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“hartmut lehmann”

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  • Nation and Religion

    Perspectives on Europe and Asia

    Edited by Peter van der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann ...
    Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerful state institutions--favors secularism and relegates religion to the purely private realm. This collection of essays on ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Luther, Bonhoeffer, and Public Ethics

    Re-Forming the Church of the Future

    by Clifford J. Green, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Karen L. Bloomquist, Allan Aubrey Boesak, Euan Cameron, Hartmut Lehmann, Josiah U. Young III, Victoria J. Barnett, Michael P. DeJonge, Wolfgang Huber1, Brigitte Kahl2, Jennifer M. McBride3, Larry Rasmussen4, Esther D. Reed5, Kevin Rudd6 ...
    Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer’s legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer’s connection to Luther at stake. ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Pietism in Germany and North America 1680–1820

    by Hartmut Lehmann, James Van Horn Melton ...
    This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly Pietistic groups who migrated from central Europe to the British colonies in North America during the long eighteenth century. Emerging in German speaking lands during the seventeenth century, Pietism was closely related to Puritanism, sharing similar evangelical and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times

    by Joseph Canning, Hartmut Lehmann ...
    The fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries in European history were marked by exceptionally intense experiences of power, violence and mass death. Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times undertakes the ambitious and entirely new task of analyzing, through comparison, the importance of power, violence and mass death in these centuries. Death and the excesses of power ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

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  • Reluctant Meister

    How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future

    by Stephen Green ...
    The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much of its recent history. Reluctant Meister is a wide-ranging study of Germany from the Holy Roman Empire through the Second and Third Reichs, and it asks not only how such a mature and developed culture ... Read more

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  • Germany

    Memories of a Nation

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    For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both ... Read more

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  • The Romantic Revolution

    A History

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series Book 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National ReviewFrom the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Read more

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  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

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    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

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  • The Habsburgs

    Dynasty, Culture and Politics

    by Paula Sutter Fichtner ...
    On 28 June 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg-Lorraine-Este was shot dead. Known as the moment that sparked off the First World War, this incident also initiated another, lesser-known story: the beginning of the end of Habsburg rule, which came four years later. In this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire, Paula Sutter Fichtner ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Nationalism

    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

    by Caspar Hirschi ...
    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

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