Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writ…
What happens when manhood suffrage, a radically egalitarian institution, gets introduced into a deeply hierarchical society? In her sweeping history of Imperial Germany's electoral culture, Anderson shows how the sudden opportunity to "practice" democracy in 1867 opened up a fre…
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 1. Imperiled Democracies: History and the Legacy of the Weimar Republic for the 21st Century -- Kathleen Canning -- Chapter 2. Intellectuals and the People: C…
"Scholars of democracy long looked to the Federal Republic of Germany as a notable "success story," a model for how to transition from a violent, authoritarian regime to a peaceable nation of rights. Although this account has been contested since its inception, the narrative has…
"Scholars of democracy long looked to the Federal Republic of Germany as a notable "success story," a model for how to transition from a violent, authoritarian regime to a peaceable nation of rights. Although this account has been contested since its inception, the narrative has…
In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over th…
"When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941. Sebastian Huebel …
Migration from Germany, 1919-1932 -- Migration from Germany, 1933-1939 -- Return Migration Administration, 1933-1941 -- Return migration, 1933-1936 -- Return migration, 1937-1939 -- Organizations and return migration -- Return migration during World War II -- Conclusion -- Appen…
"During the 1930s, Germany's industrialization, rearmament, and economic plans taxed the country's existing manpower, forcing the country to explore new ways of acquiring Aryan-German labor. Eventually, the Third Reich implemented a return migration program which used various re…
"During the 1930s, Germany's industrialization, rearmament, and economic plans taxed the country's existing manpower, forcing the country to explore new ways of acquiring Aryan-German labor. Eventually, the Third Reich implemented a return migration program which used various re…
"This book examines popular responses to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich between 1943 and 1945"--
After Auschwitz: the difficult legacies of the GDR
From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR's…
"This book looks at the significance of alliances in the international system focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks…