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  • The Devil's Art

    Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany

    by Jason P. Coy ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. German villagers regularly consulted these fortune-tellers and practiced divination in their everyday lives. Jason Phillip Coy brings their enchanted world to life by examining theological discourse alongside ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

    Edited by Jason Philip Coy, Benjamin Marschke, David Warren Sabean ...
    Series Book 1 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their research reveals the continual importance of the Empire as a stage (and audience) for symbolic ... Read more

    $23.79 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

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    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

  • Fighting for the Soul of Germany

    The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification

    by Rebecca Ayako Bennette ...
    Series Book 178 - Harvard Historical Studies
    Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.In the years following unification, Germany was ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Pestalozzi and the Educationalization of the World

    by D. Tröhler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide. Daniel Tröhler connects Pestalozzi's work to its context in Europe's late 18th- and early 19th-century republican movement, offering readers a way to understand the sociopolitical significance of education and its central role in the development of modern societies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • From Popular Liberalism to National Socialism

    Religion, Culture and Politics in South-Western Germany, 1860s-1930s

    by Oded Heilbronner ...
    ’Long live liberty, equality, fraternity and dynamite’ So went the traditional slogan of the radical liberals in Greater Swabia, the south-western part of modern Germany. This book investigates the development of what the author terms ’popular liberalism’ in this region, in order to present a more nuanced understanding of political and cultural patterns in Germany up to the early 1930s. In ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia

    Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70

    by Hermann Beck ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Prussia's social and political structure, institutions, and values were in many ways formative for German history after 1871. After unification Prussia accounted for roughly two-thirds of the empire's size and population, but its weight within Germany was even greater because Prussia in large part molded the German identity and shaped Germany's image abroad. The Origins of the Authoritarian ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • After Hitler

    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Hometown Religion

    Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia

    by David M. Luebke ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious observance on which political community was founded. By the third quarter of the sixteenth century, one or another form of Christianity had emerged as dominant in most territories of the Holy Roman Empire ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Weimar

    From Enlightenment to the Present

    by Michael H. Kater ...
    Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth ... Read more

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