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  • Lordship and State Transformation

    Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650–1710

    by Stephan Sander-Faes ...
    Although state transformation – continuous struggle and bargaining between rulers and their subjects, producing an unpredictable variety of political structures – is often overlooked, the process is crucial in assessing the organizational development of early modern composite monarchies and deserves further investigation.In Austria, the monarchy’s emergence as a great power required it to overcome ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

    Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s

    by Stephan Sander-Faes ...
    This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order.Exemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna ... Read more

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    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

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    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

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  • Reluctant Meister

    How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future

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  • 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

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  • The Life and Death of States

    Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

    by Natasha Wheatley ...
    An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional experimentation that pushed the very concept of “the state” to its limits. This intricate ... Read more

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  • Germany's Wild East

    Constructing Poland as Colonial Space

    by Kristin Kopp ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of Liberalism

    Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    From a Nobel Laureate economist, essays on classical liberalism as illustrated by the Austrian school of political economy.The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. A. Hayek, "grand old man of capitalism" and founder of the classical liberal, free-market revival which ignited and inspired these world ... Read more

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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

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  • The German Bourgeoisie (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

    Edited by David Blackbourn, Richard J Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, this collection of original studies by British, German and American historians examines the whole range of modern German bourgeoisie groups, including professional, mercantile, industrial and financial bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois family. Drawing on original research, the book focuses on the historical evidence as counterpoint to the well-known literary accounts of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Before Boas

    The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

    by Han F. Vermeulen ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to ... Read more

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  • Work in a Modern Society

    The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Jürgen Kocka ...
    Series Book 3 - New German Historical Perspectives
    Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The ... Read more

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