Baltisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen Vom 16. Bis 19. Jahrhundert / Band I (Akademiekonferenzen, #28)
Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700
by Patrick Brugh
Guns have been linked with masculinity since their earliest days on European battlefields, and surviving treatises on gunpowder from the early fifteenth century describe in detail the kinds of strong, sober, and God-fearing men who could be trusted to use this new weapon. As the destructive capacity and military tactical value of gunpowder became more evident to European peoples over time, writers--especially German ones--expressed increasing anxiety aboutthe disruptive potential that gunpowder...
Aussenpolitik in Adenauers Kanzlerdemokratie (Schriften Des Forschungsinstituts Der Deutschen Gesellschaft, #28)
by Arnulf Baring
VOR Dem Mauerbau (Schriftenreihe Der Vierteljahrshefte Fur Zeitgeschichte Sond)
The Holocaust: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of this seismic event in mid twentieth-century human history. The book takes an original approach as both a narrative and thematic introduction to the topic, and provides a core foundation for readers embarking upon their own study. It examines a range of perspectives and subjects surrounding the Holocaust, including:the perpetrators of the Holocaustthe victimsresistance to the Holocaustliberationlegacies and survivors' memories...
This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Gunter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognisable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the med...
Through correspondence to mothers and guardians, the reader experiences the lives of three generations of German boys in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700-1918 (Oxford History of the Christian Church)
by Nicholas Hope
This book is the first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A period of fundamental and lasting change in the political landscape with the separation of the old twin monarchies of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway in Scandinavia (1808, 1814), and the unification of Germany (1866-71), this was also a time of particular unease and upheaval for the church. Attempts to emulate the spiritual community of the early church, re...
The Rise and Rise of the Third Reich
by R. H. Haigh, D S Morris, and A.R. Peters
You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves since the European Middle Ages. Martin Puchner grew up knowing that Rotwelsch was of unusual interest to his family. When he inherited a family achive, it led him on a journey not only into the history of this extraord...
Wir, Vogt, Richter Und Gemeinde (Schriften Zur Sudwestdeutschen Landeskunde, #78)
by Nina Kuhnle