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  • Nylon and Bombs

    DuPont and the March of Modern America

    by Pap A. Ndiaye ...
    Translated by Elborg Forster ...
    Series series Studies in Industry and Society
    How the chemical engineering behemoth that brought us Teflon, Kevlar, Lycra, Freon, and more shaped the culture of postwar America.What do nylon stockings and atomic bombs have in common? DuPont. The chemical firm of DuPont de Nemours pioneered the development of both nylon and plutonium, among countless other innovations, playing an important role in the rise of mass consumption and the emergence ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy

    by Hans Mommsen ...
    Translated by Elborg Forster, Larry Eugene Jones ...
    In this definitive analysis of the Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. His assessment of the German experiment with democracy challenges many long-held assumptions about the course and character of German history. Mommsen argues persuasively that ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the Third Reich

    Series Book 1 - The Third Reich Trilogy
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  • A Bright Future

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  • The Nazi Seizure of Power

    The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945

    "Tells us how Nazism happened, in microcosm, in a single German town that was neither typical nor exceptional in admitting and then yielding to tyranny." — The New York TimesIn this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records ... Read more

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