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The Rising of Gauge Theory Up To 1961: From Special to GeneralRelativity Theory; Analyzing General Relativity; A Fresh Start by Yang-Millsand Utiyama; Poincare Gauge Theory: General Structure of Poincare GaugeTheory; Translational Gauge Theory; Einstein-Cartan Theory; the Yang Episode;Objections to Torsion?; Extending the Gauge Group of Gravity: From theLorentz to the Linear Group: Metric-Affine Gravity; Poincare Group Plus ScaleTransformations as Special Case; De Sitter and Conformal Groups; From SquareRoot of the Translations to Super Poincare Group; Specific Subjects ofMetric-Affine Gravity and Poincare Gauge Theory: Hamiltonian Structure; ExactSolutions; Equations of Motion for Matter; Cosmological Models; PoincareGauge Theory in Three Dimensions; Torsion and Dislocations in Solid StatePhysics.