Will the pressures of financial market globalization force companies to converge on a shareholder-based model of corporate governance? In 'Contingent Capital', Michel Goyer highlights the importance of the institutional context, in which companies are embedded.
Argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.
"This is a timely and unique overview of the 16 diverse federal states that make up the reunified Germany. The essential data for each state are provided in this easy-to-use reference. The demographics, geography, history, recent politics, economy, architecture and noteworthy si…
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 wit…
Examines the economic and social conflicts that arose in Germany in the early ninteenth century as a result of the transition from agrarianism to industrialism; looks at the resulting revolution of 1848; and discusses the effects of the defeat of liberalism.
Discusses the resistance against the Nazis that developed in the year that followed Operation Valkyrie, the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Die stereotype Stigmatisierung des Kopftuchs ist eine Praxis des antimuslimischen Rassismus! Auf der Basis qualitativer Interviewdaten legt Florian Kreutzer alltägliche Praktiken rassistischer Diskriminierung, des Doing Race and Racial Othering offen - und ebenso die Praktiken u…
"By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany…
The story of the conflict between Albert Einstein and chief Nazi physicist Philipp Lenard, who spent a lifetime trying to discredit him.
"Fresh look at how Jewish intellectuals thought about Judaism within a German philosophical tradition"--
The sheer intensity and violence of Germany's 20th century transformations provides a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme circumstances. This is an historical study of modern German advertising, from the Imperial period …
In light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote - and broadcast - numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever…
"This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. Focusing on a diverse network of intellectual elites in the immediate postwar years, Professor Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the ex…
"This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. Focusing on a diverse network of intellectual elites in the immediate postwar years, Professor Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the ex…
Of all victims of Nazi persecution, German Jews had to suffer the Nazi yoke for the longest time. Throughout the Third Reich, they were exposed to anti-Jewish propaganda, discrimination, anti-Semitic laws and increasingly to outrages and offences by non-Jewish Germans. While the…
While the International Military Tribunal and the subsequent American Military Tribunals at Nuremberg dealt with a variety of Nazi crimes, these courts did not consider themselves cognizant in adjudicating wrongdoings against those who lost German citizenship based on the so-cal…