Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - France

Wie eine Demokratie krank gemacht wird, indem sie als siech, Geschwur oder Virus bezeichnet wird, kann man am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik ablesen.

Dieses Buch nahert sich der Verbindung von Krankheit und Krise aus der Perspektive demokratischer Spitzenpolitiker Weimars, die zermurbt von republikfeindlichen Anfeindungen krankheitsbedingt ihr Amt aufgaben.

Metaphern wie die des "kranken Volkskorpers" fanden Verbreitung in zeitgenossischen Debatten uber Politik - bei Journalisten und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern ebenso wie in Medizin, Psychologie oder Biologie. Dem Eindruck...

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Europe is in crisis and the EU project risks disintegration. The refugee and Brexit issues, as well as recent events in Turkey, demonstrate how serious matters really are. In a EurActiv interview, in February 2016, Edgar Morin, the French sociologist and philosopher, speaks of a -planetary crisis- and the need -to change civilisation- in order to respond to the complexity of today s world. Furthermore, the drama of terrorism, a new phenomenon for contemporary western democracies requires serious reflection regarding jihadism and its radicalisation.

These are but some of the issues...

The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader's Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors, and provides selections from a wide range of their writings, many translated here for the first time. It begins with an overview chapter that charts the evolution of Algerian literature and puts it in its proper historical context, followed by five thematic chapters: decolonization and...

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard examines this poorly understood component of twelfth-century thought, one responsible, in her view, for the fundamental strangeness of that culture to modern thinking.

Scholars have long...

Directeur de cabinet du Premier ministre Georges Pompidou, Commissaire au plan, plusieurs fois ministre, mais aussi directeur general du marche interieur a Bruxelles a trente-trois ans et premier president francais de la Commission europeenne, Francois-Xavier Ortoli (1925 2007) represente une personnalite profondement originale au sein des elites politiques francaises de la deuxieme moitie du XXe siecle. Apres avoir combattu les Japonais en Indochine son pays de jeunesse en 1944 et 1945, il promeut l ouverture internationale et la modernisation de l economie francaise comme jeune...

Chic, sophisticated, seductive, and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi which makes her difficult to define. Who or what la Parisienne is, and how she is depicted in cinema, is the subject of this new and exciting study.

In the first book-length publication to explore the Parisienne type on film, Chaplin expands on existing scholarship in the fields of art history, literature, and fashion history, to both enrich the discussion of these films, and to offer new perspectives.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, and drawing on...

At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple's letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service, requests for favors from home), they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is lovingly decorated with a drawing and the letters make few references to the war itself. In addition to many personal communications and expressions of love for his wife and children, Epple writes about...

Das Buch analysiert die Kriegs- und Reiseberichte des Reisejournalisten und -filmemachers Colin Ro (1885-1945). Ro galt in der Weimarer Republik als einer der popularsten Vertreter der geopolitisch interessierten Reiseberichterstattung. Als hochst relevant erweist sich dabei der Umgang von Ro und seinem Publikum mit dem reiseliterarisch gepragten Topos des Abenteuers sowie der Gattung des Kriegsberichts. Durch die jeweilige Adaptierung seiner Kriegserfahrung und des Abenteuer-Elements konnte Ro seine Werke fur ideologisch und kulturell unterschiedlich orientierte Publika aufbereiten. Die...

For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical events and people in collective memory. They were fairly infrequent before 1850, but increased in size and numbers by the end of the long nineteenth century, so much so that a 'cult of the centenary' had become established throughout the wider Western world around 1900. At one level, such events were ephemeral...

"Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book." --Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes

In Les Parisiennes, New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survived--or didn't--during the Nazi occupation.

Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and...

The Maginot Line was one of the most advanced networks of fortifications in history. Built in the aftermath of World War I, and stretching along the French eastern border from Belgium to Switzerland, it was designed to prevent German troops from ever setting foot on French soil again.

Its primary defensive weapons were the gun turrets. Beginning development in the 1870s and improving on German designs, they were constructed out of steel wedges and could revolve and disappear from sight after firing, making them impervious to enemy bombardment. They were deadly accurate and created...

This book aims to describe and analyse the political and social thinking, attitudes and actions of the English Protestant churches since the late eighteenth century. It focuses in particular on how they have responded to the plight of the least privileged members of society - individuals and groups marginalised or placed at a disadvantage as a consequence of their ethnicity or socioeconomic circumstances. These have been the nation's underdogs, the most powerless of its inhabitants, and this book explores the involvement of the churches in attempting to create a fairer society, from the...