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Wilhelm II and the Germans
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 109.99This book explores the personification inherent in the notion of "Wilhelmian Germany" by investigating the psychological dimension of Wilhelm II's leadership of the Germans. Despite his historical reputation, many Germans welcomed the Kaiser's leadership. The years between 1890 and 1914 were known as the Wilhelmian era in Germany, and even critics... more...
Essays On Contemporary Events
Routledge 2002; US$ 99.95This remarkable work is Jung's vigorous defence of his reputation following accusations after the Second World War that he was a Nazi sympathiser and supported their racial ideology. more...
The Master Plan
Hyperion 2006; US$ 11.95Heather Pringle?s new book, The Master Plan: Himmler?s Scholars and the Holocaust, describes the role archaeologists?and the study of archaeology?played in the ideas and the execution of the Third Reich?s Final Solution. more...
Germany's Uncertain Power
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.00This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer from 1998 to 2005, produced by a team of German and international experts, explores the idea of continuity and the sources, depths and directions of German foreign policy. more...
Der Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 182.00The most important source for the situation on the Upper Rhine in Late Classical Antiquity is to be found in the Notitia Dignitatum, a register of all the offices and honours of the Late Roman Empire. The present book deals with one office in the Notitia, the Dux Mogontiacensis, the Commander for the Upper Rhine, residing in Mainz. In it, the author... more...
German Incertitudes, 1914-1945
Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 125.00This text provides insights into German thought and society in the context of the challenges of modernity in the first half of the 20th century. The author looks at the tensions between a realistic acceptance of disenchantment with the modern world, and an insistence upon re-enchantment. more...
The Berlin Wall
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 12.99On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three... more...
From Yalta to Berlin
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 100.00If one takes a map of Europe and draws one line from Paris to Moscow and another line from Stockholm to Rome, the two lines intersect remarkably close to the Brandenburg Gate," writes Smyser, in one of his characteristically smart observations. The author has a strong grasp of the leaders who quarreled over Germany between the end of the Second... more...
Literarische Vereine in Dresden
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 119.00Dirk Hempel opens his study with an overview of the development of literary societies in Germany, but also in other European countries and in the USA, basing his survey on recent theories from the historical and social sciences on the democratic social phenomenon of the association. In addition, he presents the first typology of the different forms... more...
Germany
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00Although it was adversely affected by both world wars and the cold war, which divided the nation into a democratic and communist state, Germany has persevered to become Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation. This book offers an overview of this fascinating nation. It acts as a guide to the culture of Germany. more...









