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  • Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989by Philip Broadbent; Sabine Hake

    Berghahn Books 2010; US$ 29.95

    A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin's cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby... more...

  • Shattered Pastby Konrad H. Jarausch; Michael Geyer

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 35.00

    Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century... more...

  • Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870by David Warren Sabean

    Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00

    This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep reflection on anthropological approaches to historical problems. more...

  • The Blockade Breakersby Helena P Schrader

    The History Press 2011; US$ 18.94

    On 24 June 1948 the Sovient Union abrubtly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of withdrawing their garrisons and allowing... more...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern German Historyby Helmut Walser Smith

    OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 174.99

    This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores... more...

  • The Berlin Wall Crisisby John P.S. Gearson; Dr Kori Schake

    Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 155.00

    This volume highlights the complex intra-alliance politics of what was seen as the likeliest flash point of conflict in the Cold War and demonstrates how strongly determinant were concerns about relationships with allies in the choices made by all the major governments. It recounts the evolution of policy during the 1958 and 1961 Berlin crises from... more...

  • Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germanyby Johannes Wolfart

    Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 152.00

    The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture. Investigations range from interpersonal relations to dynamics of civic church and imperial government. Chronicled throughout are the interactions of two opposing principles in modern society 'secular' vs 'spiritual' and... more...

  • The Candy Bombersby Andrei Cherny

    Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 18.00

    The Candy Bombers is the true tale of the ill- assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat. By feeding and supplying West Berlin by air for nearly a year, these brave men won the hearts of America's defeated enemies, and inspired people around the world to believe in America's fundamental... more...

  • Life among the Ruinsby Jennifer V. Evans

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers. more...