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Beyond the Swastikaby Peter O'Brien
Routledge 1996; US$ 52.95O'Brien argues convincingly that fears of a resurgent German nationalism are exaggerated. He highlights the `technocratic liberalism' of the elite which, paradoxically, hinders full rights of political participation for minorities. more...
Transnational Politicsby Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen
Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00Examining the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany, this book analyses trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their national and international political ramifications. more...
Defiled Trades and Social Outcastsby Kathy Stuart; John Elliott; Olwen Hufton; H. G. Koenigsberger; H. M. Scott
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 55.00A social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute). This book examines an outcast group in early modern Germany which included executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within 'honourable' society. more...
Germanyby Greg Nees
Intercultural Press 2000; US$ 21.95The Germans are an enigma to the rest of the world and themselves. As it turns out, they spend great amounts of time discussing their puzzling heritage; in fact, discussing almost anything is one of their favourite pastimes. Greg Nees offers an insider's perspective on what it means to be German. more...
Kaspar Hauserby Martin Kitchen
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 132.00On Whit Monday 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak and hardly able to walk appeared in Nuremberg. This new case of a 'wild man' excited widespread curiosity, and many prominent figures wanted to test their pedagogical and medical theories on such a promising subject. Who was he? Was he, as many claimed, the rightful heir to the Grand Duchy of Baden, or was he simply an ingenious fraud? This book examines the many ramifications of this fascinating case, and offers many insights into the social, political and intellectual life of Biedermeier Germany. more...
The Early Germansby Malcolm Todd
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 42.95For many centuries Germanic peoples occupied much of northern and central Europe. From the fourth century onward migrant groups extended their power and influence over much of western Europe and beyond to North Africa. In so doing, they established enduring states in France, Spain, Italy and Britain. This illustrated book makes use of archaeological and literary sources to outline the ethnogenesis and history of the early Germanic peoples. It provides an overview of current knowledge of these peoples, their social structure, settlements, trade, customs, religion, craftsmanship and relations with the Roman Empire. In this second edition, the author incorporates important new archaeological evidence and reports on advances in historical interpretation.... more...
The Russian Roots of Nazismby Michael Kellogg; Peter Baldwin; Christopher Clark; James B. Collins; Lyndal Roper; Mia Rodrˇguez-Salgado
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 38.00This book analyzes the political, financial, military, and ideological contributions of many 'White émigrés', anti-Bolshevik Russian exiles, to Nazism. It demonstrates that Nazism did not develop as a peculiarly German phenomenon and examines Aufbau (Reconstruction), a far right German-White émigré organization which collaborated with Nazis from 1920-1923. more...
Seeing Hitler's Germanyby Kristin Semmens
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 105.00Seeing Hitler's Germany' is a fully researched, wide-ranging study of commercial tourism under the swastika. The book demonstrates how effectively the Nazi regime coordinated all German tourism organizations. At the same time, it emphasizes the apparent 'normality' of many everyday tourist experiences after 1933. more...
Sweeping the German Nationby Nancy Reagin
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 29.00German housekeepers have an international reputation characterized by thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness. But where did this stereotype come from? This book explores how Germans defined and developed a particular style of domesticity in the late nineteenth century, and how it became crucial to German national identity. more...
German History from the Marginsby Neil Gregor; Nils Roemer; Mark Roseman
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 31.95German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors' new and often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of Germany's 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewry's sophisticated appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of antisemitism in Weimar's campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly "Jewish" sexual behavior; and post-war West Germany's struggles with ethnic... more...









