems (theory).- Nucleon form factors in dispersion theory.- Chiral perturbation theory.- Two-photon physics.- Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon.- Photo- and electro-excitation of the ?-resonance at MAMI.- Parity violation in electron scattering.- Parity-violating electron scattering at the MAMI facility in Mainz.- Virtual Compton Scattering at MAMI.- Experimental tests of Chiral Perturbation Theory.- The Bonn Electron Stretcher Accelerator ELSA: Past and future.- The Mainz Microtron MAMI Past and future.- The Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule at MAMI.- Experiments with photons at MAMI.- Coherent X-rays at MAMI.- X-ray phase contrast imaging at MAMI.- Twenty years of physics at MAMI What did it mean?.