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The Origins Of German Self-Cultivation - Bildung And The Future Of The Humanities

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 Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildungâ€™s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.
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Names And Naming In Early Modern Germany

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 Unique exploration of theSocial History of Nomenclature (socio-onomastics) Â Interdisciplinary and Archival Â Explores the Intentions of the Namers
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Football Nation - The Playing Fields Of German Culture, History, And Society

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 Germanyâ€™s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates footballâ€™s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.
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Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects - Rethinking The Political Culture Of Germany In The 1920s

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 In spite of having been short-lived, WeimarA" has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end-Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933...
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Walls, Borders, Boundaries - Spatial And Cultural Practices In Europe

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 This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation.
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The Total Work Of Art - Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

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 In this wide-ranging volume's twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the "total work of art"-from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.
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Migrations In The German Lands, 1500-2000

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 The essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. These diverse contributions identify important commonalities between eras and contextualize Germany within broader migration histories.
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Reluctant Skeptic - Siegfried Kracauer And The Crises Of Weimar Culture

by Harry T. Craver

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 Discusses Kracauer from the perspective of the history of religion in modern Germany Seeks to give more emphasis to the importance of the history of religious thought in modern German cultural and intellectual history Approaches Kracauer on the basis of some of his earlier, less known writings.
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Ruptures In The Everyday - Views Of Modern Germany From The Ground

by Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Atg26, Leonard Schmieding e Tg26

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 Ruptures in the Everyday brings together twenty-six interdisciplinary researchers in an innovative, collectively authored work of scholarship that investigates Alltag-everyday life-through such fragmentary experiences.
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Money In The German-Speaking Lands

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 Germany's leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until the close of the 20th century.
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Views Of Violence - Representing The Second World War In German And European Museums And Memorials

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 The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.
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Names And Naming In Early Modern Germany

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 This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific.
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Minority Discourses In Germany Since 1990

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 Opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-Ã -vis the majority German society, this volume takes on unique and comparative perspectives on an increasingly complex German society.
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Invested Narratives - German Responses To Economic Crisis

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 Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.
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Origins Of German Self-Cultivation - Bildung And The Future Of The Humanities

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 Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildungâ€™s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.
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Football Nation - The Playing Fields Of German Culture, History, And Society

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 Germanyâ€™s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates footballâ€™s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.
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The Emperor'S Old Clothes - Constitutional History And The Symbolic Language Of The Holy Roman Empire

by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

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 For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together.
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The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

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 Major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire Studies in Early Modern European political communication Studies in Early Modern European symbolic systems Political cultures of Early Modern Germany
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies? - German Studies And Ethnography In Dialogue

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 Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnographyâ€™s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies? - German Studies And Ethnography In Dialogue

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 Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnographyâ€™s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.
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Conversion And The Politics Of Religion In Early Modern Germany

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 The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of "conversion."
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The Devil'S Riches - A Modern History Of Greed

by Jared Poley

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 A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, showing how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.
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Archeologies Of Confession - Writing The German Reformation, 1517-2017

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 Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in 16th- and 17th-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting-instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory.
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Dreams Of Germany - Musical Imaginaries From The Concert Hall To The Dance Floor

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 Why is Germany imagined as the `land of music'? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.
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