Traces the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries. The book examines the ways in which minority groups such as Jews and gypsies have attempted to cope with german nationalism since 1800, using contemporary and secondary material.
Traces the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries. The book examines the ways in which minority groups such as...
H.J. Hahn assesses the revolutions from a broad, interdisciplinary angle, relating these crucial events in nineteenth century European history to philosophy, literature, politics and socio-economic developments, and makesapparent their significant impact on the shaping of modern Germany.
H.J. Hahn assesses the revolutions from a broad, interdisciplinary angle, relating these crucial events in nineteenth century European history to phil...
This is the first book to trace the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It argues that all of the different types of states in Germany since 1800 have displayed some level of hostility towards ethnic minorities. While this reached its peak under the Nazis, the book suggests a continuity of intolerance towards ethnic minorities from 1800 that continued into the Federal Republic.
During this long period German states were home to three different types of ethnic minorities in the form of- dispersed Jews and Gypsies; localised...
This is the first book to trace the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It argues that all o...
The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police systems in world history. So extensive was the system of surveillance and control that in any given year throughout the 1970s and 1980s, about one in fifty of the 13 million East German adults were working for the Stasi either as an officer or as an informer.
Drawing on original sources from the Stasi archives and the recollections of contemporary witnesses, The Stasi: Myth and Reality reveals the intricacies of the relationship between the Stasi...
The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police systems in world ...
In 1848 the continent of Europe was rocked by revolutions: only Great Britain and Russia remained relatively immune to the upheaval. Most spectacularly, the Revolutions swept across the German-speaking lands of central Europe, with the newly-released forces of nationalism and mass popular protest smashing the reactionary Metternich regimes which had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon. The Metternich system was dead: nationalism and national self-determination asserted themselves as the dominant dynamic forces of continental Europe in the later nineteenth century. This impressive history...
In 1848 the continent of Europe was rocked by revolutions: only Great Britain and Russia remained relatively immune to the upheaval. Most spectacularl...
