Book Description
Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present
Author : Michael Thomas Taylor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472130358
Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present
Author : Robert Beachy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307473139
Winner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of understanding the human condition. In this fascinating examination of how the uninhibited urban culture of Berlin helped create our categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, Robert Beachy guides readers through the past events and developments that continue to shape and influence our thinking about sex and gender to this day.
Author : Donna Harsch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807820988
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 1912
Category : London (England)
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bills, Legislative
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Author : Great Britain. Dominions Royal Commission
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Australia
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1898
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 022620460X
This historical analysis of Heisenberg, Planck, Debye, and other German physicists during WWII “is a stunning cautionary tale, well researched and told” (Choice). After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich, Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those of two other leading physicists in Germany during the Third Reich: Max Planck, the elder statesman of physics, and Werner Heisenberg, who succeeded Debye as director of the institute when it became focused on the development of nuclear power and weapons. Mixing history, science, and biography, Ball offers a powerful portrait of moral choice and personal responsibility, as scientists navigated “the grey zone between complicity and resistance.” Ball’s account of the different choices these men made shows how there can be no clear-cut answers or judgement of their conduct. Yet he also demonstrates that the German scientific establishment as a whole mounted no serious resistance to the Nazis, and in many ways acted as a willing instrument of the state. Serving the Reich considers what this problematic history can tell us about the relationship between science and politics today. Ultimately, Ball argues, a determination to present science as an abstract inquiry into nature that is “above politics” can leave science and scientists dangerously compromised and vulnerable to political manipulation. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award winner
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Page : 918 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1928
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