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Jazz, Rock, and Rebelsby Uta G. Poiger
University of California Press 2000; US$ 27.95In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the new styles. Poiger reveals that East and West German authorities deployed gender and racial norms to contain Americanized youth cultures in their own territories and to carry on the ideological Cold War battle with each other. Poiger's lively account is based on an impressive array of sources, ranging from films, newspapers, and contemporary sociological studies, to German and U.S. archival materials. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels examines diverging... more...
Germany's Rhine & Mosel Valleysby Henrik Bekker
Hunter Publishing 2010; US$ 7.99The author, a travel journalist, was born and lives in Germany. This guide focuses on the Rhine & Mosel Valleys, including Mainz, Cologne, Bonn, Trier, Worms, Speyer and more - with the kind of inside detail that only a resident can provide. The Rhine valley is one of Germanys prime tourist attractions. The most interesting part of the valley is between Speyer, with the largest Romanesque cathedral in Germany, and Cologne (Köln), with the largest Gothic cathedral in the world. In between is the Rhine of legend with a castle or castle ruins every mile. The equally beautiful Mosel River is a meandering stream in a steep, narrow valley. Trier has the largest collection of Roman monuments in Germany. Hundreds of small towns are barely... more...
Adenauerby Charles Williams
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 50.00Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER "A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." --Daily Telegraph (London) "Charts the ironies of Adenauer's complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of a sprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler."--The Times (London) "Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political."--The Herald (Glasgow) "A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently critical life-and-times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who is often invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe,... more...
Architecture of Oppressionby Paul B. Jaskot
Routledge 1999; US$ 79.95This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. more...
Hitler and Nazismby Dick Geary
Routledge 2000; US$ 25.95This is an essential introduction to a notorius figure and crucial theme in modern history. The second edition also develops important new themes including race, genetics, class and the role of women. more...
Dividing and Uniting Germanyby J.K.A. Thomaneck; Bill Niven
Routledge 2000; US$ 29.95Provides an essential and original introduction to the challenges facing Germany in its recent past and the problems still confronting it today. more...
Germany and the Baltic Problem After the Cold Warby Hans-Dietrich Genscher; Kristina Spohr Readman
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 198.00The root question this book addresses is how the new Germany will use its re-found status as a great power. In seeking an answer, Kristina Spohr Readman scrutinises Germany's new Ostpolitik (eastern policy) in the period 1989-2000. more...
Germany - The Tides of Powerby Michael Balfour
Routledge 1992; US$ 120.00Balfour explains the factors which have shaped the German social, political and economic character. Tracing the movement from the Middle Ages right up to unification of Germany, he seeks to lead the reader to an understanding of modern Germany. more...
Berlin Republicby John D. Robertson; Winand Gellner
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 52.95These essays offer fresh insight and perspectives explaining the effects of East Germany's unification into the western system on Germany and the EU as a whole. more...
Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movementby Thomas D. Grant
Routledge 2004; US$ 166.00This book casts fresh light on the crisis that beset Nazism during the final months of Germany's first republic. more...









