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  • Global Germany Circa 1800

    A Revisionist Literary History

    by Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Max Kade Research Institute
    Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what is the relation between the German form of empire, the old Reich, and the modern European empires that emerged in the global age?In this book, Todd Kontje presents a revisionist literary and ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

    by Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from the time that he published his first novel in 1901, Mann became an iconic figure, seen as the living embodiment of German national culture. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Georg Forster

    German Cosmopolitan

    by Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Max Kade Research Institute
    Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who left behind two travelogues, a series of essays on ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Imperial Fictions

    German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State

    by Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire. Unlike ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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  • German Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Boyle ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Law of Blood

    Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

    by Johann Chapoutot ...
    Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot ...
    Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. ... Read more

    $39.99 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

  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Revolution and Other Writings

    A Political Reader

    by Gustav Landauer, Richard Day ...
    “Landauer is the most important agitator of the radical and revolutionary movement in the entire country.” This is how Gustav Landauer is described in a German police file from 1893. Twenty-six years later, Landauer would die at the hands of reactionary soldiers who overthrew the Bavarian Council Republic, a three-week attempt to realize libertarian socialism amidst the turmoil of post-World War I ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of German Literature

    From the Beginnings to the Present Day

    by Wolfgang Beutin, Klaus Ehlert, Wolfgang Emmerich, Helmut Hoffacker, Bernd Lutz, Volker Meid, Ralf Schnell, Peter Stein, Inge Stephan ...
    Translated by Claire Krojzl ...
    Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature.The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Nazi Germany and The Humanities

    How German Academics Embraced Nazism

    by Anson Rabinbach, Wolfgang Bialas ...
    MERGEFIELD AI_CopyIn 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany’s universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Life and Death of States

    Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

    by Natasha Wheatley ...
    An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional experimentation that pushed the very concept of “the state” to its limits. This intricate ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD