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German Home Towns

Author : Mack Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455995
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book German Home Towns written by Mack Walker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848. Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem, which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to both the "movers and doers" at the center and the citizens of the home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans' "ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness," which was to have its most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a racial community. A path-breaking work of scholarship when it was first published in 1971, German Home Towns remains an influential and engaging account of German history, filled with interesting ideas and striking insights—on cameralism, the baroque, Biedermeier culture, legal history and much more. In addition to the inner workings of community life, this book includes discussions of political theorists like Justi and Hegel, historians like Savigny and Eichhorn, philologists like Grimm. Walker is also alert to powerful long-term trends—the rise of bureaucratic states, the impact of population growth, the expansion of markets—and no less sensitive to the textures of everyday life.

A Small Town Near Auschwitz

Author : Mary Fulbrook
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611751
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book A Small Town Near Auschwitz written by Mary Fulbrook and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane processes that were the precursors of genocide. Yet he later claimed, like so many other Germans after the war, that he had 'known nothing about it'; and that he had personally tried to save a Jew before he himself managed to leave for military service. A Small Town Near Auschwitz re-creates Udo Klausa's story. Using a wealth of personal letters, memoirs, testimonies, interviews and other sources, Mary Fulbrook pieces together his role in the unfolding stigmatization and degradation of the Jews under his authoritiy, as well as the heroic attempts at resistance on the part of some of his victims. She also gives us a fascinating insight into the inner conflicts of a Nazi functionary who, throughout, considered himself a 'decent' man. And she explores the conflicting memories and evasions of his life after the war. But the book is much more than a portrayal of an individual man. Udo Klausa's case is so important because it is in many ways so typical. Behind Klausa's story is the larger story of how countless local functionaries across the Third Reich facilitated the murderous plans of a relatively small number among the Nazi elite - and of how those plans could never have been realized, on the same scale, without the diligent cooperation of these generally very ordinary administrators. As Fulbrook shows, men like Klausa 'knew' and yet mostly suppressed this knowledge, performing their day jobs without apparent recognition of their own role in the system, or any sense of personal wrongdoing or remorse - either before or after 1945. This account is no ordinary historical reconstruction. For Fulbrook did not discover Udo Klausa amongst the archives. She has known the Klausa family all her life. She had no inkling of her subject's true role in the Third Reich until a few years ago, a discovery that led directly to this inescapably personal professional history.

A Small Town in Germany

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743431715
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book A Small Town in Germany written by John le Carre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British security officer Alan Turner battles radical German students and neo-Nazis after an embassy flack disappears from Bonn with dozens of top secret files.

Deep Roots

Author : Richard Endress
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525543768
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Deep Roots written by Richard Endress and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone of us is who and where we are today because of the efforts and decisions of those who came before us -- our ancestors. This book traces the history of nine of my ancestral families, from their small farming villages in Germany, through the wrenching decision to leave cherished roots in Europe, to the planting of new roots in southern Indiana. The book is intended primarily for members of my family, but others may find some interest in a small microcosm of the American experience.

Workers, Collectivism and the Law

Author : Laura Carlson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788112458
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Workers, Collectivism and the Law written by Laura Carlson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers, Collectivism and the Law offers a captivating historical account of worker democracy, from its beginnings in European guild systems to present-day labor unions, across the national legal systems of Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Analysing these legal systems in light of a Habermasian concept of participatory democracy, Laura Carlson identifies ways to strengthen individual employee voice in claims against employers.

Enlightenment and Community

Author : Benjamin W. Redekop
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773510265
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Community written by Benjamin W. Redekop and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the E

The Stories Old Towns Tell

Author : Marek Kohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300273746
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Stories Old Towns Tell written by Marek Kohn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe’s ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history. Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199597251
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 written by Hamish M. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe

Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144430304X
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Peter H. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains 31 essays by leading internationalscholars to provide an overview of the key debates oneighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, andpolitical changes that took place throughout eighteenth-centuryEurope Focuses on Europe while placing it within its internationalcontext Considers not just major western European states, but also theoften neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe

Cultures in Motion

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849896
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Cultures in Motion written by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300078695
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home written by Peter Mandler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.

Becoming German

Author : Philip L. Otterness
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471168
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Becoming German written by Philip L. Otterness and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty thousand people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America. They journeyed down the Rhine and eventually made their way to London, where they settled in refugee camps. The rumors of free passage and land proved false, but, in an attempt to clear the camps, the British government finally agreed to send about three thousand of the immigrants to New York in exchange for several years of labor. After their arrival, the Palatines refused to work as indentured servants and eventually settled in autonomous German communities near the Iroquois of central New York.Becoming German tracks the Palatines' travels from Germany to London to New York City and into the frontier areas of New York. Philip Otterness demonstrates that the Palatines cannot be viewed as a cohesive "German" group until after their arrival in America; indeed, they came from dozens of distinct principalities in the Holy Roman Empire. It was only in refusing to assimilate to British colonial culture—instead maintaining separate German-speaking communities and mixing on friendly terms with Native American neighbors—that the Palatines became German in America.

Underground Mathematics

Author : Thomas Morel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009267302
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Underground Mathematics written by Thomas Morel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.

Urban Society in an Age of War

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855136
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Urban Society in an Age of War written by Christopher R. Friedrichs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the premise that local history can illuminate aspects of the past in ways that few works of broad historical synthesis can ever hope to equal, Christopher Friedrichs draws a comprehensive portrait of the small German city of Nördlingen during a turbulent century and a half of early modern history. In doing so he explores the transition from a traditional to a modern way of life. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Communal Age in Western Europe, c.1100-1800

Author : Beat Kümin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137329084
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Communal Age in Western Europe, c.1100-1800 written by Beat Kümin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential introductory survey of the towns, villages and parishes in which people lived in the medieval and early modern periods. Beat Kumin assesses the similarities, differences and the wider significance of these communities for European society prior to 1800.

Bach in Berlin

Author : Celia Applegate
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455820
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Bach in Berlin written by Celia Applegate and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. The concert soon became the stuff of legend, sparking a revival of interest in and performance of Bach that has continued to this day. Mendelssohn's performance gave rise to the notion that recovering and performing Bach's music was somehow "national work." In 1865 Wagner would claim that Bach embodied "the history of the German spirit's inmost life." That the man most responsible for the revival of a masterwork of German Protestant culture was himself a converted Jew struck contemporaries as less remarkable than it does us today—a statement that embraces both the great achievements and the disasters of 150 years of German history. In this book, Celia Applegate asks why this particular performance crystallized the hitherto inchoate notion that music was central to Germans' collective identity. She begins with a wonderfully readable reconstruction of the performance itself and then moves back in time to pull apart the various cultural strands that would come together that afternoon in the Singakademie. The author investigates the role played by intellectuals, journalists, and amateur musicians (she is one herself) in developing the notion that Germans were "the people of music." Applegate assesses the impact on music's cultural place of the renewal of German Protestantism, historicism, the mania for collecting and restoring, and romanticism. In her conclusion, she looks at the subsequent careers of her protagonists and the lasting reverberations of the 1829 performance itself.

The Unmasterable Past

Author : Charles S. Maier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674040441
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Unmasterable Past written by Charles S. Maier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.