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  • The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe

    A Study in the Philosophy of History

    Series Book 31 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance – so characteristic for Western-European societies – ... Read more

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  • Das Special Film Project SFP-186 und die First Motion Picture Unit der United States Army Air Forces

    by Markus Lenz ...
    Wann immer wir im Fernsehen Filmmaterial aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg sehen, handelt es sich Farbfilmaufnahmen, die im Rahmen des sogenannten Special Film Project SFP-186 von den US-amerikanischen Streitkräften gedreht worden sind. In meinem Beitrag geht es um eine historisch korrekte Darlegung der Ursprünge dieser militärischen Filmeinheit, First Motion Picture Unit, sowie um deren filmisches Erbe. ... Read more

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  • Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art

    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking beyond the avant-garde to the peripheries of modern art. The period is marked by radical political changes, the formation of national and regional identities, and the rise of modernism in Central Europe – specifically, the collapse of Austria-Hungary and ... Read more

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  • Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland

    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Contemporary History
    In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to ... Read more

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  • Persistence of Folly

    On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature

    by Joel B. Lande ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a ... Read more

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  • Counterpreservation

    Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of Berlin. In this book, Daniela Sandler introduces the concept of counterpreservation as a way to ... Read more

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  • Globalizing the Soybean

    Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950

    by Ines Prodöhl ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century.Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans ... Read more

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  • Chinese Sympathies

    Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... Read more

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  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • Berlin Coquette

    Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually ... Read more

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  • The Distance to China

    Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898–1985)

    Series Book 42 - Italian Modernities
    «As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the late ... Read more

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  • The System of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe

    Series Book 36 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth century, the papacy launched concerted efforts to hunt out heretics, mostly Cathars and Waldensians, and directed operations against them all across Latin Christendom. The bull of Pope Lucius III Ad ... Read more

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  • Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War

    Series Book 33 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as ... Read more

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  • Militaer und Gesellschaft in Preußen – Quellen zur Militaersozialisation 1713–1806

    Archivalien im Land Brandenburg – Teil I: Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (1. Haelfte). Bearbeitet von Peter Bahl, Claudia Nowak und Ralf Proeve

    Series Book 26 - Quellen, Findbuecher und Inventare des Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchivs
    Für Alltag, Sozialleben und Erfahrungshorizont der Menschen in der Vormoderne waren militärische Aspekte allgegenwärtig. Das gesellschaftsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Quelleninventar für die preußische Zentrallandschaft von der Elbe bis zur Oder führt tief in diese Welt. Es stellt eine Arbeitsgrundlage für ein breites historisches Forschungsspektrum zur Verfügung. Dieser erste von drei Teilen ... Read more

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  • Entertaining German Culture

    Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

    Series Book 27 - Film Europa
    Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption ... Read more

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  • Barbarian Europe

    Translated by Ewa Macura ...
    European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this thoughtfully conducted comparative study sheds light on the illiterate ... Read more

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  • Coming of Age

    Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

    by Martin Kalb ...
    In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this fascinating study ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Germany and the World Wars

    “After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge fromthe hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived.” – John F.KennedyWe are all familiar with the story of Adolf Hitler that the United States, Britain and the Jews would like youto believe. Hitler has been made out to be one of the most “evil” people to ... Read more

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  • Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

    Atomic Zeitenwende?

    Edited by Ulrich Kühn ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century.German foreign and security policy is facing a profound reorientation. Great power competition between the United States and both a revanchist Russia and a rising China, the return of war and nuclear threats to Europe, and the emergence of new technologies all force Germany ... Read more

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  • Between State and Church

    Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland – Lithuania – Germany – Netherlands

    Series Book 16 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to analyse the inter-confessional relations in selected European territories in a «longue duree» ... Read more

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  • German Graves

    Series Book 1 - Cemetery Photography
    A Haunting Stroll Through An Old Cemetery In The Imperial City Of Aachen.Cemeteries have always fascinated me.On my way home after school, I sometimes stopped at one of Aachen’s old cemeteries.I liked how peaceful it was. There was silence and tranquility. I could be alone with my thoughts. I could just sit on a bench under a tree and think.Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I enjoyed as a teenager. I ... Read more

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  • The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Making Lifelines from Frontlines

    by Joep Schenk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe’s prime river.The book explores how the most fundamental change in the history of international river governance arose from European security concerns. It examines how ... Read more

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  • Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

    Edited by Richard F. Wetzell ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in German History
    The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of ... Read more

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  • Socialism and Legal History

    The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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