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End Game - The 1989 Revolution In East Germany

by Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk

~~32,38€~~ 22,67€ 30% OFF

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 Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizensâ€™ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nationâ€™s large scale political changes.
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Nature Of The Miracle Years - Conservation In West Germany, 1945-1975

by Sandra Chaney

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context.
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Raising Citizens In The 'Century Of The Child' - The United States And German Central Europe In Comparative Perspective

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 Brings a transatlantic perspective to the history of child-rearing and education Applies T.H. Marshallâ€™s concept of citizenship to the history of child-rearing and education Takes a long-term view in exploring the complex relationship between the family, experts, and the state from the end of the nineteenth century through the 1980s
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The Respectable Career Of Fritz K. - The Making And Remaking Of A Provincial Nazi Leader

by Cornelia Rauh e Hartmut Berghoff

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 Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the 20th century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the "coming to terms" with National Socialism...
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Two Lives In Uncertain Times - Facing The Challenges Of The 20th Century As Scholars And Citizens

by Georg Iggers e Wilma Iggers

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 Wilma and Georg Iggers came from diverse backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. This book relates their experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together. It presents a history of changing conditions in US and Central Europe.
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End Game - The 1989 Revolution In East Germany

by Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizensâ€™ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nationâ€™s large scale political changes.
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Gustav Stresemann - The Crossover Artist

by Karl Heinrich Pohl

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 Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann's life and work.
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The Ethics Of Seeing - Photography And Twentieth-Century German History

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 The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography's multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
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Germany And The Black Diaspora - Points Of Contact, 1250-1914

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 This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories...
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Between Mass Death And Individual Loss - The Place Of The Dead In Twentieth-Century Germany

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 Features essays that explore how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. This volume contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.
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Coping With The Nazi Past - West German Debates On Nazism And Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

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 Based on research in primary sources, this book contains essays which present our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. It offers an analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was influenced by, politics and culture. It addresses a variety of issues such as restitution, health policy, and others.
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Brewing Socialism - Coffee, East Germans, And Twentieth-Century Globalization

by Andrew Kloiber

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 Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social Unity Partyâ€™s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.
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World Of Children - Foreign Cultures In Nineteenth-Century German Education And Entertainment

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 In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.
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Race, Culture, And Politics In German Historical Thought, 1785-1815

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 Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of German late Enlightenment historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics, which informed the major controversies such as abolitionism. Readers will discover both the contemporary significance of Enlightenment ideas about race and culture and their long-term impact.
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Body Size In Early Modern Germany

by Holly (Research Associate, Department Of History, Research Associate, Department Of History, University Of Manchester) Fletcher

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 Body Size in Early Modern Germany shows that from the last decades of the 1400s, body size grew in significance throughout German culture, becoming a subject of medical, artistic, and spiritual concern, and informing the ways in which early modern Germans experienced and made sense of the world around them.
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Emergency Powers And The Home Fronts In Britain And Germany During The First World War

by Andra(C) Keil

~~78,16€~~ 70,34€ 10% OFF

 The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts with little democratic scrutiny and legal restrictions. In Britain, the Defence of the Realm Act transferred law-making powers from Parliament to the government and suspended vital elements of the unwritten constitution. In Germany, the declaration of the state of siege meant that the military assumed executive powers on the home front. These powers were initially used to suppress dissent, establish censorship of the press, and combat espionage. Yet, by 1918, they had been extended to regulate almost any aspect of everyday life on the home front. Understanding the political and social dynamics on the home front is only possible when the crucial importance of these emergency powers is considered. The experience of life under a permanent state of exception during the war transformed the relationship between the state and its citizens. Yet it also marked the rise of the state of exception as a paradigm of rule. Using Britain and Germany as examples of the wartime state of exception, AndrA(c) Keil offers a detailed analysis of the use of emergency powers during the war. By drawing on a wide range of archival sources, he explains the rise of this new paradigm of government and how it shaped politics in Britain and Germany well beyond the First World War. The book offers a wealth of local examples that explain how ideologies and perceptions of the 'enemy within' shaped the use of repressive emergency powers by politicians, police, and military. It also traces how the critique and resistance against these measures helped to establish civil liberties as a new field of political activism. In essence, Keil offers a unique perspective on German and British politics during the First World War and tests the notion of the war being a 'laboratory for the state of exception'.
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Emergency Powers And The Home Fronts In Britain And Germany During The First World War

by Andre Keil

~~78,16€~~ 70,34€ 10% OFF

 The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts with little democratic scrutiny and legal restrictions. In Britain, the Defence of the Realm Act transferred law-making powers from Parliament to the government and suspended vital elements of the unwritten constitution. In Germany, the declaration of the state of siege meant that the military assumed executive powers on the home front. These powers were initially used to suppress dissent, establish censorship of the press, and combat espionage. Yet, by 1918, they had been extended to regulate almost any aspect of everyday life on the home front. Understanding the political and social dynamics on the home front is only possible when the crucial importance of these emergency powers is considered. The experience of life under a permanent state of exception during the war transformed the relationship between the state and its citizens. Yet it also marked the rise of the state of exception as a paradigm of rule. Using Britain and Germany as examples of the wartime state of exception, Andre Keil offers a detailed analysis of the use of emergency powers during the war. By drawing on a wide range of archival sources, he explains the rise of this new paradigm of government and how it shaped politics in Britain and Germany well beyond the First World War. The book offers a wealth of local examples that explain how ideologies and perceptions of the 'enemy within' shaped the use of repressive emergency powers by politicians, police, and military. It also traces how the critique and resistance against these measures helped to establish civil liberties as a new field of political activism. In essence, Keil offers a unique perspective on German and British politics during the First World War and tests the notion of the war being a 'laboratory for the state of exception'.
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History Of The I.G. Farben Trial - Armament, Exploitation, Auschwitz

by Stephan H. Lindner

~~30,41€~~ 27,37€ 10% OFF

 The German chemical firm, I.G. Farben, remains an object of historical scrutiny. Responsible for developing the gasoline and aviation fuel so integral to the Nazi regime s military campaign, the company s executives enabled the Third Reich s war crimes through their use of forced labor from the Auschwitz concentration camp. While this complicity did result in their conviction at the Nuremberg trials, Stephan H. Lindner provides a fresh perspective on this watershed event, highlighting how the legacy of this trial shaped postwar Europe s understanding of collusion and reparation. Charting its build up, the events of the trial itself, and its aftermath, this volume spotlights the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial complex on trial.
Gendered Practices Of Rulership At The Court Of Wurttemberg, 1568â€“1634

by Regine (University Of Fribourg) Maritz

~~133,84€~~ 93,69€ 30% OFF

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 This is a book concerned with the longevity of dynastic rulership. It explores the history of a ducal ruling family in the German-speaking part of the Holy Roman Empire over three generations from the late sixteenth to the first half of the seventeenth century.
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Encountering The Global In Early Modern Germany - Microhistories Of Mobility, Materiality, And Belonging

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 An exacting re-examination of early modern Germanyâ€™s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial â€œcult of connectionsâ€ that underpinned early modern Germanyâ€™s social, religious, and material culture.
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Emergency Powers And The Home Fronts In Britain And Germany During The First World War

by Andre (Senior Lecturer In Modern European History, Senior Lecturer In Modern European History, Liverpool John Moores University) Keil

~~113,56€~~ 79,49€ 30% OFF

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 The book offers a wealth of local examples that explain how ideologies and perceptions of the 'enemy within' shaped the use of repressive emergency powers by politicians, police, and military.
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Other '68 - A Social History Of West Germany''S Revolt

by Christina Von Hodenberg

~~37,09€~~ 33,38€ 10% OFF

 The book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book argues that ''1968'' was just as much about gender conflict as it was about generational conflict--even if the former was often erased from public memory. The narrative follows three generations of Germans living in the provincial town of Bonn through the turbulent years of the late 1960s. It offers a genuine social history of the period, decentring the story of West Germany''s 68 socially, geographically, and generationally. The five chapters cover the Shah of Iran''s visit to Bonn and Berlin, the role of the Nazi past in framing generational differences, experiences of old people around ''1968'', the female dimension of the protests, and the sexual revolution. The book situates the West German case within the global and West European Sixties and engages with recent controversies on the role of female ''68ers, the origins of new feminist movements, and the sexual revolution.Originally published in German in 2018 by C. H. Beck (titled Das andere Achtundsechzig: Gesellschaftsgeschichte einer Revolte, 978-3406719714), it has been translated into English by Rachel Ward.
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Other '68 - A Social History Of West Germany''S Revolt

by Christina Von Hodenberg

~~37,09€~~ 33,38€ 10% OFF

 The book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book argues that ''1968'' was just as much about gender conflict as it was about generational conflict--even if the former was often erased from public memory. The narrative follows three generations of Germans living in the provincial town of Bonn through the turbulent years of the late 1960s. It offers a genuine social history of the period, decentring the story of West Germany''s 68 socially, geographically, and generationally. The five chapters cover the Shah of Iran''s visit to Bonn and Berlin, the role of the Nazi past in framing generational differences, experiences of old people around ''1968'', the female dimension of the protests, and the sexual revolution. The book situates the West German case within the global and West European Sixties and engages with recent controversies on the role of female ''68ers, the origins of new feminist movements, and the sexual revolution.Originally published in German in 2018 by C. H. Beck (titled Das andere Achtundsechzig: Gesellschaftsgeschichte einer Revolte, 978-3406719714), it has been translated into English by Rachel Ward.
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Keeping The Peace In The Village - Conflict And Peacemaking In Germany, 1650-1750

by Marc R. Forster

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 Keeping the Peace in the Village describes the nature of conflicts among rural people in the period after the Thirty Years' War. These included property disputes, conflicts between employers and their workers, disputes over marriage promises, and, most often, honor disputes.
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