Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Jünger{u2019}s The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age…
"Ten years before Pearl Harbor, Japan tested modern China in a thirty-three-day war now known as the Shanghai War of 1932. Often obscured by the larger World War II, this history details how the Chinese, fighting from trenches against Japan's modern bombers and navy, formed a de…
"Hitler versus Hindenburg provides the first in-depth study of the titanic struggle between the two most dominant figures on the German Right in the last year before the establishment of the Third Reich. Although Hindenburg was reelected as Reich president by a comfortable margi…
Machine generated contents note: Prologue. Setting the stage; 1. Introducing the protagonists; 2. Hindenburg and the Brüning Gambit; 3. The road to Harzburg; 4. Parliamentary prelude; 5. Agonies of the national opposition; 6. The demise of Harzburg; 7. The Hindenburg offensive; …
"This book fills a resounding silence: it tells a story, as yet unknown, of great significance to the understanding of non-Western contemporary art in global circulation. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved remarkable international visibility, with a host of Thai…
