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Science Of Culture In Enlightenment Germany

by Michael C. Carhart

103,35€ + 10% CARD

 In the late 1770s, as a wave of revolution and republican unrest swept across Europe, scholars looked with urgency on the progress of European civilization. Carhart examines their approaches to understanding human development by investigating the invention of a new analytic category, "culture."
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From Nazism To Communism - German Schoolteachers Under Two Dictatorships

by Charles B. Lansing

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 Tracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, this title analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships.
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Question Of Balance - How France And The United States Created Cold War Europe

by Michael Creswell

108,65€ + 10% CARD

 Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. He sketches the successful French challenge to the U.S. that ultimately resulted in security arrangements preferred by the French but acceptable to the Americans.
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Conversion Of Imagination - From Pascal Through Rousseau To Tocqueville

by Matthew W. Maguire

108,65€ + 10% CARD

 Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, this book will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.
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Imagining The Sacred Past - Hagiography And Power In Early Normandy

by Samantha Kahn Herrick

103,35€ + 10% CARD

 Innovative in its historical use of hagiographical literature, this work advances our understanding of early Normandy and the Vikingsâ€™ transformation from pagan raiders to Christian princes, shedding light on the intersection of religious tradition, identity, and power.
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Notables And The Nation - The Political Schooling Of The French, 1787-1788

by Vivian R. Gruder

125,88€ + 10% CARD

 The ending of absolute monarchy and the start of political combat between nobles and commoners make 1787â€"1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. In a detailed look at this critical transition, Gruder explores how the French people became engaged in an opposition movement that culminated in demands for the public's role in government.
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Battle For Children - World War Ii, Youth Crime, And Juvenile Justice In Twentieth-Century France

by Sarah Fishman

121,90€ + 10% CARD

 The Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of historyâ€™s most silent groupsâ€"childrenâ€"and offers enlightening new information about the Vichy administration.
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France After Revolution - Urban Life, Gender, And The New Social Order

by Denise Z. Davidson

100,70€ + 10% CARD

 Davidson provides a reevaluation of prevailing views on the effects of the French Revolution, and particularly on the role of women. Arguing against the idea that women were forced from the public realm of political discussion, Davidson demonstrates how women remained highly visible and active.
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Renaissance Of Marriage In Fifteenth-Century Italy

by Anthony F. D'Elia

120,58€ + 10% CARD

 Weddings in fifteenth-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs that often required guests to listen attentively to lengthy orations given in Latin. In this book, Anthony D''Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority among families jockeying for power, as well as to advocate for marriage and sexual pleasure. Humanists stressed the value of marriage in practical terms as a means for consolidating wealth, forming political alliances, and maintaining power by providing heirs. They also presented women in a positive light, as helpmates and even examples of wisdom and learning. While D''Elia focuses on Italian courts, he also examines ideas about marriage and celibacy from Antiquity to Republican Florence and Reformation Germany, revealing the continuities and distinctions between Italian humanist and Protestant thought on marriage. In bringing to life this fascinating elite culture, D''Elia makes a valuable contribution to the history of the Renaissance, women, and the family, and to studies of rhetoric and the classical tradition.
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Revolutionary Commerce - Globalization And The French Monarchy

by Paul Cheney

91,43€ + 10% CARD

 Combining the history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, this title explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. It presents an interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.
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Youth In The Fatherless Land - War Pedagogy, Nationalism, And Authority In Germany, 1914-1918

by Andrew Donson

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 The first comprehensive history of German youth in WWI, this book investigates the dawn of the great era of mobilizing teenagers and schoolchildren for experiments in state-building and extreme political movements like fascism and communism.
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Dairy Queens - The Politics Of Pastoral Architecture From Catherine De'' Medici To Marie-Antoinette

by Meredith Martin

83,48€ + 10% CARD

 Explores how French queens and noblewomen of early modern France, used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. This title sheds light on architecture, self, and society in the ancient regime.
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Slave Patrols - Law And Violence In Virginia And The Carolinas

by Sally E. Hadden

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, nature, and extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late 17th century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South.
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News From Germany - The Competition To Control World Communications, 1900-1945

by Heidi J. S. Tworek

42,40€ + 10% CARD

 Heidi Tworekâ€™s innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empireâ€"and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.
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Disciplining The Empire - Politics, Governance, And The Rise Of The British Navy

by Sarah Kinkel

68,90€ + 10% CARD

 Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain's empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.
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Fighting For The Soul Of Germany - The Catholic Struggle For Inclusion After Unification

by Rebecca Ayako Bennette

82,15€ + 10% CARD

 Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennetteâ€™s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.
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Age Of Entanglement - German And Indian Intellectuals Across Empire

by Kris Manjapra

41,08€ + 10% CARD

 Age of Entanglement explores the connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century through the Second World War as they shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one anotherâ€™s worlds. But, as Kris Manjapra shows, transnational intellectual entanglements are not inherently liberal or conventionally cosmopolitan.
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Paper Memory - A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World

by Matthew Lundin

82,15€ + 10% CARD

 Paper Memory tells of one manâ€™s mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.
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Age Of Entanglement

by Kris Manjapra

48,96€ + 10% CARD

 Age of Entanglement explores the connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century through the Second World War as they shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one anotherâ€™s worlds. But, as Kris Manjapra shows, transnational intellectual entanglements are not inherently liberal or conventionally cosmopolitan.

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