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  • The End of Empires

    Edited by Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Empires to be remembered

    Ancient Worlds through Modern Times

    Edited by Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger ...
    Series series History (R0)
    By applying a comparative approach the volume focuses on a select group of „empires“ which are generally not in the focus of empires studies. They are studied in detail and analyzed due to a strict concept that takes into account real history and reception history as well. Reception history becomes more and more an important element in empire studies although this topic is still often more or less ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Three Germanies

    From Partition to Unification and Beyond, Second Expanded Edition

    by Michael Gehler ...
    Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has experienced recurring turmoil and reinvention. In this ambitious book Michael Gehler explores the political path Germany has taken since the Yalta Conference, observing the different Germanies against the background of the Cold War, European integration and international relations. Written from an independent perspective, it provides a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Short-term Empires in World History

    Edited by Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, Michael Gehler ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Engaged Neutrality

    An Evolved Approach to the Cold War

    by Michael Gehler, Laurent Goetschel, Sandra Grafeneder, P Terrence Hopmann, Adrian Hyde-Price, Franz Leidenmühler, Christian Nünlist, Liliane Stadler, Heinz Gärtner, Johanna Rainio-Niemi0 ...
    The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation of the détente policy especially in the framework of the CSCE. After the end of the Cold War, neutral ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Three Germanies

    West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic

    by Michael Gehler ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has experienced recurring turmoil and reinvention. In this book Michael Gehler explores the political path Germany has taken since the Yalta Conference, which split post-war Germany into four zones, one each controlled by the Soviets, Americans, French and British. What followed was a tug of war between Eastern and Western powers concerning ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Christian Democracy in Europe Since 1945

    Volume 2

    Edited by Michael Gehler, Wolfram Kaiser ...
    For the first time, this book reveals the actual roles of the Christian Democratic (CD) parties in postwar Europe from a pan-European perspective.It shows how Christian Democratic parties became the dominant political force in postwar Western Europe, and how the European People's Party is currently the largest group in the European Parliament. CD parties and political leaders like Adenauer, ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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    A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • In Europe's Name

    Germany and the Divided Continent

    by Timothy Garton Ash ...
    For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe tells the story of German reunification. Garton Ash has produced a panoramic, dramatic, and definitive account of events that are continuing to transform the map of Europe. ... Read more

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  • Germany: The Long Road West

    Volume 2: 1933-1990

    by Heinrich August Winkler, Alexander Sager ...
    Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours. This second and final volume begins at the point of the collapse of the first ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • The Struggle for Europe

    The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present

    by William I. Hitchcock ...
    From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement and the half century that followed, Hitchcock reveals how leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Willy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD