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  • A Nation Fermented

    Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany

    by Robert Shea Terrell ...
    How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation? How did a little-known provincial production standard – the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law – become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? How did the jovial, beer-drinking German become a fixture in the global imagination? While the connection between beer and Germany seems self-evident, A Nation ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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    A Nation Fermented

    Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany

    by Robert Shea Terrell ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation? How did a little-known provincial production standard—the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law—become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? How did the jovial, beer-drinking German become a fixture in the global imagination?While the connection between beer and Germany seems self-evident, A Nation Fermented ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate ... Read more

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  • Creating the Nazi Marketplace

    Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich

    by S. Jonathan Wiesen ...
    When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the Nazis worried about the degrading cultural effects of mass consumption and its association with 'Jewish' interests. This book examines how both ... Read more

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  • From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic

    Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification

    Edited by Eric Langenbacher, Jeffrey Anderson ...
    The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance of the country for theory and concept–building in many disciplines, an in-depth examination of the ... Read more

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  • Home Fires Burning

    Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

    by Belinda J. Davis ...
    Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace — particularly poorer women — on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.As Britain’s wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by “women of little means ... Read more

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  • Selling the Economic Miracle

    Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

    by Mark E. Spicka ...
    Series Book 18 - Monographs in German History
    Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing Black Germany

    Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

    by Tiffany N. Florvil ...
    Series series Black Internationalism
    In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora ... Read more

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  • Lifelines of Our Society

    A Global History of Infrastructure

    by Dirk van Laak ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why ... Read more

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  • Women in the Weimar Republic

    by Helen Boak ...
    This book is the first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society. Taking the First World War as a starting point, this book explores the great changes in the lives, expectations, and perceptions of German women, with new opportunities in employment, education and political life and ... Read more

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  • The Heroic Earth

    Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

    by Murphy ...
    In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision of the Versailles settlement and enlarging Germany’s living space, geopolitics helped ... Read more

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  • The Long Shadow of German Colonialism

    Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

    by Henning Melber ...
    From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks. While debates are now common in France and Britain over the impact of empire on former colonies and colonizing societies, German imperialism has only more recently become a topic of ... Read more

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