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  • The Life and Death of States

    Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Power and Time

    Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History

    A collection of essays that challenges how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts— “power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies.Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this ... Leer más

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  • Remaking Central Europe

    The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands

    Edición de Peter Becker, Natasha Wheatley ...
    Series series The History and Theory of International Law
    Over the last two decades, the "new international order" of 1919 has grown into an expansive new area of research across multiple disciplines. With the League of Nations at its heart, the interwar settlement's innovations in international organizations, international law, and many other areas shaped the world we know today. This book presents the first study of the relationship between this new ... Leer más

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    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Leer más

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  • Living in the End Times

    de Slavoj Zizek ...
    The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis “of fierce brilliance” (Guardian).There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the 4 horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within ... Leer más

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  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's ... Leer más

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  • Building a National Literature

    The Case of Germany, 1830–1870

    Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a ... Leer más

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  • The German Conception of History

    The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present

    This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action.The German national tradition of historiography had its beginnings in the reaction against the ... Leer más

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  • In Defense of Lost Causes

    de Slavoj Zizek ...
    The renowned philosophical sharpshooter looks for the kernel of truth in the fascist politics of the past—offering an adrenaline-fueled manifesto for universal values.Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism, should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic liberalism and government-as ... Leer más

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  • German Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Imperial Germany 1871-1918

    Edición de James Retallack ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of Germany
    The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent; its science and technology, education, and municipal administration were the envy of the world; ... Leer más

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  • Time Maps

    Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past

    The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct.Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?As ... Leer más

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