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Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age

Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia

Edited by Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp, Nicole Svobodny ...

A collection that "eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective" ( Comparative Literature Studies).Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary ... Read more

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A collection that "eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective" ( Comparative Literature Studies).Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary
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Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands

Mobilities and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad

by Jan Musekamp ...

Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism.Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control ... Read more

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Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism.Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control
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Russian Germans on Four Continents

Histories of a Global Diaspora

by Anna Flack, Jan Musekamp, Jannis Panagiotidis, Hans-Christian Petersen, James Casteel, Alicia Cipria, Tetiana Havlin0, Concha Maria Höfler1, Matthias Kaltenbrunner2, Anna Kozlova3, Lucas Löff Machado4, J. Otto Pohl5, Eric J. Schmaltz6 ...

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history ... Read more

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The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history
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Aftermath

Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

by Harald Jähner ...

Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...

**How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more?This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The *New York Times)—*of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors ... Read more

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**How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more?This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The *New York Times)—*of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors
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The Third Reich in Power

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Series Book 2 - The Third Reich Trilogy
**The acclaimed and comprehensive account of Germany's transformation under Hitler's total rule and the inexorable march to war, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People“[A] masterpiece. Fluidly narrated, tightly organized and comprehensive.” —The New York Times“A major achievement.” —The Boston Globe**By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the ... Read more

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**The acclaimed and comprehensive account of Germany's transformation under Hitler's total rule and the inexorable march to war, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People“[A] masterpiece. Fluidly narrated, tightly organized and comprehensive.” —The New York Times“A major achievement.” —The Boston Globe**By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the
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Baltic

The Future of Europe

by Oliver Moody ...

THE MUST-READ ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT & A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR - chosen by PETER FRANKOPAN.**'Fascinating ... essential reading' Helen Thompson'Alarming and uplifting' John Kampfner**The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years.These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression; they are also a factory of ideas for ... Read more

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THE MUST-READ ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT & A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR - chosen by PETER FRANKOPAN.**'Fascinating ... essential reading' Helen Thompson'Alarming and uplifting' John Kampfner**The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years.These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression; they are also a factory of ideas for
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Beyond the Wall

A History of East Germany

by Katja Hoyer ...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically ... Read more

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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically
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The Swiss and the Nazis

How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich

by Stephen Halbrook ...

The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses "a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught" ( Daly History Blog).While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath.This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices ... Read more

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The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses "a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught" ( Daly History Blog).While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath.This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices
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Pandora’s Box

A History of the First World War

by Jörn Leonhard ...

Translated by Patrick Camiller ...

Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Read more

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Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn
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Germany in the World

A Global History, 1500-2000

by David Blackbourn ...

Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany.With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national ... Read more

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Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany.With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national
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Krupp

A History of the Legendary German Firm

by Harold James ...

A history of the steel and arms maker that came to symbolize the best and worst of modern German historyThe history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present ... Read more

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A history of the steel and arms maker that came to symbolize the best and worst of modern German historyThe history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present
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An Improbable War?

The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

Edited by Holger Afflerbach, David Stevenson ...

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the ... Read more

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The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the
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