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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    by Tina Marie Campt ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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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

  • Rudolf Steiner's Intentions for the Anthroposophical Society

    The Executive Council, the School for Spiritual Science, and the Sections

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Christian von Arnim ...
    Although the fruits of Anthroposophy--Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, Camphill, anthroposophic medicine, and so on--are relatively well known and moderately successful, their relationship to Anthroposophy and its vehicle for transmission, the General Anthroposophical Society, and the School for Spiritual Science, remains mysterious and unclear; sadly, the same is true of the meaning and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • Thieves in Court

    The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century

    by Rebekka Habermas ...
    Translated by Kathleen Mitchell Dell'Orto ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people involved in these cases came to shape the current legal system. Habermas draws from an unusual cache of ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater

    The Politics of Making the Audience Work

    by Michael Wood ...
    The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Müller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events that emerge from it and the audiences for which it was written and performed. Situating his study ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Representation of War in German Literature

    From 1800 to the Present

    by Elisabeth Krimmer ...
    The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity, they maintain that no representation can do justice to the terror and violence of war. Readings of Schiller, Kleist, Jünger, Remarque, Grass, Böll, ... Read more

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  • György Lukács

    Notizen zu Georg Simmels Vorlesungen, 1906/07, und zur »Kunstsoziologie«, ca. 1909(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 005)

    by György Lukács ...
    Series Book 5 - dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken
    In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist György Lukács (1885–1971) as the owner of a mass of material that had been deposited there in 1917. Among the sixteen hundred letters and text fragments of the collection, known as the "Heidelberg Suitcase" among researchers, was the notebook that has been partially reproduced ... Read more

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