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  • The Law under the Swastika

    Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    Translated by Thomas Dunlap ...
    In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges and administrators from the Nazi era. According to Stolleis, they were reluctant to investigate ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe

    Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • History of Social Law in Germany

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Origins of the German Welfare State

    Social Policy in Germany to 1945

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from early modern times to the end of World War II, including Bismarck’s pioneering introduction of social insurance in the 1880s. The author unravels ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment

    From the Rule of the King to the Rule of Law

    Edited by Yasutomo Morigiwa, Michael Stolleis, Jean-Louis Halperin ...
    Series Book 95 - Law and Philosophy Library
    A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing the actual practice in the Age of Enlightenment, and explaining why this was the case. The ideology of the Age was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Eye of the Law

    Two Essays on Legal History

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators

    by Katharina von Kellenbach ...
    The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after World War II. These documents provide ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Weimar Culture

    The Outsider as Insider

    by Peter Gay ...
    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Special Brand of Courage

    A Mother and Her Children’S Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Krystyna Louw ...
    The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes. ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the Third Reich

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 1 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement"Impressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in ... Read more

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  • Alicia

    My Story

    by Alicia Appleman-Jurman ...
    WINNER OF THE 1989 CHRISTOPHER AWARD • Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary—a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia's hand—and follow.“This memoir is heartbreaking. I hope it will be read by Jews and non-Jews alike.”—Elie Wiesel, author of NightHer name is Alicia. She was thirteen when ... Read more

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  • Pluralism and Law

    Edited by A. Soeteman ...
    AREND SOETEMAN In the past we lived on one earth, but in many different worlds. Different civilisations, in regions far apart, knew about one another (at least from about the 16th century), they competed with one another or tried to dominate the other, they influenced one another, but in many important aspects they were independent from one another. Somewhere in the 20th century, however, this ... Read more

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