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“dirk verheyen”

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  • United City, Divided Memories?

    Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin

    by Dirk Verheyen ...
    United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War-era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen looks at monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The German Question

    by Dirk Verheyen ...
    The 'German Question,' long a subject of debate, is considered here at the close of a turbulent century, after Germany's defeat in two world wars, the Weimar failure and Nazi disaster, Cold War division, and the nation's unexpected recent reunification. This book systematically explores the issue in terms of its four central dimensions: Germany's identity, national unity, power, and role in world ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Germans And Their Neighbors

    by Dirk Verheyen, Christian Soe ...
    For Germany's neighbors, perhaps more acutely than for observers elsewhere, the 1990 reunification of divided Germany has raised old memories and new concerns in public and scholarly discourse. The shape and influence of these issues are the subject of this unique, ambitious book. Organized into country-specific chapters, the book offers original, expert analyses of Germany's relations with ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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    Politics, Society and Culture

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    Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping the future successes and failures of the Weimar Republic.Combining traditional political ... Read more

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  • In Europe's Name

    Germany and the Divided Continent

    by Timothy Garton Ash ...
    For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe tells the story of German reunification. Garton Ash has produced a panoramic, dramatic, and definitive account of events that are continuing to transform the map of Europe. ... Read more

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  • A History of Germany 1918 - 2020

    The Divided Nation

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    The new edition of the acclaimed textbook on modern German history, written by a leading scholar in the fieldNow in its fifth edition, A History of Germany 1918-2020 provides a clear and well-balanced survey of German history from the creation of the Weimar Republic to the era of Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship. Guiding readers through the complex patterns of the nation’s historical development ... Read more

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  • Weimar and Nazi Germany

    Continuities and Discontinuities

    by Panikos Panayi ...
    Weimar and Nazi Germany presents the history of the country in these periods in a unique way. Examining the continuities and discontinuities between the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic, it also contextualises these two regimes within modern German and European history. After a broad introduction to 1919-1945, four general surveys examine the economy, society, internal politics and foreign ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Redrawing Nations

    Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948

    by Arnd Bauerkamper, Benjamin Frommer, Eagle Glassheim, Stanislaw Jankowiak, Marek Jasiak, Krystyna Kersten, Jerzy Kochanowski, Claudia Kraft, Mark Kramer, Bernard Linek, Zdenek Radvanovsky, Rainer Schulze, Orest Subtelny, Manfred Wille ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using freshly available materials from Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czechoslovak, German, British, and American archives, the contributors to this book provide a sweeping, detailed account of the ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Orderly and Humane

    The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

    by R. M. Douglas ...
    The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" ( New Republic).Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million ... Read more

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  • Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany

    The New Histories

    Edited by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jane Caplan ...
    The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991

    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
    “A primer intended for readers unfamiliar with the territory, it sparkles with ideas, vivid storytelling, poignant anecdotes, and pithy phrases . . . Fresh and dramatic.” —The Sunday Times (London)Winner of the UK's prestigious Wolfson History PrizeAn original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams ... Read more

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  • Believe and Destroy

    Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

    by Christian Ingrao ...
    There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party’s elite protection unit, the ... Read more

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