Germany category: 4580 books
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
One of the world’s coolest cities, Berlin has grabbed the world’s attention with its cutting-edge arts scene. Cosmopolitan and affordable, Berlin will delight foodies, scenesters, and fashionistas. Fodor’s brand new guidebook, Inside Berlin, touches on top tourist sights, including Museum Island,...
The Nation as a Local Metaphor
Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed,...
Composing the Party Line
Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World...
by Dr. Walter Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
“The present essay is a pragmatic study of monarchism as a political factor in Germany during the period of the Weimar Republic. It seeks to illuminate the history of that period by concentrating on the most powerful opposing force with which the democratic republic in Germany was confronted during...
The Hitler Youth
Continuations in the Post-War Period
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book examines the situation of the Hitler Youth and its generation in the postwar period. Many historians and writers, influenced by the postwar division of Germany and quick recovery of the western part of the country often did not focus upon the lives of youth following the collapse of the...
by Rob Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
From 1918 to 1933 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others’ heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well-documented. Less well-known are the events that preceded Hitler’s rise to power.
Rob Sewell gives a picture of the tumultuous events - the 1918 revolution, the collapse of...
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century
A Historian's Recollections and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality...
by E. Belfort Bax
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
From the preface:
“The work, of which the present volume is the first instalment, aims at giving English readers a general view of the social condition and the popular movements of Germany during the period known as that of the Reformation. In accordance with this plan, I have only touched...
by Heidemarie Wawrzyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, , language: English, abstract: Beiträge zu Feminismus, Antisemitismus und Nationalsozialismus im 19./20. Jahrhundert: Vol. 10. The monograph 'Trials and Tribulations on Mt...
We're in America Now
A Survivor's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
"Epic in scope, but gentle and charming in delivery, Fred Amram's We're in America Now is a quiet chronicle of a clamorous era. Politics and war compel Amram's family to leave the only home they ever knew and embark on a personal exodus, fleeing a new pharaoh, pursuing a new promised land. They arrive...
The History of the Panzerwaffe
Volume 2: 1942–45
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The final years of World War II saw the legendary Panzerwaffe face its most difficult challenges, with Allied troops landing at Normandy and storming across the continent and the Russians gaining the upper hand on the Eastern Front. As Germany fought fiercely to hold on to the advantages gained in...
The Nazi Connection
Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2002
When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they...
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed...
by Patricia Anne Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
In post-Wall Germany, violence—both real and imagined—is increasingly determining the formation of new cultural identities. Patricia Anne Simpson’s book focuses on the representation of violence in three youth subcultures often characterized by aggression as they enact a rivalry for supremacy...