Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“julia leser”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “julia leser”
Skip side bar filters

  • The wolves are coming back

    The politics of fear in Eastern Germany

    by Rebecca Pates, Julia Leser ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    Across Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the local way of life. Styled by populist right-wing actors as an ‘invasive species’, the wolf evokes and resonates with anti-immigration sentiments and widespread fears of demographic catastrophe. To many people in Eastern Germany, the immigrant and the wolf ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The People's State

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Weimar Germany

    by Anthony McElligott ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of Germany
    The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution from the left and coups d'états from the right. Plagued early on by a wave of high-profile ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • German Colonialism

    Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

    Edited by Volker Langbehn, Mohammad Salama ...
    More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the "continuity thesis," this anthology debates the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • West Germany and the Global Sixties

    The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978

    by Timothy Scott Brown ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Women in the Weimar Republic

    by Helen Boak ...
    This book is the first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society. Taking the First World War as a starting point, this book explores the great changes in the lives, expectations, and perceptions of German women, with new opportunities in employment, education and political life and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Becoming Madam Chancellor

    Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic

    by Joyce Marie Mushaben ...
    Since 2005, Angela Merkel has transformed not only the way Germans see themselves but also the way that politicians worldwide, male and female, perceive women in power. The East German daughter of a Protestant pastor, this physicist-turned-politician has deployed her life experiences to cultivate a unique set of leadership skills. Her pragmatic, data-driven, and future-oriented approach to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The German Bourgeoisie (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

    Edited by David Blackbourn, Richard J Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, this collection of original studies by British, German and American historians examines the whole range of modern German bourgeoisie groups, including professional, mercantile, industrial and financial bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois family. Drawing on original research, the book focuses on the historical evidence as counterpoint to the well-known literary accounts of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany

    by Dennis Sweeney ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of trade unions, Saar employers were revered for their system of factory organization, which was both ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Mobilizing Black Germany

    Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

    by Tiffany N. Florvil ...
    Series series Black Internationalism
    In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Blood and Culture

    Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations. Drawing on research she conducted at German vocational schools ... Read more

    $25.19 USD