Germany category: 4580 books
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies
German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois"...
Memorializing the GDR
Monuments and Memory after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena...
Lobbying Hitler
Industrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
From 1933 onward, Nazi Germany undertook massive and unprecedented industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in...
by Dörte Ridder
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 2,1, University of Sunderland (School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture), 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction 'Women have the task of being beautiful...
The Nazi Voter
The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era,...
Foreign Front
Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who arrived on West German...
Different Germans, Many Germanies
New Transatlantic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As much as any other nation, Germany has long been understood in terms of totalizing narratives. For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history, whether through the lens of Nazi-era militarism and racial hatred or...
by Charles E. McClelland
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This work is the first major reexamination in English of the rise of the world’s pioneer modern research university. It presents an authoritative history of science, scholarship, and education, offering readers a background platform from which to confront looming issues about the future of higher...
by David Childs
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The book charts the dramatic months leading to one of the most profound changes of the 20th century, the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the restoration of German unity in 1990. The author analyses the nature of Communist rule in the GDR over 40 years, its few strengths and its many weaknesses,...
by James F. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and British fighters. German fighter pilots requested an aircraft that was more powerful and more heavily armed, and the Albatros design bureau set to work on what was to become an iconic aircraft design. By April 1916, they had developed...
Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't
The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like Ulrike Meinhof, who formed, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader–Meinhof Gang, notorious for its bombings and kidnappings of the wealthy in the 1970s. But in the years...
Death from the Skies
How the British and Germans Survived Bombing in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass destruction never entirely died, and...
The Rise of Donald Trump & the Rise of Adolf Hitler
A Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book examines the similarities and the differences of Hitler's rise to power in Germany in the early 1930's with those of Donald Trump in the United States of America in 2016. The premise is not to say they are the same, but to instead point out areas where there are clear differences but also some areas of concern where similarities exist.
Nazi Women of the Third Reich
Serving the Swastika
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
• Four months pregnant, Vera Wohlauf, wife of a serving SS officer, took sadistic pleasure in rounding up victims for Treblinka.
• Like creatures from a Grimms' fairytale, female members of a Nazi 'welfare' organization scoured the towns and villages of Poland and Slovenia, luring blond...