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  • A History of German Literature

    From the Beginnings to the Present Day

    by Wolfgang Beutin, Klaus Ehlert, Wolfgang Emmerich, Helmut Hoffacker, Bernd Lutz, Volker Meid, Ralf Schnell, Peter Stein, Inge Stephan ...
    Translated by Claire Krojzl ...
    Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature.The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

    From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Inge Stephan, Joyce Marie Mushaben, Lauren Nossett, Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Professor Margaretmary Daley, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Peter Hudis, Rachel J. Halverson0, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge1, Seth Berk2, Stephen Milder3, Almut Almut Spalding4, Anke Gilleir5, Professor Aude Defurne6, Dorothee Beck7, Friederike Brühöfener8, Helga Helga Druxes9 ...
    The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Enlightened War

    German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Waltraud Maierhofer, Wolf Kittler, Arndt Niebisch, David Colclasure, Felix Saure0, Galili Shahar1, Inge Stephan2, Johannes Birgfeld3 ...
    Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Educated Subject and the German Concept of Bildung

    A Comparative Cultural History

    by Rebekka Horlacher ...
    Series series Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education
    German education plays a huge role in the development of education sciences and modern universities internationally. It is influenced by the educational concept of Bildung, which defines Germany ‘s theoretical and curricular ventures. This concept is famously untranslatable into other languages and is often misinterpreted as education, instruction, training, upbringing and other terms which don’t ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    by A. Fuchs ...
    Series series New Perspectives in German Political Studies
    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Other God that Failed

    Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Discourses and Strategies

    The Role of the Vienna School in Shaping Central European Approaches to Art History and Related Discourses

    by Ján Bakos ...
    Series Book 5 - Schriftenreihe der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Series of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
    This book consists of essays on the Vienna School’s impact on Central European art history, Walter Benjamin’s move from transhistoricism to historical relativism, Jacob Burckhardt’s legacy and its metamorphoses, two competing conceptions of the social history of art, and Ernst Gombrich’s life long struggle against metaphysics. All share a common denominator: concern with the trajectories of art ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Translation Under State Control

    Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic

    by Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children’s literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. Giving prominence to extra-textual factors, the study undertakes a close investigation of the East German censorship machinery, showing that there was a close correlation between the socialist ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • German Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Boyle ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany

    by Dagmar Reese ...
    Translated by William Templer ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmaidens of National Socialism, their mental horizon restricted to the "three Ks" of Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The German Conception of History

    The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action.The German national tradition of historiography had its beginnings in the reaction against the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD