German History in Context – serie
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13 produkter
Returning Memories
Former Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany
Inbunden, 2015
1763 kr
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Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification.Millions of former German soldiers (known as Heimkehrer, literally "homecomers," or returnees) returned …
Revisiting the "Nazi Occult"
Histories, Realities, Legacies
Av Monica Black, Eric Kurlander
Inbunden, 2015
1318 kr
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New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism's occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century.Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political …
Eulenburg Affair
A Cultural History of Politics in the German Empire
Inbunden, 2015
2416 kr
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The first monograph to treat comprehensively the epoch-making though now too often forgotten scandal that rocked German political culture from 1906 to 1909, now in English translation.When it broke out in 1906, the scandal surrounding Prince Philipp Eulenburg, closest confidant of Emperor Wilhelm …
No Easy Occupation
French Control of the German Saar, 1944-1957
Av Bronson Long
Inbunden, 2015
1357 kr
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The first up-to-date study in English of the Saar dispute, an important stage in French-German postwar relations and thus significant for European integration.After 1945, France and West Germany were involved in a bitter dispute over the Saar, a small, coal-rich, culturally German territory …
Writing in Red
The East German Writers Union and the Role of Literary Intellectuals
Inbunden, 2017
1455 kr
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This book explores how the East German Writers Union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR society with consequences well beyond the literary community.In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, …
Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989
Av Thomas Adam
Inbunden, 2016
1290 kr
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The first book to provide the English-speaking reader with the revisionist interpretation of the role of the state and philanthropy in Germany that is increasingly embraced by German historians.Largely unnoticed among English-speaking scholars of German history, a major shift in interpretation of …
Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis
A Political Biography
Av Roshan Magub
Inbunden, 2017
1399 kr
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Fills a serious gap in German historical literature by providing the first political biography of Jung, a leading figure of the anti-Nazi Right.By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one of the foremost ideologues of the political movement …
Kurt Eisner
A Modern Life
Inbunden, 2018
628 kr
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The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist, theater critic, and political activist …
Revisiting the "Nazi Occult"
Histories, Realities, Legacies
Av Monica Black, Eric Kurlander m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
400 kr
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New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism's occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century.Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political …
Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005
Inbunden, 2024
1345 kr
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A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straightforward success story.The 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers shows that police violence is still a problem in Western …
American Journalists in Hitler's Germany
Inbunden, 2025
1746 kr
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Examines American journalists' and media companies' roles in Hitler's Germany, reigniting the debate on the relationship between political power and the media.Despite Hitler's international use of propaganda, and despite the power of the US press, historians have neglected American journalists' …
American Journalists in Hitler's Germany
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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Examines American journalists' and media companies' roles in Hitler's Germany, reigniting the debate on the relationship between political power and the media.Despite Hitler's international use of propaganda, and despite the power of the US press, historians have neglected American journalists' …
Europe-Ideology in German Conservatism, 1930-1955
Inbunden, 2027
1278 kr
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A political-intellectual history of German conservatism and national identity from the 1930s to the 1950s centered on the evolution of conservatives' idea of Europe, or "Europe-Ideology."This book traces the development by leading German conservatives-including those who colluded with the Nazis or …
