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  • In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain

    The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

    by Andrea Weiss ...
    A biography of Thomas Mann's two eldest children that provides intriguing insight into both their lives and the political and cultural shifts at the same time.Thomas Mann's two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept up in fascism and were openly, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Erika and Klaus Mann in New York

    Escape from the Magic Mountain

    by Andrea Weiss ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    This is the riveting tale of two brave nonconformists whose dramatic lives open up new perspectives on the history of the twentieth century. Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept up in fascism and were openly, even defiantly, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Reconfigurations of Political Space in the Caucasus

    Power Practices, Governance and Transboundary Flows

    Edited by Franziska Smolnik, Andrea Weiss ...
    In order to analyse configurations of power that transcend the territorial trap, the Caucasus is an excellent case in point. Its past and present exhibit an extraordinary richness in power practices of diverse forms that intersect on various scales. This comprehensive volume offers an innovative procedural perspective on the actual workings of power not necessarily tied to the nation-state. Its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The World of Children

    Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Andreas Weiß ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in German History
    In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The World of Children

    Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment

    Edited by Andreas Weiß, Simone Lässig ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in German History
    In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    by Colm Toibin ...
    A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg BusinessweekFrom one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Berlin

    by Jason Lutes ...
    Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism.During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Nazi Séance

    The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle

    by Arthur J. Magida ...
    World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality of their lives. In the early 1930s, the most famous mentalist in the German capital was Erik Jan Hanussen, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Impossible Exile

    Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

    by George Prochnik ...
    An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan ZweigBy the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame

    by Michael Munn ...
    In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Hitler’s style of cultural governance. Hitler’s rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country’s greatest stars, whether they were actors, writers, or musicians, could be one of only two things. If they were compliant, they were lauded and awarded status symbols for the regime; but if they resisted—or were ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Max Beckmann: On My Painting

    by Max Beckmann ...
    Series Book 4 - Artist's Writings
    Max Beckmann is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's leading twentieth-century artists. A figurative painter throughout his career, Beckmann depicted the world around him with an unparalleled intensity. His art emerges directly from his experiences of the First and Second World Wars, the political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of Nazism, exile in Amsterdam and his final emigration ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Deep Were Our Roots

    A Viennese Jewish memoir of the years between the two World Wars

    by Sonja Wachstein ...
    Born just before World War I, Sonia Wachstein's earliest memories of her childhood in Vienna revolve around her family's house looking out over the peaceful Vienna Woods. She also recalls a post-war time of rampant inflation and unemployment. Long an intellectual and cultural capital, the city was also a place where the well-established Jewish community prospered. But as the European political ... Read more

    $8.99 USD