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  • Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

    Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860

    Edited by Daniel Riches, Sara Smart, Alexander Schunka, Benjamin Marschke ...
    Series Book 30 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessional circumstances at court commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

    Edited by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Alexander Schunka ...
    Series Book 13 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, 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. With diverse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

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  • Weimar

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    by Michael H. Kater ...
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  • Rethinking the Weimar Republic

    Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

    by Professor Anthony McElligott ...
    “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKThis study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the ... Read more

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  • Becoming a Nazi Town

    Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars

    by David Imhoof ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi culture flowed into each other. He analyzes this dramatic transition by looking closely at three examples of everyday cultural life in the mid-sized ... Read more

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  • The German Bourgeoisie (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

    Edited by David Blackbourn, Richard J Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, this collection of original studies by British, German and American historians examines the whole range of modern German bourgeoisie groups, including professional, mercantile, industrial and financial bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois family. Drawing on original research, the book focuses on the historical evidence as counterpoint to the well-known literary accounts of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Catholic Modern

    The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church

    by James Chappel ...
    In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world’s largest religious organization become modern?James Chappel finds an answer ... Read more

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  • Lions and Lambs

    Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

    by Noah Benezra Strote ...
    A bold new interpretation of Germany’s democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on the generation that shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country and emerged as one of the leading nations of the Western liberal world. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround ... Read more

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  • Before Boas

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    by Han F. Vermeulen ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to ... Read more

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  • Austria 1867-1955

    by John W. Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford History of Modern Europe
    Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial ... Read more

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  • Thinking Europe

    A History of the European Idea since 1800

    by MATS ANDRÉN ...
    Series Book 46 - Making Sense of History
    Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European ... Read more

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