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'Volk' bei Otto von Bismarck
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 196.00This historical semantic study examines Otto von Bismarck?s use of the term Volk (?people?) and its synonyms such as Nation or Stamm (?tribe?). It shows that the expressions are multiply polysemous and that individual meanings can be bundled together into concepts (state community, cultural community etc.). Bismarck employs certain repetitive patterns... more...
"Wir müssen alle etwas umlernen"
Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 36.95Hauptbeschreibung Als das Auswärtige Amt 1951 offiziell wiedergegründet wurde, stand es nicht nur dem Namen nach, sondern auch institutionell und personell in der Tradition des alten Außenministeriums der Berliner Wilhelmstraße. Wie bei keiner anderen Behörde zeigten sich hier Kontinuitätslinien, die aus dem Kaiserreich über die NS-Zeit bis in die... more...
1938: Hitler's Gamble
Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 13.11In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. In that year The Third Reich came of age and the Führer showed his hand --... more...
The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
University of California Press 2010; US$ 26.95The 1972 Munich Olympics?remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team?were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the... more...
1989 The Berlin Wall
Arcadia Books 2009; US$ 8.74Peter Millar was in the middle of the event, literally: caught in Checkpoint Charlie between bemused East German border guards and drunk western revellers prematurely celebrating the end of an era. more...
2000 Jahre Varusschlacht
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00On the occasion of the 2000-year anniversary of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, archeologists, historians, and art historians assembled at the Freie Universität of Berlin for a special lecture series. This volume documents this interdisciplinary conference and presents an exemplary range of different research perspectives for exploring this battle,... more...
AQA Germany 1919-1945 for SHP GCSE
Hodder Education 2011; US$ 19.18An authoritative new Germany depth study from the Schools History Project (SHP) preparing candidates for exam success in AQA's most recent SHP Specification more...
Abschiedsbriefe Gefängnis Tegel
C.H. Beck 2011; US$ 10.90Hauptbeschreibung Das ergreifende Dokument einer großen Liebe Anfang 2010 wurde bekannt, dass der Briefwechsel zwischen Helmuth James und Freya von Moltke aus den letzten Wochen vor seiner Hinrichtung wie durch ein Wunder komplett erhalten ist. Die politisch und persönlich offenherzigen Briefe, die vom Gefängnispfarrer Harald Poelchau unter Einsatz... more...
Access to History: From Second Reich to Third Reich Germany 1918-45 for Edexcel
Hodder Education 2008; US$ 17.95Revised and updated for the 2008 Edexcel specifications. more...
Addresses to the German Nation
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2013; US$ 14.95In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation have also been interpreted by many as a vision of a cosmopolitan alternative to nationalism. more...









