Modern Germany Reconsidered
Author: Gordon Martel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1134899408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Author: Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 178238247X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.
Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered
Author: Michael Brenner
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783161480188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA group of distinguished historians makes the first systematic attempt to compare the experiences of French and German Jews in the modern era. The cases of France and Germany have often been depicted as the dominant paradigms for understanding the processes of Jewish emancipation and acculturation in Western and Central Europe. In the French case, emancipation was achieved during the French Revolution, and it remained in place until 1940, when the Vichy regime came to power. In Germany, emancipation was a far more gradual and piecemeal process, and even after it was achieved in 1871, popular and governmental antisemitism persisted. The essays in this volume, while buttressing many traditional assumptions regarding these two paths of emancipation, simultaneously challenge many others, and thus force us to reconsider the larger processes of Jewish integration and acculturation.
The German Problem Reconsidered:Germany and the World Order 1870 to the Present
Author: David Calleo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978-09-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521223096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this provocative book, David Calleo surveys German history - not to present new material but to look afresh at the old. He argues that recent explanations for Germany's external conflicts have focused on flaws in the country's traditional political institutions and culture. These German-centred explanations are convenient Calloe notes, for they tend to exonerate others from their responsibilities in bringing about two world wars, namely the American and Russian hegemonies in Europe. As a result of this approach the big questions in German history are still answered with the ageing clichés of a generation ago despite the proliferation of German historical studies. Throughout Professor Calleo examines with some scepticism the concept of Germany's uniqueness and its consequences. In effect, his study stresses the continuing relevance of traditional issues among the Western states. This book, he asserts, should be regarded as a modest dissent from the prevailing view that history either began or ended in 1945.
Imbalance
Author: Tobias Schulze-Cleven
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1000370186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGermany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories. This book assesses Germany’s political economy after the end of the "social democratic" 20th century to rethink its dominant properties and create new opportunities for using the country as a powerful lens into the evolution of democratic capitalism. Documenting large-scale changes and new tensions in the welfare state, company strategies, interest intermediation, and macroeconomic governance, the volume makes the case for analysing contemporary Germany through the politics of imbalance rather than the long-standing paradigm of institutional stability. This conceptual reorientation around inequalities and disparities provides much-needed traction for clarifying the causal dynamics that govern ongoing processes of institutional recomposition. Delving into the politics of imbalance, the volume explicates the systemic properties of capitalism, multivalent policy feedback, and the organizational foundations of creative adjustment as key vantage points for understanding new forms of distributional conflict within and beyond Germany. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of German Politics.
The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
Author: Jason Philip Coy
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 184545992X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their research reveals the continual importance of the Empire as a stage (and audience) for symbolic performance and communication; as a well utilized problem-solving and conflict-resolving supra-governmental institution; and as an imagined political, religious, and cultural "world" for contemporaries. This volume by leading scholars offers a dramatic reappraisal of politics, religion, and culture and also represents a major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period.
Modern Germany Reconsidered
Author: Gordon Martel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1134899394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their detailed and original work, summarize the nature of the controversies, explain the various interpretations, and offer their own conclusions and arguments. Each essay is new and has been specially commissioned for this book. Modern Germany Reconsidered represents essential reading for second- and third-year undergraduates on a range of Modern Germany courses. The book has been designed and written exclusively for students, to function as a major course text, or as a set of supplementary readings to support other texts. Modern Germany Reconsidered follows the chronological development of the whole range of modern German history, whilst highlighting themes of special interest: the role of women, economics, German liberalism, the Holocaust.
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1789202116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking lands, this volume, gathering leading scholars across multiple disciplines, explores the dynamics and impact of naming (and renaming) processes in a variety of contexts—social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific—in order to enhance our understanding of individual and collective experiences.
American Foreign Relations Reconsidered
Author: Gordon Martel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1134847254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together 12 scholars of US foreign relations. Each contributor provides a concise summary of an important theme in US affairs since the Spanish-American War. US policy process, economic interests, relations with the Third World, and the nuclear arms race have been highlighted.
The Origins of the First World War
Author: James Joll
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780582490161
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