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by General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The Pulitzer prize has been the sought after goal of many thousands of writers ever since it was first awarded in 1917. In 1932, the Pulitzer in the history category was awarded to General John “Black Jack” Pershing for his two volume memoirs spanning his time in command of the American Forces...
Work in a Modern Society
The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations...
The Surplus Woman
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns...
'Constructing Social Reality in Concentration Camp': the example of Buchenwald - Inner Stratification-Norm Formation- Solidarity in a Total Institution with Absolute Power
Inner Stratification-Norm Formation- Solidarity in a Total Institution with Absolute Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A, University of Dalarna, 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Die komplexen sozialen Verhältnisse und Binnenstrukturen zwischen Häftlingen und Häftlingsgruppen...
Kindred by Choice
Germans and American Indians since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for...
by Erich Mühsam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
As the reactionary forces in Germany grew in strength, Mühsam’s activities were severely restricted. In July 1931 the social democratic police chief of Berlin, Grzesinski, banned the distribution of Mühsam’s anarchist magazine, Fanal, for four months. With the growing influence of the...
The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide
How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Explore Your German Ancestry!
Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came from lands...
Hitler's Revolution Expanded Edition
Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Drawing on over 200 German sources, many pre-1945, Hitler's Revolution provides concise, penetrating insight into the National Socialist ideology and how it transformed German society. The government's success at relieving unemployment and its social programs to eliminate class barriers unlock the...
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct,...
by Savannah Page
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
It all started with a dream. During a semester abroad in Europe, Savannah Page visited Berlin, got lost in a former East German neighborhood, and made a discovery...and a promise. She was enamored of the multikulti city that offered her everything she wanted in a home: big city-life, rich history,...
The Nuclear Crisis
The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment,...
Treasury of Ornamental Ironwork
16th to 18th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Sixty vintage black-and-white plates illustrate the history of German decorative ironwork from the16th to the 18th centuries. A hard-to-find celebration of the diversity and enduring beauty of Germany's handcrafted iron embellishments, this magnificent edition exhibits striking views of metal doors,...
by Shira Brisman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience...
by Jacqueline George
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
When Field Marshall Hermann Goering, Deputy Führer and commander of the Luftwaffe, appeared before the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946, the world was watching. Much of Europe had directly suffered through the war that he and the Nazi system had brought to the continent, and now he would have to answer...