Germany category: 4580 books
The People's Own Landscape
Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside. Scott Moranda considers East Germany’s rural landscapes from the perspective...
Mass Media and Historical Change
Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Media influenced politics, culture, and everyday life long before the invention of the Internet. This book shows how the advent of new media has changed societies in modern history, focusing not on the specifics of technology but rather on their distribution, use, and impact. Using Germany as an example...
We Were the People
Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1992
On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors...
Life After the Third Reich
The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin. But what was it like to live in Germany after World War II?
This is the story of Germany after the Nazis, a time when two separate states rose from the ashes to face each other across...
The German Right, 1860-1920
Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Germany was undergoing convulsive socioeconomic and political change. With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics, based on the principle of one man, one vote. The dynamic, diverse political culture...
The Heimat Abroad
The Boundaries of Germanness
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland) wherever they moved, and that their enclaves could remain truly German. Furthermore, the history of...
Hypersexuality and Headscarves
Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
In this compelling study, Damani J. Partridge explores citizenship and exclusion in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That event seemed to usher in a new era of universal freedom, but post-reunification transformations of German society have in fact produced noncitizens: non-white and "foreign"...
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar
A Contest of Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany's navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation?
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar brings together leading historians of the Imperial and Weimar...
Hitler's American Model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman...
contemporary history US DE 1939 immigration and emigration
Immigration to the US 1936 - 1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Growing up my father rarely talked about his past and I really did not have much interest in asking him about it. He did say he was ransomed out of Germany during the Nazi reign of terror in the 1930's by a Hollywood producer and was a tutor to the producer's son teaching him Hebrew since in Germany...
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison,...
by Ernest F. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
"The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the mediæval German Empire is in itself a subject boundlessly interesting, boundlessly important. ...See how Europe has come to be what it is, and how...
German Sports, Doping, and Politics
A History of Performance Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Doping has developed from a relatively ethical or moral phenomenon of sport to a very real problem, dealing with blatantly unfair and clearly forbidden means and substances. Obviously, the Cold War—especially in Germany—was one of the main reasons why doping became a central problem of current...
by Dr. Samuel J. Newland
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Since the early stages of World War II, militaries in general, and the U.S. Army in particular, have studied the German way of war, specifically as practiced in the 20th century. While acknowledging that Germany—and before that nation came into existence, Prussia—produced some excellent armies,...