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CultureShock! Munich
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a dynamic and indispensable range of guides covering countless destinations around the world. The series is especially intended for travellers who are looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting and who might even consider residing there. more...
Strangers and Misfits
BRILL 2008; US$ 111.00Examines the role of banishment in sixteenth-century Ulm, using the town's experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society. This work sheds fresh light on the application of authority, and the intersection between official disciplinary efforts and customary behavioral norms. more...
Sydney
NewSouth 2010; US$ 15.39Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of our cities. In this book, the third in a series in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, novelist Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity, and jacarandas. But she goes beyond these to find a far more complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply... more...
Die Dessau-Wörlitzer Reformbewegung im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 217.00Erhard Hirsch's study examines the social, political, and artistic preconditions and impacts of a comprehensive modernization process in the central German territory of Anhalt-Dessau in the age of reformer prince Leopold Friedrich Franz. The Wörlitz Garden Kingdom (inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2001) and the 'Philanthropin' educational... more...
Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 17001870
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep reflection on anthropological approaches to historical problems. more...
Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 152.00The 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...
Augsburg During the Reformation Era
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 13.50"Sixteenth-century Augsburg comes to life in this beautifully chosen and elegantly translated selection of original documents. Ranging across the whole panoply of social activity from the legislative reformation to work, recreation, and family life, these extracts make plain the subtle system of checks and balances, violence, and self-regulation... more...






