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by Giles MacDonogh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the painstaking reunification of "the...
Germany, 1914-1933
Politics, Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping...
by John G. Gagliardo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society. The achievement...
by John Breuilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
It is often argued that the unification of Germany in 1871 was the inevitable result of the convergence of Prussian power and German nationalism. John Breuilly here shows that the true story was much more complex. For most of the nineteenth century Austria was the dominant power in the region. Prussian-led...
Changing Places
Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
"Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in the past and present....
German Colonialism
Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important...
by Michael H. Kater
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and...
Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany
The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Winner of the Social Science History Association President’s Book Award
East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to collapse in 1989. Its topple was so swift and unusual that it caught many area specialists and social scientists off guard; they failed to recognize...
Imperial Germany Revisited
Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments...
Behind the Iron Curtain
A Teacher's Guide to East Germany and Cold War Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Behind the Iron Curtain: A Teacher’s Guide to East Germany and Cold War Activities discusses teaching Cold War activities through an East German perspective. The book is comprised of eight chapters that examine various pedagogical approaches and historical background associated with East Germany’s...
Red Saxony
Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections...
by Ian Porter, Ian D. Armour
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also vital to explain the rise of the Third Reich. The authors focus on Germany's role as a major military and imperial power, industrialiastion and the...
Germany and the Ottoman Railways
Art, Empire, and Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman Empire is explored through the lens of the Ottoman Railway network, its architecture, and material culture
With lines extending from Bosnia to Baghdad to Medina, the Ottoman Railway Network (1868–1919)...