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German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany by Marilyn She Coetzee Publisher Comments This book traces the development of the German Army League from its inception through the earliest days of the Weimar Republic. Founded in January 1912, the League promoted the intensification of German militarism and the cultivation of German... (read more) List Price $150.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Free Press Paperbacks) by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments Kept in a dungeon for his entire childhood, Kaspar Hauser appeared in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1828 at age 16, barely able to walk or talk. When he was killed in 1833, his true identity and the motives for his unsolved murder became the subjects of intense... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) by Kevin Cramer Publisher Comments The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading publics obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history—the Thirty Years War&... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial by John Horne Synopsis Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Based on research in the archives of several countries, this study explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918 by Alon Confino Publisher Comments All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bismarck and the Creation of the Second Reich by Friedrich Darmstaedter Publisher Comments Chancellor Otto Bismarcks "greatness" lay in what he created, the German Reich of 1871. This Reich was the product of his genius, and in it his genius took complete shape. In less than a decade German chaos was brought to an end and in its place a... (read more) List Price $27.96 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck Publisher Comments For most people Bismarck is the man of "blood and iron"; he coined the phrase himself and he lived up to it. But he was much more; he had an itellectual ascendancy over all the politicians of his day, and his superiority was acknowledged not only by his... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg Publisher Comments This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Bismarck and the Creation of the Second Reich by Friedr Darmstaedter Publisher Comments Chancellor Otto Bismarck's greatness lay in what he created, the German Reich of 1871. This Reich was the product of his genius, and in it his genius took complete shape. In less than a decade German chaos was brought to an end and in its place a... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany 1815-1871 by Theodore S Hamerow Review Most of the works in English devoted to nineteenth century German historical development tend to emphasize the political and ideological aspects of liberalism, reaction, and nationalism. In this excellent volume Dr. Hamerow turns his attention to the... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany by Marilyn Shevin Coetzee Publisher Comments This book traces the development of the German Army League from its inception through the earliest days of the Weimar Republic. Founded in January 1912, the League promoted the intensification of German militarism and the cultivation of German... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $115.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour Publisher Comments The exploits of Lola Montez - onstage as a dancer and an actress, in politics as a power behind thrones, and in bedrooms around the world - made her one of the best-known women of the Victorian era. Born Eliza Gilbert, daughter of British and Irish... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918 (European History in Perspective) by Matthew S Seligmann Publisher Comments Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918 provides an up-to-date interpretation of the political development of the Germany of Bismark and Kaiser Wilhelm II. Focusing on domestic politics as well as diplomacy, personalities, and decision-making... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire by Fritz Stern Publisher Comments This is a book about Germans and Jews, about power and money. It is a book focused on Bismarck and Bleichroder, Junker and Jew, statesman and banker, collaborators for over thirty years. The setting is that of a Germany where two worlds clashed: the new... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Widener Library Shelflist; 60 #65: German Social Democracy, 1905-1917 by Carl E Schorske Publisher Comments No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Butcher's Tale : Murder and Anti-semitism in a German Town (02 Edition) by Helmut Walser Smith Publisher Comments In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder--the infamous blood-libel charge... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Kaiser by Giles Macdonogh Publisher Comments Germanys last kaiser was born in Potsdam on January 27, 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Vicky, Queen Victorias eldest child. William was born with a withered arm---possibly the result of cerebral palsy---and many historians have... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800???1850 (New Studies in European History) by James M Brophy Publisher Comments A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.... (read more) List Price $136.95 Your price: $49.00 Used - Hardcover
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Imperial Germany 1850-1918 by Edgar Feuchtwanger Publisher Comments Germany" provides indispensable background reading on an important chapter in German history.... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Splintered Party: National Liberalism in Hessen and the Reich, 1867-1918 by Dan S White Publisher Comments As a study of the greatest middle class party of Imperial Germany, The Splintered Partyis inevitably, in its broadest aspect, an inquiry into the weaknesses of liberalism in the Empire of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. How did the National Liberals, the... (read more) List Price $77.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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