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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
There is no overarching master narrative in understanding the history of German colonialism, and over the past decade, the study of Germany’s colonial past has experienced a dramatic transformation in its scope of inquiry. Influenced by new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study...
by Sadhana Naithani
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Can the study of folklore survive brutal wars and nationalized misappropriations? Does folklore make sense in an age of fearsome technology? These are two of several questions this book addresses with specific and profound reference to the history of folklore studies in Germany. There in the early...
Friedrich Ebert
Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
On 9 November 1918 Ebert became Imperial Chancellor as revolution broke out in Berlin. He opposed the radical left, declaring, 'Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary', but he compromised Weimar democracy by his dependence on the army command...
Germany and the Second World War
Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated...
Harmful and Undesirable
Book Censorship in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom by censoring books. Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933, there were 90 book burnings in 70 German cities. Indeed, Werner Schlegel,...
Artists Under Hitler
Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
“What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?” Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis of prominent...
Germans to the Front
West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. The book is the first comprehensive study in English of West German rearmament during this critical period....
by Katharine Lerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
How did Bismarck, Germany’s greatest nineteenth century leader, extend and maintain his power? This new Profile examines his strengths as statesman and all the facets of his political career. His many direct achievements included the unification of Germany and the expansion of Prussia. In short,...
In the Wake of War
The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 1993
In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen...
The Greenest Nation?
A New History of German Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions.
Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countries applaud its strict environmental laws, its world-class green technology firms, its phase-out of nuclear...
Consumption and Violence
Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes...
Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
When originally published in 1991, this book was the first systematic, detailed evaluation of the social structure of the Nazi Party in several regions of Germany during its so-called Kampfzeit phase.
Based on extensive archival material, much of it left untouched since the end of the war until...
Cinema in Democratizing Germany
Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during...
Dealing with the Devil
East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Using new archival sources--including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party--M. E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, as East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. In Dealing...