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Dresden Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Located in eastern Germany on the banks of the River Elbe near to the Czech border is Dresden, the ‘Florence of the Elbe’. Dresden is one of the most picturesque cities in Germany and attracts ten million tourists annually. The city features fine Rococo and Baroque architecture in the city center...
by Henrietta Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
In the dim days of very long ago there was a country called Fensalir. It was a low-lying country of rich green meadows and fair cornfields. Beside the slow-flowing streams trees drooped their branches laden with wondrous fruit. Upon the endless meadows countless herds of cattle browsed. It was a rich...
The Mind of the Nation
Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Völkerpsychologie played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of “folk psychology” was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal,...
Berlin Replayed
Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Scarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has dramatically reinvented itself in the new millennium. Film has served a neglected but important function in this transformation.In Berlin Replayed, Brigitta...
by LCDR Bruce E. Grooms
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
German submarine operations against allied convoys, during March 1943 is critically analyzed from an operational perspective. The theater commander’s operational scheme is dissected for the purpose of identifying lessons which can be applied to the planning and execution of today’s theater operations....
Sex and the Weimar Republic
German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher...
by Gottfried Feder
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Das Manifest Zur Brechung Der Zinsknechtschaft Des GeldesBy Gottfried FederOriginally published in 1919, this new English translation of one of the most important historical economic manuscripts proposes some revolutionary changes to the German economy that are also applicable to any...
by Steve Waugh, John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for WJEC Eduqas, fully updated for 2016 to help you navigate the new content and assessment requirements with ease.
- Maps the content against the key...
by R. Paul Evans, Steve Waugh, John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Exam Board: WJEC
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2019
Endorsed by WJEC
Confidently tackle curriculum change with the market-leading series for WJEC GCSE History; relaunched to cover the new content and assessment requirements, this book helps...
Hindenburg
Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Hindenburg reveals how a previously little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany after the First World War, capturing the imagination of millions. In a period characterized by rupture...
The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History
Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The long-awaited second volume of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction (RAF)—West Germany’s most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization’s near total decimation in 1977. During this period, the RAF was in a state of regrouping...
Hitler's Compromises
Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
History has focused on Hitler’s use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing the surprisingly...
After Hitler
Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans...
by David Clay Large
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world.
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany...