Germany category: 4580 books

The Rough Guide Snapshot to the middle Rhine region is the ultimate travel guide to the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland in Germany. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the romantic castles of the...

Welcome to Germany - Let’s Go style. Poised at the juncture of tradition and cosmopolitanism, Germany offers student travelers culture, intellectual wonder, and beer-fueled adventure. Let's Go's intrepid student researchers have scoured the country to bring travelers the best information on everything...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to The Black Forest is the ultimate travel guide to this picture-perfect part of Germany. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Baden-Baden's spas to the best scenic forest drives. Detailed...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to North Rhine-Westphalia is the ultimate travel guide to Germany's most populous state. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Cologne's cathedral to Bonn's museums and eating and drinking...

Germany is the most heavily populated of all the countries within the European Union.A Traveller’s History of Germany offers a complete and authoritative history of a country of which much of its rich past and legacy of great culture has been forgotten after the traumas of the two world wars. There...

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities...

We travel to grow -- our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise -- sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people,...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of...

In this authoritative book, the only work to cover the full sweep of German foreign policy since the end of World War II, noted scholar Helga Haftendorn explores Germany's remarkable recovery from wartime defeat and destruction. Offspring of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German...

Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany’s economic, cultural, and political development. Many German geographers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck...

In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe – and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interests. Germany exercises power in order...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject History Europe - Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: 2+, The American University, Washington, DC (Department of History), course: Research Seminar, language: English, abstract: Schubert did not only possess foresight and the...

Situated in the Northwest region of Germany, where the river Dussel flows into the Rhine, is Germany’s financial, fashion and cultural capital, Dusseldorf. It is the state capital of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s largest metropolitan region, consisting of over 11 million inhabitants. The city,...