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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent;...
by Anthony McElligott
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution...
After the Nazi Racial State
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945...
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller’s unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by...
by Michael Munn
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
A shocking look into the twisted, lurid world of Nazi Germany’s film industry.
In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Adolf Hitler’s style of cultural governance. Hitler’s rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country’s greatest stars,...
by Richard Lord
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
CultureShock! Germany dispels the stereotypes and explores the realities of unified Germany, giving readers an insight into its varied people and customs. Find out how a makler can help you locate the right accommodation, be aware of the importance of health insurance and prepare yourself for the...
by Richard J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war
This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three-volume history of Nazi Germany was hailed by Benjamin Schwartz of the Atlantic Monthly as "the definitive English-language...
The Burden of Guilt
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European...
The Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich—how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power and plunged the world into World War II.
In “the new definitive volume on the subject”...
Reluctant Meister
How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much of its recent history. Reluctant Meister is a wide-ranging study of Germany from the Holy Roman Empire...
Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941
Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal...
Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past
The Politics of Amnesty and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home questions...
by Christian Goeschel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
The suicides of Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler, and later Goering at the end of World War II were only the most prominent in a suicide epidemic that has no historical parallel and that can tell us much about the Third Reich's peculiar self-destructiveness and the depths of Nazi fanaticism. Looking...
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder
Decline of the German Model?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While unification has undoubtedly had major effects on Germany's political economy, the pattern of current policy-making preferences was established at an earlier stage, in particular, at the beginning of the 'Kohl-era' in 1982. This essentially neo-liberal pattern can be seen to have dominated the...