Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Germany

In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas...

Edith ROpke, her seven siblings, and their mother have learned to be silent and live inconspicuously....

It is 1939. On the cusp of World War II, the city of Bremen holds its breath with quiet unease. For years, the Jews have been excluded from everyday life, persecuted at the hands of the Nazis. Now, all of Germany will suffer for their FUhrer's mad ambitions. In his quest for an Aryan utopia, Adolf Hitler invades Poland and Britain declares war on Germany.

As Bremen's ports and factories bear the brunt of payloads from RAF Wellington and...

Edith ROpke, her seven siblings, and their mother have learned to be silent and live inconspicuously....

It is 1939. On the cusp of World War II, the city of Bremen holds its breath with quiet unease. For years, the Jews have been excluded from everyday life, persecuted at the hands of the Nazis. Now, all of Germany will suffer for their FUhrer's mad ambitions. In his quest for an Aryan utopia, Adolf Hitler invades Poland and Britain declares war on Germany.

As Bremen's ports and factories bear the brunt of payloads from RAF Wellington and Lancaster bombers,...

Zwischen dem Wiener Kongress von 1814/15 und dem Deutsch-Franzosischen Krieg von 1870/71 waren deutsche Diplomaten in Paris unentbehrlich - wenngleich ihre Existenz hinterfragbar war. Ein Ausloser der Kritik war ihre Vielzahl zur Zeit des Deutschen Bundes: Neben den Gromachten Preuen und Osterreich besaen die Mittel- und Kleinstaaten wie Bayern, Baden und Hessen-Darmstadt jeweils eigene Vertreter in der franzosischen Hauptstadt. Um zu ersehen, inwieweit ihre Prasenz erforderlich war, legt die Studie ihr Augenmerk auf das Selbstverstandnis und das Alltagshandeln der Diplomaten vor Ort.

In recent years the field of book studies has been reconceptualized, moving away from a primarily historical and narrative focus. This change, triggered in part by new media, has involved an expansion in the range of research questions considered as well as their theoretical underpinnings. Analysis of the forms of communication used in written media form an essential aspect of this new approach. Conceptually, the series is based on an understanding of written media found in interdisciplinary perspectives as well as communication and media studies. Accordingly, the volumes published in the...

Die mittelalterliche Stadt gilt vielen Stadttheoretikern als Musterbeispiel einer Stadt, die durch die Verschmelzung der privaten und wirtschaftlichen Lebensbereiche sowie durch starke gemeinschaftliche Verbindungen eine harmonische Lebenseinheit ermoglichte. Die vorliegende vergleichende Untersuchung zweier europaischer Stadte des Spatmittelalters - Bologna und Straburg - differenziert dieses Bild.

Drei Sorten von topographischen Indikatoren werden hier berucksichtigt: die Markte, die Wohn- und Arbeitsorte sowie die Begegnungsorte der Nachbarschaft. Beispielsweise waren in...

Der Band behandelt die zentrale Bedeutung des preuisch-osterreichischen Krieges von 1866 als Schlusseljahr in der deutschen, europaischen und auch hessischen Geschichte. In einem ersten Abschnitt fokussiert das Buch die Zeit des Deutschen Bundes bis 1866, den preuisch-osterreichischen Dualismus und die Bedeutung der Einigungskriege bis 1870/71 fur Deutschland und Europa. Der zweite Abschnitt nimmt die damalige hessischen Staatenwelt in den Blick und beleuchtet die Konsequenzen, die die preuische Annexion des ehemaligen Herzogtums Nassau, des Kurfurstentums Hessen, der noch kurzzeitig an...

In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz offers a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar.

German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry; yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century...

August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was "overwhelmed as with a stream of joy." His account came to exemplify Pietist conversion in the historical imagination around Pietism and religious awakening. Jonathan Strom's new interpretation challenges the paradigmatic nature of Francke's narrative and seeks to uncover the more varied, complex, and problematic character that conversion experiences posed for Pietists...

On January 20, 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, exemplifying the labor division and burueaucratization that made the "Final Solution" possible. Yet while the conference itself has been exhaustively researched, many of its attendees remain relatively obscure. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants...

On January 20, 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, exemplifying the labor division and burueaucratization that made the "Final Solution" possible. Yet while the conference itself has been exhaustively researched, many of its attendees remain relatively obscure. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants...