Germany category: 4580 books
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930
Modernity, Regionality, Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now...
by Cecil Headlam
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
This book presents a detailed historical account of the Nuremberg Trials, the military tribunals orchestrated by the Allied forces after World War II and held in Nuremberg, Germany. A fascinating and insightful exploration of the historical Nazi trials, "The Story of Nuremberg" is highly recommended...
1989
The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany...
by Harry W. Flannery
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
By the man who succeeded William L. Shirer as the Berlin correspondent of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Assignment to Berlin by U.S. journalist and author Harry W. Flannery, first published in 1942, covers Germany in the crucial year 1941.
Packed with lively incident, shrewd comment and...
Taking on Technocracy
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times—the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, and...
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War
Killing, Dying, Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Translated into English as the Winner of the Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Prize for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015.
During the Great War, mass killing took place on an unprecedented scale. Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War explores the practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
The Nazi regime was a regime of unparalleled destructiveness. Nazism presents both key texts from some of the most innovative and challenging of more recent studies and extracts from the older historiography of the origins, nature, impact, and legacy of the National Socialist regime. It suggests both...
Unleash Your Motorcycle Adventure: Volumes 1 - 4
Iceland A Stormy Motorcycle Adventure, Fernweh: Transcontinental Motorcycle Adventure, Mango Unleashed, Keep The Shiny Side Up: A Motorcycle Adventure From Germany To Turkey & Back in one collected edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
by Gertrude Pollitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
This memoir recounts the life of Gertrude Pollitt, a social worker, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and educator. Born in Vienna to a loving and cultured Jewish family, Pollitt narrowly escaped the clutches of the Nazi Regime and fled to London. After the war, she relocated to Germany to help children...
Doctors of Empire
Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes. What is less well known is that Meiji Japan adopted German medicine as its official model in 1869. In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical...
Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews
Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
In the years leading up to the World Wars, Germany and Austria saw an unprecedented increase in the study and depiction of the criminal. Science, journalism and crime fiction were obsessed with delinquents while ignoring the social causes of crime. As criminologists measured criminals’ heads and...
The Germans in India
Elite European migrants in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons...
by Prof. Richard Suchenwirth
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Historical Turning Points in the German Air Force War Effort, first published in 1959, written by Professor Richard Suchenwirth, is one of a series of historical studies written by, or based on information supplied by former key officers of the German Air Force for the United States Air Force Historical...
by Erik Beck
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2002
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: 1 (A), University of Glasgow (Modern History), course: British Foreign Policy, 31 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: I) Introduction: Answering the above question...