Author : Professor Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1409435512
This companion is a significant addition to the body of scholarship on Germany’s imperial era with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The collection will provide a lively take on this fascinating period of history, from Germany’s unification in 1871 until the end of World War I.
Author : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1317043219
Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an 'extraordinary body of historical scholarship', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to reflect the full range of research being undertaken on imperial German history today and together offer a comprehensive and authoritative reference resource. Overall this collection will provide scholars and students with a lively take on this fascinating period of German history, from the nation’s unification in 1871 right up until the end of World War I.
Author : Dr Oleg Kobtzeff
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1409476634
This Companion brings together 29 essays from leading theorists and historians on the origins of wars, their immediate causes and consequences and the mechanisms leading to the breakdown of peaceful relations. The essays are arranged thematically in four parts and include analysis of significant conflicts and consideration of long term, systemic conflicts and highlight the need for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of war as a global phenomenon.
Author : Olaf Asbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1317041348
The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) remains a puzzling and complex subject for students and scholars alike. This is hardly surprising since it is often contested among historians whether it is actually appropriate to speak of a single war or a series of conflicts. Similarly emphasis is also put on the different motives for going to war, as conflicting religious and political interests were involved. This research companion brings together leading scholars in the field to synthesize the range of existing research on the war, which is still fragmented and divided along national historical lines, and to further explore the complexities of the conflict using an innovative comparative approach. The companion is designed to provide scholars and graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative overview of research on one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.
Author : Riccardo Bavaj
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1785335049
“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
Author : Erik Grimmer-Solem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108483828
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.
Author : Jan Thorbecke Verlag
Publisher : Jan Thorbecke Verlag
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783799581394
Der Band enthalt 33 Beitrage in deutscher, franzosischer und englischer Sprache. Die Themenvielfalt reicht von der Aufbewahrung von Verwaltungsschriftgut im fruhen Mittelalter, den Kriegsdienst zur Zeit der Karolinger, die Louvrebibliothek Karls V. und Spionage im spatmittelalterlichen Dijon uber die Universalmonarchie des 17. Jahrhunderts, franzosische Revolutionsemigranten im Reich, den transatlantischen Foderalismusdiskurs, Bismarcks Sozialpolitik, 1916 als Wendepunkt des Ersten Weltkriegs und Fluchthilfenetzwerke wahrend der Occupation bis zum Eichmannprozess und den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus in den siebziger und achtziger Jahren.
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Academic libraries
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Author : Hall Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1317041100
Many different social scientists have been challenged by the origins of wars, their immediate causes and the mechanisms leading to the breakdown of peaceful relations. Many have speculated whether conflicts were avoidable and whether alternative policies might have prevented conflict. The Ashgate Research Companion to War provides contributions from a number of theorists and historians with a focus on long term, systemic conflicts. The problèmatique is introduced by the Editors highlighting the need for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of war as a global phenomenon. The following 29 essays provide a comprehensive study guide in four sections: Part I explicates differing theories as to the origins of war under the general concept of 'polemology'. Part II analyzes significant conflicts from the Peloponnesian wars to World War II. Part III examines the ramifications of Cold War and post-Cold War conflict. Part IV looks at long cycles of systemic conflict, and speculates, in part, whether another global war is theoretically possible, and if so, whether it can be averted. This comprehensive volume brings us a much needed analysis of wars throughout the ages, their origins, their consequences, and their relationship to the present. A valuable understanding that is ideal for social scientists from a variety of backgrounds.
Author : Jeffrey T. Zalar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1108472907
Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their church's rules.
