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19th-20th centuries

  • 'Volk' bei Otto von Bismarckby Szilvia Odenwald-Varga

    De Gruyter 2009; US$ 196.00

    This historical semantic study examines Otto von Bismarck?s use of the term Volk (?people?) and its synonyms such as Nation or Stamm (?tribe?). It shows that the expressions are multiply polysemous and that individual meanings can be bundled together into concepts (state community, cultural community etc.). Bismarck employs certain repetitive patterns... more...

  • "Wir müssen alle etwas umlernen"by Andrea Wiegeshoff

    Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 36.65

    Hauptbeschreibung Als das Auswärtige Amt 1951 offiziell wiedergegründet wurde, stand es nicht nur dem Namen nach, sondern auch institutionell und personell in der Tradition des alten Außenministeriums der Berliner Wilhelmstraße. Wie bei keiner anderen Behörde zeigten sich hier Kontinuitätslinien, die aus dem Kaiserreich über die NS-Zeit bis in die... more...

  • 1938: Hitler's Gambleby Giles MacDonogh

    Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 13.11

    In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. In that year The Third Reich came of age and the Führer showed his hand --... more...

  • 1989 The Berlin Wallby Peter Millar

    Arcadia Books 2009; US$ 8.74

    Peter Millar was in the middle of the event, literally: caught in Checkpoint Charlie between bemused East German border guards and drunk western revellers prematurely celebrating the end of an era. more...

  • Abschiedsbriefe Gefängnis Tegelby Helmuth James von Moltke; Freya von Moltke; Helmuth Caspar von Moltke; Ulrike von Moltke

    C.H. Beck 2011; US$ 10.77

    Hauptbeschreibung Das ergreifende Dokument einer großen Liebe   Anfang 2010 wurde bekannt, dass der Briefwechsel zwischen Helmuth James und Freya von Moltke aus den letzten Wochen vor seiner Hinrichtung wie durch ein Wunder komplett erhalten ist. Die politisch und persönlich offenherzigen Briefe, die vom Gefängnispfarrer Harald Poelchau unter Einsatz... more...

  • After Hitlerby Konrad H. Jarausch; Brandon Hunziker

    Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 17.99

    How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust? This book seeks to answer this question by analyzing the restoration of civility and civil society, which were destroyed by the Nazis and then rebuilt during the post-war period. more...

  • After the Reichby Giles MacDonogh

    Basic Books 2009; US$ 21.99

    When Hitler?s government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. According to recent estimates, as many as two million German women were raped by Soviet... more...

  • All Power to the Councils!by Gabriel Kuhn

    PM Press 2012; US$ 14.99

    “Gabriel Kuhn’s excellent volume illuminates a profound global revolutionary moment, in which brilliant ideas and debates lit the sky.” —Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of all Nations and The Slave Ship   “This remarkable collection, skillfully edited by Gabriel Kuhn, brings to life that most pivotal of revolutions,... more...

  • Ambiguous Memoryby SIOBHAN KATTAGO

    ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 155.00

    Ambiguous Memory examines the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in reunified Germany. The author maintains that the contentious debates surrounding contemporary monumnets to the Nazi past testify to the ambiguity of German memory and the continued link of Nazism with contemporary German national identity. The book discusses... more...

  • The Architecture of Oppressionby Paul B. Jaskot

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 95.00

    This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the development of the German building economy, state architectural... more...