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  • - Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
    af Jacques Kornberg
    584,95 kr.

    A meticulous and careful analysis of the career of the twentieth century's most controversial pope, The Pope's Dilemma argues that Pius XII's refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies was driven by the desire to keep Catholics within the Church.

  • af Alexandria Ruble
    455,95 - 1.035,95 kr.

  • - Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952
    af Lynne Taylor
    589,95 - 892,95 kr.

    Taylor's exploration and insight into the debates around national identity and the privilege of citizenship challenges our understanding of nationality in the postwar period.

  • - Variations on a German Theme
    af Celia Applegate
    583,95 - 857,95 kr.

    In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries.

  • - Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
    af Hoi-eun Kim
    469,95 kr.

    In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country's medical institutions and education.

  • - Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism
    af Michael Hau
    758,95 kr.

    Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports.

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    525,95 kr.

    China in the German Enlightenment examines the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory.

  • - Constructing a Mediterranean Region
     
    933,95 kr.

    The Convergence of Civilizations will be an important tool for meeting the current global challenges being faced by nation-states as well as those in the future.

  • - Constructing a Mediterranean Region
     
    655,95 kr.

    The Convergence of Civilizations will be an important tool for meeting the current global challenges being faced by nation-states as well as those in the future.

  • - German and Intercultural Stagings
    af David G. John
    728,95 kr.

    Bennewitz, Goethe, Faust makes a cogent argument for this director's place alongside the twentieth century's greatest theatre innovators.

  • af Laurence McFalls
    882,95 kr.

    This essential volume not only contributes to the resurgence of interest in Weber's oeuvre but goes beyond the exegetic and polemical debates of the burgeoning 'Weberological' literature in offering a coherent theoretical explanation for the proliferation of interpretations that Weber's writings continue to elicit.

  • - Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954
    af Steven M. Schroeder
    497,95 - 758,95 kr.

    Drawing on underutilized archival materials, To Forget It All and Begin Anew reveals a nuanced mosaic of like-minded people who worked against considerable odds to make right the wrongs of the Nazi era.

  • - Theatre, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist
    af Kenneth S. Calhoon
    812,95 kr.

    Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare's poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 - including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality.

  • - German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930
     
    552,95 kr.

    These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the 'sense of place' as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of 'Germanness' that was neither self-evident nor unchanging.

  • - Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871-1914
    af Jeffrey K. Wilson
    525,95 - 1.093,95 kr.

    Through impressive primary and archival research, Wilson demonstrates that in addition to uniting Germans, the forest as a national symbol could also serve as a vehicle for protest and strife.

  • - Laughter, Inclusion, and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century
     
    536,95 kr.

    The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.

  • - Germany and Russia Between the Wars
     
    873,95 kr.

    Doing Medicine Together raises new and important questions about the vaunted 'special' relation between Soviet Russia and Weimar Germany.

  • - Portraits and Pathways
    af James Retallack
    559,95 kr.

    Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.

  • - The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey
    af John Zilcosky
    728,95 kr.

    Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts to reconfigure the world and, in so doing, to become a metaphor for imagination, subjectivity, and representation itself.

  • - Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands
    af J. Laurence Hare
    945,95 kr.

    Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War.

  • - Theory, Practice, Ideology
    af Silvija Jestrovic
    710,95 kr.

    Drawing from a variety of sources she demonstrates that theatrical estrangement is not only an abstract theoretical postulate, but also a practical artistic strategy shaped by the cultural and historical climate.

  • - Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination
    af James Retallack
    528,95 kr.

    Written with clear, persuasive prose, this wide-ranging analysis draws together threads of reasoning from German and Anglo-American scholars over the past 30 years and points the way for future research into unexplored areas.

  • af Amy Carney
    512,95 - 778,95 kr.

    Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS, by Amy Carney, is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers. These families contributed to the transformation of the SS into a racially-elite family community that was poised to serve as the new aristocracy of the Third Reich.

  • - From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933
    af Parker Daly Everett
    1.069,95 kr.

    Urban Transformations delves into the ecology, sociology, politics, and architecture at the root of Berlin's urbanization.

  • - Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
    af Alexander Prusin & Gabriel Finder
    519,95 kr.

    Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to showcase communist Poland's judicial confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation and its oppressive regime.

  • - Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic
    af Javier Samper Vendrell
    446,95 kr.

    The Seduction of Youth offers a new perspective on the history of the Weimar Republic by exploring the intersection between the homosexual movement, print culture, and homophobic fears about the seduction of young boys.

  • - Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s
    af Jennifer A. Miller
    258,95 - 489,95 kr.

    Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks.

  • - Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
    af Olivia Landry
    745,95 kr.

    Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.

  • - Aesthetics against Imperialism
    af John K. Noyes
    1.010,95 kr.

    In Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations.

  • - Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' in Retrospect
     
    788,95 kr.

    The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt's famous book and the issues she raised.