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Routledge handbook of German politics & culture

by Colvin, Sarah

fromRoutledge Handbooks

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"The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain - historical pathwa…

Atatürk in the Nazi imagination

by Ihrig, Stefan

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"Early in his career, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism -- this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazis has almost been entirely neglected: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern …

Doctors of empire: medical and cultural encounters between Imperial …

by Kim, Hoi-eun

fromGerman and European studies

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Transnational history at its finest, Doctors of Empire not only illuminates the German origins of modern medical science in Japan but also reinterprets the nature of German imperialism in East Asia."--Pub. desc.

Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the identitarian movement

by Havertz, Ralf

fromRoutledge studies in fascism and the far right

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"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of radical right populism in Germany. It gives an overview of historical developments of the phenomenon and its current appearance. It examines three of the main far-right organisations in Germany: the radical right populist party AfD…

Germany and Austria since 1814

by Allinson, Mark

fromModern History for Modern Languages Series

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"Germany and Austria since 1814 presents an accessible overview of the distinctive historical experiences undergone by both Germany and Austria during this period. Beginning in 1814 with the Congress of Vienna and ending two centuries later with the consequences and ongoing chal…

Three-way street: Jews, Germans, and the transnational

fromSocial history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

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"As German Jews emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany--and Berlin in particular--attracted both secular and religious Jewi…

Germany's hidden crisis: social decline in the heart of Europe

by Nachtwey, Oliver

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"An excellent study of how neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon. Upward social mobility represe…

Hitler's girls: doves amongst eagles

by Heath, Tim

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Zusammenfassung: "Concentraying purely ion the role of German girls in Hitler's Third Reich, we learn of their home lives, schooling, exploitation and eventual militarisation from first-hand accounts of wiomen who were indoctrinated into the Jung Madel and Bund Deutscher Madel a…

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

by Lerner, Robert E.

fromPrinceton scholarship online

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This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an i…

Ernst Kantorowicz: a life

by Lerner, Robert E.

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This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an i…

Utter chaos

by Gronemann, Sammy

fromJewish literature and culture

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Foreword / Joachim Schlör -- Translator's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Goethe in Borytshev -- A literary enterprise -- A pious fund -- Pastoral care -- Paradise apples -- The sounds of Easter -- The trumpet sounds -- The minyan man -- The firstborn -- Resistance -- Pogrom -- Th…

Berlin rules: Europe and the German way

by Lever, Paul

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In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe - and in the EU. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the …

The curious humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America

by Von Moltke, Johannes

fromSimpson - imprint in humanities

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Zusammenfassung: "Siegfried Kracauer is today considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. During the Weimar Republic, he established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, now often ranked alongside his friends Walter Benjamin and Theod…

Crimes unspoken: the rape of German women at the end of the Second…

by Gebhardt, Miriam

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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt rev…

Six minutes in Berlin: broadcast spectacle and rowing Gold at the Nazi O…

by Socolow, Michael J.

fromStudies in Sports Media

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"He Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators …

The participants - the men of the Wannsee Conference

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Zusammenfassung: On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal …

Edgar Julius Jung, right-wing enemy of the Nazis: a political biography

by Magub, Roshan

fromGerman history in context

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"By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one of the foremost ideologues of the political movement that called itself the Conservative Revolution and as a right-wing opponent of the Nazis. He was speechwriter for and confida…

Germany today: politics and policies in a changing world

by Lemke, Christiane, Welsh, Helga A.

fromEurope today

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Zusammenfassung: "This text analyzes the major post-unification developments that have tested and shaped the "new Germany" from a multilevel perspective. Informed by the authors' intimate knowledge of Germany, the book offers a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of a pivotal globa…

When in Germany, do as the Germans do: the clued-in guide to German life, language, and …

by Flippo, Hyde

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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…