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Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era
Inbunden, 2005
2693 kr
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Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire
Inbunden, 2005
2351 kr
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Historians have generally assumed that the French Dreyfus Affair had no counterpart in turn-of-the-century Germany. However, while no single anti-Semitic trial in Germany had the social and political impact of the Dreyfus Affair, a series of sensational court cases did have a significant influence …
Recomposing German Music
Politics and Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin
Inbunden, 2005
2588 kr
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Recomposing German Music illuminates the tangled relationship between music and politics in 20th-century Germany. Focusing on the reconstruction and division of Berlin’s musical community after 1945, author Elizabeth Janik demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the …
Strangers and Misfits
Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany
Av Jason Coy
Inbunden, 2008
2029 kr
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Banishment was crucial to law enforcement in early modern Europe, as magistrates used expulsion to punish and control thousands of offenders convicted of crimes ranging from adultery to theft. While early modern social control has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, …
Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture
Order and Creativity 1550-1750
Inbunden, 2007
2544 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays about early modern Germany addresses the tensions, both fruitful and destructive, between normative systems of order on the one hand, and a growing diversity of practices on the other. Individual essays address crucial struggles over religious orthodoxy …
Gods of the City
Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914
Inbunden, 2008
3425 kr
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Recent scholarship has criticized the assumption that European modernity was inherently secular. Yet, we remain poorly informed about religion's fate in the nineteenth-century big city, the very crucible of the modern condition. Drawing on extensive archival research and investigations into …
Training Socialist Citizens
Sports and the State in East Germany
Inbunden, 2008
2620 kr
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Offering a counterbalance to previous scholarship on elite Olympics sports and doping scandals, this study analyzes how the East German government used participatory sports programs, sports festivals, and sports spectatorship to transform its population into new socialist citizens. It illuminates …
Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth
Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772
Inbunden, 2008
2544 kr
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This volume seeks to address the doubts harboured by the West about the ability of East Central European states to build modern democracies and tolerant societies after the expansion of the European Union eastwards. The tradition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is thereby often overlooked in …
Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not …
German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke
Letters and Documents, 1910-1977
Inbunden, 2010
3168 kr
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The book deals with the relationship between Friedrich Meinecke, who is often considered to be the leading German historian of the first half of the twentieth century, and several of his students who, after the Nazi seizure of power, were forced to emigrate because of their Jewish descent or their …
Religion and the Secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the present
Inbunden, 2010
2400 kr
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The radical process of religious change in eastern Germany poses a real challenge to social researchers. Common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization, but fail to address historical contingencies and …
Divining Science
Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany
Av Warren Dym
Inbunden, 2010
2472 kr
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The study of German mining and metallurgy has focused overwhelmingly on labor, capitalism, and progressive engineering and earth science. This book addresses prospecting practices and mining culture. Using the divining, or dowsing rod as a means of exposing miner beliefs, it argues that a robust …
Between Opposition and Collaboration
Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, 1555–1619
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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This study of the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg and its largely Protestant aristocracy demonstrates that shared family ties and traditional privilege could reduce religious based conflict. These findings raise fundamental questions about current interpretations of the Reformation era. …
Laboratory of Liberty
The Transformation of Political Culture in Republican Switzerland, 1750-1848
Av Marc Lerner
Inbunden, 2011
2365 kr
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Looking at a series of Swiss political debates, this book offers a case study of a revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society and political culture. Based on a tradition of political innovation and experimentation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and …
Lutheran Plague
Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century
Av Tyge Krogh
Inbunden, 2011
2531 kr
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To kill someone purely in order to be sentenced to death and then to die at the hands of the executioner! Such murders were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the complex motives behind these crimes – an investigation that leads not only to the Pietist …
European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914
Inbunden, 2012
3023 kr
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In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger analyses the demographic and economic preconditions of European urbanization, compares the extent to which Europe’s cities were characterized by heterogeneity with respect to the social, national and religious composition of its …
Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts
Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906
Inbunden, 2015
2987 kr
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In Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, John S. Lowry demonstrates that anti-imperialist resistance movements overseas significantly shaped the course of Wilhelmine domestic politics between 1897 and 1906. In 1898 and 1900, for example, the consequences of Chinese, Cuban, and Samoan resistance …
Between Lipany and White Mountain
Essays in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bohemian History in Modern Czech Scholarship
Inbunden, 2014
3143 kr
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This book presents a collection of twelve seminal essays by Czech historians on the history of the Czech lands from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, which originally appeared in Czech publications as articles and book chapters and are translated here for the first time in English. The …
Franz Liszt
A Story of Central European Subjectivity
Av Erika Quinn
Inbunden, 2014
2480 kr
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This biography of the musician Franz Liszt contributes to our understanding of national identity formation and its interaction with cosmopolitanism. Liszt exemplified the nineteenth-century quest for subjective definition and fulfillment. Seeking to gain agency, authority, and community, Liszt …
Laboratory of Liberty
The Transformation of Political Culture in Republican Switzerland, 1750-1848
Av Marc Lerner
Häftad, 2011
1022 kr
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Looking at a series of Swiss political debates, this book offers a case study of a revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society and political culture. Based on a tradition of political innovation and experimentation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and …
Sensationalizing the Jewish Question
Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire
Häftad, 2016
895 kr
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Historians have generally assumed that the French Dreyfus Affair had no counterpart in turn-of the-century Germany. However, while no single anti-Semitic trial in Germany had the social and political impact of the Dreyfus Affair, a series of sensational court cases did have a significant influence …
Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Häftad, 2016
1116 kr
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This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four …
Imperial Villages
Cultures of Political Freedom in the German Lands c. 1300-1800
Av Beat Kümin
Inbunden, 2019
2365 kr
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Hundreds of rural communities tasted political freedom in the Holy Roman Empire. For shorter or longer periods, villagers managed local affairs without subjection to territorial overlords. In this first book-length study, Beat Kümin focuses on the five case studies of Gochsheim and Sennfeld (in …
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe
Av Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Victoria Christman
Inbunden, 2018
2153 kr
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Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and …
Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Av Sigrun Haude
Inbunden, 2021
1408 kr
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At its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years’ War, on what resources they drew, and how they attempted to make sense of it. A rich tapestry of stories brings to light contemporaries’ trauma as well as women and men’s …
Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Inbunden, 2022
1694 kr
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In an age characterized by religious conflict, Protestant and Catholic Augsburgers remained largely at peace. How did they do this? This book argues that the answer is in the “emotional practices” Augsburgers learned and enacted—in the home, in marketplaces and other sites of civic interaction, in …
Christian History in Rural Germany
Transcending the Catholic and Protestant Narratives
Av David Mayes
Inbunden, 2022
2047 kr
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Surely, Christian history in Germany principally followed the outlines of a Catholic and Protestant narrative, right? On the contrary, for Hesse, Hanau, and Fulda this dominant framework largely obscures the historical experience of most Christians, specifically rural Christians. The rural …
Art, Play, Labour: the Music Profession in Germany (1850–1960)
Av Martin Rempe
Inbunden, 2023
2537 kr
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Germany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad mass of musicians who sat in orchestra pits, played in ensembles for dances …
