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  • The God behind the Marble

    The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State

    by Alice Goff ...
    A history of Germans’ attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution.For German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth century, beautiful works of art acted as beacons of freedom, instruments of progress that could model and stimulate the moral autonomy of their beholders. Amid the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Germans struggled to uphold these ideals as they contended ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Historic Photos of Ann Arbor

    by Alice Goff, Megan Cooney ...
    Series series Historic Photos
    Founded in 1824, Ann Arbor got its name originally from Annsarbour in honor of the founders' wives, both of whom were named Ann. The Tree City boasts more than 50,000 trees and is home to the main campus of the University of Michigan. Historic Photos of Ann Arbor, a photographic history with images collected from the area's top archives, shows Ann Arbor's historical growth from the mid 1800s to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...
    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Reluctant Meister

    How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future

    by Stephen Green ...
    The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much of its recent history. Reluctant Meister is a wide-ranging study of Germany from the Holy Roman Empire through the Second and Third Reichs, and it asks not only how such a mature and developed culture ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Brothers Grimm

    A Biography

    by Ann Schmiesing ...
    The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm“Magisterial.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Goethe

    His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    ** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **'W****ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Literary Review'Passionate' - The TimesA spellbinding recreation of Goethe's life and work from one of our greatest biographers.Goethe was the inventor of the psyc... ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • 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

    $50.99 CAD

  • Germany's Wild East

    Constructing Poland as Colonial Space

    by Kristin Kopp ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Jena 1800

    The Republic of Free Spirits

    by Peter Neumann ...
    Translated by Shelley Frisch ...
    "An exhilarating account of a remarkable historical moment, in which characters known to many of us as immutable icons are rendered as vital, passionate, fallible beings . . . Lively, precise, and accessible." —Claire Messud, Harper'sAround the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Destruction of Art

    Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution

    by Dario Gamboni ...
    In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo’s David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally-ill artist. With each incident, artists and intellectuals must confront the unsettling dynamic between destruction and art. Renowned art historian Dario Gamboni is the first to tackle this weighty issue in depth, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD