Germany category: 4580 books
Translating the World
Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s...
Populists and Patricians (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in Modern German History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in 1987, this collection of essays, from one of the leading historians in the field, is concerned with the central debates about German history from Bismarck to Hitler. David Blackbourn questions many previously held assumptions, whether about the natural conservatism of the German...
A Daring Venture
Rudolf Hess and the Ill-Fated Peace Mission of 1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
At the height of the Second World War, Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, made a dramatic solo flight to the British Isles. His arrival there was sensational news – and it baffled everyone. Why had he come?
Hess claimed he had flown to Britain entirely of his own initiative and was on a personal mission...
Demolition on Karl Marx Square
Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Communist East Germany's demolition of Leipzig's perfectly intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was an act decried as "cultural barbarism" across the two Germanies and beyond. Although overshadowed by the crackdown on Prague Spring mere weeks later, the willful destruction of this historic...
Hitler
Study of a Revolutionary?
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Adolf Hitler is perceived to be the most evil political leader of twentieth-century Europe. By presenting a critical selection of primary source material this book examines Hitler's background and involvement in the rise of National Socialism, the government of the Third Reich, leadership of the Second...
Screening the Red Army Faction
Historical and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events. In this way, the book contributes both a new history...
Bodies and Ruins
Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied...
Conflicts, compromises and mutual self-interest - how the Nazis and the Catholic and Protestant churches dealt with each other during the Third Reich
how the Nazis and the Catholic and Protestant churches dealt with each other during the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 71 = A, Oxford Brookes University, course: The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933-1945, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Free from any apologetic or debunking fuss, the essay...
by Larry Eugene Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Jones offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of the development and decline of the German Democratic party and the German People's party from 1918 to 1933. In tracing the impact of World War I, the runaway inflation to the 1920s, and the Great Depression of the 1930s upon Germany's middle-class...
The Skin of the System
On Germany's Socialist Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity—that of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In...
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The...
The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry
War and Politics, 1910-1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals...
by Freda Utley
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In 1948, Readers Digest posted English writer and political activist Freda Utley to Germany. The result was The High Cost of Vengeance, first published in 1949, in which Utley critically discusses and analyses the Allied occupation policies, including the expulsion of millions of Germans from European...
A World of Regions
Asia and Europe in the American Imperium
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable...