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 | : Robert Martin McBride |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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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 | : 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 | : J. Ellis Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Hajo Holborn |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1982-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691007977 |
... A three-volume reassessment of the last five centuries of German history ...
Author | : Neil MacGregor |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101875674 |
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.