Germany category: 4580 books
Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy makers face, the authors, both internationally recognized in this field, use historical argument, theoretical...
The Merkel Republic
An Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German and European politics for almost a decade. Her stellar reputation, sound political and economic management, and popularity inside of Germany resulted in one of the most decisive electoral victories for her conservative parties in postwar Germany—the...
Between Left and Right
The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Germany remains a leader in Europe, as demonstrated by its influential role in the on-going policy challenges in response to the post 2008 financial and economic crises. Rarely does the composition of a national government matter as much as Germany’s did following the 2009 Bundestag election. This...
Launching the Grand Coalition
The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This edited volume, which brings together the leading experts in German politics from around the US and Germany, combines rich descriptive data with insightful analyses regarding one of the most dramatic and important election years in postwar Germany. A variety of more specialized issues and perspectives...
Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979
The 'Normalisation of Rule'?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is this really all there is to the GDR¹s...
Winning Women's Votes
Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote, and female suffrage would forever change the landscape of German political life. Women now constituted the majority of voters, and political parties were forced to address them as political actors for the first time.
Analyzing written...
German Scholars in Exile
New Studies in Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses on scholars who were outside the commonly known Max Horkheimer-Hannah Arendt circles, who are less...
Hitler's Geographies
The Spatialities of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as...
Performance Anxiety
Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated a vision...
Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one of the foremost ideologues of the political movement that called itself the Conservative Revolution and as a right-wing opponent of the Nazis. He was speechwriter for and confidant of Franz von Papen...
by Michael Jerchel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In 1963 West Germany and the United States signed an agreement to develop the best tank in the world the MBT/KPz-70. Though by 1970 this project was stopped, West Germany used the components created for the MBT/KPz-70 to develop a new main battle tank the Leopard 2. Since 1979, when the first Leopard...
From The Kaiser To Weimar
THE NAZIS, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile, in Holland. The Hohenzollern Empire was dead and it was a difficult thing for the German people to...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book analyses some of the fundamental reasons for the triumph of National Socialism in 1933. Written in 1983 by historians at Canadian, American and British universities, it provides a clear and balanced historiographical perspective of the dynamics of socio-political mobilization which helped...
Hitler's Black Victims
The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the...