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  • Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    A Cultural History of Gambling

    by Jared Poley ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this book reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world. The development of resorts and the architectural qualities of casinos demonstrate how new leisure practices, combined with ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Devil's Riches

    A Modern History of Greed

    by Jared Poley ...
    Series Book 11 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health—each ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

    Edited by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Alexander Schunka ...
    Series Book 13 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Healing and Harm

    Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann

    Edited by Stephen A. Lazer, Benjamin Marschke, Jared Poley, Erica Heinsen-Roach ...
    Series Book 29 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Professor Mary Lindemann inspired several generations of historical researchers in early modern history and culture. She has served as president of the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association and is the author of pathbreaking scholarly work in the history of medicine, urban space, diplomacy, and of women. In honor of her scholarship, service, and dedication, Healing and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

    Edited by David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, David Warren Sabean ...
    Series Book 3 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of “conversion.” One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Money in the German-speaking Lands

    Edited by Mary Lindemann, Jared Poley ...
    Series Book 17 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Catholic Modern

    The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church

    by James Chappel ...
    In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world’s largest religious organization become modern?James Chappel finds an answer ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

    Edited by David M. Whitford ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

    Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s

    by Stephan Sander-Faes ...
    This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order.Exemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna ... Read more

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  • Making Prussians, Raising Germans

    A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866–1935

    by Jasper Heinzen ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Reframing the German War of 1866 as a civil war, Making Prussians, Raising Germans offers a new understanding of critical aspects of Prussian state-building and German nation-building in the nineteenth century, and investigates the long-term ramifications of civil war in emerging nations. Drawing transnational comparisons with Switzerland, Italy and the United States, it asks why compatriots were ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Confessionalization in Europe, 1555–1700

    Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan

    by John M. Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand ...
    Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700 brings together a closely-focused set of essays by leading scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe, in memory of Bodo Nischan. They address what historians of the Early Modern period have recently come to define as the pre-eminent issue in the history of the Reformation, as they turn their emphases from the earlier part of the 16th century to the relatively ... Read more

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  • Combating the Hydra

    Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500–1900

    by Stephan Steiner ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people “maladjusted” of all sorts, women “of ill repute,” “heretic” Protestants, and “Gypsies.” Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The ... Read more

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