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How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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It is commonly held that the inter-war era marked little more than a ceasefire between two world wars, with the improvement in German-Allied relations forged at Locarno in 1925 cut short by the global economic turmoil that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. A Vision...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history. Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually been extensive and often catastrophic, constituting turning-points for Europe as a whole. Absolute War is the first in a series of studies...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought -- either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures -- for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East). Building on the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-06
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This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought -- either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures -- for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East). Building on the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-01
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Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule,Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution'...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-10
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If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-27
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Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom through book censorship.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933 alone, there were 90 book burnings...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-13
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Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der Vortragsreihe Geteilte Erinnerungen – deutsche Geschichten, die im Wintersemester 2009/2010 an der TU Braunschweig stattfand. Sie spürt jenen deutsch-deutschen Geschichten nach, die sich im Schatten der Mauer zugetragen haben und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-27
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The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-05
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The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-05
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Der Band legt eine Edition der Briefe vor, die der Soldat Louis Ernst aus dem preußisch-österreichischen Feldzug in Böhmen 1866 in die Heimat geschrieben hat. Ergänzend finden sich eine Auswertung der Briefe sowie eine Biographie des späteren Siegener...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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Helmut Schmidt is the neglected chancellor of modern German history, overshadowed by 'the greats' - Bismarck, Adenauer, Brandt and Kohl. This volume retrieves Schmidt's true significance as a pivotal figure who helped reshape the global order during the crisis-ridden...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-24
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Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It focuses particularly on the experience of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-04
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem am 25. Februar 1947 durch den Alliierten Kontrollrat verfügten Gesetz Nr. 46 zur Auflösung des Staates Preußen. In einer vorherrschend posthumen Lesart wurde dieser Schritt als ein verspäteter und im Grunde überflüssiger Akt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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Winner of the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture than the very home of the Reformation...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-01
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Das Buch illustriert anhand zahlreicher Fotos das Leben im Internierungslager auf Rottnest Island (Australien). Dort wurden im Ersten Weltkrieg neben zivilen feindlichen Ausländern aus Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn auch indigene Strafgefangene von australischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-30
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This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe -- especially in Britain, where their contacts included...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-24
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