A History of Modern Germany

This second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers a comprehensive overview of German history from its transformation as a loose patchwork o...

The perception of modern Germany as a final outpost of liberal democratic ideals is placed in a historical context, and addressed as a point on a t...

The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany. A novel of love, passion and History from beloved modern master Be...

The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany. A novel of love, passion and History from beloved modern master Be...

Reducere. Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution in Germany--the swastika entered modern history on uniforms of the counterrevolutionary tr...

Reducere. DescriptionAn internationally bestselling, fresh, and entertaining take on the 2, 000-year history of Germany--a country at the heart of the West's...

This essential text provides a clear and engaging introduction to the history of modern Germany. Visual evidence, maps, documents and key event box...

Reducere. 'Between Resistance and Martyrdom' is a comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era."About th...

Bismarck's role in the unification and consolidation of Germany is central to any understanding of Germany's development as a nation and its conseq...

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of t...

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

Reducere. "No one is likely to underrate the importance for the rest of Europe--and, indeed, for world history--of the German reaction, beginning in the days...

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, before closing its borders to Jewish refugees, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thous...

Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadw...

Reducere. Leon Chameides, MD, Emeritus Director of Pediatric Cardiology at Connecticut Children's Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the ...

This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and t...

The origin of capitalism and modern industrialism--and, not unrelated, the birthplace of Marxism--modern Europe provided the perfect conditions for...

Reducere. Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This vo...

Reducere. Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now k...

Reducere. DescriptionThis history of Germany in the Dark Ages and Medieval eras chronicles the birth and progress of the nation through a series of short bio...

The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is perceived in different ways throughout the world, according to different...

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany--the two largest fleets of World War I--against one another f...

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe ...

Reducere. Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly de...

Reducere. Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analy...

Reducere. In noting that political violence was the product of choices made by political actors rather than the result of irresistible forces ...Schumann iss...

This meticulous and authoritative review of the collapse of the GDR uses first-hand interview material with a number of the leading figures to prov...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingDespite all the accomplishments and widespread ...

Reducere. D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the ``GI General...

Reducere. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you w...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you w...

Reducere. A legendary book, which was the starting point for the genre of science fiction, Theosophy, the New Age, The Force, and modern day conspiracy theor...

At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of ...

A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the mi...

An oral history, with the full participation of cast and crew, of one of the most popular sitcoms in television history.Since premiering in 2009, t...

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing ...

Great Designs is a fascinating overview of the dynamic history of design from the 1860s onwards, tracing the development of modern designs, from sk...

Reducere. A sparkling addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist of the 1...

A practical handbook to the history, exercises, and techniques of German rune work - Explores the four traditional runic systems: the Older Futhark...

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world-from American shooters and ISIS ...

This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna M...

Reducere. Saint Gregory of Tours' comprehensive history of the Frankish people, who ruled over much of what is modern-day France and Germany, is published he...

Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of Europe...

Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged i...

Reducere. National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany...

Reducere. Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Theologia Germanica is believed to have been written around 1350, by a priest in the house of the Teutonic order in Frankfort, Germa...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

Reducere. The Jewish prayer book, the sidur, is the longest continuous record of the history, philosophy, literature and ethics of the Jewish people. It has ...

Reducere. What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers th...

As one of the most visited museums in Germany's capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish histo...

Reducere. Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none ha...

Description"The best book about America's first modern secret service." --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepare...

DescriptionUrban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and ...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how a man like Adolf Hitler could have come into power?How did he legally become a dictator by using a democratic process?Or...

Reducere. Widely regarded as the second most-important book to come out of National Socialist Germany (after Mein Kampf), Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the ...

Reducere. Widely regarded as the second most-important book to come out of National Socialist Germany (after Mein Kampf), Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the ...

DescriptionThe two-handed swords found in modern museums are often so large and elaborately decorated that the onlooker might question whether such...

DescriptionAn original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create m...

Reducere. Explore How Churchill Went From Schoolboy Failure to Wartime HeroAs a British politician who was well known for serving twice as prime minister for...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Alexandra (Appalachian State University, USA) Sterling-HellenbrandIllustration(s): 15 bw illusNumber...

A Washington Post Notable Book In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to h...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Prof. Peter (Ostasieninstitut, Germany) WetzlerNumber of pages: 256Collection: SOAS Studies in Moder...

Reducere. The interwar years were a tumultuous time in South Africa. The effects of the worldwide economic slump gave rise to a huge number of 'poor whites' ...

Reducere. Great Britain's refusal to yield to Nazi Germany in the Second World War remains one of the greatest survival stories of modern times. Commemorated...

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...

DescriptionThe first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most sign...

DescriptionBauhaus Goes West is the story of cultural and artistic exchange between Germany and the West over a period of seventy years. It present...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...