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German Social Democracy, 1905–1917
The Development of the Great Schism
Häftad, 1983
491 kr
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No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter political enemies across the front lines of the …
World That Latin America Created
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era
Inbunden, 2022
368 kr
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How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an …
Oil Empire
Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
Häftad, 2007
324 kr
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain a modern …
Reinventing Protestant Germany
Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy
Inbunden, 2025
434 kr
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A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism and militarism, largely backed the Nazi …
White Terror and the Political Reaction after Waterloo
Inbunden, 1966
350 kr
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In this first monograph on the White Terror since Ernest Daudet wrote on the subject in 1878, Daniel Resnick presents the only documented account of the magnitude of the political reaction of 1815–16 in France. By means of a statistical record of police arrests and judicial convictions, he …
Invention of the Restaurant
Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, With a New Preface
Häftad, 2020
254 kr
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Winner of the Louis Gottschalk PrizeWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize“Witty and full of fascinating details.”—Los Angeles TimesWhy are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the …
Development of Modern Spain
An Economic History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2000
790 kr
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This reinterpretation of the history of modern Spain from the Enlightenment to the threshold of the twenty-first century explains the surprising changes that took Spain from a backward and impoverished nation, with decades of stagnation, civil disorder, and military rule, to one of the ten most …
France in the Enlightenment
Av Daniel Roche
Häftad, 2000
240 kr
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A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville’s account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of …
Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany
Brandenburg, 1945–1948
Inbunden, 2001
852 kr
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In his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Timothy Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that Soviet denazification was neither an effective purge of society nor …
Bodies and Souls
Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922
Inbunden, 2001
817 kr
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In the French Third Republic, nursing was an occupation caught in the crosscurrents of conflicting notions about the role of women. This deft political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during this period reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation, …
Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva
Häftad, 1995
289 kr
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In Calvin’s Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The …
Lara Family
Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain
Inbunden, 2001
808 kr
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For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Protégés of the monarchy at the time of El Cid, their influence reached extraordinary heights during the struggle against the Moors. Hand-in-glove with successive kings, they gathered an …
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
Inbunden, 2001
869 kr
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This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Scholars currently argue that the French Revolution did not significantly contribute to the development of modern political values. They no longer hold that the …
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
Av Alison Games
Häftad, 2001
337 kr
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England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its …
Salvation at Stake
Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2001
332 kr
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Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious …
Battle for Children
World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France
Inbunden, 2002
817 kr
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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, Sarah Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history’s most silent groups—children—and offers enlightening new …
Defining Germany
The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity
Inbunden, 2002
869 kr
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In a unique blend of political, intellectual, and cultural history, Brian Vick explores the world of German nationalism during the first half of the nineteenth century. Vick first presents an original investigation of German conceptions of nationhood in these decades before moving on to analyze the …
Slave Patrols
Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
Häftad, 2003
361 kr
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Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth …
Perilous Performances
Gender and Regency in Early Modern France
Inbunden, 2004
834 kr
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In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France.The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult …
Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2005
781 kr
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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 …
Dictatorship and Demand
The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany
Inbunden, 2005
649 kr
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An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.Based …
Singing the Gospel
Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation
Inbunden, 2005
605 kr
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Singing the Gospel offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the sixteenth-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal--where pastors, musicians, and laity forged an enduring and …
Conversion of Imagination
From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville
Inbunden, 2006
707 kr
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From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy, and politics. How has imagination so thoroughly influenced our understanding of experience and its possibilities? In a bold reinterpretation of a …
Question of Balance
How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe
Inbunden, 2006
729 kr
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Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Michael Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. In the decade after the war, the U.S. government's primary objective was to rearm the Federal Republic of …
Globalizing Sport
National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
Inbunden, 2007
711 kr
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In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. She examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale …
Imagining the Sacred Past
Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy
Inbunden, 2007
673 kr
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In 911, the French king ceded land along the river Seine to Rollo the Viking, on condition that he convert to Christianity. Over the next century and a half, Rollo and his descendants would become powerful and pious Christian rulers of the mighty European territory, Normandy. In 1066, Rollo's …
France after Revolution
Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order
Inbunden, 2007
676 kr
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The decades following the French Revolution saw unprecedented political and social experimentation. As the Napoleonic and Restoration regimes attempted to build a stable order, ordinary city dwellers began to create their own sense of how society operated through everyday activities. Interactions …
Demands of Liberty
Civil Society in France since the Revolution
Inbunden, 2007
368 kr
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How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power? One of the country's most distinguished political historians offers a radical new interpretation of the development of democracy in France and the relationship between …
Notables and the Nation
The Political Schooling of the French, 1787–1788
Inbunden, 2008
843 kr
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The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between nobles and commoners make the years 1787 to 1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. In a detailed examination of this critical transition, Vivian Gruder examines how the French people became engaged in …
Betrayal of Faith
The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert
Inbunden, 2007
632 kr
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Emma Anderson uses one man's compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with traditional Native religion in colonial North America.Pierre-Anthoine Pastedechouan was born into a nomadic indigenous community of Innu living along the St. Lawrence River in present-day Quebec. At age …
