Towns and People of Modern Germany
Author | : Robert M. McBride |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Robert M. McBride |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Robert Medill McBride |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Gdańsk (Poland) |
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Author | : Robert Medill McBride |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Robert Medill McBride |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Mack Walker |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801455995 |
German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848. Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem, which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to both the "movers and doers" at the center and the citizens of the home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans' "ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness," which was to have its most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a racial community. A path-breaking work of scholarship when it was first published in 1971, German Home Towns remains an influential and engaging account of German history, filled with interesting ideas and striking insights—on cameralism, the baroque, Biedermeier culture, legal history and much more. In addition to the inner workings of community life, this book includes discussions of political theorists like Justi and Hegel, historians like Savigny and Eichhorn, philologists like Grimm. Walker is also alert to powerful long-term trends—the rise of bureaucratic states, the impact of population growth, the expansion of markets—and no less sensitive to the textures of everyday life.
Author | : J. Ellis Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Terence McIntosh |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807850633 |
During the Middle Ages, southwest Germany was one of the most prosperous areas of central Europe, but the Thirty Years' War brought devastating social and economic dislocation to the region. Focusing on the town of Schw bisch Hall, Terence McIntosh explor
Author | : Frank B. Tipton |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520240490 |
"Tipton's book will prove a godsend to teachers and students of Modern German History; not only does it provide a fresh and compelling account of the whole period from 1815 right up to the present, it achieves a rare synthesis of social, political, economic and cultural history. You get the equivalent of about six (good) books for the price of one!!"--John Milfull, University of New South Wales "A comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, and fair synthesis that will be extremely valuable to undergraduate students.... The writing is superior and the approach is sound.... This study will challenge student readers to make the sorts of connections that are demanded of them in too few of the competing texts."--James Retallack, University of Toronto
Author | : Dean Phillip Bell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317111036 |
Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities. In this way, Jews created community structure and projected that structure into the future. But Jews also used the past as a means to contest the marginalization threatened by broader developments in the Christian society in which they lived. As the Reformation threw into relief serious questions about authority and tradition and as Jews continued to suffer from anti-Jewish mentality and politics, narration of the past allowed Jews to re-inscribe themselves in history and contemporary society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including chronicles, liturgical works, books of customs, memorybooks, biblical commentaries, rabbinic responsa and community ledgers, this study offers a timely reassessment of Jewish community and identity during a frequently turbulent era. It engages, but then redirects, important discussions by historians regarding the nature of time and the construction and role of history and memory in pre-modern Europe and pre-modern Jewish civilization. This book will be of significant value, not only to scholars of Jewish history, but anyone with an interest in the social and cultural aspects of religious history.
Author | : John le Carré |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101603046 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. "Haven't you realized that only appearances matter?" The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting—an embassy nobody—goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found—alive. Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carré's A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise. With an introduction by the author.