"The Baltic is an overview of the region as a whole that deals with politics, trade, and cultures. The book is organized into ten chronological, roughly thematic chapters, with each chapter beginning with a vignette (focus) centered on a place with particular significance to the…
Introduction : an essay on mediate family -- Into the family gallery -- Nuclearity and its discontents -- Abortive Romanticism -- Feminism, or, The Hegelian dynasty -- Wagner, or, The bourgeois dynasty -- Naturalism, or, The dynastic romance -- Freud, or, The reluctant patriarch…
Do you want to blend in when visiting Berlin? To feel like you belong in Bavaria? When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do makes it simple! If you long to navigate the narrow streets of an Alpine village unnoticed or go to a movie in Munich without turning heads, transform yourself…
"'A truly revolutionary idea ... Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned.'--Ayn Rand. Self-sacrifice, oriental mysticism, racial 'truth, ' the public good, doing one's duty -- these are among the seductive catchphrases that circulated in pre-N…
"The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the conceptions of time and history in the Germany of the early 20th century. By focusing …