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Flexible Firm
The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of high-end home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of value-based management: the idea that there should be consistency in what the organisation does, a certain continuity between what the company develops and sells, and the beliefs and...
The Devil's Wheels
Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle...
Between Reform and Revolution
German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the methodological...
Crises in European Integration
Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars,...
Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy makers face, the authors, both internationally recognized in this field, use historical argument, theoretical...
The Merkel Republic
An Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German and European politics for almost a decade. Her stellar reputation, sound political and economic management, and popularity inside of Germany resulted in one of the most decisive electoral victories for her conservative parties in postwar Germany—the...
Between Left and Right
The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Germany remains a leader in Europe, as demonstrated by its influential role in the on-going policy challenges in response to the post 2008 financial and economic crises. Rarely does the composition of a national government matter as much as Germany’s did following the 2009 Bundestag election. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing...
Launching the Grand Coalition
The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This edited volume, which brings together the leading experts in German politics from around the US and Germany, combines rich descriptive data with insightful analyses regarding one of the most dramatic and important election years in postwar Germany. A variety of more specialized issues and perspectives...
Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979
The 'Normalisation of Rule'?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is this really all there is to the GDR¹s...
Dictatorship as Experience
Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of the SED-regime,...
Coping with the Nazi Past
West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participated...
Changing the World, Changing Oneself
Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years, and this volume offers an important contribution. These meticulously researched essays offer new perspectives on the Cold War and global relations...