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Life after Death
Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
Av Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann
Häftad, 2003
703 kr
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This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal …
Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Av J. R. McNeill, Corinna R. Unger
Häftad, 2013
672 kr
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Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did …
Heisenberg in the Atomic Age
Science and the Public Sphere
Inbunden, 2010
1391 kr
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The end of the Second World War opened a new era for science in public life. Heisenberg in the Atomic Age explores the transformations of science's public presence in the postwar Federal Republic of Germany. It shows how Heisenberg's philosophical commentaries, circulating in the mass media, …
America, the Vietnam War, and the World
Comparative and International Perspectives
Av Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
687 kr
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This book presents perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. The volume reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world: in domestic settings of numerous nation-states, combatants and non-combatants …
German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917
Av Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
524 kr
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This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles prove the various influences of German scholarship and institutions on the development of the American system of education from kindergarten to university. The book …
Anticipating Total War
The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914
Av Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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These essays explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914 - in the era bounded by the mid-century wars in Europe and North America and the First World War. The concept of 'total war', which was prefigured in aspects of the earlier conflicts and realized in …
Great War, Total War
Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Av Roger Chickering, Stig Förster
Häftad, 2006
820 kr
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The First World War was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict in the world's history, and it gave birth to the concept of total war. The essays in this 2000 volume analyse the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the systematic erosion of …
Bridging the Atlantic
The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective
Av Elisabeth Glaser, Hermann Wellenreuther
Häftad, 2006
508 kr
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Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. Including case studies on British, German and US history since the eighteenth century, it seeks to establish an integrated vision of Atlantic history. The contributions by European and American …
Two Cultures of Rights
The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany
Av Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer
Häftad, 2006
619 kr
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This collection addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the United States and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Using a cross-national comparative approach, this book presents national case studies that explore …
Medieval Concepts of the Past
Ritual, Memory, Historiography
Av Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
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720 kr
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Medieval Concepts of the Past shows how the history of the Middle Ages is reshaped by leading medieval historians in Germany and the United States in the light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual, language and memory. These two national traditions of medieval scholarship, …
The Shadows of Total War
Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939
Av Roger Chickering, Stig Forster
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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The period between the two world wars of the twentieth century was one of the most challenging in the history of war. In anticipation of another conflict, military planners and civilian thinkers struggled after 1918 with the painful implications of World War I. Given its scope, the wholesale …
Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850
Av Jürgen Heideking, James A. Henretta
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on Republicanism and Liberalism to a new stage. Previously, the relationship between Republican and Liberal ideas, concepts and …
Death in Berlin
From Weimar to Divided Germany
Av Monica Black
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin traces the rituals, practices, perceptions, and sensibilities surrounding death in the context of Berlin's multiple transformations over the decades between Germany's defeat in World War …
Criminals and their Scientists
The History of Criminology in International Perspective
Av Peter Becker, Richard F. Wetzell
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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This book presents research on the history of criminology from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the history of criminology as a history of science and …
International Financial History in the Twentieth Century
System and Anarchy
Av Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came …
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century
Competition and Convergence
Av Christof Mauch, Kiran Klaus Patel
Häftad, 2010
579 kr
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The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading 'rising powers' of the time - were both more similar and more different than is widely …
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918-1945
Häftad, 2009
552 kr
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Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a radically different, racially driven gender and …
A World at Total War
Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945
Av Roger Chickering, Stig Förster m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
720 kr
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This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the authors address a broad range of analytical …
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990
A Handbook
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an impact on the western portion of divided Germany …
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990
A Handbook
Häftad, 2010
803 kr
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These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an impact on the western portion of divided Germany …
Soldiers of Labor
Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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Originally published in 2005, Soldiers of Labor is a systematic comparison between the labor policies of the Nazi dictatorship and New Deal America. The main subject of the book is the Nazi Labor Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst), a public work scheme that provided work and education for young men. …
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
Religion, Race, and Scholarship
Häftad, 2010
720 kr
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Nineteenth-century studies of the Orient changed European ideas and cultural institutions in more ways than we usually recognize. 'Orientalism' certainly contributed to European empire-building, but it also helped to destroy a narrow Christian-classical canon. This carefully researched book …
Ostpolitik, 1969-1974
European and Global Responses
Av Carole Fink, Bernd Schaefer
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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Studies of the Cold War transcend a narrow focus on four decades of superpower rivalry, recognizing that leaders and governments outside of Washington and Moscow also exerted political, economic, and moral influence well beyond their own borders. One striking example was the Ostpolitik of …
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century
Competition and Convergence
Av Christof Mauch, Kiran Klaus Patel
Inbunden, 2010
719 kr
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The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading 'rising powers' of the time - were both more similar and more different than is widely …
Money and Security
Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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This study links two fundamental political structures of the Cold War era, the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system. Central to this issue is a problem which soured relations between the Federal Republic and its allies from the 1950s to the 1970s: who was to bear the …
An Interrupted Past
German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933
Av Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan
Inbunden, 1991
989 kr
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The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical …
Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922
Av Carole Fink, Axel Frohn m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1610 kr
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One of the largest twentieth-century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This book, a unique international collaboration, …
Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany
New Perspectives
Av Larry Eugene Jones, James Retallack
Inbunden, 1992
1905 kr
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This collection of essays presents the work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany - consider this problem from novel and sometimes …
Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany
New Perspectives
Av Larry Eugene Jones, James Retallack
Häftad, 2002
753 kr
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This collection of essays presents the work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany - consider this problem from novel and sometimes …
American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955
Av Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Jeffry M. Diefendorf m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
2146 kr
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This volume of twenty-three essays by German and American historians deals with the most important issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II: Germany's democratisation, economic recovery, rearmament, and integration into the European community and Western alliance. All …
