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by Henrik Bekker
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
The author, a travel journalist, was born and lives in Germany. This guide focuses on the Rhine & Mosel Valleys, including Mainz, Cologne, Bonn, Trier, Worms, Speyer and more - with the kind of inside detail that only a resident can provide. The Rhine valley is one of Germanys prime tourist attractions....
by Henrik Bekker
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is based on the larger guide, Pocket Adventures Germany, which covers the entire country in depth. Here we focus on the country's largest city and its surroundings - such cities as Potsdam and Oranienburg. Packed with all the practical travel information you could ever need, from places to stay...
Hamburg Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Germany with the Hamburg Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Germany Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
Frankfurt Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Germany with the Frankfurt Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Germany Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
Germany as a Culture of Remembrance
Promises and Limits of Writing History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. In ten essays (three never before published and one published only in German), Confino...
The Pity of War
England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In 1613, a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to meld Europe's two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The Winter's...
by Edgar Feuchtwanger
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Imperial Germany focuses on the domestic political developments of the period, putting them into context through a balanced guide to the economic and social background, culture and foreign policy.
This important study explores the tensions caused within an empire which was formed through war,...
The Impossible Border
Germany and the East, 1914–1922
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the new...
by Dr Bodie A. Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
This book examines the 1871 unification of Germany through the prism of one of its 'forgotten states', the Kingdom of Württemberg. It moves beyond the traditional argument for the importance of the great powers of Austria and Prussia in controlling German...
Media and the Making of Modern Germany
Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entertainments, and none have exerted a more profound influence on the nature of modern politics. Nowhere in Europe were the tensions and controversies surrounding...
Germany 1989
In the Aftermath of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In autumn 1989 the world watched transfixed as East German citizens, demonstrating under the banner ‘We are the people!’, staged the only successful, totally peaceful revolution in German history. By October 1990, the process of reunification was formally concluded, bringing together a nation...
Munich Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Germany with the Munich Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Germany Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany
Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-55
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War.
Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust within the historiography...