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  • Walls, Borders, Boundaries

    Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe

    Edited by Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, Janet Ward ...
    Series Book 4 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    How is it that walls, borders, boundaries—and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion—engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • If You Ain't Ranger You Ain't....

    by Chris Pittard, Jessica Tilles ...
    This is a story that descibes one man's journey to become a United States Army Ranger. Not for the weak of mind or spirit – the physically and mentally demanding eight weeks of Ranger School test the limits of every aspiring Ranger student. Twenty-hour days with little food, mind-numbing PT, hand-to-hand combat and tortuous hours in the infamous “Worm Pit,” parachuting under dangerous conditions, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, Robert Gerwarth ...
    This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Temptation

    Dangerous Ideas in Politics

    by Frits Bolkestein ...
    an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.- Joshua Muravchikan erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.- Christopher CaldwellBolkestein exposes todays fashionable, yet dangerous ideas, doing a great service not only to Europe ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Engaged Historian

    Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession

    Edited by Stefan Berger ...
    Series Book 37 - Making Sense of History
    On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • 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

  • Beauty is in the Street

    Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe

    by Joachim C. Häberlen ...
    'A rich and readable account **of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator'****A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, The Observer'An** ambitious and masterly account of utopian protest in Europe ... Fast-paced, with an eye for telling detail and written with a light ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Cold War Cultures

    Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

    Edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger ...
    The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Anxieties

    Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany

    by Ruth Mandel ...
    In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a Jewish “other.” Mandel ... Read more

    $28.79 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

  • Multiple Identities

    Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership

    Edited by Paul Spickard ...
    In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple, identities, which alter with time and ... Read more

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