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  • Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

    From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

    The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Greening Democracy

    The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983

    Series series New Studies in European History
    Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Rethinking Social Movements after '68

    Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

    Series Book 31 - Protest, Culture & Society
    The year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after ’68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements across the 1970s and 1980s. From the Maoist Communist League to the women’s movement, youth center ... Read more

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    Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmaidens of National Socialism, their mental horizon restricted to the "three Ks" of Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, ... Read more

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  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Read more

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  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • The Law under the Swastika

    Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany

    Translated by Thomas Dunlap ...
    In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges and administrators from the Nazi era. According to Stolleis, they were reluctant to investigate ... Read more

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  • Rudolf Steiner's Intentions for the Anthroposophical Society

    The Executive Council, the School for Spiritual Science, and the Sections

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  • The Educated Subject and the German Concept of Bildung

    A Comparative Cultural History

    Series series Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education
    German education plays a huge role in the development of education sciences and modern universities internationally. It is influenced by the educational concept of Bildung, which defines Germany ‘s theoretical and curricular ventures. This concept is famously untranslatable into other languages and is often misinterpreted as education, instruction, training, upbringing and other terms which don’t ... Read more

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  • Thieves in Court

    The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century

    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people involved in these cases came to shape the current legal system. Habermas draws from an unusual cache of ... Read more

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  • Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater

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    The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Müller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events that emerge from it and the audiences for which it was written and performed. Situating his study ... Read more

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  • Enlightened War

    German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

    Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in ... Read more

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